Surfing

Surfing

Surfing is a water sport and recreational activity in which the wave rider, rides the forward face of a wave usually towards the shore. While most suitable waves for surfing are found in the ocean the activity can also be performed on lakes. The wave rider balances on a surf board while riding the waves.

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Gun

Sports; Surfing

A special surfboard designed to ride big waves. Generally longer than normal surfboards so the surfer can paddle faster to catch the bigger, faster moving waves, with a pulled-in tail to handle the ...

Stinger

Sports; Surfing

A surfboard design featuring a dramatic cutaway section just tailward of the wide point and terminating in a singlefin swallowtail; credited to Ben Aipa of Hawaii and ridden with tremendous creative ...

Hot curl

Sports; Surfing

A surfboard type designed in the 1950s by Californian Dale Velzy.

Punchy

Sports; Surfing

A surf condition in which the waves are powerful, but not extraordinarily so. Often used to described short interval beachbreak.

Contour

Sports; Surfing

A line on a map or chart representing points of equal value compared to datum or starting point. An isobath is a line connecting points of equal depth below a datum to measure bathymetry, and an ...

Vee

Sports; Surfing

A bottom shape in which the stringer is lower than the rails when viewed from the side. Originated in the tail area during the late 1960s by Australian designer Bob McTavish and several ...

Tombstoning

Sports; Surfing

A post-wipeout phenomenon, when a surfer is deep underwater with the surf leash stretched out to a point where the tail of the surfboard is being pulled down, so the nose of the surfboard sticks up ...