What is left-hand break in the context?
I'm reading a book and cannot undersnad one phrase:
The author is in New Zealand in a beach-house, and he says "what surfers tell me is the best left-hand break in the Southern Hemisphere".
I know what is left-hand break on the bike.
What can it mean in that context?
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Answers · 4
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left-hand break; kind of technique in surfing waves
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Oh, yes, DonHolgo, you are right!
Thank you, Kimmar!
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You mean a left-hand *brake* on the bike, right?
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In English, when the wave crests (the white part) we call that the "break". (The wave is breaking there.) So the wave is breaking to the left of the surfer, instead of to the right, as would be expected in the Northern Hemisphere. The toilet water also swirls down the drain in the opposite direction to what we are used to in the Northern hemisphere too! LOL
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