X-Factor
An intangible ingredient to good surfing; albeit mental posture, good weather, swell, Karma, MoJo, etc; Had the X-Factor working today...Archaic Longboarder Speak.
Y
Yak
To expel substance from ones mouth. Generally caused from ingesting too much salt water after being rag dolled, held down or just plain worked. Barf, drive-the-bus, beads, etc.
Yardsale To fall with appendages flailing everywhere before hitting the water. To fall ungracefully.
Yo A way a surfer gains the attention of another person.
Z
Za
Pizza or "pie" as it's called in the North East US.
Zero Break General expression for any rarely seen big-wave break located well offshore. "First Break" is where medium to large swells usually crest; "second break" is where the same wave either re-forms and crests again, or where smaller waves initially break. Zero break waves are the biggest in a particular area and are usually thought of as being dangerous and somewhat mysterious.
Zimzala Free spirited person who finds peace with the sand between their toes.
Zipload To have or experience something to excess.
Zipperless Often considered the "holy grail" of wetsuits, as
zippers-no matter how tightly made-will always let
water through. Invented in '89 by Body Glove,
the first zipperless wetsuits were actually way too
stiff for surfers to use; by '93, the Japanese came
out with another model that was still too stuff, but
by '95, most wetsuit companies offered a high end
zipperless suit. Advantages include flexibility and
warmth; disadvantages include short lifespan (due to
super stretchy rubber) and difficult entry/exit.
Zoo A crowded surf lineup.
Zonal
Weather pattern term which means that all of the storm
activity in one particular region is moving in a
consistent west-to-east pattern along the same
latitude. While this can happen anywhere in the world
it is usually associated with the Southern Ocean
(around Antarctica) and is caused by large ridges of
high-pressure in the mid-latitudes 'pancaking' the
active storm track into the upper lattitudes. Since
most of the swell energy in these storms will only
travel the direction the fetch is pointed it means
that all of the swell is also going west-to-east. For
most of the eastern half of the Pacific (California,
Baja, Mainland Mex, and Central America) zonal
activity in the SPAC is bad for swell production --
good for an area in its path like Chile -- but bad for
the rest of us.
Zulu
Same as GMT or Greenwich Mean Time. Zulu Time is used
on weather charts which may display 12Z for 1200 GMT,
or 00Z for 0000 GMT. See GMT.
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