power surfing

Type of surfing characterized by strong, deeply set turns. "Good surfing," Australian Gary Elkerton, three-time runner-up to the world title and power surfing virtuoso, said in 1992, "is power, speed and flow. The rest of it doesn't attract me at all." The expressions "power surfing" and "power surfer" have been used since the early '60s; Phil Edwards of California and Australian Nat Young are oft...