Backside Riding: | Riding the wave upwind, with your back to the wave. |
Bottom Turn: | The maneuver a sailor makes during wave sailing that involves carving the board in front of the wave face. This involves a technique of leaning forward on the inside rail and laying the sail forward and flat to the water so everything is set up to ride back up the wave face and into the lip. |
Cutback: | A maneuver a sailor makes during wave sailing that involves heading back down from the top of a wave. |
Drop-In: | A mistake in wave riding where a rider gets on a wave and cuts off another sailor who rightfully owns the wave. |
Groundswell: | Ocean swell caused by a distant earthquake or storm. |
Inside: | Usually in the context 'inside the break' , and can either refer to sailing on the calmer flat water inside a reef break, or the far less desirable context of being 'caught inside' and in the path of a large set about to break on you. |
Frontside Riding: | Riding the wave downwind, with your front to the wave. |
Off the Lip: | A wave sailing maneuver off the breaking lip of a wave. |
Lip: | The lip of a wave is the crest where it's breaking. |
Over the Falls: | Being thrown over the lip of a breaking wave. The bigger the wave, the longer you get held down, and really gnarly waves can take you over the falls more than once (known as 'going through the rinse cycle'). |