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 expected.
Bodysurfers and bodyboarders have made an art of riding closeout tubes at places like Sa...