air - getting airborne with fins out of the water.
aerial - airborne manoeuvre with many varieties borrowed from snow & skateboarding.
amped - charged up - stoked - fired.
backdoor - to pull into a tube from behind the peak.
bail - to abandon a board - jump off - usually without regard to the boards future.
bashing - body surfing.
boost - getting airborne off the lip.
brah - from bruddah, Hawaiian pidgin for brother.
bro - a buddy or friend.
bucket - helmet.
bump - a swell.
bumps - the build-up of wax on a surfboard deck.
carve - symmetrical, fluid turns.
cheater five - hanging five toes on the nose - keep your weight back on the board to maintain trim and speed, squat down and extend one foot forward.
clucked- afraid, intimidated by the wave.
crew - a group of surfers defined by break or area.
dogging - going backside in the pit.
drop - as in dropping from the crest of the wave to the pit.
dropping in - catching a wave that is already occupied ... taking off on the shoulder while someone is taking off deeper.
drop in late - catching the steepest part of a wave
dune - a big peaky wave.
falls - the pitching lip of the wave, geting sucked into this = 'going over the falls'!
fan - a fan of spray off a turn.
fluff - throws a waterfall shoreward.
frigged - snaked, having a wave taken from you by a surfer paddling inside of you.
fully - with commitment and intensity.
full on - with commitment and intensity.
gash - very sharp turn.
gnarly - awesome and intimidating.
going off - a break under optimum conditions.
gouge - sharp, fast turn.
gremmies - grem or gremmie is short for gremlin - 60's slang for young, mischievous surfer, pre-adolescent surfer.
green room - inside a full cover-up tube.
grommet - adolescent surfer.
gunned - undergunned or overgunned refers to the size of your board in relation to wave conditions.
hanging five - lonboarding expression for dangling five toes over the nose of the board whilst trimming along the face of the wave.
hiddie - from hideous, intense.
hoot - howling approval and encouragement to friends.
jag - retreat after getting worked.
joy - Aussie slang for stoked e.g. sick joy, joyous.
kook - a bad surfer or learner.
nipped - nipples rubbed raw by board or wetsuit.
noodle - exhausted, overall condition or specific as in noodle arms.
pop - kickout.
pit - the hollowest portion of a breaking wave.
pitch - throw or angle of any run to rise.
pitted - being in the pit or barrel of a wave.
pearl - to go pearl diving, the nose of you board goes underwater and you normally follow it!
pumping - above average large swell.
quiver - a surfer's collection of boards or a board bag that holds several boards.
rip - to surf really well or a strong under current in the ocean.
Green room - inside a large barrel.
schlong - thick, long, old style single-fin surfboard.
squid-lips - an old skool insult used effectively in the film Big Wednesday!
scab - a reef or rock.
scabbed - getting damaged by a reef or rock.
shred - ability to execute rapid repeated turns - shortboard term.
sick - excellent, describing a surfer, stunt, manoeuvre or conditions.
sideslip - when your board stops tracking forwards and moves sideways.
slam - bounce off the lip as it begins to pitch.
slash - cutback.
snake - paddling around behind someone who is already in position and stealing their wave. Effectively the snake is taking ownership of the wave by being the closest rider to the breaking portion of the wave.
stink-eye - Mean stare, normally given/received when a surfer has done something particularly wrong in the water like dropping in.
stoked - Psyched up for a surf, wound up, full of enthusiasm.
stylie - with good form or grace.
surfer's knots - large bumps on the tops of feet and on knees caused by callousing where a surfer has continuously come into contact with a board.
stuffed - getting driven under the water by a wave coming down on you.
swish - a meek or fearful surfer.
thrashed - when a wave bashes you.
throwing tail - sliding the tail in a turn, breaking the grip of the fins.
tow-ins - getting towed into waves that are too large to paddle into.
trim - adjusting your position on a board so that it planes, and achieves its maximum speed.
tube - the cylindrical or cone shaped hole created when the lip pitches out far and clean enough to create a space between the wave and the falls.
vertical - turn straight up the wave.
waffling - rapidly working the board back and forth.
wannabe - wan-na-be, someone who wants to be a surfer, wears the clothes and talks the talk but can't surf.
wax - Used on deck of boards for traction. It's made from paraffin, colour, scent + additives.
wipe out - falling off your board spectacularly.
worked - Being pummelled by a wave. It often feels like your inside a large washing machine!
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