From Surfline.Com: No one holds the claim as the first surfer to "float" a section, but as early as 1982, Santa Barbara surfer Davey Smith was pushing the limits on what you could do on a waist-high closeout. "There's a lot of small beachbreaks in my area," says Smith, "so at the time, I was always trying to find ways to ride different parts of the wave. The back seemed like the next logical step.

Not typically. Not typically.

The word typically mean:

in a typical manner; "Tom was typically hostile".

Typically is an adverb, which is a word that describes a verb. Take these sentences for instance:

"We typically go running after dinner."

"I typically know the answers to questions like these."

"What time do you typically get home from work?"

The word typically is spelled correctly, meaning normally or usually.