.surfology sounds like Scientology.
Due to lack of entertainment on a Saturday night I found myeslf perusing Surfline's Surfology section [yay for alliteration]. It's actually quite interesting and chock full of useful surfing information tidbits.
Like what to eat before surfing? : Apparently, the correct answer is to consume NOTHING [which is what I do since I'm too lazy to forage for food stuffs early in the morning]. H2o and/or foods that are easily digestable such as fruit or energy bars] are all they recommend.
Or.
What to do if you're stung by a stingray? [though I've never heard of any cases of stingray stings in Hawaii...] : Apply very, very hot h2o to the sting site.
Surfline also provides readers with a glossary of terms. Beside the more obvious ones [like the defintion for bamboo or beach break, both of which are self explanatory] they also provide defintions for words such as "bathymetry" [The measurement of depths of water in oceans, seas, and lakes. The topography of the ocean floor or underwater bottom] and "beavertail" [Early wetsuit design in the '70s with a large flap affixed to the suit's lower back, wrapped under the crotch and secured in front. Designed to hold the suit in place, the innovation didn't really work and surfers took to letting the slab dangle. (Hence the term, "tail".) ].
I'm seriously considering totally scamming their glossary idea [because it's so cool] and making my own glossary with words I have not yet invented or discovered.
In case you forgot [like me, procrastinator/idiot/lazybutt that I am] and didn't mail in your Cholo's 2000 application the deadline was yesterday and you will now have to pay $40 as opposed to the $30 it would have cost you to send it it yesterday. GRRRRRR. Oh well.
Like what to eat before surfing? : Apparently, the correct answer is to consume NOTHING [which is what I do since I'm too lazy to forage for food stuffs early in the morning]. H2o and/or foods that are easily digestable such as fruit or energy bars] are all they recommend.
Or.
What to do if you're stung by a stingray? [though I've never heard of any cases of stingray stings in Hawaii...] : Apply very, very hot h2o to the sting site.
Surfline also provides readers with a glossary of terms. Beside the more obvious ones [like the defintion for bamboo or beach break, both of which are self explanatory] they also provide defintions for words such as "bathymetry" [The measurement of depths of water in oceans, seas, and lakes. The topography of the ocean floor or underwater bottom] and "beavertail" [Early wetsuit design in the '70s with a large flap affixed to the suit's lower back, wrapped under the crotch and secured in front. Designed to hold the suit in place, the innovation didn't really work and surfers took to letting the slab dangle. (Hence the term, "tail".) ].
I'm seriously considering totally scamming their glossary idea [because it's so cool] and making my own glossary with words I have not yet invented or discovered.
In case you forgot [like me, procrastinator/idiot/lazybutt that I am] and didn't mail in your Cholo's 2000 application the deadline was yesterday and you will now have to pay $40 as opposed to the $30 it would have cost you to send it it yesterday. GRRRRRR. Oh well.
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