| ACCELERATE | To achieve max speed from a hard bottom turn so that you can climb the face of the wave in order to set up a meneuver. |
| ACCESSORY MAN | Person who gets every piece of surf gear imaginable - rash guard, booties, helmet, gloves ect. |
| ACE | To be alone or in a solitary state of mind. |
| ACETONE | A cleaning solvent and/or cutting agent used in surfboard manufacturing. Nasty stuff...highly flammable and toxic. |
| ACHE; ACHING | Description for how you feel after being rag dolled, worked by a bomb or after a physically intense session. |
| ACID DROP | When you take off on a wave and suddenly have the bottom fall out as you free fall down the face. |
| ACTION | Something that is either dumb or a mean act. If you pull an action, you do something dumb or just plain mean. Also a term used to modify another term, as in :"check out the action of that rip." |
| AERIAL | When the wave your riding sends your board above it into the air. An advanced maneuver that involves taking off from the lip of the wave, travelling some distance in the air, then (in theory) landing back on the face of the wave and continuing the ride. |
| A FAT SHACK | To get so pitted and spit out and punch threw the back brah. |
| A - FRAME | Large wave that forms with distinct shoulders on either side (left and right) of the peak. Can result in two surfers surfin the same wave . . . one going frontside and the other going backside. |
| AGG | To go crazy. |
| AGGRO | Always aggressive. |
| AHHHHHH YAH | Said only by the man himself John Wyatt visit jacksonville Florida and u`ll hear all about this ahhh yah!! |
| AIR | Anytime a surfer and their board leave the face of the wave to become air borne. |
| AIRDROP | A very late takeoff when the surfer drops through the air to the bottom of the wave. |
| AKAW!! | Something surfers shout when they spot a huge perfect wave, or when they are shocked or surprised. |
| ALIHAM | Totally hot surfer chicks. |
| ALLRIGHT DUDE | Radical wave man....lingo for doped up water head logged surfer. |
| ALL SKATE | When more than one person shares a wave on a slow day. The only rideable bump comes through in the past hour and someone shouts, "All Skate". |
| ALOHA | (uh-LOW-hah)A Hawaiian word used in place of hello and goodbye. |
| ALOHA SPIRIT | Traditionally from the Hawaiian way of life preaching peace and fellowship to all..currently used by surf weasels to mask their kookdom. |
| AMPED | 1. Stoked - charged up - fired. 2. Excited; stoked; cant wait.(see STOKED) |
| AN EMMA | Term for an ultimate hot surfer chick. |
| ANKLE SNAPPER | Tiny waves...not worth riding. Also known as Ankle Breaker(East Coast). |
| AS IF! | Yeah right! - Whatever. |
| ASP | Association of Surfing Professionals, resposible for organising the annual world professional surfing circuit leading to the crowning of the world champion. |
| ATE IT | Biffed it - Bit the dust- Crashed. |
| AWESOME | Great - Gnarly - Cool. |
| AXED | Hit by the lip of the wave leading to a wipeout. |
