Different sports to glide on water

Bodysurf : surf with your body
Bodyboard : surf lying down on a small board
Kneeboard : surf kneeling down on board
Skimboard : surf on a wooden board that you use near the beach
Longboard ; surf on a long board over 9’ long (more than 3 meters 9’)
Surf tandem : 2 people together on a long board


The vocabulary of waves

Spot : a spot where a surf able wave breaks
Set : a series of bigger waves than those of an average day
Right wave : breaker towards the right of the surfer, the opposite seen from the beach
Left wave : breaker towards the left of the surfer.
Line up : spot where the surfer awaits a wave
Spot : where waves have alreadybroken
Pickspot : where the wave is beginning to break
Lip part : of the wave that is breaking and thrown forwards
Shoulder : part of the wave that has not yet broken
Barrel : Inside of the wave
Section : part of wave that breaks
Beach break : wavebreaker on sand beds
Point break : wavebreaker in a bayformed by the coast
Reef break : wavebreaker on a rock bed or of coral
Shore-break : wave that is breakingdirectlyon the sand

The wind vocabulary

Off-shore : windcomingfrom the earth blower to waves the bestwind!!
One shore : windcomingfrom the sea
Side shore : windcomingfromside
Glassy : nowind, seasmooth’s.


Different stands on the board

Regular : to surfwith the leftfoot in front
Goofy : to surfwith the rightfoot in front
Backside : to surfbackhas the wave
Frontside : to surffacehas the wave


Some knowledge about the board


Shaper : boardsmanufacteur
Shape : generalform of the board
Shortboard : smallboard
Longboard : tall board more than 9’
Malibu board : relatively easy .8’ to 9’ long
Gun : board for big wave ,8’to 11’ long
Fish : small board for the small waves
Nose : front of the board
Tail : back of the board
Rail : edge of the board
Rocker : generalcurve of the boardsees in profile .
Wax : putiton if you don’twant to slide on the board
Leash : between the board and the surfer