HOW ARE WE ALL UNIQUE?

April 26 , 2012Zach Dew

Surfing A,B,C

Aerial An aerial is freestyle surfing.

Barrel Barrel is a hollow inside of a wave.

Carve To make your board.

Dive When someone goes under with their

board.

Epoxy A type of surfboard.

FlipA front flip.

Goat Boat Someone sits down on their board.

Hang Ten Throw their hands in the air while surfing.

Impact Zone Where the waves break.

Jacking A wave condition in which a swell rises

and very quickly as it passes from deeper water to shallow water.

Kneelo A person who rides on their knees.

Layback A maneuver where the person lays back

on their board usually in a cutback

Mushy A condition where the waves don’t have

much energy.

Nose Front of the surfboard.

Off-the-lip A re-entry. Turning the board quickly off a

wave and falling face first in the water.

Pearl When the nose of the board goes into the

sand.

Quad Surfboard with 4 fins.

Regular Foot Surfer who stands left foot first.

Stick Another word for surfboard

Thruster The proper name for a three fin board.

Underwater When you fall and your board goes under

water with you.

Volume When a surfer comes out of the air.

Water The water.

X-games Competion in surfing.

Yolo Yolo you only live once. It connects to

surfing because a shark could eat you.

Zulu Zulu time is used on weather charts.

Weather charts play an important role in predicting surfing conditions.