The “formal” word from DWR rolled in late today. Looks like Brent only slightly reduced Chatfield flow to match the Strontia reduction this AM. Surf will be similar to yesterday. Too much water for Sixx. Big Benni’s is the place to surf but might need a tune.
Bingo is good. Larger boards are best there.
Pueblo yesterday went from not enough flow to almost too much and now is back to good flow. Sure wish we had the daily heads-up release info before it happens for Pueblo…. Jason Lakey from the Gunnison surf crew will surfing Pueblo today, go join him.
SURF TRIVIA: Name the famous surfer nicknamed “Joe Cool”.
ANSWER for LAST SURF: Surf terms hardly used but are for the most part still valid. Not a comprehensive list by the way.
- Backhand– surfing with your back against the face of the wave, aka surfing backside.
- Banzai– yelled when going for it/dropping in
- Barney – a surfer that is not cool, untalented, rookie
- Cord– surfboard leash
- Cowabunga– also yelled when going for it/dropping in
- Forehand– surfing facing the wave with your toes and stomach facing the wave.
- Fakie– a skateboard only term of rolling backwards… (not a surf term)…. When surfing backwards it is called, “backwards”
- Floater– a surfing maneuver where the rider surfs over the top of the crumbling section of the wave and ends up back on the face of the wave or in the flats
- Foamie– soft top surfboard
- Goofy-foot– surfing with right foot forward on the board.
- Green room – word for tube or barrel
- Grom– young surfer usually under 16 yrs old
- Haole – a Hawaiian word for “foreigner” but can be also a derogatory term for a white surfer when prefaced with a cuss word or unflattering statement
- Ho-dad– a wannabe surfer, someone pretending to be a surfer.
- Hotdogging– surfing for flash rather than function, occurring in small conditions, with little regard for making the wave or not
- Pearl– when a surfer’s weight is too far forward, and the surfboard nose dives underwater
- Kneeboarding– wave riding discipline in which the surfer rides a kneeboard (that is specially shaped shorter wider surfboard with a slight forward fin placement) on their knees, early 1970’s precursor to shortboarding and credited with the birth of the fish surfboard
- Leg rope – surfboard leash
- Men in grey suits- sharks
- Natural-foot– surfing regular foot with left foot on front of board
- Regular-foot– surfing left foot on front of board
- Sponger– term for a bodyboarder that can be derogatory depending how the term is used.
- Switch-foot– Proper term used when surfing opposite of your normal stance of regular or goofy (a regular footer does not say, “I was surfing goofy foot” & instead should say “I was surfing switch” or “I was surfing switch-foot”
- “Waxing down your surfboard”– …see below from Surf Collusion Zine Issue #1 LBK
The Denver Surf Report 