Recently I sent an email out asking our readers to send in surfer lingo that drives them crazy or is just unique to the surfing world. Here is a partial list of the responses.
“Talk Story” and any other Hawaii-isms.
When people say “It’s a bonzer, mate” and it’s made even worse when surfer’s use an Australian accent. Unless yay aye frohm Australia.
“neeple high” as opposed to what? Chest high
My ears cringe When I hear the word “bro” and I’m kind of sick of “sick” too.
Question: “How did it go?” Answer: “Real good. It was so sick, bro.”
When the media or people use the descriptive “Free surfing.” In a pure sense, surfing has always been “free” Now that big business has entered the surfing world, they created this monster called “pro surfing” hence their polar opposite “free surfing.” It gives a confusing and stupid picture of types of surfing. Quite simply there is surfing and there is contest surfing. In the surfing world, contest surfing is a speck of dust compared to the whole. Surfing is free. The phrase “free surfing” is redundant.
Any person and any word that has “hull” added to it, like:
That was hulltastic, He is such a hullmaphobe, Dude that was hullascious, Yo, this is hullicious…um what is it?
Surfers talking Hawaiin Pidgin just because they spent their spring break on the North Shore like:
“ Ho, haole wen fut?..Not, I nevah!
Okay this is not slang but close to mindblowing. When you are trying to sell your board online and the person asks for photos of the dims, nose & tail rocker, and your dog and then go on an ask nose width, tail width, thickness, foiled, as if they even know what to do with that information and then they end up never buying it.
“performancy”
“bro, where’s your leash?”
“waxing the cat” WTF???
“waxing the cat” is just another way of saying “buffing the chubster” WTF??
“Dude chill out that ain’t a longboard wave”
“glassing schedule” and ”dims”
Anybody and I mean anyone who describes a surfboard made after 1983 as “vintage”
When someone says “dude, this is an epoxy board not fiberglass”
Calling a nose concave a “spoon”
Hawaiian “Scales” “Well it was four feet but dude it was Hawaiian Scale.”
jabby hack slashes
Using the words “slashes” and “turns” in a sentence as if they are two different actions
Using Hawaiian or Australian accents/words just to make your story about dropping a 2 foot wave sound like you were surfing Jaws
That dude is a freakin “9 baller”
super foiled and bladey
Guys describing how they “got barreled” when the wave was 3 to 4 feet because the lip splashed their head.
Quote of the Century and another reason to stay in school
“My main goal in surfing is to make the WCT and do good on that. I have goals that I have each year that I want to meet, like doing good in worlds and doing good in the Pro Juniors every year. And just working my way up to my main goal of doing good on the ‘CT.”
-Nat Young
Anyone over 13 years old uttering the word “Dude”
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