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V
Vanuatu
Smallish island in the Pacific, complete with numerous great waves. If you are planning a tropical surfing trip you could do worse!.
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W
Wax
Smells nice, gets stuck in your chest hair (not you ladies!), used to stop your feet slipping off your board. Also, surf wax can be used as to repair almost anything - leaky roof, rusty zip - you name it.
Wetsuit
Made of neoprene, keeps out the cold, makes you look like a seal.
Wipe-out
Falling of your board is referred to as a wipe-out. Other terms are donut, mullering, eating it and pounding - and pretty much anything else you would like.
Worked
To "get worked" is to wipe out and get thrown about while being held under by the wave.
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X
Got none. Any suggestions?
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Y
Yallingup
Surf spot in Western Australia.
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Z
Zamba, Frieda (Born October 24, 1965)
Florida's first four-time world champ
Zogs (Mr) Sex Wax
A Popular brand of surf wax found wherever there are surfers.
Zipperless
Often considered the "holy grail" of wetsuits, as zippers-no matter how tightly made-will always let water through. Invented in '89 by Body Glove, the first zipperless wetsuits were actually way too stiff for surfers to use; by '93, the Japanese came out with another model that was still too stiff, but by '95, most wetsuit companies offered a high end zipperless suit. Advantages include flexibility and warmth; disadvantages include short lifespan (due to super stretchy rubber) and difficult entry/exit.
Zonal
Weather pattern term which means that all of the storm activity in one particular region is moving in a consistent west-to-east pattern along the same latitude. While this can happen anywhere in the world it is usually associated with the Southern Ocean (around Antarctica) and is caused by large ridges of high-pressure in the mid-latitudes 'pancaking' the active storm track into the upper lattitudes. Since most of the swell energy in these storms will only travel the direction the fetch is pointed it means that all of the swell is also going west-to-east. For most of the eastern half of the Pacific (California, Baja, Mainland Mex, and Central America) zonal activity in the SPAC is bad for swell production -- good for an area in its path like Chile -- but bad for the rest of us.
Zulu
Same as GMT or Greenwich Mean Time. Zulu Time is used on weather charts which may display 12Z for 1200 GMT, or 00Z for 0000 GMT. See GMT.
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