reform
A foaming whitewater wave that first moves into deep water, so that it reverts back to an unbroken swell—or the whitewater is reduced to a fringe along the crest—then onto a shallow area where the wave once again steepens and breaks. Reforms come in all sizes and shapes. Waves at Second Reef Pipeline in Hawaii will reform into a gaping tube on the nearshore reef; waves at Huntington Beach, Califo...
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Surfer, foreground, on a reform waveSubscribe to view
Nancy Nelson, Huntington, gliding from the outside to the inside reform section, 1965. Photo: Ron ChurchSubscribe to view
Beginning surfer on a reform waveSubscribe to view
Great Lakes SUP rider into a reform wave, 2013Subscribe to view
Surfer, foreground, on a reform wave
Nancy Nelson, Huntington, gliding from the outside to the inside reform section, 1965. Photo: Ron Church
Beginning surfer on a reform wave
Great Lakes SUP rider into a reform wave, 2013