The tour is dead. Long live the platform. The WSL Big Wave Tour was never really a tour anyway. More like a logistically unfeasible, financially unviable, two or three-pronged nightmare for everyone ...

Good chance, if you live in Hawaii or on the West Coast, you’ve just about run out of excuses for missing any kind of work or familial obligations by now. Can’t really hide a head tan on a Zoom call ...

It all started as a joke; an April Fool’s Day prank claiming a crew of Average Joe surfers had been invited to North Korea. The purpose? To explore the Hermit Kingdom’s coastline and sample a ...

It’s early days in this whole coronavirus lockdown, and nobody knows just how long the shelter-in-place and social-distancing will last, but for the time being, most folks are living like an ...

And speaking of those menacing slabs – like the one they call “Avalanche,” which reared its ugly head onto our screens recently – here’s a dispatch from another one, just outside Rio de Janeiro.

Just a mere couple of hours after Wiggolly Dantas clinched the win of the 2020 Volcom Pipe Pro, North Shore heavies, QS sluggers and starry-eyed groupies filed into Surfer [The Bar] at the Turtle Bay ...

No other wave in the world that has dominated the hearts and minds of surfers like Pipeline. For nearly 60 years, this frightening gift of nature has stood out as one of the most challenging and ...

If a high-performance shortboard is a sleek Lamborghini, purring through turns in the Italian countryside, then a groveler is a shabby, old — yet reliable — Toyota Tacoma. It’s true, grovelers aren’t ...

Koa Smith refers to this fresh cut of the January 2020 swell at Silverbacks as the “raw footage.” But this isn’t actually raw, because it’s set to music and most of the rides are in slow-motion. But ...

Beachbreaks don’t get much better than this. “A late season summer swell popped up on the charts for the banks at this location,” said Anthony Fox. “Perfectly coinciding with the spring tides against ...

Sure, there’s a couple options these days in the big wave world for vests with pull tabs and bladders and CO2 gases poppin’ off…but how realistic is a pull-tab in large, albeit shallower, slabby surf?

Right now, many beaches around the world are closed to surfing due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In an effort to stay sane, and connect surfers with the thing they care most about, we’re ...