Kook, noun. Pronunciation: kük : An individual with no understanding of the social and sartorial norms of surfing. In the water, a kook’s cluelessness can aggravate or endanger other surfers ...

As surfers from around the world competed at the Olympics, you may have been inspired to hit the waves. Before you do, it's best to learn popular surf lingo.

A surfer on a soft top was either a beginner just learning to navigate the whitewash or they were a “kook,” a clueless surfer not yet skilled enough for a real board.

As surfers from around the world competed at the Olympics, you may have been inspired to hit the waves. Before you do, it's best to learn popular surf lingo.

All surfers (hell, even non-surfers like comedian Bert Kreischer) love kook videos. It’s the phenomenon known as schadenfreude, or taking pleasure out of another’s misfortune. And when it ...

Occasionally spelled “kuk,” this word is often used by surfers to describe a less experienced surfer. Arguably one of the most derogatory terms in the surf world, kook has origins in the ...

According to Olson, Saville was behaving like a “kook.” Plocek explains, “It's a term that is generally used for new surfers who don't really know what they're doing. They often get in another ...

The plan for “Kook” is much the same: We all read the book, discuss it on the book club’s Facebook page and attend an event with Heller at the Register’s office in Santa Ana on Oct. 20.

In case you've been wondering why I haven't been writing about the presidential campaign, I'll tell you: This is the stupidest, most trivial, most idiotic campaign in the history of the American ...

Jesse Billauer was 17, just starting a pro surfing career, when he was told he would never surf again after he broke his neck surfing in Malibu. Almost immediately, he started thinking about ways ...

A surfer on a soft top was either a beginner just learning to navigate the whitewash or they were a “kook,” a clueless surfer not yet skilled enough for a real board.