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speed</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tube_shape_and_speed-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Wave_intensity" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Wave_intensity"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Wave intensity</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Wave_intensity-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Artificial_reefs" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Artificial_reefs"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Artificial reefs</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Artificial_reefs-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Artificial_waves" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Artificial_waves"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Artificial waves</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Artificial_waves-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Maneuvers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Maneuvers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Maneuvers</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Maneuvers-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Maneuvers subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Maneuvers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Terms" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Terms"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Terms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Terms-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Learning" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Learning"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Learning</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Learning-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Equipment" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Equipment"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Equipment</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Equipment-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-The_physics_of_surfing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_physics_of_surfing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>The physics of surfing</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-The_physics_of_surfing-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle The physics of surfing subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-The_physics_of_surfing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Wave_formation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Wave_formation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Wave formation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Wave_formation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Wave_conditions_for_surfing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Wave_conditions_for_surfing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Wave conditions for surfing</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Wave_conditions_for_surfing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Surf_breaks" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Surf_breaks"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>Surf breaks</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Surf_breaks-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Headland_(point_break)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Headland_(point_break)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3.1</span> <span>Headland (point break)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Headland_(point_break)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Beach_break" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Beach_break"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3.2</span> <span>Beach break</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Beach_break-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-River_or_estuary_entrance_bar" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#River_or_estuary_entrance_bar"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3.3</span> <span>River or estuary entrance bar</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-River_or_estuary_entrance_bar-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Reef_break" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Reef_break"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3.4</span> <span>Reef break</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Reef_break-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ledge_break" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ledge_break"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3.5</span> <span>Ledge break</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ledge_break-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Jetties_and_their_impacts_on_wave_formation_in_the_surf_zone" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Jetties_and_their_impacts_on_wave_formation_in_the_surf_zone"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.4</span> <span>Jetties and their impacts on wave formation in the surf zone</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Jetties_and_their_impacts_on_wave_formation_in_the_surf_zone-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Type_1_jetty" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Type_1_jetty"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.4.1</span> <span>Type 1 jetty</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Type_1_jetty-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Type_2_jetty" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Type_2_jetty"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.4.2</span> <span>Type 2 jetty</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Type_2_jetty-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Type_3_jetty" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Type_3_jetty"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.4.3</span> <span>Type 3 jetty</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Type_3_jetty-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Type_4_jetty" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Type_4_jetty"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.4.4</span> <span>Type 4 jetty</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Type_4_jetty-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rip_currents" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rip_currents"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.5</span> <span>Rip currents</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rip_currents-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-On_the_surfboard" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#On_the_surfboard"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.6</span> <span>On the surfboard</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-On_the_surfboard-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Dangers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Dangers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Dangers</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Dangers-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Dangers subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Dangers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Drowning" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Drowning"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Drowning</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Drowning-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Collisions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Collisions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2</span> <span>Collisions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Collisions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Marine_life" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Marine_life"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.3</span> <span>Marine life</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Marine_life-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rip_currents_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rip_currents_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.4</span> <span>Rip currents</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rip_currents_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Seabed" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Seabed"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.5</span> <span>Seabed</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Seabed-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Microorganisms" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Microorganisms"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.6</span> <span>Microorganisms</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Microorganisms-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ear_damage" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ear_damage"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.7</span> <span>Ear damage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ear_damage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Surf_rash" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Surf_rash"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.8</span> <span>Surf rash</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Surf_rash-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Spinal_cord" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spinal_cord"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.9</span> <span>Spinal cord</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spinal_cord-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Surfers_and_surf_culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Surfers_and_surf_culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Surfers and surf culture</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Surfers_and_surf_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav 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href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C8%B2%C3%BEr%C4%ABdung" title="Ȳþrīdung – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Ȳþrīdung" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ænglisc</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%A9" title="ركمجة – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ركمجة" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf" title="Surf – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Surf" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf" title="Surf – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Surf" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ypysyry" title="Ypysyry – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Ypysyry" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6rfinq" title="Sörfinq – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Sörfinq" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selancar" title="Selancar – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Selancar" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%91%D1%80%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Сёрфинг – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Сёрфинг" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%91%D1%80%D1%84%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Сёрфінг – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Сёрфінг" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%84%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Сэрфінг – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Сэрфінг" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5" title="Сърфиране – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Сърфиране" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%A2%E0%BE%B3%E0%BD%96%E0%BD%A6%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A4%E0%BD%B4%E0%BD%91%E0%BC%8D" title="རླབས་ཤུད། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="རླབས་ཤུད།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf" title="Surf – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Surf" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf" title="Surf – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Surf" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfing" title="Surfing – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Surfing" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrffio" title="Syrffio – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Syrffio" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfing" title="Surfing – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Surfing" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellenreiten" title="Wellenreiten – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Wellenreiten" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfamine" title="Surfamine – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Surfamine" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%AD%CF%81%CF%86%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%B3%CE%BA" title="Σέρφινγκ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σέρφινγκ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf" title="Surf – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Surf" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfado" title="Surfado – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Surfado" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf" title="Surf – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Surf" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AC%E2%80%8C%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C" title="موج‌سواری – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="موج‌سواری" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfing" title="Surfing – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Surfing" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf" title="Surf – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Surf" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnmharca%C3%ADocht" title="Tonnmharcaíocht – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Tonnmharcaíocht" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf" title="Surf – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Surf" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%84%9C%ED%95%91" title="서핑 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="서핑" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-haw mw-list-item"><a href="https://haw.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%CA%BBenalu" title="Heʻenalu – Hawaiian" lang="haw" hreflang="haw" data-title="Heʻenalu" data-language-autonym="Hawaiʻi" data-language-local-name="Hawaiian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hawaiʻi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%A5%D6%80%D6%86%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A3" title="Սերֆինգ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Սերֆինգ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BC%E0%A5%80" title="लहरबाज़ी – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="लहरबाज़ी" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfanje" title="Surfanje – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Surfanje" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfo" title="Surfo – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Surfo" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selancar" title="Selancar – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Selancar" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf" title="Surf – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Surf" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brimbrettabrun" title="Brimbrettabrun – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Brimbrettabrun" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf" title="Surf – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Surf" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%AA_%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9D" title="גלישת גלים – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="גלישת גלים" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A4%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%92%E1%83%98" title="სერფინგი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სერფინგი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-csb mw-list-item"><a href="https://csb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf%C3%B2wani%C3%A9" title="Surfòwanié – Kashubian" lang="csb" hreflang="csb" data-title="Surfòwanié" data-language-autonym="Kaszëbsczi" data-language-local-name="Kashubian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kaszëbsczi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%91%D1%80%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Сёрфинг – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Сёрфинг" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelsiwar%C3%AE" title="Pelsiwarî – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Pelsiwarî" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluctivagatio" title="Fluctivagatio – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Fluctivagatio" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%93rfings" title="Sērfings – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Sērfings" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfen" title="Surfen – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Surfen" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banglen%C4%8Di%C5%B3_sportas" title="Banglenčių sportas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Banglenčių sportas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull%C3%A1mlovagl%C3%A1s" title="Hullámlovaglás – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Hullámlovaglás" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D1%80%D1%84%D0%B0%D1%9A%D0%B5" title="Сурфање – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Сурфање" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mi mw-list-item"><a href="https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whakaheke_ngaru" title="Whakaheke ngaru – Māori" lang="mi" hreflang="mi" data-title="Whakaheke ngaru" data-language-autonym="Māori" data-language-local-name="Māori" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Māori</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luncur_air" title="Luncur air – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Luncur air" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fj mw-list-item"><a href="https://fj.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vakaseua" title="Vakaseua – Fijian" lang="fj" hreflang="fj" data-title="Vakaseua" data-language-autonym="Na Vosa Vakaviti" data-language-local-name="Fijian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Na Vosa Vakaviti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfen" title="Surfen – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Surfen" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3" title="サーフィン – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="サーフィン" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfing" title="Surfing – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Surfing" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfing" title="Surfing – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Surfing" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf" title="Surf – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Surf" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syorfing" title="Syorfing – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Syorfing" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfing" title="Surfing – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Surfing" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfe" title="Surfe – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Surfe" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfing" title="Surfing – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Surfing" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%91%D1%80%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Сёрфинг – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Сёрфинг" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D3%A9%D1%80%D1%84%D0%B8%D2%A5" title="Сөрфиҥ – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Сөрфиҥ" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sm mw-list-item"><a href="https://sm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faase%CA%BBe" title="Faaseʻe – Samoan" lang="sm" hreflang="sm" data-title="Faaseʻe" data-language-autonym="Gagana Samoa" data-language-local-name="Samoan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gagana Samoa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%ABrfimi" title="Sërfimi – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Sërfimi" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfing" title="Surfing – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Surfing" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfing" title="Surfing – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Surfing" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfing_(%C5%A1port)" title="Surfing (šport) – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Surfing (šport)" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfanje" title="Surfanje – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Surfanje" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfovanje" title="Surfovanje – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Surfovanje" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" 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.hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about stand-up ocean surfing. 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For the suburb of the Gold Coast, see <a href="/wiki/Surfers_Paradise,_Queensland" title="Surfers Paradise, Queensland">Surfers Paradise, Queensland</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn" style="padding-bottom:0.2em;">Surfing</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Mavericks_Surf_Contest_2010b.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Mavericks_Surf_Contest_2010b.jpg/220px-Mavericks_Surf_Contest_2010b.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Mavericks_Surf_Contest_2010b.jpg/330px-Mavericks_Surf_Contest_2010b.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Mavericks_Surf_Contest_2010b.jpg/440px-Mavericks_Surf_Contest_2010b.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4272" data-file-height="2828" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Mavericks Surf Contest 2010</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;">Highest <a href="/wiki/Sports_governing_body" title="Sports governing body">governing body</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/World_Surf_League" title="World Surf League">World Surf League</a> (WSL), <a href="/wiki/International_Surfing_Association" title="International Surfing Association">International Surfing Association</a> (ISA)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#eee;">Characteristics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;"><a href="/wiki/Mixed-sex_sports" title="Mixed-sex sports">Mixed-sex</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Yes, separate competitions</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;">Equipment</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Surfboard" title="Surfboard">Surfboard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Surfboard_leash" title="Surfboard leash">leash</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wetsuit" title="Wetsuit">wetsuit</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#eee;">Presence</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;">Country or region</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Worldwide</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;"><a href="/wiki/Olympic_Games" title="Olympic Games">Olympic</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Since <a href="/wiki/Surfing_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics" title="Surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics">2020</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Surfing</b> is a <a href="/wiki/List_of_surface_water_sports" title="List of surface water sports">surface water sport</a> in which an individual, a surfer (or two in <a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_surfing" title="Glossary of surfing">tandem surfing</a>), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving <a href="/wiki/Wind_wave" title="Wind wave">wave of water</a>, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitable for surfing are primarily found on <a href="/wiki/Ocean" title="Ocean">ocean</a> shores, but can also be found as <a href="/wiki/Standing_wave" title="Standing wave">standing waves</a> in the open ocean, in <a href="/wiki/Lake_surfing" title="Lake surfing">lakes</a>, in <a href="/wiki/River_surfing" title="River surfing">rivers</a> in the form of a <a href="/wiki/Tidal_bore" title="Tidal bore">tidal bore</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Wave_pools" class="mw-redirect" title="Wave pools">wave pools</a>. </p><p>The term <i>surfing</i> refers to a person riding a wave using a board, regardless of the stance. There are several types of boards. The <a href="/wiki/Moche_culture" title="Moche culture">Moche</a> of <a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a> would often surf on reed craft, while the <a href="/wiki/Polynesian_culture" title="Polynesian culture">native peoples of the Pacific</a> surfed waves on <a href="/wiki/Alaia" title="Alaia">alaia</a>, paipo, and other such water craft. Ancient cultures often surfed on their belly and knees, while the modern-day definition of surfing most often refers to a surfer riding a wave standing on a <a href="/wiki/Surfboard" title="Surfboard">surfboard</a>; this is also referred to as stand-up surfing. </p><p>Another prominent form of surfing is <a href="/wiki/Body_boarding" class="mw-redirect" title="Body boarding">body boarding</a>, where a surfer rides the wave on a bodyboard, either lying on their belly, drop knee (one foot and one knee on the board), or sometimes even standing up on a body board. Other types of surfing include knee boarding, surf matting (riding inflatable mats) and using foils. <a href="/wiki/Body_surfing" class="mw-redirect" title="Body surfing">Body surfing</a>, in which the wave is caught and ridden using the surfer's own body rather than a board, is very common and is considered by some surfers to be the purest form of surfing. The closest form of body surfing using a board is a <a href="/wiki/Handboard" class="mw-redirect" title="Handboard">handboard</a> which normally has one strap over it to fit on one hand. Surfers who body board, body surf, or <a href="/wiki/Handplane_(bodysurfing)" title="Handplane (bodysurfing)">handboard</a> feel more drag as they move through the water than stand up surfers do. This holds body surfers into a more turbulent part of the wave (often completely <a href="/wiki/Underwater" class="mw-redirect" title="Underwater">submerged</a> by whitewater). In contrast, surfers who instead ride a <a href="/wiki/Foilboard" title="Foilboard">hydrofoil</a> feel substantially less drag and may ride unbroken waves in the open ocean. </p><p>Three major subdivisions within stand-up surfing are <a href="/wiki/Standup_paddleboarding" title="Standup paddleboarding">stand-up paddling</a>, <a href="/wiki/Surfboard#Long_board" title="Surfboard">long boarding</a> and <a href="/wiki/Surfboard#Short_board" title="Surfboard">short boarding</a> with several major differences including the board design and length, the riding style and the kind of wave that is ridden. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Tow-in_surfing" title="Tow-in surfing">tow-in surfing</a> (most often, but not exclusively, associated with <a href="/wiki/Big_wave_surfing" title="Big wave surfing">big wave surfing</a>), a motorized water vehicle such as a <a href="/wiki/Personal_watercraft" title="Personal watercraft">personal watercraft</a>, tows the surfer into the wave front, helping the surfer match a large wave's speed, which is generally a higher speed than a self-propelled surfer can produce. Surfing-related sports such as <a href="/wiki/Paddle_boarding" class="mw-redirect" title="Paddle boarding">paddle boarding</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sea_kayaking" class="mw-redirect" title="Sea kayaking">sea kayaking</a> that are self-propelled by hand paddles do not require waves, and other derivative sports such as <a href="/wiki/Kite_surfing" class="mw-redirect" title="Kite surfing">kite surfing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Windsurfing" title="Windsurfing">windsurfing</a> rely primarily on wind for power, yet all of these platforms may also be used to ride waves. Recently with the use of <a href="/wiki/V-drive" title="V-drive">V-drive</a> boats,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (February 2021)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <a href="/wiki/Wakesurfing" title="Wakesurfing">Wakesurfing</a>, in which one surfs on the wake of a boat, has emerged.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> As of 2023, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized a 26.2 m (86 ft) wave ride by Sebastian Steudtner at <a href="/wiki/Nazar%C3%A9,_Portugal#Culture" title="Nazaré, Portugal">Nazaré</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a> as the largest wave ever surfed.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the winter season in the northern hemisphere, the <a href="/wiki/North_Shore_(Oahu)" title="North Shore (Oahu)">North Shore</a> of <a href="/wiki/Oahu" title="Oahu">Oahu</a>, the third-largest island of <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a>, is known for having some of the best waves in the world. Surfers from around the world flock to breaks like Backdoor, <a href="/wiki/Waimea_Bay" title="Waimea Bay">Waimea Bay</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Banzai_Pipeline" title="Banzai Pipeline">Pipeline</a>. However, there are still many popular surf spots around the world: <a href="/wiki/Teahupo%27o" class="mw-redirect" title="Teahupo'o">Teahupo'o</a>, located off the coast of <a href="/wiki/Tahiti" title="Tahiti">Tahiti</a>; <a href="/wiki/Mavericks,_California" title="Mavericks, California">Mavericks</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, United States; Cloudbreak, <a href="/wiki/Tavarua" title="Tavarua">Tavarua</a> Island, <a href="/wiki/Fiji" title="Fiji">Fiji</a>; Superbank, <a href="/wiki/Gold_Coast,_Queensland" title="Gold Coast, Queensland">Gold Coast, Australia.</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016 surfing was added by the <a href="/wiki/International_Olympic_Committee" title="International Olympic Committee">International Olympic Committee</a> (IOC) as an Olympic sport to begin at the <a href="/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics" title="2020 Summer Olympics">2020 Summer Olympics</a> in Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first gold medalists of the Tokyo 2020 surfing men and women's competitions were, respectively, the Brazilian <a href="/wiki/%C3%8Dtalo_Ferreira" title="Ítalo Ferreira">Ítalo Ferreira</a> and the American from Hawaii, <a href="/wiki/Carissa_Moore" title="Carissa Moore">Carissa Moore</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins_and_history">Origins and history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins and history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_surfing" title="History of surfing">History of surfing</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Peru">Peru</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Peru"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Huanchaco.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Huanchaco.jpg/250px-Huanchaco.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Huanchaco.jpg/330px-Huanchaco.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Huanchaco.jpg/500px-Huanchaco.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4406" data-file-height="3285" /></a><figcaption><i>Caballitos de totora</i>, reed watercraft used by fishermen for the past 3000 years at Huanchaco, Peru, known for its surf breaks</figcaption></figure><p> About three to five thousand years ago, cultures in ancient <a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a> fished in kayak-like watercraft (<i>mochica</i>) made of reeds that the fishermen surfed back to shore.<sup id="cite_ref-Hough-SneeEastman2017_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hough-SneeEastman2017-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Moche_culture" title="Moche culture">Moche culture</a> used the <a href="/wiki/Caballito_de_totora" title="Caballito de totora">caballito de totora</a> (little horse of <a href="/wiki/Totora_(plant)" title="Totora (plant)">totora</a>), with archaeological evidence showing its use around 200 CE.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An early description of the <a href="/wiki/Inca_Empire" title="Inca Empire">Inca</a> surfing in <a href="/wiki/Callao" title="Callao">Callao</a> was documented by Jesuit missionary <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_de_Acosta" title="José de Acosta">José de Acosta</a> in his 1590 publication <i>Historia natural y moral de las Indias</i>, writing:<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>It is true to see them go fishing in Callao de Lima, was for me a thing of great recreation, because there were many and each one in a <i>balsilla caballero</i>, or sitting stubbornly cutting the waves of the sea, which is rough where they fish, they looked like the Tritons, or Neptunes, who paint upon the water.</p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Polynesia">Polynesia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Polynesia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Surf-riding_1858.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Surf-riding_1858.jpg/250px-Surf-riding_1858.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Surf-riding_1858.jpg/330px-Surf-riding_1858.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Surf-riding_1858.jpg/500px-Surf-riding_1858.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1707" data-file-height="1344" /></a><figcaption>Hawaiians surfing, 1858</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Polynesian_culture" title="Polynesian culture">Polynesian culture</a>, surfing was an important activity. Modern surfing as we know it today is thought to have originated in <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a>. The history of surfing dates to <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> AD 400</span> in Polynesia, where <a href="/wiki/Polynesians" title="Polynesians">Polynesians</a> began to make their way to the <a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_Islands" title="Hawaiian Islands">Hawaiian Islands</a> from <a href="/wiki/Tahiti" title="Tahiti">Tahiti</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Marquesas_Islands" title="Marquesas Islands">Marquesas Islands</a>. They brought many of their customs with them including playing in the surf on Paipo (belly/body) boards. It was in Hawaii that the art of standing and surfing upright on <a href="/wiki/Surfboard" title="Surfboard">boards</a> was invented.<sup id="cite_ref-Walker2011_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Walker2011-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Various European explorers witnessed surfing in <a href="/wiki/Polynesia" title="Polynesia">Polynesia</a>. Surfing may have been observed by British explorers at Tahiti in 1767. <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Wallis" title="Samuel Wallis">Samuel Wallis</a> and the crew members of <a href="/wiki/HMS_Dolphin_(1751)" title="HMS Dolphin (1751)">HMS <i>Dolphin</i></a> were the first Britons to visit the island in June of that year. Another candidate is the botanist <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Banks" title="Joseph Banks">Joseph Banks</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who was part of the <a href="/wiki/First_voyage_of_James_Cook" title="First voyage of James Cook">first voyage of James Cook</a> on <a href="/wiki/HMS_Endeavour" title="HMS Endeavour">HMS <i>Endeavour</i></a>, arriving on Tahiti on 10 April 1769. Lieutenant <a href="/wiki/James_King_(Royal_Navy_officer)" title="James King (Royal Navy officer)">James King</a> was the first person to write about the art of surfing on Hawaii, when he was completing the journals of Captain <a href="/wiki/James_Cook" title="James Cook">James Cook</a> (upon Cook's death in 1779). </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Herman_Melville" title="Herman Melville">Herman Melville</a>'s 1849 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Mardi" title="Mardi">Mardi</a></i>, based on his experiences in Polynesia earlier that decade, the narrator describes the "Rare Sport at Ohonoo" (title of chap. 90): “For this sport, a surf-board is indispensable: some five feet in length; the width of a man's body; convex on both sides; highly polished; and rounded at the ends. It is held in high estimation; invariably oiled after use; and hung up conspicuously in the dwelling of the owner.”<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a> visited Hawaii in 1866 he wrote, "In one place, we came upon a large company of naked natives of both sexes and all ages, amusing themselves with the national pastime of surf-bathing."<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>References to surf riding on planks and single canoe hulls are also verified for pre-contact <a href="/wiki/Samoa" title="Samoa">Samoa</a>, where surfing was called <i>fa'ase'e</i> or <i>se'egalu</i> (see Augustin Krämer, <i>The Samoa Islands</i><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), and <a href="/wiki/Tonga" title="Tonga">Tonga</a>, far pre-dating the practice of surfing by Hawaiians and eastern Polynesians by over a thousand years. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="West_Africa">West Africa</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: West Africa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>West Africans (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Ghana" title="Ghana">Ghana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ivory_Coast" title="Ivory Coast">Ivory Coast</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liberia" title="Liberia">Liberia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Senegal" title="Senegal">Senegal</a>) and western Central Africans (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Cameroon" title="Cameroon">Cameroon</a>) independently developed the skill of surfing.<sup id="cite_ref-Dawson_II_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dawson_II-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Amid the 1640s CE, Michael Hemmersam provided an account of surfing in the <a href="/wiki/Gold_Coast_(region)" title="Gold Coast (region)">Gold Coast</a>: “the parents ‘tie their children to boards and throw them into the water.’”<sup id="cite_ref-Dawson_II_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dawson_II-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1679 CE, Barbot provided an account of surfing among <a href="/wiki/Elmina" title="Elmina">Elmina</a> children in Ghana: “children at Elmina learned “to swim, on bits of boards, or small bundles of rushes, fasten’d under their stomachs, which is a good diversion to the spectators.”<sup id="cite_ref-Dawson_II_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dawson_II-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> James Alexander provided an account of surfing in <a href="/wiki/Accra" title="Accra">Accra</a>, Ghana in 1834 CE: “From the beach, meanwhile, might be seen boys swimming into the sea, with light boards under their stomachs. They waited for a surf; and came rolling like a cloud on top of it. But I was told that sharks occasionally dart in behind the rocks and ‘yam’ them.”<sup id="cite_ref-Dawson_II_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dawson_II-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thomas Hutchinson provided an account of surfing in southern <a href="/wiki/Cameroon" title="Cameroon">Cameroon</a> in 1861: “Fishermen rode small dugouts ‘no more than six feet in length, fourteen to sixteen inches in width, and from four to six inches in depth.’”<sup id="cite_ref-Dawson_II_15-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dawson_II-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="California">California</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: California"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Essie_Harris_Surfs_the_cold_waters_of_Morro_Bay,_CA_14_Oct_2009.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Essie_Harris_Surfs_the_cold_waters_of_Morro_Bay%2C_CA_14_Oct_2009.jpg/170px-Essie_Harris_Surfs_the_cold_waters_of_Morro_Bay%2C_CA_14_Oct_2009.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="252" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Essie_Harris_Surfs_the_cold_waters_of_Morro_Bay%2C_CA_14_Oct_2009.jpg/255px-Essie_Harris_Surfs_the_cold_waters_of_Morro_Bay%2C_CA_14_Oct_2009.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Essie_Harris_Surfs_the_cold_waters_of_Morro_Bay%2C_CA_14_Oct_2009.jpg/340px-Essie_Harris_Surfs_the_cold_waters_of_Morro_Bay%2C_CA_14_Oct_2009.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1429" data-file-height="2120" /></a><figcaption>A woman holding her surfboard about to surf in <a href="/wiki/Morro_Bay,_California" title="Morro Bay, California">Morro Bay, California</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In July 1885, three teenage Hawaiian princes took a break from their boarding school, <a href="/wiki/St._Matthew%27s_Episcopal_Day_School" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Matthew's Episcopal Day School">St. Matthew's Hall</a> in <a href="/wiki/San_Mateo,_California" title="San Mateo, California">San Mateo</a>, and came to cool off in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_California" title="Santa Cruz, California">Santa Cruz, California</a>. There, <a href="/wiki/David_Kaw%C4%81nanakoa" title="David Kawānanakoa">David Kawānanakoa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Abnel_Keli%CA%BBiahonui" title="Edward Abnel Keliʻiahonui">Edward Keliʻiahonui</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jonah_K%C5%ABhi%C5%8D_Kalaniana%CA%BBole" title="Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole">Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole</a> surfed the mouth of the <a href="/wiki/San_Lorenzo_River" title="San Lorenzo River">San Lorenzo River</a> on custom-shaped redwood boards, according to surf historians Kim Stoner and Geoff Dunn.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1890, the pioneer in agricultural education <a href="/wiki/John_Wrightson" title="John Wrightson">John Wrightson</a> reputedly became the first British surfer when instructed by two Hawaiian students at his college.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/George_Freeth" title="George Freeth">George Freeth</a> (1883–1919), of English and Native Hawaiian descent, is generally credited as the person who had done more than anyone else to renew interest in surfing at Waikiki in the early twentieth century after the sport had declined in popularity in Hawaii during the latter half of the nineteenth century.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1907, the eclectic interests of land developer Abbot Kinney (founder of Venice of America, now Venice, California) helped bring Freeth to California. Freeth had sought the help of the Hawaii Promotion Committee (HPC) in Honolulu to sponsor him on a trip to California to give surfing exhibitions. The HPC arranged through their contacts in Los Angeles to secure a contract for Freeth to perform at Venice of America in July, 1907.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later that year, land baron <a href="/wiki/Henry_E._Huntington" title="Henry E. Huntington">Henry E. Huntington</a> brought surfing to <a href="/wiki/Redondo_Beach,_California" title="Redondo Beach, California">Redondo Beach</a>. Looking for a way to entice visitors to his own budding resort community south of Venice where he had heavily invested in real estate, he hired Freeth as a lifeguard and to give surfing exhibitions in front of the <a href="/wiki/Hotel_Redondo" title="Hotel Redondo">Hotel Redondo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another native Hawaiian, <a href="/wiki/Duke_Kahanamoku" title="Duke Kahanamoku">Duke Kahanamoku</a>, spread surfing to both the U.S. and Australia, riding the waves after displaying the swimming prowess that won him Olympic gold medals in 1912 and 1920.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mary Ann Hawkins, inspired by Duke Kahanamoku's surfing during the late 1920s, developed a lifelong passion for surfing. In 1935, her family relocated to <a href="/wiki/Santa_Monica,_California" title="Santa Monica, California">Santa Monica</a>, providing her with opportunities to further immerse herself in surfing and paddleboarding.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On September 12, 1936, Hawkins achieved a historic milestone by winning <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California’s</a> first women’s paddleboard race at the Santa Monica Breakwater. She continued to dominate the sport,<sup id="cite_ref-:02_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> winning numerous competitions, including the women’s half-mile paddleboard race and the <a href="/wiki/Venice_Breakwater" class="mw-redirect" title="Venice Breakwater">Venice Breakwater</a> event in 1938, both held on the same day. </p><p>Hawkins was also a pioneer in tandem surfing, a discipline that highlights synchronized surfing between two individuals on a single board. She gained further recognition in 1939 when she performed exhibition <a href="/wiki/Paddleboarding" title="Paddleboarding">paddleboarding</a> and tandem surfing displays at various <a href="/wiki/Southern_California" title="Southern California">Southern California</a> beaches, inspiring a new generation of women surfers.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_25-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 1939, Hawkins was appointed head of the women’s auxiliary group of the Santa Monica Paddle Club and rose to vice president by January 1940.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_25-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her surfing peers frequently lauded her achievements, with "Whitey" Harrison describing her as "the best tandem rider." Throughout her career, Hawkins exemplified grace and athleticism, leaving an indelible mark on the history of women’s surfing and paddleboarding. </p><p>In 1975, a professional tour started.<sup id="cite_ref-Woman_of_the_Year_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Woman_of_the_Year-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That year <a href="/wiki/Margo_Oberg" title="Margo Oberg">Margo Oberg</a> became the first female professional surfer.<sup id="cite_ref-Woman_of_the_Year_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Woman_of_the_Year-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:right;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Surf_waves">Surf waves</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Surf waves"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Ocean_surface_wave" class="mw-redirect" title="Ocean surface wave">Ocean surface wave</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pipeline_Barrel_(51633882).jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Pipeline_Barrel_%2851633882%29.jpeg/220px-Pipeline_Barrel_%2851633882%29.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Pipeline_Barrel_%2851633882%29.jpeg/330px-Pipeline_Barrel_%2851633882%29.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Pipeline_Barrel_%2851633882%29.jpeg/440px-Pipeline_Barrel_%2851633882%29.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="506" /></a><figcaption>Pipeline barrel at <a href="/wiki/P%C5%ABp%C5%ABkea,_Hawaii" title="Pūpūkea, Hawaii">Pūpūkea, Hawaii</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_surfer_surfing_on_the_ocean_(Unsplash).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/A_surfer_surfing_on_the_ocean_%28Unsplash%29.jpg/250px-A_surfer_surfing_on_the_ocean_%28Unsplash%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/A_surfer_surfing_on_the_ocean_%28Unsplash%29.jpg/330px-A_surfer_surfing_on_the_ocean_%28Unsplash%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/A_surfer_surfing_on_the_ocean_%28Unsplash%29.jpg/500px-A_surfer_surfing_on_the_ocean_%28Unsplash%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5153" data-file-height="2899" /></a><figcaption>Surfer getting tubed at <a href="/wiki/Sunset_Beach_(Oahu)" title="Sunset Beach (Oahu)">Sunset</a> on the <a href="/wiki/North_Shore_(Oahu)" title="North Shore (Oahu)">North Shore</a> of <a href="/wiki/Oahu" title="Oahu">Oahu</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Surfers_at_Mavericks.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Surfers_at_Mavericks.jpg/220px-Surfers_at_Mavericks.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Surfers_at_Mavericks.jpg/330px-Surfers_at_Mavericks.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Surfers_at_Mavericks.jpg/440px-Surfers_at_Mavericks.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1585" data-file-height="1110" /></a><figcaption>A large wave breaking at <a href="/wiki/Mavericks,_California" title="Mavericks, California">Mavericks</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Swell_(ocean)" title="Swell (ocean)">Swell</a> is generated when the wind blows consistently over a large space of open water, called the wind's <a href="/wiki/Fetch_(geography)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fetch (geography)">fetch</a>. The size of a swell is determined by the strength of the wind, and the length of its fetch and duration. Because of these factors, the surf tends to be larger and more prevalent on coastlines exposed to large expanses of ocean traversed by intense <a href="/wiki/Low-pressure_area" title="Low-pressure area">low pressure systems</a>. </p><p>Local wind conditions affect wave quality since the surface of a wave can become choppy in blustery conditions. Ideal conditions include a light to moderate "offshore" wind, because it blows into the front of the wave, making it a <a href="/wiki/Barreling_wave" class="mw-redirect" title="Barreling wave">"barrel"</a> or "tube" wave. Waves are left-handed and right-handed depending upon the breaking formation of the wave. </p><p>Waves are generally recognized by the surfaces over which they break.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, there are beach breaks, reef breaks and point breaks. </p><p>The most important influence on wave shape is the <a href="/wiki/Bathymetry" title="Bathymetry">topography of the seabed</a> directly behind and immediately beneath the breaking wave. Each break is different since each location's underwater topography is unique. At beach breaks, sandbanks change shape from week to week. <a href="/wiki/Surf_forecasting" title="Surf forecasting">Surf forecasting</a> is aided by advances in information technology. Mathematical modeling graphically depicts the size and direction of swells around the globe. </p><p>Swell regularity varies across the globe and throughout the year. During winter, heavy swells are generated in the mid-latitudes, when the North and South <a href="/wiki/Polar_front" title="Polar front">polar fronts</a> shift toward the <a href="/wiki/Equator" title="Equator">Equator</a>. The predominantly Westerly winds generate swells that advance Eastward, so waves tend to be largest on West coasts during winter months. However, an endless train of <a href="/wiki/Mid-latitude_cyclone" class="mw-redirect" title="Mid-latitude cyclone">mid-latitude cyclones</a> cause the <a href="/wiki/Isobar_(meteorology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Isobar (meteorology)">isobars</a> to become undulated, redirecting swells at regular intervals toward the tropics. </p><p>East coasts also receive heavy winter swells when low-pressure cells form in the sub-tropics, where slow moving <a href="/wiki/Anticyclone" class="mw-redirect" title="Anticyclone">highs</a> inhibit their movement. These lows produce a shorter fetch than polar fronts, however, they can still generate heavy swells since their slower movement increases the duration of a particular wind direction. The variables of fetch and duration both influence how long wind acts over a wave as it travels since a wave reaching the end of a fetch behaves as if the wind died. </p><p>During summer, heavy swells are generated when cyclones form in the tropics. <a href="/wiki/Tropical_cyclone" title="Tropical cyclone">Tropical cyclones</a> form over warm seas, so their occurrence is influenced by <a href="/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o-Southern_Oscillation" class="mw-redirect" title="El Niño-Southern Oscillation">El Niño and La Niña</a> cycles. Their movements are unpredictable. </p><p>Surf travel and some surf camps offer surfers access to remote, tropical locations, where <a href="/wiki/Tradewinds" class="mw-redirect" title="Tradewinds">tradewinds</a> ensure offshore conditions. Since winter swells are generated by <a href="/wiki/Mid-latitude_cyclone" class="mw-redirect" title="Mid-latitude cyclone">mid-latitude cyclones</a>, their regularity coincides with the passage of these lows. Swells arrive in pulses, each lasting for a couple of days, with a few days between each swell. </p><p>The availability of free <a href="/wiki/Numerical_weather_prediction" title="Numerical weather prediction">model data</a> from the <a href="/wiki/NOAA" class="mw-redirect" title="NOAA">NOAA</a> has allowed the creation of several <a href="/wiki/Surf_forecasting" title="Surf forecasting">surf forecasting</a> websites. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tube_shape_and_speed">Tube shape and speed</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Tube shape and speed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wave-shape-intensity.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Wave-shape-intensity.svg/330px-Wave-shape-intensity.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="129" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Wave-shape-intensity.svg/500px-Wave-shape-intensity.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Wave-shape-intensity.svg/600px-Wave-shape-intensity.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="521" data-file-height="224" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Geometry" title="Geometry">geometry</a> of tube shape can be represented as a ratio between length and width.</figcaption></figure> <p>Tube shape is defined by length to width ratio. A perfectly cylindrical <a href="/wiki/Vortex" title="Vortex">vortex</a> has a ratio of 1:1. Other forms include: </p> <ul><li>Square: <1:1</li> <li>Round: 1–2:1</li> <li>Almond: >2:1</li></ul> <p><i>Peel</i> or <i>peeling off</i> as a descriptive term for the quality of a break has been defined as "a fast, clean, evenly falling curl line, perfect for surfing, and usually found at pointbreaks."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tube speed is the rate of advance of the break along the length of the wave, and is the speed at which the surfer must move along the wave to keep up with the advance of the tube.<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis_et_al_2015_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis_et_al_2015-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tube speed can be described using the peel angle and wave celerity. Peel angle is the angle between the wave front and the horizontal projection of the point of break over time, which in a regular break is most easily represented by the line of white water left after the break. A break that closes out, or breaks all at once along its length, leaves white water parallel to the wave front, and has a peel angle of 0°. This is unsurfable as it would require infinite speed to progress along the face fast enough to keep up with the break. A break which advances along the wave face more slowly will leave a line of new white water at an angle to the line of the wave face.<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis_et_al_2015_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis_et_al_2015-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mendonca_et_al_2012_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mendonca_et_al_2012-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle V_{s}={\frac {c}{sin\alpha }}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msub> <mi>V</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>s</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mfrac> <mi>c</mi> <mrow> <mi>s</mi> <mi>i</mi> <mi>n</mi> <mi>α</mi> </mrow> </mfrac> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle V_{s}={\frac {c}{sin\alpha }}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f3bb4556aa54e04b5aff572f0749b95bcb4df785" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -1.838ex; width:11.068ex; height:4.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle V_{s}={\frac {c}{sin\alpha }}}" /></span><sup id="cite_ref-Lewis_et_al_2015_29-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis_et_al_2015-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>Where: </p> <dl><dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle V_{s}=}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <msub> <mi>V</mi> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi>s</mi> </mrow> </msub> <mo>=</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle V_{s}=}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/89b19651b0bb48ce1dd185fd04f02b8141ed8748" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.671ex; width:4.812ex; height:2.509ex;" alt="{\displaystyle V_{s}=}" /></span>velocity of surfer along the wave face</dd> <dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle c=}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>c</mi> <mo>=</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle c=}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/891d40a9b18752b04065caee655d008b3ec11428" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:3.46ex; height:1.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle c=}" /></span>wave celerity (velocity in direction of propagation)</dd> <dd><span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle \alpha =}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mi>α</mi> <mo>=</mo> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle \alpha =}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/a92d4583d351f08c1c70985f0c843b2fff1b01e7" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:3.941ex; height:1.676ex;" alt="{\displaystyle \alpha =}" /></span>peel angle</dd></dl> <p>In most cases a peel angle less than 25° is too fast to surf.<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis_et_al_2015_29-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis_et_al_2015-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Fast: 30°</li> <li>Medium: 45°</li> <li>Slow: 60°</li></ul> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"> <caption>Wave intensity table </caption> <tbody><tr> <th></th> <th>Fast</th> <th>Medium</th> <th>Slow </th></tr> <tr> <th>Square </th> <td><a href="/wiki/G-Land" title="G-Land">The Cobra</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Teahupoo" class="mw-redirect" title="Teahupoo">Teahupoo</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shark_Island,_Cronulla_Beach" class="mw-redirect" title="Shark Island, Cronulla Beach">Shark Island</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Round </th> <td><a href="/wiki/G-Land" title="G-Land">Speedies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gnaraloo" title="Gnaraloo">Gnaraloo</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Banzai_Pipeline" title="Banzai Pipeline">Banzai Pipeline</a></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Almond </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Lagundri_Bay" title="Lagundri Bay">Lagundri Bay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Snapper_Rocks" title="Snapper Rocks">Superbank</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jeffreys_Bay" title="Jeffreys Bay">Jeffreys Bay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bells_Beach,_Victoria" class="mw-redirect" title="Bells Beach, Victoria">Bells Beach</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Angourie_Point" class="mw-redirect" title="Angourie Point">Angourie Point</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wave_intensity">Wave intensity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Wave intensity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The type of break depends on shoaling rate. Breaking waves can be classified as four basic types: spilling (ξ<sub>b</sub><0.4), plunging (0.4<ξ<sub>b</sub><2), collapsing (ξ<sub>b</sub>>2) and surging (ξ<sub>b</sub>>2), and which type occurs depends on the slope of the bottom.<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis_et_al_2015_29-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis_et_al_2015-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Waves suitable for surfing break as spilling or plunging types, and when they also have a suitable peel angle, their value for surfing is enhanced. Other factors such as wave height and period, and wind strength and direction can also influence steepness and intensity of the break, but the major influence on the type and shape of breaking waves is determined by the slope of the seabed before the break. The breaker type index and <a href="/wiki/Iribarren_number" title="Iribarren number">Iribarren number</a> allow classification of breaker type as a function of wave steepness and seabed slope.<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis_et_al_2015_29-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis_et_al_2015-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Artificial_reefs">Artificial reefs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Artificial reefs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The value of good surf in attracting surf tourism has prompted the construction of <a href="/wiki/Artificial_reef" title="Artificial reef">artificial reefs</a> and sand bars. Artificial surfing reefs can be built with durable sandbags or concrete, and resemble a submerged breakwater. These artificial reefs not only provide a surfing location, but also dissipate wave energy and shelter the coastline from erosion. Ships such as <a href="/wiki/Seli_1" title="Seli 1">Seli 1</a> that have accidentally stranded on sandy bottoms, can create sandbanks that give rise to good waves.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An artificial reef known as <a href="/wiki/Chevron_Reef" title="Chevron Reef">Chevron Reef</a> was constructed in <a href="/wiki/El_Segundo,_California" title="El Segundo, California">El Segundo, California</a> in hopes of creating a new surfing area. However, the reef failed to produce any quality waves and was removed in 2008. In <a href="/wiki/Kovalam" title="Kovalam">Kovalam</a>, South West India, an artificial reef has successfully provided the local community with a quality lefthander, stabilized coastal soil erosion, and provided good habitat for <a href="/wiki/Marine_life" title="Marine life">marine life</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ASR Ltd., a New Zealand-based company, constructed the Kovalam reef and is working on <a href="/wiki/Boscombe_Surf_Reef" title="Boscombe Surf Reef">another reef</a> in Boscombe, England. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Artificial_waves">Artificial waves</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Artificial waves"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Surf_IMG_0949_(3120282731).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Surf_IMG_0949_%283120282731%29.jpg/180px-Surf_IMG_0949_%283120282731%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Surf_IMG_0949_%283120282731%29.jpg/270px-Surf_IMG_0949_%283120282731%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Surf_IMG_0949_%283120282731%29.jpg/360px-Surf_IMG_0949_%283120282731%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1891" data-file-height="1891" /></a><figcaption>Surfing a stationary, artificial wave in Southern California</figcaption></figure> <p>Even with artificial reefs in place, a tourist's vacation time may coincide with a "flat spell", when no waves are available. Completely artificial <a href="/wiki/Wave_pool" title="Wave pool">wave pools</a> aim to solve that problem by controlling all the elements that go into creating perfect surf, however there are only a handful of wave pools that can <a href="/wiki/Simulate" class="mw-redirect" title="Simulate">simulate</a> good surfing waves, owing primarily to construction and operation costs and potential liability. Most wave pools generate waves that are too small and lack the power necessary to surf. The <a href="/wiki/Seagaia_Ocean_Dome" title="Seagaia Ocean Dome">Seagaia Ocean Dome</a>, located in Miyazaki, Japan, was an example of a surfable wave pool. Able to generate waves with up to 3 m (10 ft) faces, the specialized pump held water in 20 vertical tanks positioned along the back edge of the pool. This allowed the waves to be directed as they approach the artificial sea floor. Lefts, Rights, and A-frames could be directed from this pump design providing for rippable surf and barrel rides. The Ocean Dome cost about $2 billion to build and was expensive to maintain.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Ocean Dome was closed in 2007. In England, construction is nearing completion on the Wave,<sup id="cite_ref-the-wave_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-the-wave-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> situated near <a href="/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a>, which will enable people unable to get to the coast to enjoy the waves in a controlled environment, set in the heart of nature. </p><p>There are two main types of artificial waves that exist today. One being artificial or stationary waves which simulate a moving, breaking wave by pumping a layer of water against a smooth structure mimicking the shape of a breaking wave. Because of the velocity of the rushing water, the wave and the surfer can remain stationary while the water rushes by under the surfboard. Artificial waves of this kind provide the opportunity to try surfing and learn its basics in a moderately small and controlled environment near or far from locations with natural surf. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Maneuvers">Maneuvers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Maneuvers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Big_wave_breaking_in_Santa_Cruz.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Photo of surfer at bottom of wave, attempting to let tube envelop him" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Big_wave_breaking_in_Santa_Cruz.jpg/250px-Big_wave_breaking_in_Santa_Cruz.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Big_wave_breaking_in_Santa_Cruz.jpg/330px-Big_wave_breaking_in_Santa_Cruz.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Big_wave_breaking_in_Santa_Cruz.jpg/500px-Big_wave_breaking_in_Santa_Cruz.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1333" /></a><figcaption>A surfer going for the tube</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv/220px-seek%3D6-Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="11" data-mwtitle="Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/26/Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv/Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/26/Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv/Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/26/Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv/Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv.1080p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv" type="video/ogg; codecs="theora"" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/26/Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv/Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/26/Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv/Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/26/Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv/Surfing_contest_-_oahu_hawaii_-_north_shore_-_oct_2015.ogv.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>Catching waves at a surfing contest on the <a href="/wiki/North_Shore_(Oahu)" title="North Shore (Oahu)">North Shore</a> of <a href="/wiki/Oahu" title="Oahu">Oahu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_1" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm/220px--Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="498" data-mwtitle="Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach,_Dana_Point,_California,_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach,_Dana_Point,_California,_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm/Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm/Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm/Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm.1080p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9"" data-width="3840" data-height="2160" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm/Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm/Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm/Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm/Surfing_competition_at_Salt_Creek_Beach%2C_Dana_Point%2C_California%2C_USA_as_viewed_from_a_FPV_drone.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>Aerial views of a surfing competition at <a href="/wiki/Salt_Creek_Beach_Park" title="Salt Creek Beach Park">Salt Creek Beach</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dana_Point,_California" title="Dana Point, California">Dana Point, California</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Standup surfing begins when the surfer paddles toward shore in an attempt to match the speed of the wave (the same applies whether the surfer is standup paddling, bodysurfing, boogie-boarding or using some other type of watercraft, such as a waveski or kayak). Once the wave begins to carry the surfer forward, the surfer stands up and proceeds to ride the wave. The basic idea is to position the surfboard so it is just ahead of the breaking part (whitewash) of the wave, in the so-called 'pocket'. It is difficult for beginners to catch the wave at all. </p><p>Surfers' skills are tested by their ability to control their board in difficult conditions, riding challenging waves, and executing maneuvers such as strong turns and cutbacks (turning board back to the breaking wave) and <i>carving</i> (a series of strong back-to-back maneuvers). More advanced skills include the <i>floater</i> (riding on top of the breaking curl of the wave), and <i>off the lip</i> (banking off crest of the breaking wave). A newer addition to surfing is the progression of the <i>air,</i> whereby a surfer propels off the wave entirely up into the air and then successfully lands the board back on the wave. </p><p>The tube ride is considered to be the ultimate maneuver in surfing. As a wave breaks, if the conditions are ideal, the wave will break in an orderly line from the middle to the shoulder, enabling the experienced surfer to position themselves inside the wave as it is breaking. This is known as a tube ride. Viewed from the shore, the tube rider may disappear from view as the wave breaks over the rider's head. The longer the surfer remains in the tube, the more successful the ride. This is referred to as getting tubed, barrelled, shacked or pitted. Some of the world's best-known waves for tube riding include Pipeline on the <a href="/wiki/North_Shore_(Oahu)" title="North Shore (Oahu)">North Shore</a> of Oahu, Teahupoo in Tahiti and G-Land in Java. Other names for the tube include "the barrel", and "the pit". </p><p><a href="/wiki/Hanging_ten" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanging ten">Hanging ten</a> and hanging five are moves usually specific to longboarding. Hanging Ten refers to having both feet on the front end of the board with all of the surfer's toes off the edge, also known as nose-riding. Hanging Five is having just one foot near the front, with five toes off the edge. </p><p>Cutback: Generating speed down the line and then turning back to reverse direction. </p><p>Snap: Quickly turning along the face or top of the wave, almost as if snapping the board back towards the wave. Typically done on steeper waves. </p><p>Blowtail: Pushing the tail of the board out of the back of the wave so that the fins leave the water. </p><p>Floater: Suspending the board atop the wave. Very popular on small waves. </p><p>Top-Turn: Turn off the top of the wave. Sometimes used to generate speed and sometimes to shoot spray. </p><p>Bottom Turn: A turn at the bottom or mid-face of the wave, this maneuver is used to set up other maneuvers such as the top turn, cutback and even aerials. </p><p>Airs/Aerials: These maneuvers have been becoming more and more prevalent in the sport in both competition and free surfing.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An air is when the surfer can achieve enough speed and approach a certain type of section of a wave that is supposed to act as a ramp and launch the surfer above the lip line of the wave, “catching air”, and landing either in the transition of the wave or the whitewash when hitting a close-out section. </p><p>Airs can either be straight airs or rotational airs. Straight airs have minimal rotation if any, but definitely no more rotation than 90 degrees. Rotational airs require a rotation of 90 degrees or more depending on the level of the surfer. </p><p>Types of rotations: </p> <ul><li>180 degrees – called an air reverse, this is when the surfer spins enough to land backwards, then reverts to their original positional with the help of the fins. This rotation can either be done frontside or backside and can spin right or left.</li> <li>360 degrees – this is a full rotation air or “full rotor” where the surfer lands where they started or more, as long as they do not land backwards. When this is achieved front side on a wave spinning the opposite of an air reverse is called an alley-oop.</li> <li>540 degrees – the surfer does a full rotation plus another 180 degrees and can be inverted or spinning straight, few surfers have been able to land this air.</li> <li>Backflip – usually done with a double grab, this hard to land air is made for elite-level surfers.</li> <li>Rodeo flip – usually done backside, it is a backflip with a 180 rotation, and is actually easier than a straight backflip.</li> <li>Grabs – a surfer can help land an aerial maneuver by grabbing the surfboard, keeping them attached to the board and keeping the board under their feet. Common types of grabs include: <ul><li>Indy – a grab on the surfers inside rail going frontside, outside rail going backside with their backhand.</li> <li>Slob – a grab on the surfers inside rail going frontside, outside rail going backside with their front hand.</li> <li>Lien – A grab on the surfers outside rail frontside, inside rail going backside with their front hand.</li> <li>Stalefish – A grab on the surfers outside rail frontside, inside rail backside with their backhand.</li> <li>Double grab – A grab on the surfers inside and outside rail, the inside rail with the backhand and the outside rail with the front hand.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Terms">Terms</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_surfing" title="Glossary of surfing">Glossary of surfing</a> includes some of the extensive <a href="/wiki/Vocabulary" title="Vocabulary">vocabulary</a> used to describe various aspects of the sport of surfing as described in literature on the subject.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some cases terms have spread to a wider cultural use. These terms were originally coined by people who were directly involved in the sport of surfing. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Learning">Learning</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Learning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner span:not(.skin-invert-image):not(.skin-invert):not(.bg-transparent) img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner span:not(.skin-invert-image):not(.skin-invert):not(.bg-transparent) img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:204px;max-width:204px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Learning_to_surf_with_Ocean_Adventures,_Durban_beach_front._KwaZulu_Natal,_South_Africa_(20504507242).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Learning_to_surf_with_Ocean_Adventures%2C_Durban_beach_front._KwaZulu_Natal%2C_South_Africa_%2820504507242%29.jpg/200px-Learning_to_surf_with_Ocean_Adventures%2C_Durban_beach_front._KwaZulu_Natal%2C_South_Africa_%2820504507242%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Learning_to_surf_with_Ocean_Adventures%2C_Durban_beach_front._KwaZulu_Natal%2C_South_Africa_%2820504507242%29.jpg/300px-Learning_to_surf_with_Ocean_Adventures%2C_Durban_beach_front._KwaZulu_Natal%2C_South_Africa_%2820504507242%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Learning_to_surf_with_Ocean_Adventures%2C_Durban_beach_front._KwaZulu_Natal%2C_South_Africa_%2820504507242%29.jpg/400px-Learning_to_surf_with_Ocean_Adventures%2C_Durban_beach_front._KwaZulu_Natal%2C_South_Africa_%2820504507242%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="3456" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Surfing_at_Currumbin_Rock,_northern_tip_of_Currumbin_Beach,_2020,_04.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Surfing_at_Currumbin_Rock%2C_northern_tip_of_Currumbin_Beach%2C_2020%2C_04.jpg/200px-Surfing_at_Currumbin_Rock%2C_northern_tip_of_Currumbin_Beach%2C_2020%2C_04.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Surfing_at_Currumbin_Rock%2C_northern_tip_of_Currumbin_Beach%2C_2020%2C_04.jpg/300px-Surfing_at_Currumbin_Rock%2C_northern_tip_of_Currumbin_Beach%2C_2020%2C_04.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Surfing_at_Currumbin_Rock%2C_northern_tip_of_Currumbin_Beach%2C_2020%2C_04.jpg/400px-Surfing_at_Currumbin_Rock%2C_northern_tip_of_Currumbin_Beach%2C_2020%2C_04.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3918" data-file-height="2938" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Learning to surf</div></div></div></div></div> <p>Many popular surfing destinations have surf schools and surf camps that offer lessons. Surf camps for beginners and intermediates are multi-day lessons that focus on surfing fundamentals. They are designed to take new surfers and help them become proficient riders. All-inclusive surf camps offer overnight accommodations, meals, lessons and surfboards. Most surf lessons begin with instruction and a safety briefing on land, followed by instructors helping students into waves on <a href="/wiki/Longboard_(surfing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Longboard (surfing)">longboards</a> or "softboards". The softboard is considered the ideal surfboard for learning, due to the fact it is safer, and has more paddling speed and stability than shorter boards. Funboards are also a popular shape for beginners as they combine the volume and stability of the longboard with the manageable size of a smaller surfboard.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> New and inexperienced surfers typically learn to catch waves on softboards around the 210 to 240 cm (7 to 8 ft) funboard size. Due to the softness of the surfboard the chance of getting injured is substantially minimized. </p><p>It is possible to learn to surf without an instructor, but the process is usually safer and quicker with a surf instructor.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Typical surfing instruction is best-performed one-on-one, but can also be done in a group setting. Post-COVID, there's been a shift towards online and land-based surf coaching and training.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Online surf coaching is allowing surfers to learn at their own pace and convenience from anywhere. Land-based training, such as skateboard simulations, offers a way to practice maneuvers repeatedly, refining techniques with the guidance of professional coaches either in person or remotely using video analysis apps. The most popular surf locations offer perfect surfing conditions for beginners, as well as challenging breaks for advanced students. The ideal conditions for learning would be small waves that crumble and break softly, as opposed to the steep, fast-peeling waves desired by more experienced surfers. When available, a sandy seabed is generally safer. </p><p>Surfing can be broken into several skills: paddling strength, positioning to catch the wave, timing, and balance. Paddling out requires strength, but also the mastery of techniques to break through oncoming waves (<i>duck diving</i>, <i>eskimo roll</i> also known as <i>turtle roll</i>). Take-off positioning requires experience at predicting the wave set and where it will break. The surfer must pop up quickly as soon as the wave starts pushing the board forward. Preferred positioning on the wave is determined by experience at reading wave features including where the wave is breaking.<sup id="cite_ref-learnhowtosurf_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-learnhowtosurf-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Balance plays a crucial role in standing on a surfboard. Thus, balance training exercises are good preparation. Practicing with a <a href="/wiki/Balance_board" title="Balance board">balance board</a>, <a href="/wiki/Longboard_(skateboard)" title="Longboard (skateboard)">longboard (skateboard)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Surfskating" title="Surfskating">surfskate</a> or swing board helps novices master the art of surfing.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, it's important to note that these land-based training methods have faced criticism within the surf coaching community.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Concerns include the potential for developing poor surfing style and habits, such as excessive wiggling, due to training on flat surfaces which do not accurately mimic the dynamic nature of ocean waves.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To address these limitations, training in a skate bowl is recommended. Skate bowls can offer a more realistic simulation of the centrifugal forces experienced while surfing. This type of training helps in developing better control and style by replicating the curved, wave-like shapes and motions surfers encounter in the water. Integrating skate bowl training can provide a more comprehensive preparation for the surfing experience, balancing the benefits of basic balance training with the nuances of wave dynamics. </p><p>The repetitive cycle of paddling, popping up, and balancing requires stamina and physical strength. Having a proper <a href="/wiki/Warming_up" title="Warming up">warm-up routine</a> can help prevent injuries.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Equipment">Equipment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Equipment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Waxing_a_surfboard.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Photo of a woman bent over surfboard rubbing bar of solid wax against the board with palm trees and ocean in background" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Waxing_a_surfboard.jpg/220px-Waxing_a_surfboard.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Waxing_a_surfboard.jpg/330px-Waxing_a_surfboard.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Waxing_a_surfboard.jpg/440px-Waxing_a_surfboard.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2265" data-file-height="1875" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Surfboard_wax" title="Surfboard wax">Waxing</a> a surfboard</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Surf_Leash.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Photo of plastic cord attached to a surfboard and velcroed around surfer's ankle" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Surf_Leash.JPG/250px-Surf_Leash.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Surf_Leash.JPG/330px-Surf_Leash.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Surf_Leash.JPG/500px-Surf_Leash.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1232" data-file-height="770" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Surfboard_leash" title="Surfboard leash">Surfboard leash</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Surfing can be done on various equipment, including <a href="/wiki/Surfboard" title="Surfboard">surfboards</a>, <a href="/wiki/Longboard_(surfing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Longboard (surfing)">longboards</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stand_up_paddle_surfing" class="mw-redirect" title="Stand up paddle surfing">stand up paddle boards (SUPs)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bodyboard" class="mw-redirect" title="Bodyboard">bodyboards</a>, <a href="/wiki/Waveski" title="Waveski">wave skis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Skimboard" class="mw-redirect" title="Skimboard">skimboards</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kneeboard" title="Kneeboard">kneeboards</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Surf_mat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Surf mat (page does not exist)">surf mats</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tray" title="Tray">macca's trays</a>. <a href="/wiki/Surfboard" title="Surfboard">Surfboards</a> were originally made of solid wood and were large and heavy (often up to 370 cm (12 ft) long and having a mass of 70 kg (150 lb)). Lighter <a href="/wiki/Balsa_wood" class="mw-redirect" title="Balsa wood">balsa wood</a> surfboards (first made in the late 1940s and early 1950s) were a significant improvement, not only in portability, but also in increasing maneuverability. </p><p>Most modern surfboards are made of <a href="/wiki/Fiberglass" title="Fiberglass">fiberglass</a> foam (PU), with one or more wooden strips or "stringers", fiberglass cloth, and <a href="/wiki/Polyester_resin" title="Polyester resin">polyester resin</a> (PE). An emerging board material is <a href="/wiki/Epoxy_resin" class="mw-redirect" title="Epoxy resin">epoxy resin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Polystyrene#Expanded_polystyrene_(EPS)" title="Polystyrene">Expanded Polystyrene</a> foam (EPS) which is stronger and lighter than traditional PU/PE construction. Even newer designs incorporate materials such as <a href="/wiki/Carbon_fiber" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbon fiber">carbon fiber</a> and variable-flex composites in conjunction with fiberglass and epoxy or polyester resins. Since epoxy/EPS surfboards are generally lighter, they will float better than a traditional PU/PE board of similar size, shape and thickness. This makes them easier to paddle and faster in the water. However, a common complaint of EPS boards is that they do not provide as much feedback as a traditional PU/PE board. For this reason, many advanced surfers prefer that their surfboards be made from traditional materials. </p><p>Other equipment includes a <a href="/wiki/Surfboard_leash" title="Surfboard leash">leash</a> (to stop the board from drifting away after a wipeout and to prevent it from hitting other surfers), <a href="/wiki/Surf_wax" class="mw-redirect" title="Surf wax">surf wax</a>, traction pads (to keep a surfer's feet from slipping off the deck of the board), and fins (also known as <i>skegs</i>) which can either be permanently attached (<i>glassed-on</i>) or interchangeable. <a href="/wiki/Sportswear_(activewear)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sportswear (activewear)">Sportswear</a> designed or particularly suitable for surfing may be sold as <i>boardwear</i> (the term is also used in <a href="/wiki/Snowboarding" title="Snowboarding">snowboarding</a>). In warmer climates, swimsuits, surf trunks or <a href="/wiki/Boardshorts" title="Boardshorts">boardshorts</a> are worn, and occasionally <a href="/wiki/Rash_guard" title="Rash guard">rash guards</a>; in cold water, surfers can opt to wear <a href="/wiki/Wetsuit" title="Wetsuit">wetsuits</a>, boots, hoods, and gloves to protect them against lower water temperatures.<sup id="cite_ref-surfhandbook.com_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-surfhandbook.com-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A newer introduction is a rash vest with a thin layer of <a href="/wiki/Titanium" title="Titanium">titanium</a> to provide maximum warmth without compromising mobility.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (February 2021)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In recent years, there have been advancements in technology that have allowed surfers to pursue even bigger waves with added elements of safety. Big wave surfers are now experimenting with inflatable vests or colored dye packs to help decrease their odds of drowning.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cocoa_Beach_Surf_Museum_at_Ron_Jon_Surf_Shop_(Cocoa_Beach,_Florida)_002.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Cocoa_Beach_Surf_Museum_at_Ron_Jon_Surf_Shop_%28Cocoa_Beach%2C_Florida%29_002.jpg/220px-Cocoa_Beach_Surf_Museum_at_Ron_Jon_Surf_Shop_%28Cocoa_Beach%2C_Florida%29_002.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Cocoa_Beach_Surf_Museum_at_Ron_Jon_Surf_Shop_%28Cocoa_Beach%2C_Florida%29_002.jpg/330px-Cocoa_Beach_Surf_Museum_at_Ron_Jon_Surf_Shop_%28Cocoa_Beach%2C_Florida%29_002.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Cocoa_Beach_Surf_Museum_at_Ron_Jon_Surf_Shop_%28Cocoa_Beach%2C_Florida%29_002.jpg/440px-Cocoa_Beach_Surf_Museum_at_Ron_Jon_Surf_Shop_%28Cocoa_Beach%2C_Florida%29_002.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>A variety of <a href="/wiki/Surfboards" class="mw-redirect" title="Surfboards">surfboards</a></figcaption></figure> <p>There are many different surfboard sizes, shapes, and designs in use today. Modern <a href="/wiki/Surfboard#Variations" title="Surfboard">longboards</a>, generally 270 to 300 cm (9 to 10 ft) in length, are reminiscent of the earliest surfboards, but now benefit from modern innovations in surfboard shaping and fin design. Competitive longboard surfers need to be competent at traditional <i>walking</i> manoeuvres, as well as the short-radius turns normally associated with shortboard surfing. The modern <a href="/wiki/Surfboard#Variations" title="Surfboard">shortboard</a> began life in the late 1960s and has evolved into today's common <i>thruster</i> style, defined by its three fins, usually around 180 to 210 cm (6 to 7 ft) in length. The thruster was invented by Australian <a href="/wiki/Surfboard_shaper" title="Surfboard shaper">shaper</a> <a href="/wiki/Simon_Anderson" title="Simon Anderson">Simon Anderson</a>. </p><p>Midsize boards, often called <a href="/wiki/Surfboard#Variations" title="Surfboard">funboards</a>, provide more maneuverability than a longboard, with more flotation than a shortboard. While many surfers find that funboards live up to their name, providing the best of both surfing modes, others are critical. </p> <dl><dd>"It is the happy medium of mediocrity," writes Steven Kotler. "Funboard riders either have nothing left to prove or lack the skills to prove anything."<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>There are also various niche styles, such as the <i>Egg</i>, a longboard-style short board targeted at people who want to ride a shortboard but need more paddle power. The <i>Fish</i>, a board that is typically shorter, flatter, and wider than a normal shortboard, often with a split tail (known as a <i>swallow tail</i>). The Fish often has two or four <a href="/wiki/Surfboard_Fins" class="mw-redirect" title="Surfboard Fins">fins</a> and is specifically designed for surfing smaller waves. For big waves, there is the <i>Gun</i>, a long, thick board with a pointed nose and tail (known as a pintail) specifically designed for big waves. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_physics_of_surfing">The physics of surfing<span class="anchor" id="Physics_of_surfing"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: The physics of surfing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti" /><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:204px;max-width:204px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lighthouse_overlooking_the_waves_(Unsplash).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Lighthouse_overlooking_the_waves_%28Unsplash%29.jpg/250px-Lighthouse_overlooking_the_waves_%28Unsplash%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Lighthouse_overlooking_the_waves_%28Unsplash%29.jpg/330px-Lighthouse_overlooking_the_waves_%28Unsplash%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Lighthouse_overlooking_the_waves_%28Unsplash%29.jpg/500px-Lighthouse_overlooking_the_waves_%28Unsplash%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Tow-in_surfing" title="Tow-in surfing">Tow-in surfing</a> in <a href="/wiki/Nazar%C3%A9,_Portugal" title="Nazaré, Portugal">Nazaré, Portugal</a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Praia_do_Norte,_Nazar%C3%A9,_Portugal_(33830450815).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Praia_do_Norte%2C_Nazar%C3%A9%2C_Portugal_%2833830450815%29.jpg/200px-Praia_do_Norte%2C_Nazar%C3%A9%2C_Portugal_%2833830450815%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Praia_do_Norte%2C_Nazar%C3%A9%2C_Portugal_%2833830450815%29.jpg/300px-Praia_do_Norte%2C_Nazar%C3%A9%2C_Portugal_%2833830450815%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Praia_do_Norte%2C_Nazar%C3%A9%2C_Portugal_%2833830450815%29.jpg/400px-Praia_do_Norte%2C_Nazar%C3%A9%2C_Portugal_%2833830450815%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="683" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Giant <a href="/wiki/Breaking_wave" title="Breaking wave">breaking waves</a> in <a href="/wiki/Praia_do_Norte_(Nazar%C3%A9)" title="Praia do Norte (Nazaré)">Praia do Norte</a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Can_you_see_the_surfer%3F_(33988985575).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Can_you_see_the_surfer%3F_%2833988985575%29.jpg/250px-Can_you_see_the_surfer%3F_%2833988985575%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Can_you_see_the_surfer%3F_%2833988985575%29.jpg/330px-Can_you_see_the_surfer%3F_%2833988985575%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Can_you_see_the_surfer%3F_%2833988985575%29.jpg/500px-Can_you_see_the_surfer%3F_%2833988985575%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="683" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">The <a href="/wiki/Praia_do_Norte_(Nazar%C3%A9)" title="Praia do Norte (Nazaré)">Praia do Norte, Nazaré</a> (<i>North Beach</i>) was listed in the <a href="/wiki/Guinness_World_Records" title="Guinness World Records">Guinness World Records</a> for the biggest waves ever surfed.</div></div></div></div></div> <p>The physics of surfing involves the physical oceanographic properties of wave creation in the surf zone, the characteristics of the surfboard, and the surfer's interaction with the water and the board. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wave_formation">Wave formation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Wave formation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Ocean_wave" class="mw-redirect" title="Ocean wave">Ocean waves</a> are defined as a collection of dislocated water parcels that undergo a cycle of being forced past their normal position and being restored back to their normal position.<sup id="cite_ref-Talley2011_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Talley2011-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wind causes ripples and <a href="/wiki/Eddy_(fluid_dynamics)" title="Eddy (fluid dynamics)">eddies</a> to form waves that gradually gain speed and distance (fetch). Waves increase in energy and speed and then become longer and stronger.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The fully-developed sea has the strongest wave action that experiences storms lasting 10-hours and creates 15 m (49.2 ft) wave heights in the open ocean.<sup id="cite_ref-Talley2011_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Talley2011-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The waves created in the open ocean are classified as deep-water waves. Deep-water waves have no bottom interaction and the orbits of these water molecules are circular; their wavelength is short relative to water depth and the velocity decays before reaching the bottom of the water basin.<sup id="cite_ref-Talley2011_51-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Talley2011-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Deep water waves are waves in water depths greater than half their wavelengths.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wind forces waves to break in the deep sea.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (February 2021)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Deep-water waves travel to shore and become shallow-water waves when the water depth is less than half of their wavelength, and the wave motion becomes constrained by the bottom, causing the orbit paths to be flattened to <a href="/wiki/Ellipse" title="Ellipse">ellipses</a>. The bottom exerts a frictional <a href="/wiki/Drag_(physics)" title="Drag (physics)">drag</a> on the bottom of the wave, which decreases the celerity (or the speed of the waveform), and causes refraction. Slowing the wave forces it to shorten which increases the height and steepness, and the top (crest) falls because the velocity of the top of the wave becomes greater than the velocity of the bottom of the wave where the drag occurs.<sup id="cite_ref-Talley2011_51-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Talley2011-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The surf zone is the place of convergence of multiple waves types creating complex wave patterns. A wave suitable for surfing results from maximum speeds of 5 metres per second (16 ft/s). This speed is relative because local onshore winds can cause waves to break.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the surf zone, shallow water waves are carried by global winds to the beach and interact with local winds to make surfing waves.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Madsen1997_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Madsen1997-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Different onshore and off-shore wind patterns in the surf zone create different types of waves. Onshore winds cause random wave breaking patterns and are more suitable for experienced surfers.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Madsen1997_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Madsen1997-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Light offshore winds create smoother waves, while strong direct offshore winds cause plunging or large barrel waves.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Barrel waves are large because the water depth is small when the wave breaks. Thus, the breaker intensity (or force) increases, and the wave speed and height increase.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Off-shore winds produce non-surfable conditions by flattening a weak swell. Weak swell is made from surface gravity forces and has long wavelengths.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Edge2001_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Edge2001-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wave_conditions_for_surfing">Wave conditions for surfing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Wave conditions for surfing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Surfing waves can be analyzed using the following parameters: breaking wave height, wave peel angle (α), wave breaking intensity, and wave section length. The breaking wave height has two measurements, the relative heights estimated by surfers and the exact measurements done by physical oceanographers. Measurements done by surfers were 1.36 to 2.58 times higher than the measurements done by scientists. The scientifically concluded wave heights that are physically possible to surf are 1 to 20 m (3.3 to 66 ft).<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The wave peel angle is one of the main constituents of a potential surfing wave. Wave peel angle measures the distance between the peel-line and the line tangent to the breaking crest line. This angle controls the speed of the wave crest. The speed of the wave is an addition of the propagation velocity vector (Vw) and peel velocity vector (Vp), which results in the overall velocity of the wave (Vs).<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wave breaking intensity measures the force of the wave as it breaks, spills, or plunges (a plunging wave is termed by surfers as a "barrel wave"). Wave section length is the distance between two breaking crests in a wave set. Wave section length can be hard to measure because local winds, non-linear wave interactions, island sheltering, and swell interactions can cause multifarious wave configurations in the surf zone.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The parameters breaking wave height, wave peel angle (α), and wave breaking intensity, and wave section length are important because they are standardized by past oceanographers who researched surfing; these parameters have been used to create a guide that matches the type of wave formed and the skill level of surfer.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Table 1: Wave type and surfer skill level<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Skill level</th> <th>Peel angle (degrees)</th> <th>Wave height (meters)</th> <th>Section speed (meters/second)</th> <th>Section length (meters)</th> <th>General locations of waves </th></tr> <tr> <td>Beginner</td> <td>60-70</td> <td>2.5</td> <td>10</td> <td>25</td> <td>Low Gradient Breaks;<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Beach,_Florida" title="Atlantic Beach, Florida">Atlantic Beach, Florida</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Intermediate</td> <td>55</td> <td>2.5</td> <td>20</td> <td>40</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bells_Beach,_Victoria" class="mw-redirect" title="Bells Beach, Victoria">Bells Beach</a>; <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Competent</td> <td>40-50</td> <td>3</td> <td>20</td> <td>40-60</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kirra,_Queensland" title="Kirra, Queensland">Kirra Point</a>; <a href="/wiki/Burleigh_Heads,_Queensland" title="Burleigh Heads, Queensland">Burleigh Heads</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Top Amateur</td> <td>30</td> <td>3</td> <td>20</td> <td>60</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pecatu#Bingin_Beach" title="Pecatu">Bingin Beach</a>; <a href="/wiki/Pecatu#Padang_Padang_Beach" title="Pecatu">Padang Padang Beach</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Top World Surfer</td> <td>>27</td> <td>3</td> <td>20</td> <td>60</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Banzai_Pipeline" title="Banzai Pipeline">Banzai Pipeline</a>; <a href="/wiki/Shark_Island_(Cronulla_Beach)" title="Shark Island (Cronulla Beach)">Shark Island</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Table 1 shows a relationship of smaller peel angles correlating with a higher skill level of the surfer. Smaller wave peel angles increase the velocities of waves. A surfer must know how to react and paddle quickly to match the speed of the wave to catch it. Therefore, more experience is required to catch low peel angle waves. More experienced surfers can handle longer section lengths, increased velocities, and higher wave heights.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Different locations offer different types of surfing conditions for each skill level. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Surf_breaks">Surf breaks</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Surf breaks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Surf_break" title="Surf break">surf break</a> is an area with an obstruction or an object that causes a wave to break. Surf breaks entail multiple scale phenomena. Wave section creation has microscale factors of peel angle and wave breaking intensity. The micro-scale components influence wave height and variations on wave crests. The mesoscale components of surf breaks are the ramp, platform, wedge, or ledge that may be present at a surf break. Macro-scale processes are the global winds that initially produce offshore waves. Types of surf breaks are headlands (point break), beach break, river/estuary entrance bar, reef breaks, and ledge breaks.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Headland_(point_break)"><span id="Headland_.28point_break.29"></span>Headland (point break)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Headland (point break)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Headland" title="Headland">headland</a> or point break interacts with the water by causing refraction around the point or headland. The point absorbs the high-frequency waves and long-period waves persist, which are easier to surf. Examples of locations that have headland or point break-induced surf breaks are Dunedin (New Zealand), Raglan (New Zealand), Malibu (California), Rincon (California), and Kirra (Australia).<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Beach_break">Beach break</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Beach break"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A beach break is an area of open coastline where the waves break over a sand-bottom. They are the most common, yet also the most volatile of surf breaks. Wave breaks happen successively at beach breaks, as in there are multiple peaks to surf at a single beach break location. Example locations are Tairua and Aramoana Beach (New Zealand) and the Gold Coast (Australia).<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:JunoBeachBeachBreak.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A group of surfers surfing a beach break in Juno Beach, Florida."><img alt="A group of surfers surfing a beach break in Juno Beach, Florida." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/JunoBeachBeachBreak.jpg/120px-JunoBeachBeachBreak.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="101" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/JunoBeachBeachBreak.jpg/250px-JunoBeachBeachBreak.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="3024" data-file-height="2547" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A group of surfers surfing a beach break in <a href="/wiki/Juno_Beach,_Florida" title="Juno Beach, Florida">Juno Beach, Florida</a>.</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="River_or_estuary_entrance_bar">River or estuary entrance bar</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: River or estuary entrance bar"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A river or estuary entrance bar creates waves from the ebb-tidal delta, sediment outflow, and tidal currents. An ideal estuary entrance bar exists in Whangamata Bar, New Zealand.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Reef_break">Reef break</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Reef break"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A reef break is conducive to surfing because large waves consistently break over the reef. The reef is usually made of coral, and because of this, many injuries occur while surfing reef breaks. However, the waves that are produced by reef breaks are some of the best in the world. Famous reef breaks are present in Padang Padang (Indonesia), Pipeline (Hawaii), Uluwatu (Bali), and Teahupo'o (Tahiti).<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ledge_break">Ledge break</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Ledge break"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A ledge break is formed by steep rocks ledges that make intense waves because the waves travel through deeper water then abruptly reach shallower water at the ledge. Shark Island, Australia is a location with a ledge break. Ledge breaks create difficult surfing conditions, sometimes only allowing body surfing as the only feasible way to confront the waves.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2009_52-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Jetties_and_their_impacts_on_wave_formation_in_the_surf_zone">Jetties and their impacts on wave formation in the surf zone</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Jetties and their impacts on wave formation in the surf zone"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Expert_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/40px-Ambox_important.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/60px-Ambox_important.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/80px-Ambox_important.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="40" data-file-height="40" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article <b>needs attention from an expert in Limnology and Oceanography</b>. The specific problem is: <b>Contents of this section are incomprehensible. Source is paywalled.</b><span class="hide-when-compact"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Limnology_and_Oceanography" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography">WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography</a> may be able to help recruit an expert.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2021</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Jetty" title="Jetty">Jetties</a> are added to bodies of water to regulate erosion, preserve navigation channels, and make harbors. Jetties are classified into four different types and have two main controlling variables: the type of delta<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (February 2021)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and the size of the jetty.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2003_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2003-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Type_1_jetty">Type 1 jetty</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Type 1 jetty"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first classification is a type 1 jetty. This type of jetty is significantly longer than the surf zone width and the waves break at the shore end of the jetty. The effect of a Type 1 jetty is sediment accumulation in a wedge formation on the jetty. These waves are large and increase in size as they pass over the sediment wedge formation. An example of a Type 1 jetty is Mission Beach, San Diego, California. This 1000-meter jetty was installed in 1950 at the mouth of Mission Bay. The surf waves happen north of the jetty, are longer waves, and are powerful. The bathymetry of the sea bottom in Mission Bay has a wedge shape formation that causes the waves to refract as they become closer to the jetty.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2003_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2003-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The waves converge constructively after they refract and increase the sizes of the waves. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Type_2_jetty">Type 2 jetty</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Type 2 jetty"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A type 2 jetty occurs in an ebb-tidal delta, a delta transitioning between high and low tide. This area has shallow water, refraction, and distinctive seabed shapes that create large wave heights.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2003_57-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2003-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An example of a type 2 jetty is called "The Poles" in Atlantic Beach, Florida. Atlantic Beach is known to have flat waves, with exceptions during major storms. However, "The Poles" has larger than normal waves due to a 500-meter jetty that was installed on the south side of St. Johns. This jetty was built to make a deep channel in the river. It formed a delta at "The Poles". This is a special area because the jetty increases wave size for surfing when comparing pre-conditions and post-conditions of the southern St. Johns River mouth area.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2003_57-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2003-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The wave size at "The Poles" depends on the direction of the incoming water. When easterly waters (from 55°) interact with the jetty, they create waves larger than southern waters (from 100°). When southern waves (from 100°) move toward "The Poles", one of the waves breaks north of the southern jetty and the other breaks south of the jetty. This does not allow for merging to make larger waves. Easterly waves, from 55°, converge north of the jetty and unite to make bigger waves.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2003_57-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2003-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Type_3_jetty">Type 3 jetty</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Type 3 jetty"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A type 3 jetty is in an ebb-tidal area with an unchanging seabed that has naturally created waves. Examples of a Type 3 jetty occurs in “Southside” Tamarack, Carlsbad, California.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2003_57-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2003-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Type_4_jetty">Type 4 jetty</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Type 4 jetty"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A type 4 jetty is one that no longer functions nor traps sediment. The waves are created from reefs in the surf zone. A type 4 jetty can be found in Tamarack, Carlsbad, California.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2003_57-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2003-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rip_currents">Rip currents</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Rip currents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Rip_current" title="Rip current">Rip current</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Rip_current" title="Rip current">Rip currents</a> are fast, narrow currents that are caused by onshore transport within the surf zone and the successive return of the water seaward.<sup id="cite_ref-Dalrymple1978_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dalrymple1978-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Smith1995_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith1995-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The wedge bathymetry makes a convenient and consistent rip current of 5–10 meters that brings the surfers to the “take-off point” then out to the beach.<sup id="cite_ref-Scarfe2003_57-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scarfe2003-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Oceanographers have two theories on rip current formation. The wave interaction model assumes that two edges of waves interact, create differing wave heights, and cause longshore transport of nearshore currents. The Boundary Interaction Model assumes that the topography of the sea bottom causes nearshore circulation and longshore transport; the result of both models is a rip current.<sup id="cite_ref-Dalrymple1978_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dalrymple1978-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rip currents can be extremely strong and narrow as they extend out of the surf zone into deeper water, reaching speeds from 0.5 m/s (1.6 ft/s) and up to 2.5 m/s (8.2 ft/s),<sup id="cite_ref-Smith1995_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith1995-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bowen1969_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bowen1969-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which is faster than any human can swim. The water in the jet is sediment rich, bubble rich, and moves rapidly.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith1995_59-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith1995-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rip head of the rip current has long shore movement. Rip currents are common on beaches with mild slopes that experience sizeable and frequent oceanic swell.<sup id="cite_ref-Bowen1969_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bowen1969-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On_the_surfboard">On the surfboard</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: On the surfboard"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A longer <a href="/wiki/Surfboard" title="Surfboard">surfboard</a> of 300 cm (10 ft) causes more friction with the water; therefore, it will be slower than a smaller and lighter board with a length of 180 cm (6 ft). Longer boards are good for beginners who need help balancing. Smaller boards are good for more experienced surfers who want to have more control and maneuverability.<sup id="cite_ref-Edge2001_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Edge2001-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When practicing the sport of surfing, the surfer paddles out past the wave break to wait for a wave. When a surfable wave arrives, the surfer must paddle extremely fast to match the velocity of the wave so the wave can accelerate him or her.<sup id="cite_ref-Edge2001_55-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Edge2001-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the surfer is at wave speed, the surfer must quickly pop up, stay low, and stay toward the front of the wave to become stable and prevent falling as the wave steepens. The acceleration is less toward the front than toward the back. The physics behind the surfing of the wave involves the horizontal acceleration force (F·sinθ) and the vertical force (F·cosθ=mg). Therefore, the surfer should lean forward to gain speed, and lean on the back foot to brake. Also, to increase the length of the ride of the wave, the surfer should travel parallel to the wave crest.<sup id="cite_ref-Edge2001_55-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Edge2001-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dangers">Dangers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Dangers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Drowning">Drowning</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Drowning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Surfing, like all <a href="/wiki/List_of_water_sports" title="List of water sports">water sports</a>, carries the inherent risk of <a href="/wiki/Drowning" title="Drowning">drowning</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although the board assists a surfer in staying <a href="/wiki/Buoyant" class="mw-redirect" title="Buoyant">buoyant</a>, it can become separated from the user.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A leash, attached to the ankle or knee, can keep a board from being swept away, but does not keep a rider on the board or above water. In some cases, possibly including the drowning of professional surfer <a href="/wiki/Mark_Foo" title="Mark Foo">Mark Foo</a>, the leash can be a cause of drowning by snagging on a reef or other object and holding the surfer underwater.<sup id="cite_ref-ridinggiants_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ridinggiants-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By keeping the surfboard close to the surfer during a wipeout, a leash also increases the chances that the board may strike the rider, which could knock them unconscious and lead to drowning (especially with a hard surfboard instead of a soft surfboard). A fallen rider's board can become trapped in larger waves, and if the rider is attached by a leash, they can be dragged for long distances underwater.<sup id="cite_ref-ridinggiants_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ridinggiants-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Surfers should be careful to remain in smaller surf until they have acquired the advanced skills and experience necessary to handle bigger waves and more challenging conditions. Even world-class surfers have drowned in extremely challenging conditions.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Collisions">Collisions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Collisions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Surfer_in_santa_cruz_14.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Photo of surfer catapulted into the air with feet higher than the head at 45-degree angle to the surface" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Surfer_in_santa_cruz_14.jpg/220px-Surfer_in_santa_cruz_14.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Surfer_in_santa_cruz_14.jpg/330px-Surfer_in_santa_cruz_14.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Surfer_in_santa_cruz_14.jpg/440px-Surfer_in_santa_cruz_14.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>A surfer exiting a <a href="/wiki/Closeout_(surfing)" title="Closeout (surfing)">closeout</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Under the wrong set of conditions, anything that a surfer's body can come in contact with is a potential hazard, including <a href="/wiki/Shoal" title="Shoal">sand bars</a>, rocks, small ice, reefs, surfboards, and other surfers.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Collisions with these objects can sometimes cause injuries such as cuts and scrapes and in rare instances, death. </p><p>A large number of injuries, up to 66%,<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> are caused by collision with a surfboard (nose or fins). Fins can cause deep lacerations and cuts,<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as bruising. While these injuries can be minor, they can open the skin to infection from the sea; groups like <a href="/wiki/Surfers_Against_Sewage" title="Surfers Against Sewage">Surfers Against Sewage</a> campaign for cleaner waters to reduce the risk of infections. Local bugs and diseases can be risk factors when surfing around the globe.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Falling off a surfboard or colliding with others is commonly referred to as a <i>wipeout</i>. </p> <div style="clear:right;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marine_life">Marine life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Marine life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Marine_biology" title="Marine biology">Sea life</a> can sometimes cause injuries (<a href="/wiki/Bethany_Hamilton" title="Bethany Hamilton">Bethany Hamilton</a>) and even <a href="/wiki/List_of_fatal_shark_attacks_in_the_United_States" title="List of fatal shark attacks in the United States">fatalities</a>. Animals such as <a href="/wiki/Shark" title="Shark">sharks</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Stingray" title="Stingray">stingrays</a>, <a href="/wiki/Weever_fish" class="mw-redirect" title="Weever fish">Weever fish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pinniped" title="Pinniped">seals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jellyfish" title="Jellyfish">jellyfish</a> can sometimes present a danger.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Warmer-water surfers often do the "stingray shuffle" as they walk out through the shallows, shuffling their feet in the sand to scare away stingrays that may be resting on the bottom.<sup id="cite_ref-go_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-go-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rip_currents_2">Rip currents</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Rip currents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rip_Current_Warning_Sign.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Rip_Current_Warning_Sign.jpg/250px-Rip_Current_Warning_Sign.jpg" decoding="async" width="130" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Rip_Current_Warning_Sign.jpg/330px-Rip_Current_Warning_Sign.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>Rip current warning sign</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Rip_current" title="Rip current">Rip currents</a> are water channels that flow away from the shore. Under the wrong circumstances these currents can endanger both experienced and inexperienced surfers. Since a rip current appears to be an area of flat water, tired or inexperienced swimmers or surfers may enter one and be carried out beyond the breaking waves. Although many rip currents are much smaller, the largest rip currents have a width of 12–15 m (40–50 ft). The flow of water moving out towards the sea in a rip will be stronger than most swimmers, making swimming back to shore difficult, however, by paddling parallel to the shore, a surfer can easily exit a rip current. Alternatively, some surfers actually ride on a rip current because it is a fast and effortless way to get out beyond the zone of breaking waves.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Seabed">Seabed</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Seabed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Seabed" title="Seabed">seabed</a> can pose a risk for surfers. If a surfer falls while riding a wave, the wave tosses and tumbles the surfer around, often in a downwards direction. At reef breaks and beach breaks, surfers have been seriously injured and even killed, because of a violent collision with the sea bed, the water above which can sometimes be very shallow, especially at beach breaks or reef breaks during low tide. Cyclops, <a href="/wiki/Western_Australia" title="Western Australia">Western Australia</a>, for example, is one of the biggest and thickest reef breaks in the world, with waves measuring up to 10 m (33 ft) high, but the <a href="/wiki/Reef" title="Reef">reef</a> below is only about 2 m (7 ft) below the surface of the water. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Microorganisms">Microorganisms</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Microorganisms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A January 2018 study by the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Exeter" title="University of Exeter">University of Exeter</a> called the "Beach Bum Survey" found surfers and bodyboarders to be three times as likely as non-surfers to harbor <a href="/wiki/Antibiotic-resistant" class="mw-redirect" title="Antibiotic-resistant">antibiotic-resistant</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Pathogenic_Escherichia_coli" title="Pathogenic Escherichia coli">E. coli</a></i> and four times as likely to harbor other bacteria capable of easily becoming antibiotic resistant. The researchers attributed this to the fact that surfers swallow roughly ten times as much seawater as swimmers.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ear_damage">Ear damage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Ear damage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Man_Wearing_Molded_Ear_Plugs.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Man_Wearing_Molded_Ear_Plugs.jpg/220px-Man_Wearing_Molded_Ear_Plugs.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="249" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Man_Wearing_Molded_Ear_Plugs.jpg/330px-Man_Wearing_Molded_Ear_Plugs.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Man_Wearing_Molded_Ear_Plugs.jpg/440px-Man_Wearing_Molded_Ear_Plugs.jpg 2x" data-file-width="597" data-file-height="676" /></a><figcaption>Man wearing protective <a href="/wiki/Ear_plugs" class="mw-redirect" title="Ear plugs">ear plugs</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Surfers sometimes use ear protection such as ear plugs to avoid <a href="/wiki/Surfer%27s_ear" title="Surfer's ear">surfer's ear</a>, inflammation of the ear or other damage. Surfer's ear is where the bone near the ear canal grows after repeated exposure to cold water, making the ear canal narrower. The narrowed canal makes it harder for water to drain from the ear. This can result in pain, infection and sometimes <a href="/wiki/Tinnitus" title="Tinnitus">ringing of the ear</a>. </p><p>Ear plugs designed for surfers, swimmers and other water athletes are primarily made to keep water out of the ear, thereby letting a protective pocket of air stay inside the ear canal. They can also block cold air, dirt and bacteria. Many designs are made to let sound through, and either float and/or have a leash in case the plug accidentally gets bumped out. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Surf_rash">Surf rash</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Surf rash"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Surf <a href="/wiki/Rash" title="Rash">rash</a> appears in many different ways on the skin, commonly as a painful red bumpy patch located on the surfer's chest or inner legs. A <a href="/wiki/Rash_guard" title="Rash guard">rash guard</a> will lessen the incidence of surf rash caused by <a href="/wiki/Abrasion_(medical)" class="mw-redirect" title="Abrasion (medical)">abrasion</a> or <a href="/wiki/Sunburn" title="Sunburn">sunburn</a>. Healing ointments such as <a href="/wiki/Petroleum_jelly" title="Petroleum jelly">petroleum jelly</a> can be used to treat irritated skin.<sup id="cite_ref-surfhandbook_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-surfhandbook-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spinal_cord">Spinal cord</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Spinal cord"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Surfer%27s_myelopathy" title="Surfer's myelopathy">Surfer's myelopathy</a> is a rare spinal cord injury causing paralysis of the lower extremities, caused by hyperextension of the back. This is due to one of the main blood vessels of the spine becoming kinked, depriving the spinal cord of oxygen. In some cases the paralysis is permanent. Although any activity where the back is arched can cause this condition (i.e. <a href="/wiki/Yoga" title="Yoga">yoga</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pilates" title="Pilates">pilates</a>, etc.), this rare phenomenon has most often been seen in those surfing for the first time. According to <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Physical_Therapy" title="Doctor of Physical Therapy">DPT</a> Sergio Florian, some recommendations for preventing myelopathy is proper warm up, limiting the session length and sitting on the board while waiting for waves, rather than lying.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Surfers_and_surf_culture">Surfers and surf culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Surfers and surf culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Surf_culture" title="Surf culture">Surf culture</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shaka-sign.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Photo of the back of human wrist and hand. The thumb and pinkie are extended and the other fingers are folded against the palm." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Shaka-sign.png/220px-Shaka-sign.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Shaka-sign.png/330px-Shaka-sign.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Shaka-sign.png/440px-Shaka-sign.png 2x" data-file-width="470" data-file-height="366" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Shaka_sign" title="Shaka sign">Shaka sign</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Surfers represent a diverse <a href="/wiki/Surf_culture" title="Surf culture">culture</a> based on riding the waves. Some people practice surfing as a <a href="/wiki/Recreation" title="Recreation">recreational</a> activity, while others make it the central focus of their lives. Surfing culture in the US is most dominant in <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a> and <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, because these two states offer the best surfing conditions. However, waves can be found wherever there is coastline, and a tight-knit yet far-reaching subculture of surfers has emerged throughout America. Some historical markers of the culture included the <a href="/wiki/Woodie_(car_body_style)" title="Woodie (car body style)">woodie</a>, the station wagon used to carry surfers' boards, as well as <a href="/wiki/Boardshorts" title="Boardshorts">boardshorts</a>, the long swim shorts typically worn while surfing. Surfers also wear <a href="/wiki/Wetsuit" title="Wetsuit">wetsuits</a> in colder regions and when the seasons cool the air and water. </p><p>During the 1960s, as surfing caught on in California, its popularity spread through American pop culture. Several teen movies, starting with the <a href="/wiki/Gidget" title="Gidget">Gidget</a> series in 1959, transformed surfing into a dream life for American youth. Later movies, including <a href="/wiki/Beach_Party" title="Beach Party">Beach Party</a> (1963), <a href="/wiki/Ride_the_Wild_Surf" title="Ride the Wild Surf">Ride the Wild Surf</a> (1964), and <a href="/wiki/Beach_Blanket_Bingo" title="Beach Blanket Bingo">Beach Blanket Bingo</a> (1965) promoted the California dream of sun and surf. Surf culture also fueled the early records of the <a href="/wiki/Beach_Boys" class="mw-redirect" title="Beach Boys">Beach Boys</a>. </p><p>The sport is also a significant part of <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>'s eastern coast sub-cultural life,<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> especially in <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a>, where the weather and water conditions are most favourable for surfing. </p><p>The sport of surfing now represents a multibillion-dollar industry, especially in <a href="/wiki/Surf_culture#Fashion" title="Surf culture">clothing and fashion</a> markets. Founded in 1964, the <a href="/wiki/International_Surfing_Association" title="International Surfing Association">International Surfing Association</a> (ISA) is the oldest foundation associated with surfing formed to better improve surfing and recognized by the <a href="/wiki/International_Olympic_Committee" title="International Olympic Committee">International Olympic Committee</a> as the leading authority on surfing. National and international surf competitions began in 1964. In addition, <a href="/wiki/World_Surf_League" title="World Surf League">The World Surf League (WSL)</a> was established in 1976 and promotes various championship tours, hosting top competitors in some of the best surf spots around the globe. A small number of people make a career out of surfing by receiving corporate sponsorships and performing for photographers and videographers in far-flung destinations; they are typically referred to as freesurfers. Sixty-six surfers on a 13 m (42 ft) long surfboard set a record in <a href="/wiki/Huntington_Beach,_California" title="Huntington Beach, California">Huntington Beach, California</a> for most people on a surfboard at one time.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Dale_Webster" title="Dale Webster">Dale Webster</a> consecutively surfed for 14,641 days, making it his main life focus.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2023, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized a 26.2 m (86 ft) wave ride by Sebastian Steudtner at Nazaré, Portugal as the largest wave ever surfed.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the waves were flat, surfers persevered with sidewalk surfing, which is now called <a href="/wiki/Skateboarding" title="Skateboarding">skateboarding</a>. Sidewalk surfing has a similar feel to surfing and requires only a paved road or sidewalk. To create the feel of the wave, surfers even sneaked into empty backyard swimming pools to ride in, known as pool skating. Eventually, surfing made its way to the slopes with the invention of the <a href="/wiki/Snurfer" title="Snurfer">Snurfer</a>, later credited as the first snowboard. Many other board sports have been invented over the years, but all can trace their heritage back to surfing.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Many surfers claim to have a spiritual connection with the ocean, describing surfing, the surfing experience, both in and out of the water, as a type of spiritual experience or a religion.<sup id="cite_ref-huffingtonpost_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-huffingtonpost-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surfing&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Artificial_wave_pool" class="mw-redirect" title="Artificial wave pool">Artificial wave pool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ASP_World_Tour" class="mw-redirect" title="ASP World Tour">ASP World Tour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_wave_surfing" title="Big wave surfing">Big wave surfing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dog_surfing" title="Dog surfing">Dog surfing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duke_Kahanamoku" title="Duke Kahanamoku">Duke Kahanamoku</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Endless_Summer" title="The Endless Summer">The Endless Summer</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Freeth" title="George Freeth">George Freeth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_scale" title="Hawaiian scale">Hawaiian scale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_surfing" title="History of surfing">History of surfing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_surfing" title="Lake surfing">Lake surfing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_surfers" title="List of surfers">List of surfers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_surfing_events" title="List of surfing events">List of surfing events</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_surfing_records" title="List of surfing records">List of surfing records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_surfing_terminology" class="mw-redirect" title="List of surfing terminology">List of surfing terminology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_surfing_topics" class="mw-redirect" title="List of surfing topics">List of surfing topics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ocean_wave" class="mw-redirect" title="Ocean wave">Ocean wave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River_surfing" title="River surfing">River surfing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandboarding" title="Sandboarding">Sandboarding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skimboarding" title="Skimboarding">Skimboarding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Standup_paddleboarding" title="Standup paddleboarding">Standup paddleboarding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surf_break" title="Surf break">Surf break</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surf_film" title="Surf film">Surf film</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surf_forecasting" title="Surf forecasting">Surf forecasting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surf_lifesaving" title="Surf lifesaving">Surf lifesaving</a>, <a href="/wiki/Surf_Life_Saving_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Surf Life Saving Club">Surf Life Saving Club</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nippers" title="Nippers">nippers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surf_music" title="Surf music">Surf music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surf_zone" title="Surf zone">Surf zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surfer%27s_ear" title="Surfer's ear">Surfer's ear</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Surfing_by_country" title="Category:Surfing by country">List of "Surfing in ..." articles</a></li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Surfing_in_Canada" title="Surfing in Canada">Surfing in Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surfing_in_Madeira" title="Surfing in Madeira">Surfing in Madeira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surfing_in_the_United_States" title="Surfing in the United States">Surfing in the United States</a></li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Triple_Crown_of_Surfing" title="Triple Crown of Surfing">Triple Crown of Surfing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_surfing" title="Women's surfing">Women's surfing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_championship_tour_(WCT)_surfing" class="mw-redirect" title="World championship tour (WCT) surfing">World Championship Tour (WCT)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_surfing_champion" class="mw-redirect" title="World surfing champion">World surfing champion</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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