The First Punk Surf Lexicon

September, 1981

Remember gremmie (a beginner surfer) or ho-dad (a showy Sunday surfer)? No one else connected with today's surfing scene does. The New Wave surf lingo may put a permanent ding in your confidence. Compton Maddux, a writer and musician and author of such surf standards as Run Right Back and Catalina Holiday, recently returned from Southern California with the first dispatches from the language front: Don't go out on the beach until you learn these vital terms.Belts on: An aggressive attitude of se...