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    A surf break (also break, shore break, or big wave break) is a permanent (or semi-permanent) obstruction such as a coral reef, rock, shoal, or headland...
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    List of surfing topics Ocean wave River surfing Sandboarding Standup paddleboarding Surf break Surf film Surf forecasting Surf lifesaving, Surf Life Saving...
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  • Breaking ball, a pitch that does not travel straight like a fastball as it approaches the batter Surf break, place where a wave collapses into surf Horse...
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    of Hawaii. It has lent its name to a big wave surfing break, also known as Jaws. Pe'ahi (Jaws) surf break is roughly three miles east of Pāʻia and makai...
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    Surf culture includes the people, language, fashion, and lifestyle surrounding the sport of surfing. The history of surfing began with the ancient Polynesians...
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  • Petty and Gary Busey. The film's title refers to the surfing term "point break", where a wave breaks as it hits a point of land jutting out from the coastline...
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    paddled to surf breaks and were recorded in print by early European historians as spending many hours bravely paddling head-on into large surf and riding...
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    North Pagai (Indonesian: Pagai Utara) is the smallest of the four principal Mentawai Islands off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. It is south of...
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  • G-Land (category Surfing in Indonesia)
    G-Land, also known as Plengkung Beach, is an internationally renowned surf break on Grajagan Bay, Banyuwangi, Alas Purwo National Park, East Java, Indonesia...
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  • Point Break Live!, a play and parody of the 1991 film by Jaime Keeling Point Break (group), a British pop group Point break, a type of surf break This...
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    resulting in what is known as shore break and a very strong backwash which often drags people back into the surf. The backwash itself frequently creates...
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    break, forming the foamy, bubbly surface called surf. The region of breaking waves defines the surf zone, or breaker zone. After breaking in the surf...
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    Banzai Pipeline (category Surfing locations in Hawaii)
    Pipeline or Pipe, is a surf reef break located in Hawaii, off Ehukai Beach Park in Pupukea on O'ahu's North Shore. A reef break is an area in the ocean...
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  • Lagundri Bay (category Surfing locations in Indonesia)
    and a noted surf break. "NIAS SURF SPOTS | Surfing Guide". Surf Indonesia. Retrieved 2019-04-21. William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. Penguin...
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    Waimea Bay (category Big wave surfing)
    that break off the northern point of the bay. While the surf only breaks big several times a year, Waimea was the most prestigious big wave surf break in...
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  • Ruggles is an East Coast surf break Located in Rhode Island. The rocky reef break features three distinct breaks: "The Point" "Out Front" and "Around...
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    possible when paddling by hand. Tow-in surfing was invented by surfers who wanted to catch big waves and break the 30 ft (9 m) barrier. It has been one...
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  • be challenging since enormous, surfable waves are rare and unpredictable. A set of crew first went to Jaws, a surf break in Maui, months before principal...
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    Margaret River, Western Australia (category Surfing locations in South West Western Australia)
    of the town is a renowned surfing location with worldwide fame for its surf breaks including, but not limited to, 'Main Break' and 'The Box'. Colloquially...
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    about their local surf breaks, especially at surf breaks that attract many seasonal vacationers. This has led to the creation of loose surf gangs who protect...
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    Teahupo'o (category Big wave surfing)
    French Polynesia, in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is known for the surf break and heavy, glassy waves offshore, often reaching 2 to 3 m (6.6 to 9.8 ft)...
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    Windansea Beach (category Surfing locations in California)
    reef break with surf that breaks at the shoreline. During the winter months, Windansea can have six-to-eight foot surf. [citation needed] Other breaks in...
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    Mavericks, California (category Big wave surfing)
    Mavericks is a surfing location in northern California outside Pillar Point Harbor, just north of the town of Half Moon Bay at the village of Princeton-by-the-Sea...
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    with the surfer inside[c] Beach break: An area with waves that are good enough to surf break just off a beach, or breaking on a sandbar farther out from...
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  • It is home to the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum and 11 surf breaks, such as Steamer Lane, which create some of the best surfing waves in the world. Santa Cruz...
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  • breaking over a shallow area such as a submerged rock shelf, reef, or sand bank that is located some distance from the shoreline and beach surf break...
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  • Look up surf in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Surf or SURF may refer to: Surf (detergent), a brand of laundry detergent made by Unilever "Surfing the Web"...
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    70 square metres (750 sq ft), five-room hotel, and moves from surf break to surf break along the Portuguese and Moroccan coasts. At 9,288 km (5,771 miles)...
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    Jeffreys Bay (category Surfing locations)
    Kouga municipality and is famous amongst surfers as a surf capital due to the right-hand point break at Supertubes Beach. The town is situated just off the...
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    Rainbow Bay on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is a famous surf break and today the start of the large sand bank known to surfers as the Superbank...
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