Hawaiian surf lingo movie#

The mass commercialism of the sport via the media is almost directly responsible for this spread.īelow are a selection of commonly used surf lingo and their definitions, so next time you are on the beach at Waikiki or J-Bay you'll know what the hell their talking about…ġ80 or 360 - a surf manoeuvre, more commonly associated with skating, this is where the surfer performs an aerial turn of 180° or 360°.Īerial - part of a manoeuvrewhere the surfer and his/her board leaves the water.Īir - after a good bottom turn with lots of speed, head up the face, off the lip and into the sky.īarrel - a hollow-faced wave.

Hawaiian surf lingo movie#

The amazing thing about surf culture though is how these words have made their way from the shores of California, Hawaii and Australia, to mainland big cities, miles from the coast, and surfing as a whole! To our school playgrounds, television and movie screens, bars and even our literature. Then of course you have the stereotypical slang like dude, radical, cowabunga and a whole host of similar words. Then there are unique surfer terms like grommet, in the soup, mullering, pipeline, stoked and worked. There are certain surf terms that are recognised by the wider society, words or terms like beach break, offshore and swell. This language is basically slang, which only members of the surf community can understand, thus successfully excluding itself and its members from the wider society. Surf culture has developed its own form of language.