In surfing, a closeout wave is a wave that breaks all at once, abruptly from end to end, and doesn’t allow surfers to ride it because it doesn’t offer a non-vertical wall. In other words, closeout waves are not good for surfing, and they tend to appear more frequently in beach breaks, and low tides with extremely shallow waters. Although they look they’re about to form a tube, they collapse at once. And that is not a surfing wave at all, it’s rather a nightmare.

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What is a closeout wave?

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