Pigdog
Crouching low and grabbing the rail of a surfboard when going backside to hold in the barrel or tube.

Piglet
Small wave, fun boards that are real wave catchers. Nose rideable with the performance of a short board.

Pilot
Reference to a jet ski driver who tows surfers into waves.

Pintail
A tail shape in which the two sides of the board come together in smooth curves to form a point. The pintail is a sensitive controlling shape, ideal for powerful hollow surf.

Pipeline,pipe
Banzai, a rallying cry used by Japanese warriors through the conclusion of the Second World War...Pipeline, the last North Shore, Oahu spot to be ridden. Commonly known as "Pipe" because of its perfect, hollow shaped tube. First ridden in 1967 by Phil Edwards.

Pissing Dog 
When one foot slips off the board deck while surfer continues to ride the wave.

Pit
The power pocket of a hollow, intense wave, usually a barrel or tube. This is where you want to be if you're an advanced surfer, but probably not where you want to be if you're a beginner, or if you're paddling out.

Pitch
The action of a breaking as it builds upwards and begins to topple and break.

Pitched
Tossed off the lip of the wave and usually off the board.

Pitching out
A wave condition in which the lip throws forward creating a very hollow wave face, barrel, or tube. This happens when the wave is shoaling over a fast transition from deep to shallow water such as an abrupt reef. See jacking.

Pitchpole
When you pearl and go over the nose and the board flips behind you. The wave then closes out on you and you get worked.

Planer
An electric tool designed for carpentry and co-opted by surfboard shapers to trim foam from the blank during shaping. Usually the Skil 100 brand. Loosing importance over the years, due to the development of computer shaping machinery; still widely used by "backyard" low-volume manufacturers.

Plank
Another name for a longboard. Any surfboard over 9' in length.

Platter
A surfboard that's in the funboard genre'. Usually 7 to 8.5 feet; wider than a regular shortboard, and has some longboard and some 70s style fish characteristics. Can have any type of tail from a swallow, pin, square, or squash. Most seem to be either rounded pin or squash tails.

Plug
In shaping, a highly crafted shaped blank produced by a top designer as a template for a computer shaping machine. Also a similarly crafted shape supplied by a designer to a blank manufacturer as a basis for blank molding.

Plunger
Someone who constantly pearls or plunges straight into the water and lets their board shoot straight out of the water.

Plunging Waves
Mostly a scientific term to identify steep, hollow waves that break quickly with lots of power. Variety of surf break when waves wrap around a point of land creating perfectly lined up, peeling waves. The waves actually interact with the bottom contours just offshore of the point to refract and wrap around the point.

Point Break
A setup where waves wrap around a point of land creating perfectly lined up, peeling waves. Consistent, hollow and generally yield a longer ride.

Polar stereographic
A type of weather chart which shows the curved surface of the Earth, contrary to a Mercator hart which shows a flat surface of the Earth.

Polyester
A type of plastic resin; the most common type used in surfboard manufacturing.

Polypropylene
Wicking material (i.e., it doesn't absorb water) replaced many nylon linings in wetsuits in the late '80s and is often used for insulating rash guards today.

Polystyrene
A type of plastic foam used to make surfboard blanks, usually employed together with epoxy resins.

Polyurethane
A type of plastic foam; the most common type used in surfboard manufacturing, usually employed together with polyester resin.

Pop-up
The process of a surfer getting to ones feet on a surfboard, just after catching the wave.

Prevailing Wind
A wind that blows from a given direction more frequently than any other during a given period, such as a day, month, season, or year.

Primer
A shaper/surfer from Indialantic, Florida (originally from South Padre Island, Tx) who was dubbed one of the most advanced in the area. Known for his long drawn out cutbacks and odd surfboard shapes and paint schemes.

Primary swell
The dominant swell in the water at a specific location like a buoy. The second dominant swell would be called the secondary swell, and the third dominant swell would be called the tertiary swell.

Prog
Abbreviation for prognosis chart, which is a weather chart for a forecasted time in the future. Surf forecasters make final decisions on "analysis" charts, which are real time charts, and other factual information after the storm actually happens. But the progs are great for looking out further to get a heads up on what may happen in the future.

Prone Out
To drop to your belly after riding a wave. This is usually done when a surfer is coming in after a session. It lowers and dispersers a surfers weight and center of gravity making it possible to ride the whitewater all the way to the beach.

Propagation
The term defining the movement of swells through the ocean. Waves and swells will "propagate" from the storm source to other areas.

Prune
Condition where the fingers become ill-shaped after a long period of time in the water.

Pucker
The non-technical intimidation factor a wave has to render someone from a state of calm to panic.

Pull in
The process of turning the surfboard up to enter the barrel or the tube.

Pull Off 
To succeed making a radical maneuver.

Pull out
See kick out.

Punt
To launch into an air from a maneuver.

Pumping
Excellent surf; a surf condition of very consistent waves with a very strong swell. Also, the act of making deep quick turns on a surfboard to gain speed down the line.

Punchy
A surf condition in which the waves are powerful, but not extraordinarily so. Often used to described short interval beachbreak.

Pure Line
Name for the optimum position to surf on any given wave. Each one has a pure line, and each is unique.

Pure Sex 
Something awesome is described as being that of "pure sex."