This document provides a guide to surf lingo and terms used by surfers to describe their experience. Key terms explained include getting "barreled" or tubed when surfing inside the breaking part of a wave. Having a "good surf" may be described as epic, stoked, filth or sick. Wave conditions can be described as onshore, offshore, lumpy, lined up, peaky, fast or hollow. Other terms explained are the lip of the wave, a floater maneuver, wave height in feet, catching inside waves, duck diving under waves, and wiping out. The guide aims to unravel some of the mystery of surfers' unique vocabulary.

2. Surf Lingo - a Basic
Guide

4. Surfers have a way of describing
things that are foreign to those
not in the know so I thought it
would be handy to put forward a
couple of helpful hints!

5. When a surfer gets in a barrel -
they are surfing almost inside the
wave with the lip of the wave
breaking over the top of them. A
Barrell can often be referred to as
getting slotted, tubed, kegs,
pitted and more

6. When a surfer has had a good
surf they say things such as it was
epic, stoked, it was filth, it was
sick, all time, mad etc

7. When a surfer is describing the
wave conditions they say things
such as on shore - meaning the
wind is blowing from the sea to
the shore, off shore means the
wind is blowing from the land
out to the sea, it is lumpy
meaning

8. the waves were not perfectly
lind up, it was straight meaning
the wave lines are coming in too
straight to the beach, lined up
means there are regular sets of
waves coming in, good on the
sets meaning that you had to wait
for the sets to come to get a
decent wave, peaky meaning

9. the waves would peak up in
random spots very quickly, fast
meaning the wave would break
quickly, hollow meaning the
wave is round / tubing - this list
could go on forever...!

10. The lip refers to the lip of the
wave breaking over
The wave is fat - meaning the
wave is not very steep - i.e. like a
rolling hill rather than a cliff!
Make sure to choose the right
surfing board for your safety.

11. Snap - a type of turn on the wave
Cutback - where you surf along
and turn back toward the
breaking part of the wave

12. In the pocket - means surfing
right next to lip of the wave in the
part of the wave with the most
power (i.e. the sweet spot)
A floater - means when you do a
turn at the top of the breaking
wave and float down with the lip

13. 2ft - i.e. 2waves are 2 foot high
(this is judged from the front of
the wave or back of the wave
depending on where you are
from!)
On the head - refers to when a
wave breaks on your head (can
also be described as copped a set
on the head)

14. Caught inside means you
struggled to get out past the
breaking waves to still water and
had to continually duck dive
under the waves
Duck dive - when you paddle out
you duck dive under the breaking
waves to get out the back faster

15. Wipe out - when you fall off your
board
Learning how to surf is fun and
rewarding. If you have any other
ones that I have missed and you
would like an answer on - please
let me know! Hope that helps
unravel the mystery a little bit.

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