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Surf Attack
Hang Loose Surf Attack, Brazilian junior surfing circuit founded in 1988, run by SPSurf in São Paulo; 36th edition in 2026 with Sub-12 to Sub-18 categories; alumni include Gabriel Medina and Filipe Toledo.
Surf Berbere
Surf Berbere is a surf camp and surf school on the seafront at Hash Point, Taghazout, Morocco, founded by James Bailey and Tudor Watkins; week packages from £270-£470, instructor courses, apartments.
Surf Break
Surf break: a seabed or coastal feature (rock, reef, sandbar, headland) that makes waves break consistently for surfing. Types: beach, point, reef break; mechanism is wave refraction; examples include Mavericks and Pipeline.
Surf Camp
Surf camp: accommodation-based surf holiday or day program combining instruction, lodging, and activities. Began with the 1977 Blambangan Surfing Club at G-Land, Java; now a global tourism sector with youth, adult, and women's formats.
Surf City
Surf City names several places: a Topsail Island town in North Carolina (36 beach accesses, 733 STR listings), a New Jersey borough in Ocean County, Huntington Beach's Surf City USA brand, a 1963-1966 Sydney beat venue, and a Torquay, Victoria retail precinct.
Surf Company
Surf Company is a name shared by unrelated surf schools and shops: The Surf Company windsurf school at Banter See, Wilhelmshaven (VDWS school VS13980), plus surf school and retail businesses in Wales, California, Hawaii, Fiji, and Florida.
Surf Control
Surf Control (SurfControl) is a web filtering software product later owned by Websense Inc., used to block inappropriate websites and report internet usage; the name also denotes a Sri Lankan surf break and shop in Hikkaduwa and a TV channel-surfing feature.
Surf Dojo
Surf Dojo (Playa Venao, Panama) is a beachfront surf school and high-performance training center with skate ramps, pump track, and trampolines; a same-named nonprofit runs youth surf programs in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica.
Surf Easy
Surf Easy Surf School, Currumbin Alley, Gold Coast, Queensland; Australian surf school run by Ann and Pat since January 1994, offering group and private lessons, board hire, and a women's program; distinct from SurfEasy VPN and Surf Easy detergent.
Surf FX
Surf FX is an Australian watersports retail store at 127 Ferry Road, Southport, Gold Coast, Queensland, trading since 1991 and selling surf, kiteboarding, windsurfing, and stand up paddle equipment.
Surf Gang
Surf Gang is a New York record label and music collective founded by producer Evilgiane with Eera and Harrison, starting as a 2017 skate crew; known for At Least We Tried (2022) and plugg-influenced underground rap.
Surf Harmony
Surf Harmony is a surf school founded in 2009 by Morgan Ménez at Plage de Longchamp, Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, Brittany; the first surf school of the Côte d'Émeraude and Ille-et-Vilaine, FFS-labeled, offering surf, SUP, bodyboard lessons and rental.
Surf Life Saving Australia
Surf Life Saving Australia is Australia's peak coastal water safety, drowning prevention, and rescue authority, a volunteer federation founded in 1907 that has performed nearly 750,000 rescues.
Surf lifesaving
Surf lifesaving: volunteer beach patrol and rescue movement founded at Bondi, Sydney, in 1907, using the bronze medallion, red and yellow flags, and surf sport; governed internationally by the International Life Saving Federation since 1993.
Surf music
Surf music, also called surf rock, is a rock style from early 1960s Southern California known for reverb-heavy guitar instrumentals and the Beach Boys' vocal harmonies.
Surf Pro Cold Hawaii
Surf Pro Cold Hawaii is a Danish surf shop and water sports school in Klitmøller and Vorupør, Thy, at the heart of Cold Hawaii's 31 surf spots; it teaches surfing, wingfoil, windsurfing, and SUP, rents equipment, and runs webcams.
Surf Rentals
Surf rentals: commercial hire of surfboards, wetsuits, bodyboards, and SUPs by the hour to week, from beach shops, surf schools, wave pools like URBNSURF Sydney, and app-based services like Fin, with deposits and damage fees.
Surf School Blue Wave Llanes
Blue Wave Escuela de Surf, a surf and paddle surf school in Llanes, Asturias, based at Playa de Vidiago; small groups, lifesaving-experienced instructors, equipment rental, environmental beach-cleanup initiatives.
Surf Shack (osm node/10262390314)
Surf Shack, OSM node 10262390314, is an indoor FlowRider surfing venue at 13208 Touchstone View, Polaris Point, Colorado Springs; a $3.8 million, 12,000 sq ft facility that soft-opened July 2026. Distinct from the Windansea landmark and other namesake businesses.
Surf ski
Surf ski (surfski): a long, narrow sit-on-top paddle craft from surf lifesaving, now raced in ICF Canoe Ocean Racing; open self-draining cockpit, wing paddle, under-stern rudder, 5.8–6.4 m, 8–20 kg.
Surf Spot Sealinks
Surf Spot Sealinks (Little Buddha beach) is a year-round beginner beach break near Mui Can Giay, Mui Ne, Phan Thiet, Vietnam, at 10.93683 N, 108.1839 E, with monsoon-driven swell, 27-31 C water, shore entry, and A-frame waves.
Surf Wala
Surf Wala, the first surf school in Goa, founded 2011 by Jonathan "Jono" Young on Arambol Beach, North Goa; ISA-certified, merged with the Surf Club guesthouse in 2020, teaching beginners on gentle seasonal waves.
Surf Welle
Surf Welle (German, "surf wave"): artificial surfable wave, usually a standing wave ridden in place. Landmark example: UNIT Surf Pool at Surf Langenfeld, world's first standing lake wave, opened March 2018, 8 m wide, up to 1.60 m high.
Surf zone
The surf zone is the nearshore region of the ocean where incoming waves break, extending from the breaker line to the beach; higher waves widen it.
Surf's Up (album)
Surf's Up (album), also issued as Landlocked during production, is the Beach Boys' 1971 Brother/Reprise studio album; its title track revives the abandoned Smile sessions, it reached No. 29 in the US and No. 15 in the UK, and it was expanded in the 2021 Feel Flows box set.
Surf's Up (film)
Surf's Up (サーフズ・アップ) is a 2007 Sony Pictures Animation computer-animated mockumentary about penguin surfer Cody Maverick entering the Big Z Memorial Surf Off; 78% on Rotten Tomatoes, one Oscar nomination, directed by Ash Brannon and Chris Buck.
Surf's Up 2: WaveMania
Surf's Up 2: WaveMania (2017) is a direct-to-video animated sequel to Surf's Up, produced by Sony Pictures Animation and WWE Studios, directed by Henry Yu, with WWE stars John Cena, Undertaker, Triple H, Paige, and Vince McMahon voicing The Hang 5.
Surface (2022 TV series)
Surface (2022 TV series) is an Apple TV+ psychological thriller created by Veronica West, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as amnesiac Sophie; two seasons, 16 episodes, 2022-2025, Hello Sunshine and Apple Studios.
Surface (topology)
A surface in topology is a two-dimensional manifold, a space that looks locally like a plane, with examples including the sphere, the torus, and the Klein bottle.
Surface ablation (ophthalmology)
Surface ablation is a flapless refractive surgery technique in which the corneal epithelium is removed and an excimer laser reshapes the cornea, preferred for thin corneas and patients at risk of flap dislocation.