Hawaii surfing locations - Surfing, Boogie Boarding, Body surfing. Map of the best bodysurfing and boggie boarding shore locations in Hawaii. Map shows hawaii beach locations of some of the best hawaii surfing and bodysurfing spots including - Honopu Beach, Ka'anapali Beach, Kailua Beach, Kama'ole Beach, Wailua Bay.
Surf Terminology
Air: getting airborne
Aerial: airborne maneuver
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 board's future
Bake: a closeout
Bashing: body surfing
Bitchen: top notch stoke
Boost: getting airborne off the lip
Brah: from bruddah, Hawaiian pidgin for brother
Bro: a buddy or friend
Bro-in-a push from a friend into a wave
Bucked: helmet
Bump: a swell
Bumps: the build-up of wax on a surfboard deck
Carve: symmetrical, fluid turns
Cheater five: five toes on the nose Ñ 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
Cutback: a maneuver where the surfer turns sharply back towards the breaking portion of the wave. See also 'S-turn'
Deck: the top surface of the board
Ding: damage to a surfboard
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
Epoxy: alternative board construction to foam
Falls: the pitching lip of the wave Ñ don't get sucked into this
Fan: a fan of spray off a turn such as a water skier throws
Fluff: spray off the lip
Falls: top of the wave pitches out and throws a waterfall shoreward
Fish: a type of short surfboard that is wide, fairly thick for added buoyancy and has two fins; popular in the 1970s
Frigged: snaked
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
Goofy Foot: Someone who has his right foot forward instead of his left
Gouge: sharp, fast turn
Gremmies: grem or gremmie is short for gremlin Ñ Sixties US term for young, possibly or probably mischievous surfer, pre-adolescent surfer
Green room: inside a full cover-up tube
Grommet: adolescent surfer
Gun: a variant of board shape made for big waves
Gunned: under-gunned or over-gunned; refers to the size of your board in relation to wave conditions
Hiddie: from hideous, intense
Hoot: howling and yelping approval and encouragement to buddies
Jag: retreat after getting worked
Kook: someone posing very hard as a surfer. An unskilled surfer
Lineup: the location in the ocean where the outer waves are breaking
Lip: the portion of the wave that is breaking and falling from top to bottom, especially in hollow waves
Local: a person who lives near a surfspot and surfs there almost daily
Log: a long surfboard
Nipped: nipples rubbed raw by board or suit
Noodle: exhausted, overall condition or specific as in noodle armed
Bodyboarding is a form of wave riding. The board consists of a small roughly rectangular piece of foam, shaped to a hydrodynamic form. The bodyboard is predominantly ridden lying down ('prone'). It can also be ridden in a half-standing stance with one knee touching the board known as 'drop knee'. The bodyboard may even be ridden standing up. The vast majority of bodyboarders usually wear swimfins on both feet to aid in controlling trajectory, adjusting speed while riding, paddling out, and taking off.
The bodyboard differs from a surfboard in that it is much shorter and made of foam. The board consists of a foam 'core' encapsulated by a plastic bottom and a softer foam top known as the deck. The core is made up from dow/polyethylene, arcel or, more recently, polypropylene. Each type of foam gives the bodyboard a different amount of flex and control for the rider. Dow/polyethelene cores are best suited to cooler waters as they can be too flexible in warm water and the board does not flex properly. Sometimes a rod (usually of carbon) called a stringer is inserted in the board to add stiffness and recoil to the core, giving greater speed from bottom turns and makes the board stronger. Adding a stringer to a polypropylene/arcel core can make it too stiff for cool water. Speed is created when a bodyboarder bottom turns and the board flexes and recoils, releasing energy. If the board flexes too little or too easily, speed is lost.
Source: Wikipedia