Common Surfing Terms and Slang

[@frankfurfet6106]

Not sure if it’s just different in Aus, but snaking for us is when you paddle around someone to get on their inside thus making it seem like you have priority, what you described is what we call a “drop in” or “getting burnt”, that and we always use Shakkers lol, loved the vid tho!

[@waltysalamander]

We call that “back paddling”

[@ScottLaffin]

"Snaked" can be used those same ways here in California too, but it generally means anytime someone without priority goes on a wave and messes up the ride of the person with priority.

[@rumi2059]

He should of used burned, I know snaking as back paddling

[@danamcalister]

In California someone dropping in on you is snaking you and the other one is someone paddling around you but back paddling understood.

[@rumi2059]

@@danamcalister I know it as snaking back paddling sounds dumb

[@danamcalister]

Hey Brad, the footage you used for "reforms" were more like "double ups" a true reform is a wave you ride and then rolls over a deep spot and totally "backs off" (another great term) and then breaks again, and a lot of times guys use the "Huntington Hop" to connect the outside break to the inside reform. So maybe clarify in the next one and show more double ups and then some true reforms as well. Great vid tho!!! Keep'em coming.

[@srfhdx5584]

Is it bad that i claimed when i made my first proper wave. To everyone else i did nothing but to me it was the first time i made it past a section, did a floater and rode a wave to the point it ended. I was so buzzed when it happens i did a little fist bump ahaha

[@jancarter5677]

great videos Brad. I'm an old body surfer in my 7th decade. I love to watch your stuff, keep it coming dude.

[@BradJacobson]

Thank you!

[@frybread9991]

Some lingo we use down under………Vizh, (pronounced “viz-sh’, the view from a barrel) sick, (as in “excellent), kook soup, (crowded lineup on a small day) off the roof (ejecting from a super late drop on overhead+ waves), feta’s (massive oncoming set feathering way out back) taxi (last wave of the day preferably all the way in to the beach).

[@Alessandra-ec2hr]

Can’t believe Kook wasn’t first on your list! That was the first word in my surf vocabulary…as it pertained to me.

[@bartonfletcherpov]

What you referred to as digging the nose or pearl diving is more commonly known as ‘nosediving’ in Australia.

[@ricardocardoso7700]

As a new surfer, im gonna start using those first terms ironically

[@mr101cheese101]

A couple words to describe my local spot Blown out Closed out Rock dance Thanks Great Barrier Reef 🙄

[@1haggler]

Lol Brad went there with the classic clips (Eastbound and Down, Office Space) A-Frame (Trestles) Sloops: When the waves aren't that great but you catch a few rideable ones. Ostrich: When you don't pop up quick enough and go head 1st, similar to putting your head in the sand

[@BradJacobson]

And I also added Point Break. Good catch on the other two. BTW, I love the new slang words.

[@johnjay9885]

Loved this video! Some terms for future videos off the top of my head: shredding gnar, throwing the fins out the back, shampoo barrels, firing/nuking, getting washing machined, getting chandeliered, carving, a sesh, dawn patrol, weekend warriors, foamie, sponger, dinging the board, shred stick, and quiver

[@glennsak]

Snaking is when someone back paddles and takes priority over the person who was next in line. It's called dropping in when you are already up and riding and someone decides to get in front of you.

[@nohamfanks7449]

We call digging the nose is nosediving

[@TheRealDrJoey]

You left out Barney.

[@alainvosselman9960]

Thanks for making these type videos. Total nube here so it's quite informative. Caught my 1st wave today during my 2nd day of surfing... using an 8f board in 6 foot storm waves..caught a board in my face... great sport... I am all stoked. Looking forward to watching more of your videos. You got yourself another sub.

[@abramgomez8986]

Shakabra

[@selfrealization5445]

The video quality is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@BradJacobson]

Thanks

[@hehe207]

bro you forgot kook

[@jimmalmo909]

1:20 ...F*** that so called LOCAL!!! (Freeze frame from "Point Break")

[@Suggy1975]

I called over the falls getting Whomped....well I boogieboard. maybe I use a different term since I boogie. But I've been Whomped before where you pretty much get thrown and slammed onto the sandy shore. You know where you walk out with those bloody knees?? Or is getting Whomped a different term and I have been using it wrong?

[@dougc3512]

A few terms to add: turtle roll, lip, cutback, floater, pumping, stoke, glassy, poo man, and barney, of the top of my head...

[@krusher74]

You have snake wrong, Snaking means paddling around another surfer to give yourself the right of way over a wave, what you have discribed as snake is dropping in/burning.

[@apollocobain8363]

Braheem, this gnarly, bitchen video has got me totally stoked to the max to listen to some Chaka Khan...Am I getting it?

[@odin4life]

For your next video I would recommend differentiating between snaking and hopping. If it’s my priority and you’re behind me you’re snaking, if you’re in front of me you’re hopping.

[@krusher74]

its dropping (as in dropping in) not hopping as in shoulder hopping.

[@odin4life]

@@krusher74 true, but from a long boarder's perspective, I'm rarely on a wave that you need to drop in on. Most of the time its beginners that are hopping the shoulder.... and then going straight 😭

[@RyanKim-oh8vc]

can someone clarify “off shore winds” vs “blown out waves”

[@nicoladouglas3270]

I'm a Concrete Surfer from Yorkshire 😂😂

[@Adameichenauer]

Talk like a ninja turtle and you:re good

[@sirrvickx9663]

The narrator is not a Surfer. 100%. Zero Doubt.

[@micahclothier]

LA looks so lame ,stay up there with all this BS thanks

[@samanthahill1396]

Classic! Your video made me laugh out loud... excellent...Thanks so much!

[@BradJacobson]

Stoked! Thanks

[@lanceb2641]

What is a SCHAKED? Can someone elaborate this. Newbie here

[@BradJacobson]

Barreled or tubed 👍

[@dababy3035]

First point malibu is very good for down the lines

[@BradJacobson]

Yep!

[@buzz5969]

KOOK is only word you need to know…

[@barrymantz6026]

Why isn't thombstone not on the list?

[@tomokiinayama2464]

YEEW

[@BradJacobson]

Ohhhhhhhh, that's a really good one. I didn't think of it at all. I will add that to the next one. It's used a lot too.

[@wolfshield469]

Best one for sure. Being its not a word to say but rather an true expression or emotion for being stoked for some one about to stand up or catch a good one.

[@wolfshield469]

Another term for "worked" is "ate it". 'yo bro, (while catching ur breath and feeling the burn on ur muscles as u paddled back to the line up) I just ate it'.

[@prodkillkyoto]

i love how most of the terminology is just another word for getting destroyed by a wave. Shows how difficult surfing really is

[@77gmcnut]

Stealing The Beach: When you find sand in your private places after a day of surfing.

[@kristainsandoval5640]

Always punkin groms lmfao they be like little missiles coming outta nowhere

[@skylarfoxy6908]

I'm not sure if others use this but my dad and I have always used the term "barney" to describe someone that's renting a board or really has no idea what's going on. Its kind of like kook but more just like an out of towner trying to surf with no real knowledge of how.

[@tylerfeist5884]

add nugg to the next one

[@fortunateson5952]

Not used anymore but should be: "Skeg".

[@matthewmatuszak9034]

Forgot backpaddling

[@BradJacobson]

Yep, that's a good one. I'll use it on the next one.

[@matthewmatuszak9034]

@@BradJacobson haha sounds good

[@krusher74]

@@BradJacobson its the same as snaking, you just used snake wrong. Your discription of snake is what dropping in/burning is.

[@olabashanda]

So pitted

[@jabbabbabba]

Hawaii, you know where the best surf is, is loaded with shaka's and hang loose. The stinky south bay on the other hand..... That's the best Wellzie has looked in decades.

[@jayo5376]

I think u should do all of the names . I’m new to surfing and would like know everything that there is to surfing

[@beavercleaver4381]

STOP KOOK LIFE....Sincerely yours...MIKI...

[@jacksnyder5526]

This is why it's called Zooport.

[@miscellaneous9611]

ive been surfing since i was 5 why am i here

[@krusher74]

to check on the hodads?

[@MarciKLEIN]

Great video- funny

[@finchplays3725]

Digging the nose=nosediving

[@sir.benzerlot4571]

Why’s that weird car in the intro, doesn’t really fit the vibe imo. Good video tho

[@krusher74]

it's a kook-mobile.

[@chingerzz123123123]

What about frothing!

[@two_baconcuttapak755]

add he / she SHREDS BRO

[@valentinsiltsenko]

Gnarly!

[@BradJacobson]

I haven't heard that in a while! It's a good one. I'll use it in the next one. Thanks

[@wolfshield469]

Also "stoked" and "sic".

[@renaissancemaneric8019]

Gnarly!