In preparation for Saturday's Australian Surfing Association (ASA) competition, the ASA has released some information to help new surfers understand how the competitions work and help in understanding some Australian slang. Reprinted by permission of the ASA.
Australian Surf Association Surf Competition Guidelines:
ASA surf competitions are for fun!
An opportunity to hang out with fellow surfers and give your best shot at catching that elusive lag-free perfect wave. We have judges that will be sitting on the surfing sim to score your ride. You will have 3 rides and scores are averaged on the best 2 scores. Also a marshall who will guide you and tell you when to take your wave.
You can register for a competition, once it is announced, by sending an IM to the director saying you wish to compete. You will need to be a member of ASA group to compete on the day and be able to rez your surfboard.
About a week before the surf comp, a group message will be sent out with the Heat Draws showing which heat you will be surfing in, what color rashies to wear, and a landmark to the competition sim. Rashies and boardies are also sent out with heat draws.
IMPORTANT: Put on your rashie and boardshorts and remove all attachments, AO's, Scanners, jewelry before your heat. This reduces lag on the sim and helps you surf better.
There are 2 areas at a surf comp, The Surfing sim and the Spectators Stands on an adjoining sim.
Competitors wait in the Spectators stand until their heat is called. This helps to keep the lag down for surfers.
When called, competitors go to the Marshall area, usually on the beach and wait for the Marshall to say to paddle out to the starting area where the waves rez ( the line up ). Once out at the line-up, you line up in order of your heat.
When it is your turn, the judges will lock in their cameras on you and the Marshall will tell you to take next wave. Paddle out and GO FOR IT!!!! Don't go before you are called as your ride will be disqualified.
Once you finish your ride, paddle back out to line-up, avoiding waves and wait for next ride. You will have 3 rides and then the last wave is a party wave (all surfers have a surf to the beach).
Results of your heat are announced, usually within 10-15 mins at the spectators stand.
If you are unsure at anytime what to do, ask the Marshall for help. Thats what they are there for.
Things to remember:
1. Make sure you have your surfboard and a back-up ready if needed
2. Put on your rashie and boardies before the comp
3. Detatch all your attachments to reduce lag
4. Know what heat you are in and what color you will be wearing
5. Wait for the Marshall to call you
6. Have fun and do some kick ass surfing!!!!
Selected Aussie Slang:
Amber Fluid : Beer
Apples, she'll be : everything will be ok
Assie: Australian
Balls Up : a mistake
Barney : an argument
Barbie : BBQ outside - not the doll
Cadbury : a cheap drunk (a glass and a half)
Clayton's : fake, substitute
Clobber : Clothes
Dag : a funny person, nerd
Dero : tramp, hobo, homeless person (from "derelict")
Dill : an idiot
Fair Dinkem : true, genuine
Fair suck of the sav! : exclamation of wonder, awe, disbelief
Franger : Condom
Galah : fool
Gander : have a look at something
Gone walkabout : Wandered off or it's lost, can't be found
Hooligan : Loud obnoxious young aussie male
Hooroo: See ya later, goodbye
iffy : used to indicate that something is a bit suspicious
Jackaroo : a male farm hand
Journo : journalist
Jumped up : stuck up
Kangaroos loose in the top paddock : Intellectually inadequate
King Brown : Snake or a Big bottle of beer
Knackered : Tired, buggared
Larrikin : a joker
Lingo : Language
Mallee bull (as fit as a) : very fit and strong
Mad as a cut snake : extremly angry
Mate or M8 : buddy, friend - Used mostly when you’ve forgotten someones name ( Gday Mate).
Nipper : young surf lifesaver
No wucken furries : No fucking worries
Not the full quid : not bright intellectually
Oldies : parents
Ocker : an unsophisticated person
Offsider : an assistant / helper / partner
Perve : Look at someone
Pig’s Arse: No way or not true
Piker : social misfit / drop out
Quid, not the full : of low IQ
Rapt : pleased, delighted
Ratbag : mild insult
Raw prawn ( to come the): to be generally disagreeable
Scarce as hen's teeth : very scarce or very rare.
Screamer : party lover
Shark biscuit : new surfer
Tall poppy syndrome : the tendency to criticize successful people
Tickets ( to have on oneself) : to have a high opinion of oneself
Toey : Sexually excited
Up oneself : have a high opinion of oneself
Up the Duff : pregnant
Useless as tits on a bull: Incompetent or unhelpful
VB : Victorian Bitter Beer
Veg out : relax
Vego / vegie head : vegetarian
Wanker : Tosser, dickhead
White pointers : shark or topless (female) sunbathers
Woos : coward
XXXX : Queensland Beer 4X
Yack : Talk
Yobbo : ignorant person
Youse : you (plural)
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