closeout

A wave that breaks all at once, without a shoulder; usually avoided by surfers, although beginners learn on soft-breaking closeouts. Better surfers are often forced into closeouts because of crowds, or lured into closeouts that at first look to have a shoulder. While a closeout wave is bad, waves at many great surf breaks, from Pipeline to Jeffreys Bay, often end in a closeout section, which is ex...

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