surfing

Here we have 46-year-old surf dude Kelly Slater getting mega pitted at Billabong Pipe Masters this weekend and…

BERLIN — There’s this picture of Ira Mowen that pretty much sums up the quest he’s been on for seven years. In it,…

Thirty surfers descended on Half Moon Bay, California, on Oct. 26, boards and wetsuits in tow. The athletes were…

LEMOORE, Calif. — Imagine a gymnastics floor routine competition in which athletes are scored on the difficulty,…

Over the weekend, the World Surf League officially crowned Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa the new record-holder for…

In the grand metaphor of life, where the ocean is the world and we are the surfer getting battered against some…

Oahu’s Pipeline is one of the most famous surf spots in the world, and the North Shore beach’s notoriously big and…

Pierre Agnes, the 54-year-old CEO of surfing company Quiksilver, has been declared missing at sea by French…

Zander Venezia, a 16-year-old junior pro surfer from Barbados, was reportedly killed this week surfing the huge…

Stand up paddleboarding—is it surfing, or is it canoeing?

For the first time in its history, one of the most prestigious surf contests in the country will include a women’s…

The International Olympic Committee voted today to add five events (really six because baseball and softball are…

The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will probably not be a comprehensive shitstorm like these 2016 Games are shaping…

Thirteen years ago, Bethany Hamilton’s left arm was bitten off by a tiger shark while she was surfing on Kauai.…

I picked up William Finnegan’s surf memoir Barbarian Days on a beach this summer, and felt—I was stoned, the sky was…

Good morning! Competition in the J-Bay Open has been suspended until....when exactly?

William Finnegan’s new book, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life looks like a choice read. Dig the excerpt in The New…

This happened last week on a music television show in Australia. That fellow who just got finished being interviewed…

The artistry of photographers Ron Stoner and LeRoy Grannis (among others) contributed mightily to the boom in…

Today in Portugal, Kelly Slater pulled off an aerial maneuver never before completed on a surfboard. The only…