Notes
Surfing is a surface water sport of riding waves where an individual/ surfer uses a board to glide across the surface of a moving wave, typically carrying them toward the shore, in an upright or prone position, until they break and lose their energy. The activity requires a surfer to have skills to manoeuvre on waves.
There are four types of surfing waves:
- spilling waves
- plunging waves
- surging waves
- collapsing waves
Surfing waves are mostly found on ocean shores, but can also be found as standing waves in the open ocean, in lakes, in rivers in the form of a tidal bore, or wave pools.
Skateboarding, bodyboarding, windsurfing, kitesurfing, skimboarding, and kneeboarding, to a certain extent, are part of the surfing family.