Surf lingo

I really need to offset all this writing about Nazi symbolism in surfing and political lineups, and what better way than to talk about Aloha. Aloha is a very familiar

Guns. This story was supposed to be about big wave guns. But during my research I came across this little word-of-the-week nugget—overgunned, so we’ll start there. 🧠 word of the

Halloween was last week, and our word of the week seems more appropriate for the scary season, so we’ll keep it short. Let’s chat about tombstoning. Tombstoning describes the very

I don’t think you can visit O‘ahu, Hawai‘i and not come across this term. I wanted to learn more about the origins of beach boys so I could share it

There’s something incredibly sexy about glassed-in fins. But do they still have a place in today’s surfing world? from no fins to glass-ons Before glassed-in fins became the norm, surfboards

Over the falls, with a variation of sucked over, is a wipeout—or a stage in a wipeout—where the surfer is pitched out with the lip as it hooks over and

The word of the week is: soul arch. And we will throw in “soul surfing” free of charge, because otherwise, it would be a micro-post. The origin of the soul

Ah yes—Backdoor. Not that Backdoor, you filthy animal. And not just Pipeline’s Backdoor, either. Let me explain. To “backdoor” a wave means to enter a barrel or tube section by