![]() ![]() It is a serious breach of surfing etiquette. "To drop in on someone": To take off on a wave that is already being ridden.Drop in: Dropping into (engaging) the wave, most often as part of standing up.Cross-step: Crossing one foot over the other to walk down the board.Caught inside: When a surfer is paddling out and cannot get past the breaking surf to the safer part of the ocean (the outside) in order to find a wave to ride.Bottom turn: The first turn at the bottom of the wave.Bail: To step off the board in order to avoid being knocked off (a wipe out).Backing out: pulling back rather than continuing into a wave that could have been caught.Air/Aerial: Riding the board briefly into the air above the wave, landing back upon the wave, and continuing to ride.Whitewater: In a breaking wave, the water continues on as a ridge of turbulence and foam called "whitewater" or also called "soup".Whitecaps: The sea foam crest over the waves.Wedge: Two waves traveling from slightly different direction angles that converge to form a wedge when they merge, where the wedge part of the two waves usually breaks a great deal harder than the individual waves themselves.Wall: The section of the wave face that extends from the shoulder to the breaking portion, where the wave has not broken and where the surfer maneuvers to ride the wave.Undertow: An under-current that is moving offshore when waves are approaching the shore.Trough: The bottom portion of the unbroken wave and below the peak, low portion between waves.Swell: A series of waves that have traveled from their source in a distant storm, and that will start to break once the swell reaches shallow enough water.Surf's up: A phrase used when there are waves worth surfing.Shoulder: The unbroken part of a breaking wave.Set waves: A group of waves of larger size within a swell.Sectioning: A wave that does not break evenly, breaks ahead of itself.Sections: The parts of a breaking wave that are rideable.Riptide: A strong offshore current that is caused by the tide pulling water through an inlet along a barrier beach, at a lagoon or inland marina where tide water flows steadily out to sea during ebb tide.Point break: Area where an underwater rocky point creates waves that are suitable for surfing.Pounder: An unusually hard breaking wave.The steepest part of a wave, also known as the energy zone. Where you should surf if you want to generate the most speed. Pocket: The area of the wave that's closest to the curl or whitewash.Outside: Any point seaward of the normal breaking waves.Off the hook: An adjective phrase meaning the waves are performing extraordinarily well.Line-up: The queue area where most of the waves are starting to break and where most surfers are positioned in order to catch a wave.Inshore: The direction towards the beach from the surf, can also be referring to the wind direction direction traveling from the ocean onto the shore.Green: The unbroken portion of the wave, sometimes referred to as the wave shoulder.Gnarly: Large, difficult, and dangerous (usually applied to waves).Glassy: When the waves (and general surface of the water) are extremely smooth, not disturbed by wind.Face: The forward-facing surface of a breaking wave. ![]() Curl: The actual portion of the wave that is falling or curling over when the wave is breaking.Crest: The top section of the wave, or peak, just before the wave begins to break.Close-out: A wave is said to be "closed-out" when it breaks at every position along the face at once, and therefore cannot be surfed.Chop or choppy: Waves that are subjected to cross winds, have a rough surface (chop) and do not break cleanly.Channel: A deep spot in the shoreline where waves generally don't break, can be created by a riptide pulling water back to the sea and used by surfers to paddle out to the waves.Bottom: Refers to the ocean floor, or to the lowest part of the wave ridden by a surfer.Bomb: An exceptionally large set wave.Blown out: When waves that would otherwise be good have been rendered too choppy by wind.Beach break: An area with waves that are good enough to surf break just off a beach, or breaking on a sandbar farther out from the shore.Barrel: (also tube, cave, keg, green room) The effect when a big wave rolls over, enclosing a temporary horizontal tunnel of air with the surfer inside.A-Frame: Wave with a peak that resembles an A and allows surfers to go either left or right, with both sides having a clean shoulder to work with. ![]()
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