Surf Slang & Glossar
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360 - A maneuver done wherein the board (and rider) spin 360 degrees on the face of the wave.
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Aerial - Part of a maneuver where the surfer and his/her board leaves the water. This maneuver requires split second timing and is only performed by expert surfers.
Aggro - Aggressive. Someone who brings bad karma into the water. From Aggro-Aussie, when Aussie surfers were the most aggressive.
Air - After a good bottom turn with lots of speed, head up the face, off-the-lip, and into the sky!
Amped - Full of energy. Usually induced by adrenaline, feeling wired or high on fear, either before paddling into a huge ocean, or the sheer stoke of being alive afterwards.
Angling - Riding the wave sideways ahead of the breaking part of the wave.
Awesome - Incredible. Usually as another word for the sheer quality and size of a wave.
Axed - Crushed, wiped out or whacked "The lip of that big wave really axed me".
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Babe - Sexist term for a woman.
Backside - Where a surfer rides with his/her back to the wave.
Baff - Fart
Baggies - Board shorts or Bermudas
Barrel - a hollow faced wave; great to ride.
Beach Break - Where the waves break over a sandbar.
Blown-Out - conditions where the wind is blowing too hard making the waves too choppy or difficult to ride.
Blups - Mistake. "Oops, I made a blups."
Boatman - Waveski rider. The more affectionate term for someone who rides a paddle ski. See Goatboat and Windmill.
Bodyboarder - Surfers who rides waves lying down on a spongelike board. See booger, doormat, sponge, gutslider, speedbump. To their credit, bodyboarders usually rise above these insults.
Booger - Bodyboarder
Bottom - refers to the ocean floor; also, the lowest ridable part of the wave.
Bottom Turn - A turn made at the bottom, or well below the crest of a wave.
Bowl - a shallow spot in the path of the wave, causing the wave to break a little harder.
Bozos - Surfers with clown-colored wetsuits who surf pretty well, but have stupid styles and show off too much.
Brah - Surf brother, associate, peer, colleague, friend in liquid solidarity. In fact, anyone on this planet, including women.
Break Line - The line where waves begin to break.
Bumpy - choppy water or it could be a decent wave but still the face could be bumpy.
Bust - When you get caught.
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Carving - When a hottie slices up a wave using his board as a carving knife. Another term for high-performance surfing.
Catch a Tan - When you go out to roast in the sun on purpose.
Caught Inside - a surfer on the shore-side of a breaking wave (then he's going to take-it-on-the-head.)
Channel - a relatively deep spot where the waves don't normally break.
Charf - Tease or make fun
Chariot - Car. That oke has a styling chariot.
Check - Look, do you see? "You check", See what I mean? Do you follow? Are you with me? or "Check this out", Look at this or "Are you checking me skeef? Are you looking at me crooked - in other words - do you want to fight me.
Choppy - Very small waves on the surface created by local winds.
Clean-up Wave - A wave that breaks outside of the line-up and dumps on the entire line-up.
Close Out - A wave that breaks all along its length at the same time and thus cannot be ridden. Also used when a whole bay is useless for surf as the waves are too big, broken, etc.,
Consistent - Where the waves break continously with little or no interuption.
Cool - The universal word referring to all things hip, okay, good, nice, funky, classic and kief. He is cool because he wears funky shades (fashion). That’s cool (affirmation). We had such a cool time at Jay Bay (enjoyment). The latest variation is kewl, pronounced koo-el, which comes from Internet chat groups.
Coolie - A cooldrink
Conan - A macho bodybuilder who can’t surf but who tries to impress people on the beach. Taken from the Marvel comic book character Conan, who was played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie of the same name.
Covered - Same as "toobed."
Crest - The top of the wave
Cripple - The unfortunate term used to describe a kneeboarder.
Cross Stepping - The art of walking a Longboard whilst maintaining trim. Feet are at a right angle to the board. How to....... From an upright standing position/surfers stance take your back foot across your front foot (forward foot)in one smooth move, when it is firmly placed back on the board move your back foot (was your forward foot) forward regaining the original stance. To go back repeat this move in reverse.
Curl - The top of a wave that is spilling and breaking next to the shoulder.
Cut - Surfing along the green part of the wave by leaning on your toes or your heels.
Cut-Back - A 180 degree turn that's done on either of the two rails of the surfboard. Turn back toward the curl or breaking part of a wave.
Cut out - Same as pull-out or kick-out.
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Da Kine - Hawaiian surf talk for the best kind of wave.
Ding - Damage to surfboard
Doormat - Bodyboarder. See sponge, gutslider, speedbump. Derogatory, but vaguely descriptive, term for a bodyboarder, who dislike "boogie boarder" more, for some reason.
Down the line - What the surfer sees as he or she looks down the side of a wave after completing the bottom turn. Down the line surfing is fast and exciting.
Drilled - Axed, dumped, smoked, wiped-out
Drive - Acceleration on wave
Drop - the initial downward slide on the face of a wave.
Drop in - To take off on a wave when rider is already surfing
Drop in late - When you take off on the steepest possible part of a wave.
Drop-knee - One foot on the bodyboard, with the other hanging off the back. Difficult and fun.
Duck Dive - Method of diving the board under an oncoming wave on the way out through the break
Dude - "Thats what me and my surfing buddies call each other, and like the dudes we see like catching sweet waves...and like kickin spongers."
Dump - A closeout wave dumps you.
Dumper - Waves that are too steep to ride owing to a steeply shelving beach
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Edge - Design feature on board (see rail)
Eskimo Roll - Method of going under waves for Malibus and wave skis
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Face - (of the wave) the front part of the wave. This is where you ride.
Fade - Lose strength, or power. When you back out of something, you fade. But a wave fades on the inside if the water gets deeper.
Fall Line - The line of fastest descent to the base of a wave (or mountain slope)
Fibreglass - Woven glass cloth that, when saturated with resin, provides the protective outer coating of a surfboard
Fin/Fins - Small vertical projections on the rear of the bottom of the surfboard used for stability and drive
Fin/Flippers - Swimming aid worn on feet
Fish - Style of surfboard.
Flat Surf - just what it sounds like, no surf.
Flick Off - A manoeuvre used to kick the board clear of the breaking wave
Floater - Where the surfer rides his board loosely along the top of the breaking up or foam of the wave.
Foam - Folyurethane plastic material used to make the core of the surfboard
Forehand - Where the surfer stands facing the wave
Frontside - Where a surfer rides facing a wave.
Full on - Absolutely, right on, to the limit. This is a definite affirmation or agreement, or trying to express an act that goes right to the edge. It could be used in this context: "That was a full-on drop-in." (That was definitely a drop-in)
Funboard - A surfboard that is 8ft or over but under 9ft. It is infact a longboard on the "short" side as in all probability it will ride like a longboard.
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Get spit - When you come out of the shutting tube with the spray.
Get worked - 1. When the ocean overpowers you and spins you like you're in a washing machine's spin cycle.
2. When you're at the top of the wave trying to stand, and the wave throws you to the bottom, and you fall into the trough of exploding water. 3. When you're paddling out, and an incoming wave clobbers you off of your board. 4. Anytime the ocean fucks you up.
Glassy - Smooth ocean surface conditions when there is no wind
Glide - Refers to a longboarders ability to paddle, catch waves and ride the flat parts of waves.
Goatboat - A derogatory method of describing a paddle skier, the sort of person that goes out in the surf paddling on a canoe that looks like a half-sucked lozenge. The reason why standup surfers don’t like them much is because goatboats paddle faster. If in the wrong hands, they can also wreak havoc in the water.
Going Ballistic - With words like firing, smoking, barrel and going off, it’s a natural progression to ballistic. "It was going off. It was firing. The waves were smoking. Barrel after grinding barrel. Shit man, I tune you what, it was going fucking ballistic!"
Going off - When the surf is incredibly good, a surfer will say the surf is "going off its face!" See also cooking, firing, pumping, smoking and going ballistic.
Goof - Swim. "Let's go for a goof."
Goofy Foot - A surfer who rides with his right foot in front of his left
Goon - Overbearing Locals.
Green face - The part of a wave that isn't whitewater.
Grom - From grommet. A young surfer.
Grommet - Cheeky young surfer of school-going age. Can be shortened to Grom. This almost affectionate, brotherly word rarely has negative connotations. However, when a grommet is pissing you off, or keeps dropping in on you, he automatically becomes a kook, or worse.
Ground Swell - Swell which has travelled a long distance from where it has formed; characterised by evenness and length
Guava - Apart from meaning the fruit, South Africans use guava as an alternative name for a bottom, backside, bum or butt. "His skateboard hit a rock and he fell on his guava."
Gun - Large surfboard for riding big waves
Gutslider - Bodyboarder. See doormat, sponge, gutslider, speedbump.
Gyrospaz or Gyro-Spaz - A derogatory term for someone who wrecks a wave by ripping, slashing, and tearing it up into tiny bits; someone who just really screws up a wave. Usage: Don’t gyrospaz on the shoulder.
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Half-jack - A half-bottle of spirits.
Hang Loose - Hang Loose !!!
Hang Five - Riding a board on the nose with one foot/5 toes over the nose.
Hang Ten - Riding a board on the nose with both feet/10 toes over the nose.
Hey - Used for emphasis. "So you're a surfer hey?" or on its own as a way of saying "excuse me?" or "pardon?"
Ho-Dad - A greaser who hangs out in the parking lot and doesn't surf.
Hollow - Descriptive term denoting cylindrical type of wave
Honey - A female surfer.
Hot - Slang term for a good quality wave
Hottie - Someone who surfs really well. A surfer who is hot.
How's your mind? - "Are you mad?!" This question, often in exasparation or irritation, refers to the mental stability of the subject, who has probably done something stupid, idiotic or irritating.
Huey - Legendary Cod of Surf
Hum - Good surf, busy, smelly. There are three variations to this word. It's another way of describing good surf. But also, "Surfers' Disco was humming last night." (Really busy) and "He hums like a skunk." (stink)
Humper - Large, unbroken wave.
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Impact Zone - The point at which the breaking wave lands and exerts maximum force, you don’t really want to spend time there. Also the Pit.
Indicator - Reef or sandbank seawards of surf spot that shows when a set of waves is approaching
Inside - 1. Inthetube
2. Closest to curl on take-off
3. Shoreward of breaking wave
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Jacked, Jacking - Rising swell, or organised person. "The surf is jacking up", The surf is getting bigger. But even, "that oke is jacked", That guy is really organised.
Jammie - Car
Just now - Universally used, it means "eventually", sometimes "never". If someone says he will do it "just now" it could be in 10 minutes or tomorrow or never. "I'll clean my room just now, Ma."
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Kick Out - Where a surfer gets off a wave by turning the board up and over the waves crest.
Killer Board - A leashless board heading towards someone in a white wall of water uncontrollably.
Kneeboard - A surfboard, usually shorter, ridden on the knees
Kneelo - Kneeboard rider
Kook - If you don't know then you are one. Someone who can’t surf and gets in everyone’s way. A kook is not necessarily a grommet, although a grommet can be a kook. Kooks can be all ages. Grommets are schoolkids.
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Lacerate - That hot surfer rips, tears, carves and, of course, lacerates. In fact, all slashing, cutting, ripping motions can be applied to a surfer who is "going off" in "cooking waves".
Lank - A lot. "There are lank people in the water."
Late Take Off - Take Off, very late.
Layback - Manoeuvre of the 80's where the surfer is surfing on his backhand and lays out on his back on the wave face.
Leash - A lead that is attached at one to the surfboard with the other end going around the surfers ankle. Reason for having one.........if you wipeout it keeps your board close by. Upon wiping out if you feel a tug on the leash then you know you board has moved away from you (or is up in the air!). No tug, then your board is close by so protect your head!!
Left Run - Riding a wave, the surfer moving to his left.
Leg-Rope - A rubberised or urethane cord used to attach the surfboard to the rider's ankle
Lightey - Youngster. "That lightey is a pretty good surfer, for a grommet."
Lines - These are the lines of the advancing swell, they can be seen quite clearly from a cliff top!
Line Up - The place where surfers wait to catch a wave
Lined-Up - Descriptive term indicating long even swells
Lip - the part of the wave that curls over; the crest.
Locals - Surfers who frequent a certain spot.
Localism - Where local surfers dominate the waves, deciding who can or can't get a wave. Can be unwelcoming to visiting surfers.
Locked In - Unable to pull-out over the top of a wave. Used in two senses: a) When a wave closes out and traps the surfer inside. b) When the surfer is in a good position in a tube. Used as "in the slot".
Log - a long board (over 8 or 9 feet long). If you want to "hang ten" you need a longboard. Also known as a tanker.
Logger - Old Malibu
Longboard - The old school of boards. The kind people rode in the '50s and '60s. Today a lot of people still use them because they're easier to paddle and are better for mellow, laid-back, non-aggressive surfing.
Lomp - Lethargic. A descriptive word relating to a feeling of weakness, or lethargy. "He felt really lomp after that three-hour surf session."
Lull - Where there are no waves for a while, ie in between sets.
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Make a wave - To go for a wave and "make it" as opposed to getting tossed off your board and pounded by the wave.
Malibu - 1. Length 8'6" to 10'6" style of surfboard from the 50's and 60's originally made of Balsa (plywood in Australia) and eventually foam and fibreglass.
2. A beach in Southern California
Mallard - A kook; someone who floats around out in the lineup like a duck.
Mullet - It does not necessarily refer to the fish of this name used as bait, but someone who is crazy, or whacky. "That ou is a mullet." He doesn’t have to be insane, just eccentric or strange.
Munger - A really ugly person who does sif things.
Mushy - Slow, sloppy waves of little power. (Better than no waves.)
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Natural Foot - A surfer who rides with his left foot in front of his right
Nasodrain - When the large quantity of seawater that is lodged in one’s nasal passages as a result of the previous surf session empties out through one’s nostrils in the space of a nanosecond.
Nose - The front of the surfboard
Nose-dive - See Pearl
Nose Riding - Surfing manoeuvre where the surfer stands on the very front of the surfboard
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On a mission - When you’re determined to complete a task, you are "on a mission".
Outside - The area of sea beyond the break-line. When shouted, indicates a large set of waves approaching. A warning, as "fore" in golf.
Offshore - Conditions when the wind is blowing off the land
Off the Lip - Manoeuvre involving striking the breaking lip of the wave
Onshore - Conditions when the wind is blowing on to the land
Overhead - used to describe the size of the waves. It means the wave is taller than the surfer. Double overhead would be twice the size (say, 10 to 14 or so feet).
Over the Falls - Not good! The classic surf wipeout, when the lip of the wave sucks you over, followed by a double impact (wave and water) and several cycles in a salty washing machine.
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Paddle out - To put your board in the ocean pointing out to sea, lie on it, and stroke out toward the line up one arm, then the other arm.
Park a tiger - To vomit, or puke. Sometimes referred to as the multi-coloured yawn.
Park off - Chill out. When you park off, you sit down and relax. "Shall we park off and watch the Rip Curl Search video for the 40th time?" It can also mean to sit down, as in, "Why don’t you park here?"
Peak - The highest point of the wave
Pearl - Where a surfboard nosedives under the water during a ride. This is usually caused by the surfers weight being too far forward.
Pee Pool - When you’re sitting on the beach, and you pee in your trunks or wetsuit. Usage: There’s nothing better than relaxing in a pee pool before a sesh.
Pit - Place directly in front of the crest of the wave. Usually, if you get in the pit you lose speed, get caught and pounded.
Pitched - Tossed of the lip of the wave and usually off the board.
Plank - Long Board
Pluck - Mindset. This is an interesting word. For instance, you say to someone who has just delivered obscure reasoning for doing something, "How’s your pluck?" (Where are you coming from?) The variation to this is, "How’s your mind?" Pluck refers to a distracted, even deranged, state of mind. "He was on a pluck when he dived off the roof." (He was on some kind of weird trip when he dived off the roof.)
Pocket - The steepest part of the wave - under the lip.
Point Break - Where the waves form and break around a point of land.
Pop-up - The single motion of going from lying on your board to a standing position.
Prone - Ride with your belly on the board. The most common and easiest way to ride a bodyboard.
Pull an action - Someone who has done something very undesirable, such as driving over a friend's surfboard or stealing his girl.
Pull in - To enter the barrel or the tube is to "pull in".
Pull in to a deep grinding death barrel - Turning the board into a particularly dangerous tubing wave with tons of murder power over a reef made up of beginners' skulls.
Pull out - Ending a ride by turning up and over the wave crest to paddle out again. (Also kick-out, cut-out)
Pumping - Good surf. See also, cooking, firing, going off, going ballistic, smoking.
Push-up - Where a paddling longboarder pushes their body up allowing the white water of a broken wave to pass between them and their board.
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Quiver - A selection of surfboards to suit most conditions.
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Radical - Adjective applied to extreme maneuvers by wave rider.
Rage - Not to be confused with the emotional extreme associated with anger. However, the behaviour of someone having a rage, or on a rage, is not dissimilar. They tend to jerk around at high speed, emitting strangled sounds, while techno or heavy metal music pounds in their ears. To have a rage is to go on a serious party, to push the limits of social etiquette and subject the body to a variety of excessive stimulants and stimuli. This is the second biggest habit of most surfers.
Rails - The edges of a surfboard.
Rat - Not to be confused with the furry creature with buck teeth, although youngsters who surf, many of them beginners, look similar and are viewed in the same way, if not worse. At least real rats don’t drop in on you.
Rave - The rave is similar to a Rage, but tends to be a little less intense. Having a rave suggests more of a good time. In other words, being able to remember what you did the night before. "I had such a rave with that girl I met on the beach."
Red Triangle - In Northern California, the offshore area between Monterey (including Santa Cruz), the Farallon Islands off San Francisco, and Tomales Bay in Marin County that has the highest number of reported great white shark attacks in the world. The area was dubbed the Red Triangle in 1986.
Reef Break - Where waves form and break over a reef - rock or coral.
Re-Entry - Attacking the lip, usually going vertically and then turning nose down and re-entering the wave.
Rickt - deriving from "Richters" deriving from "Off the Richter Scale" meaning that something is awesome / cool / da bomb / etc...
Right Turn - Riding to the surfers right.
Rip - Water traveling seaward in a well defined river, usually quite narrow but moving at several knots. Usually quite narrow but moving at several knots. Useful to a surfer, but dangerous to a swimmer.
Rip a slash under the lip - A fast, radical turn up under the roof of the barrel.
Rip one off the lip - A fast, radical turn up on top of the wave.
Ripping - Executing drastic and radical moves on the wave. Having it your way with a wave.
Rocker - The curvature of the underside of a surfboard.
Rock Up - To arrive. The more old fashioned way of saying "pull in". You don't tell anyone you're on the way, you just rock up.
Roll in - An old-fashioned skateboard maneuver, in which the skater skates along the flat section on top of a vertical ramp or pool, then turns off the edge, shoves the nose down, and lifts the back tail to not hang up the back wheel on the lip.
Rugger Bugger - A macho rugby playing type.
Rush - A spurt of adrenal thrill. "I got such a rush riding that 15’ barrel."
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Scale - To scale something is to steal it. A person who is "scaly" is a scumbag or sleazy type. See also skate.
Section - When the wave breaks into two or more segments separated by white water. Surfers will either maneuver through the sections, perform "floaters", or conclude their rides.
Set - A group of waves that comes up to the beach in a timely way often with lulls inbetween each set.
Shooting the Tube or Curl - Riding high on the wave, close or in the tube of curl.
Shore Break - Waves break very close to the beach.
Shortboard - About six feet long or less.
Shoulder - The unbroken portion of the wave next to the white water
Shredding - This pertains, once again, to those awesome carving, ripping, tearing moves being pulled off by, say, Kelly Slater.
Shubee - A tourist who buys surfing gear, dresses surf, but has never surfed in their life.
Sick tubes - Same as sick barrels.
Sideburns - Hair at the side of your face.
Single fins - Surfboards that have one fin on the bottom instead of two, three, or four. They are the most stable boards.
Skeem - 'Skeem', Think, opinion. "You skeem?" You think so? "What do you skeem?" What do you think?
Slot - "In the slot". Surfing in just the right place on the shoulder.
Slot in - Another way of pulling into a tube.
Smoking - Good surf. Also cooking, firing, going off, going ballistic.
Soup - The white water after a wave has broken.
Soup Bowl - Steep takeoff point with mushy shoulders on both sides.
Spat out - The fortunate few who have been spat out of a tube with a burst of spray when compressed air caught in the swirling cylinder is suddenly released.
Spazzes - Dudes who think they're in the Bud pro tour who take a lot of waves and look like they're being attacked by a swarm of flies because they're flapping their arms so much.
Speedbump - Bodyboarder. See doormat, sponge, gutslider.
Sponge - Bodyboard. Called sponge because its core is made of a sponge like material.
Sponger - Somebody that bodyboards.
Squeeze - Girlfriend
Stall - Where a surfboard slows &/or comes to a halt. This is caused by the surfers body weight being too far back during a ride.
Staunch - Big, strong
Stick - Another name for a surfboard
Stoked - Totally amped up, reved up, happy. It is a feeling you get from just surfing, having a great session or catching that awesome wave, really down to personal definition, everybody who rides a board will know the feeling. "I'm stoked man! I jus got toobed!"
Stringer - A piece of wooden strip that runs down the middle of a surfboard which reinforces the foam core.
Stroke - A swimming stroke used for paddling out on a surfboard.
Stroppy - Cheeky. A stroppy person is difficult, cheeky and likely to back chat. A child is often accused of being stroppy.
Stukkend - 'Stuk-int', Broken, ruined, finished, wrecked, to the extreme
Styling - When you're styling, everything clicks into place and you find yourself surfing like Kelly Slater, Tom Curren and "insert-favourite-surfer-here" rolled into one.
Surfari - Surf trip. "I went on a surfari to Indo."
Surfers Stance - Is the correct positioning of the feet and the body angle whilst standing on the surfboard.
Surfing in Nebraska - Used to describe an individual who’s totally vacant. Nothing going on upstairs. Usage: Bro, I think that dude’s surfing in Nebraska.
Surfz up ! - Waves are breaking and surfable. I'm outta here!
Swell - a set of waves that comes from deep in the ocean, usually after a storm. A good thing.
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Tailslide - Part of a larger maneuver in which the surfer purposely makes his/her fins lose their grip and the board slides.
Take Off - The start of the run.
Take Off Point - The best spot to be in the line-up to catch the best part of a breaking wave.
Tanker - Same as a log.
Tearing - A hot surfer in the process of ripping up the waves. Other synonyms are rip, carve, lacerate, cook, shred and style.
The ZONE - This is the place where there is no escape from the wrath of the on-coming wave.. You are caught inside, too far in to catch the wave, and the wave is breaking to far out for you to paddle outside THE ZONE. You get pounded in the zone.
Toes-on-the-Nose - Riding a wave with one's toes curled around the nose of the board.
Toobed ! - Riding inside the "tube." In the green room.
Top Turn - Similar to the re-entry but the approach is less vertical and usually performed to gain speed.
Tourist - Non Local
Tri-Fin - 3 fin arrangement on a surfboard.
Trim - The correct balance whilst paddling or surfing on a board encouraging maximum thrust through the water.
Trough - The lowest part between waves.
Tube - where the crest of the wave falls over the hollow barrel. Forms a pipe shaped wave. Where to be!
Tube Chip - Any tortilla chip that resembles a curling wave, usually encountered while dropping in to some salsa picante at a Mexican restaurant.
Tube-Ride - also known as "in the barrel" where a surfer rides inside the broken curl of a wave.
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Vloek - 'Flook', coincidence, lucky break, by chance. If you never get barrelled, or tubed, but somehow get slotted by closing your eyes inside a closeout wave, and suddenly find yourself in the open air again, your friend could legitimately say: "That tube was a vloek". Similarly, if you need a bullseye on the dart board to win, and you hurl the dart at the board without aiming, and it hits the bullseye, then it's a vloek.
Vrot - 'Frort', Rotten, putrid. Used by all language groups to describe something highly undesirable, or smelly, or rotten. It can also mean drunk to the point of being completely paralytic. "I was vrot last night"
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Wasted - Paralytic drunk or totally high. "I was completely wasted at the party"
Wax - Rubbed on a surfboard to give added grip.
Wedge - When there is a break near a wall, pier or jetty. The waves come in, rebound off the wall and travel sideways into the oncoming swell. This pushes up the wave in the middle, forming an A-framed wedge. If you take off on the wedgey part, you get loads of speed and can hit the lip with lots of force, getting lots of air.
Weekend warriors - Yuppie surfers who take a lot of waves, have top-of-the-line equipment, and have crappy style and skills.
Wettie - A drink, refreshment
White Water - The broken part of the wave after it has peaked.
Windmill - Name for a waveski rider. See Goatboat.
Wipe Out - If you don't know what a Wipe Out is, you'll learn it for sure at surfing.
Wobbly - Panic attack, fit of rage, nervous breakdown
Woody - A Surfer's Car, at least formerly.