Hang High On Surfing
Surfing is a water sport where you attempt to carry yourself while riding a surfboard on a breaking wave. Apart from surfboards, surfers also use other carrying equipment such as kayaks, water skis, long boards and even kneeboards.
Surfing started off as a recreational, fun activity and is now a billion-dollar industry, what with companies getting into the sponsorship act because they want their sports merchandise to be hyped around and sold.
The Surf Culture
There are three kinds of surfers – those who want to surf because of the money, those who want to surf for the fun and recreation it offers, and those who are professional surfers, but don’t want to sell their souls for money – the last category of guys are known as soul surfers.
Common surfing terminology
Regular foot: When you place your right foot on the back of surfboard
Goofy foot: When the left foot is placed on the back of the surfboard
Take off: When you begin the ride
Drop in: Dropping into the wave
Duck dive: Diving underwater along with your board, like a duck, and then emerging as the wave breaks
Snaking: Going around some other surfer
Shoulder: The part of the wave that doesn’t break into surf
Over the falls: When you go out of control
Pump: a movement that generates speed
Stall: Slowing down the speed of your board
Floater: Riding on top of the breaking part of the wave
Hang-five/hang-ten: Placing five or ten toes over the nose of a longboard.
Re-entry: Hitting the brim of the wave and re-rentering the wave in quick succession.
Tube riding: Riding inside the curl of a wave
Carve: Turns
Air/Aerial: Riding the board briefly into the air above the wave and then landing back on the wave.
