Talk:Surf

Surfing the Internet

"to casually scan various television programs or Internet sites." -- It seems to me that it would generally be more accurate to say, "to scan various Web sites" , but the canonical usage was "Surfing the INTERNET" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web#Basic_terms -- Writtenonsand 14:57, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

The verb "to surf"

The verb "to surf" in a general way mean gaining speed from the gravitational effect of being on the downslope of an ondulation (my best interpretation if the word, used in a physical meaning). Practically, the ondulation is usually swell or broken swell that we name wave. Windsurfing, kitesurfing and a number of sport derived from what most use to call surfing ( standing on a surfboard ) is not essentially surfing, but can allow some surf action. Speed and freestyle windsurfing have nothing to do with the act of surfing, while slalom has a little and waveriding had a lot to do with, as examples.On the other hand surfing can be executed by boats, small or large and is actually a quite important parameter while going downwind for a sailing boat ; a helmsman going downwind is mostly playing between surfing the swell and adusting trajectory to better wind angle. These are exemple to show that, in my opinion, the term surfing should be defined more accurately, as windsurfing and kiteboarding should only be mentioned as descending sport from surfing, not less than skateboarding but the act to surf with a boat should be more investigated as its a important part of sailing. A way to achieve this is i think to define more precisely the verb "to surf". Pogojump (talk) 22:15, 25 July 2019 (UTC)