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Redonculous
Crazy good. Barreling, huge. Anything that you think is crazy or out of the ordinary.

Reef Break
Waves that form over an underwater reef or rock. Very consistent, but can be somewhat dangerous, especially if you
get caught inside.

Reef Cut
Scratches, abrasions, or gashes from a reef.

Reek
A really sour smell. Can be used to describe anything from dead sea life to the stank a Brah emits after eating a
gas station burrito.

Reentry
Attacking the lip, usually going vertically and then turning nose down and re-entering the wave.

Refraction
A) The bending or turning of the wave crests toward shallow water. When a wave drags its bottom over an uneven ocean floor, the portion of the wave dragging over shallower water slows down while the portion wave passing over deeper water maintains its speed. The part of the wave over deeper water begins to wrap or bend in toward the shallower water-much the same as how waves wrap and bend around a point like Rincon or Malibu. Deep-water canyons can also greatly increase the size of waves as the portion of the swell moving faster over deep water bends in and converges with the portion of the swell over shallower water. B) Also the bending or turning of wave crests by currents.

Regular foot
A surfer who surfs left foot forward and faces the wave on rights, and doesn't face the wave on lefts. Also called natural foot in Australia.

Release
The effect that allows water flow to be accelerated as it passes along a surfboard's surfaces. Causes of release are usually available in the second (tail) half of the board, through tail rocker, outline curves and trailing fin edges, and through bottom features which open up opportunities for water to move, such as concaves and channels. Controlled release (along with its opposite, drag) is essential to successful surfboard design.

Research
Another way of describing the tube, Green Room, shack, pig pen, etc.

Resin
A liquid plastic that is catalyzed (set hard) when mixed with MEKP; used in surfboard manufacturing to seal the shaped blank and repair dings.

Respect
What you should always have for the sea, the waves, nature and everyone in the lineup.

Reverse
To spin 180 degrees and surf backwards with the nose of the board in the trailing direction. Generally only done as a finishing maneuver.

Reverse V
Hard chine on the bottom of the surfboard that runs the length of it.

Reverse Vee
A bottom shape dating back to 1991, credited to Maurice Cole of Australia, in which vee is placed in the front half of the board, flattening out through the tail, accompanied by considerable tail rocker. This design idea completely reversed the traditional image of the surfboard, thus the name "reverse vee". Reverse vee, also known as "revee" or forward vee, is in common use, particularly in large-wave boards.

Rhino Chaser
Big wave board (see gun)

Rickt
  Derived from Off the Richter Scale.

Rig
A complete compliment of necessary surf gear. A surf vehicle fully equipped is a "rig."

Right
  A wave breaking towards the right from the vantage of a surfer riding the wave. From a beach viewpoint, a wave breaking toward the left as the onlooker is facing the ocean.

Righteous
Totally awesome. Used when describing an action, object, idea, or person.

Rinse Cycle
To get caught in the whitewater boil after a wave breaks.

Rip
Also called current or riptide: Water traveling along the shore or seaward in a coherent distinguishable mass. Rips are created by water piling up near shore after a series of waves, and then escaping back out to sea in the attempt to equalize the water level. Rips, like rivers, usually focus in areas of the least resistance, like areas with slightly deeper water or lesser wave activity than the adjacent area. These currents may proceed along the shore before finding a slightly deeper area to escape back out to sea. These currents may also dig a channel between sandbars, which actually improve the shape of the surf and provide an easy access back out to the lineup. Swimmers should never try to swim directly against a current, but swim sideways out of the current before attempting to swim back to the beach.

Rip Rocked
Getting a second wind while surfing; a refreshed feeling.

Rip Tide
Ocean flow characterized by strong out-flowing current.

Ripper
Someone who rips or shreds at surfing. Someone who surfs exceptionally well.

River Mouth
A wave that forms on the sediments deposited at a river mouth. Similar to beach breaks but sometimes more
susceptible to being sectiony.

Ripping
Executing drastic and radical moves on the wave. Having it your way with a wave.

Rocker

The curve of the surfboard bottom from nose to tail viewed from the side. Probably the single most important factor in surfboard design, because it controls the general flow of water from its entry (where water first contacts the bottom) to its release (where water leaves the board). Generally, a surfboard with more tail rocker will turn easier but might be a little slower, while a surfboard with less tail rocker will turn harder but might be a little faster. The difficulty of hand shaping an evenly balanced rocker is legendary among shapers, but has largely been relieved by improved blank technology and the use of computer shaping machines.

Roller Coaster
A series of linked turns up and down the wave face, while maintaining the same cut direction (heading to the right
or left on a wave).

Rolling Down the Windows
To flail one one's arms when off balance in an attempt to avoid an impending wipeout.

Room
Inside the barrel or Green Room.

Roonies
  Negative effect of spending copious amounts of time away from the beach; at school, the dentist, doctor, etc.

Roundhouse cutback
A complete 180-degree directional change in which the surfer turns from the shoulder all the way back into the curl or whitewater of the breaking wave, before completing the ride. A very advanced maneuver, which is difficult to complete if enough speed isn't carried throughout the entire 180-degree turn. A roundhouse cutback is usually complemented by a foam bounce recovery off the approaching whitewater.

Round tail
A tail shape in which the two sides of the board come together in smooth curves to form a semicircle. The round tail is a neutral tail shape, not resisting or adding to any turn.

Rubber arms
The feeling of very weak arms after a lot of paddling. Beginners will often feel "rubber arms" until they build up paddling muscles in their shoulder and arms. Advanced surfers may feel rubber arms after multiple hours of intense paddling. Also called "noodled".

Rubbered
The condition of a surfer after having completed a day long session.

Runoff
Often referred to as urban runoff, storm water runoff and non-point source pollution, this type of pollution is rain and river water that collects land-based contaminants and flushes them down to the beach.