The sensation associated with hydrofoil surfing, quite often, is likened to flying. It makes sense because you’re literally hovering above the ocean, and the foil cuts through the water, limiting drag ...

Spoiler alert: I don’t know who rode the biggest wave of the 2024-2025 Big Wave Challenge window. That’s being kept under lock and key until the award show live from the Lido Theater in Newport Beach ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." THE SURFER IS typically depicted as a solitary figure. One person flowing with the force of nature, ...

Everything changed when I moved to Queensland in the summer of 2022. Before the move, I’d been learning to surf again in the safe and controlled conditions of Urbnsurf Melbourne. The consistent waves ...

I remember the first neurologist I saw after my concussion,” Albee Layer said. “I told him, I’ve had many concussions surfing ...

The TUDOR Nazaré Big Wave Challenge is a premier surfing event on the Big Wave surfing calendar. The event draws elite surfers from across the globe to the treacherous waves of Praia do Norte in ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (KGO) -- Will the Mavericks big wave surf competition happen in 2019? If the competitions' founder legendary surfer Jeff Clark has his way, it could. On Friday Clark posted a ...

Surfing, compared to its boardsport brethren such as skateboarding and snowboarding, is always a little behind in terms of ...

Nic von Rupp once told me that the notorious Portuguese big wave surf break Nazaré — surfing’s Mount Everest — is like a moving mountain of water coming to eat you alive. The comparisons of big waves ...

The Inertia, multimedia site about surfing, kicks off a new documentary series with an in-depth exploration of big wave surfing. Sine Qua Non is a portrait of champion Greg Long, who has spent years ...

For Big Wave rider Garrett McNamara and his wife and manager, Nicole, the HBO adventure series, 100 Foot Wave, began as a way to introduce big wave surfing to the world. What followed was just that ...