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| | Top20Surfing.com - Your Top20 Guide for Surfing! |
 | | Surfing (Hawaiian: he‘enalu, "wave-sliding") is a very popular recreational activity and sport in which individuals are propelled across the water by the force of waves, while standing on, predominantly, "fiberglass" boards. |
 | | Equipment used in surfing includes leashes (to keep a surfer's board from washing to shore after a 'wipeout', and to prevent it from hitting other surfers), surfwax and/or traction pads (to keep a surfers feet from slipping off the deck of the board), and interchangeable "skegs" (also known as fins). |
 | | Surfing's appeal probably derives from an unusual confluence of elements: adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering are set against a naturally unpredictable backdrop—an organic environment that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable. |
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