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The name of the show rolled right off Pearlberg’s tongue: “Off the Lip.” The term is used by surfers and skateboarders alike. The skateboarding trick involves balancing the back truck of the skateboard over the edge of the ramp, or “the lip;” surfers pivot their boards off the powerful top part of a breaking wave, also called “the lip,” and drive the board down the wave face in an “off-the-lip” maneuver. And, Pearlberg said, the name reflected their off-the-cuff mindset.