Lingo This page is here to help you out with most of the slang and terms involved with surfing, that you will encounter. If you take up surfing, you might to notice that you automatically start talking like this (yeah, scary...). Learn The Talk Backwash Water returning to the ocean from the shore, against the breaking waves. Rip current A small channel (usually formed by two sandbanks next to each other) that allows water to pass out to sea a little faster than normal. Waves fade into them and can't break in them. Ripping Ripping the wave to shreds, to surf very well. Impact zone Where the waves start breaking for the first time (where you have to sit and wait for them). Gulley The opposite of the impact zone, in other words, where the waves start fading out. Line-up A "line" where all the surfers sit on their boards, waiting to catch a wave, usually just beyond the impact zone (on the "outside"). Face The wall of water beneath the lip of the wave, the part of the wave you should be surfing. Lip The curling lip at the top of the wave. Leash The line that attaches your leg to your surfboard, so that your board does not wash away when you do. Break A location on the shore that waves tend to break. Beach break A break where the waves break over sandbanks. Reef break A break where the waves break over a reef (made up out of rocks and/or corral). Point break A point break is where waves are bent according to the land's form. Gun A board used to surf really big waves. Pearling This happens if the nose of the board goes under the water (pearl-diving). Going over the falls This means getting sucked over the lip of the wave. It usually ends in pain. Howzit? A kind of standard greeting that surfers greet each other with. Bru / Brah Brah is from "Braddah," the Hawaiian word for brother. Bru is just a variation of that. Wipe-out Leaving the board, either by falling off or by getting knocked off.

Lingo This page is here to help you out with most of the slang and terms involved with surfing, that you will encounter. If you take up surfing, you might to notice that you automatically start talking like this (yeah, scary...). Learn The Talk Backwash Water returning to the ocean from the shore, against the breaking waves. Rip current A small channel (usually formed by two sandbanks next to each other) that allows water to pass out to sea a little faster than normal. Waves fade into them and can't break in them. Ripping Ripping the wave to shreds, to surf very well. Impact zone Where the waves start breaking for the first time (where you have to sit and wait for them). Gulley The opposite of the impact zone, in other words, where the waves start fading out. Line-up A "line" where all the surfers sit on their boards, waiting to catch a wave, usually just beyond the impact zone (on the "outside"). Face The wall of water beneath the lip of the wave, the part of the wave you should be surfing. Lip The curling lip at the top of the wave. Leash The line that attaches your leg to your surfboard, so that your board does not wash away when you do. Break A location on the shore that waves tend to break. Beach break A break where the waves break over sandbanks. Reef break A break where the waves break over a reef (made up out of rocks and/or corral). Point break A point break is where waves are bent according to the land's form. Gun A board used to surf really big waves. Pearling This happens if the nose of the board goes under the water (pearl-diving). Going over the falls This means getting sucked over the lip of the wave. It usually ends in pain. Howzit? A kind of standard greeting that surfers greet each other with. Bru / Brah Brah is from "Braddah," the Hawaiian word for brother. Bru is just a variation of that. Wipe-out Leaving the board, either by falling off or by getting knocked off.