🏄 Rushing Waves
Surfing lingo, required knowledge for shredding the waves of Taiwan. Discusses the basics and some more technical surfing jargon that you are unlikely to pick up in a textbook.
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Vocabulary 28
Surfing
Ocean wave
Surfboard
Paddling
Sea spray
Tide
Wave crest
Surfboard
Bay
Wave height
Bodyboard
Wave Face / Wall; the steep, smooth side of the wave.
lifeguard
wave tube
bodyboard
surf zone
"getting out"; pushing through the waves to get to a starting spot
(Frontside) Surf stance/ride direction where the surfer faces the wave (i.e. the wave is on the surfer’s front side) when riding.
Opposite of frontside: the surfer’s back is toward the wave face when riding.
Wipe out (loanword); falling off the board / being wiped out by the wave (losing balance or control).
describes waves that are “good” (波形明顯, easy to read / obvious shape). If the waves are “明,” they are clean, well-shaped, surfable.
tip of the board
tail of the board
fin
Drop-in The moment you catch the wave and drop down its face.
Turn / Carve Changing direction while riding a wave.
Whitewater; the foamy, broken part of a wave after it crashes.
Green Wave, the clean, unbroken wave face surfers prefer.
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