Boatman A guide who takes you via boat to remote locations to surf seldom if ever crowded spots. Generally used for Surfari type trips, but can be used for local spots that are only accessible by boat.
Bodyboarder
One who rides waves lying down on a bodyboard. Often beginners, although some bodyboarders, like Hawaii's Mike Stewart, are considered among the best surfers in the world.
Bodysurf
The act of catching waves by swimming without a board. The most original form of surfing. In shallow water bodysurfers can push off the bottom, but usually need swim-fins to catch waves in deep water.
Boggas A totally outrageous wave that either has a big tube, Green Room, cylinder, socket, etc.
Bogus Just plain wrong or really lame.
Bomb
Bomb-A very large wave, well beyond the session's normal wave size.
Bombora
Australian term for big waves breaking further out and isolated by deep water. Also called bombie or cloudbreak.
Bone Yard The shore side of a break line. Synonym: Inside, Impact Zone.
Boned Used as an emphasis of a move; especially when the maneuver results in a surfer extending a leg.
Boost To get airborne.
Bonzer
A surfboard design first invented by the Campbell brothers, Duncan and Malcolm, in 1971. Forerunner of today's popular single-to-double concave bottom shape.
Boss Old school meaning for cool.
Bottom Contour
The shape of the bottom of a surfboard from rail-to-rail. Example: Single/Double Concave and Vee-bottom
Bottom Curve
(see rocker) .
Bottom Turn A turn made at the bottom of a wave, following the drop down the wave face. Often (but not always) the first real move of a ride, a bottom turn is a sweeping, powerful move that enables the surfer to establish speed and direction for the ride. The bottom turn also establishes or re-sets the rhythm of turns to be completed during the course of the ride. Probably the most important turn in surfing as it sets up all other maneuvers.
Bowl A section of a given wave in which the line of the wave bends, or appears to bend, toward the shore. The bend creates added intensity, often causing the wave to build into a peak, or grow hollower or steeper throughout its general curve. Nicknamed "bowl" because the wave suddenly becomes concave from a variety of angles, not just from the base or lip.
Bowled Another way of saying tubed, Green Room, shacked, etc.
Box Shortened reference to a surfboards' fin box.
Boxed To be in an inebriated state. Modernized expression of bagged, or packaged. Example: "I left that party totally boxed."
Brah Surf brother, associate, peer, colleague, friend in liquid solidarity. In fact; anyone on this planet, including women. Derived from Bruddah, Hawaiian pidgin for brother.
Brainfreeze What one feels in the cranium and sinus cavity immediately after the first duck-dive when paddling out in 30* water. Characterized by an instant and often, excruciating ice cream headache.
Brand-X Reference to anything of inferior composition, execution or condition. Example: "Man that was strictly Brand-X. Television colloquialism adopted Pre Short Board Era."
Break Line
The line where waves begin to break. All things being equal, waves will begin to break when they reach water depth equaling approximately 1.3 times the wave face height.
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A turn made at the bottom of a wave, following the drop down the wave face. Often (but not always) the first real move of a ride, a bottom turn is a sweeping, powerful move that enables the surfer to establish speed and direction for the ride. The bottom turn also establishes or re-sets the rhythm of turns to be completed during the course of the ride. Probably the most important turn in surfing as it sets up all other maneuvers. 
A section of a given wave in which the line of the wave bends, or appears to bend, toward the shore. The bend creates added intensity, often causing the wave to build into a peak, or grow hollower or steeper throughout its general curve. Nicknamed "bowl" because the wave suddenly becomes concave from a variety of angles, not just from the base or lip. 
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