The thing about real-world replications – from CGI on the silver screen, to virtual reality headsets, to I can’t believe it’s not butter! – is that, they take something that already exist...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/realistic-wave-pool-allwaves-belgium-surf-park-video
If Ryan Miller isn't the hardest working man in surfing, he's definitely close. So, when a special run of swell popped up for Teahupo'o 10 days before the beginning of the waiting period for th...
https://www.surfer.com/features/teahupoo-photos-most-intense-runs-of-swells-ryan-miller
Hold onto your helmets, surf fans. As the World Tour rounds on one of the few remaining relics of the Dream Tour, the charts are showing a solid blob headed toward the End of The Road, Teahupo'o....
https://www.surfer.com/features/the-tahiti-pro-preview-for-the-2024-olympic-games
Teahupo'o is pumping right now, and a select crew of Championship Tour early risers and hard-charging freesurfers found watery orbs of terrifying proportion over the reef in the last week. Liam O...
Dropping the new short film ‘Caveheart,' Hawaii's dynamic duo head to the Old World in search of subterranean wedges.
https://www.surfer.com/videos/mason-ho-and-sheldon-paishon-scottish-surf-trip
It’s so on. The best of the West Coast – from local legends, next-gen groms, and former Championship Tour surfers – have descended upon Lower Trestles for the U.S. Board Riders National Cha...
Big Wave Babes – the new venture from Delia Bense-Kang and Polly Ralda – is empowering women to excel in heavy surf.
https://www.surfer.com/features/big-wave-babes-empowering-future-female-chargers
“We’ve always tried to provide a platform for the young guns, the teenagers who are setting the bar and pushing that next generation,” Big Wave Challenge founder Bill Sharp said. Believe it...
Beers, bratwurst, and…barrels? The Bavarian capital of Munich, Germany is home to many things – from ancient castles, to sprawling museums, to the annual Oktoberfest celebration – and soon,...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/first-look-endless-surf-germany-wave-pool
Nic von Rupp has a little black book brimming with secret spots. Portugal's coastline spans nearly 1,000 kilometers, and von Rupp is familiar with nearly every nook and cranny. It's why, swell af...
U.S. Board Riders…assemble. The teams are finalized for the USBRC National Championships presented by A New Earth Project. Former Championship Tour stars, iconic legends, and the next generatio...
https://www.surfer.com/news/preview-usbrc-national-championships-contenders
“Tireless bottle-blond jack-of-all-trades from Newport Beach, California,” was Matt Warshaw’s highly accurate opener for the Encyclopedia of Surfing’s bio on Bill Sharp. Sharp was a forme...
https://www.surfer.com/big-wave/bill-sharp-taking-back-reins-big-wave-surfing-bwc
It’s funny how things can work out in ways you don’t expect. North Narrabeen local Jordy Lawler failed to qualify for the 2024 Challenger Series after missing the cut from the Qualifying Seri...
Last year, news broke that surf filmmaker and Momentum Generation alum Greg Browning was diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), aka Lou Gehrig’s disease. Accordingly, the surf worl...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/cannabis-company-supports-surf-filmmaker-greg-browning-als
Despite having the best track record at the ISA World Junior Surfing Championships, Australia had not won a team title in more than a decade. That changed over the weekend. The Aussies had a domi...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/australia-ends-title-drought-at-isa-world-junior-championships-
Hawaiian style queen Honolua Blomfield has won just about every longboarding contest there is to win. But she's far from finished. She took out the International Surfing Association's Longboard W...
https://www.surfer.com/features/honolua-blomfield-wins-hawaii-isa-longboard-world-championships
Not even Erik Knutson, John Florence’s filmer for a decade-plus, is immune from praising top-shelf surfing in real-time. In the raw clips documenting a single session with brothers John and Nat...
At age 7, not long after recent Gold Coast Pro winner Mikey McDonagh had moved from the Northern Sydney beaches to Lennox Head, his surfboard shaper dad took him to watch the Quiksilver Pro at Sn...
https://www.surfer.com/features/who-is-recent-gold-coast-winner-mikey-mcdonagh
Now Now Media’s ShootOut events offer cash for pits and standout performances at premier venues.
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/want-to-win-cash-for-the-wave-of-the-day-
The legacy lives on and the U.S. Board Riders adds another notch to its historic rise with the 2024 National Championships presented by New Earth Project locked in for a battle royale at Lower Tr...
https://www.surfer.com/news/u-s-board-riders-national-championships-brings-clubs-back-to-lowers
More than 100 people have died and hundreds of thousands have been displaced in the south Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul as the region grapples with historic flooding. The official count i...
There once was a time – long before the days of TikTok influencers and the infinite scroll – that surfers around the world would consume surf imagery only in the form a hold-in-your-hand maga...
https://www.surfer.com/features/tanner-gudauskas-12-favorite-surfer-covers
Testing out the new performance supplement from Nathan Florence's filmer, Zoard Janko.
https://www.surfer.com/blogs/train-like-a-pro-surfer-try-zoard-super-gummies
In the days following the disappearance, and subsequent deaths, of three traveling surfers in Baja, Mexico, authorities have been on the hunt for answers. The bodies of Jack Carter Rhoad (30), an...
Surf coach Matt Myers has built himself quite the stable over the past few years. The Santa Cruzian (who also is no slouch on rail) has guided numerous surfers through Challenger Series event win...
https://www.surfer.com/videos/whats-it-like-to-coach-four-cali-stallions-on-the-goldie
Free-surfer (and part-time artist) releases a collection of repurposed surfboards turned pop art home goods.
https://www.surfer.com/features/dion-agius-noid-art-collection
In 1966, footage of Mike Hynson walking atop his longboard debuted in theaters across the world. Alongside Robert August and filmmaker Bruce Brown, Hynson’s globe-trotting in The Endless Summer...
That’s a wrap. The 2023/2024 West Coast Board Riders season is finished following the Sun Bum at Ponto event and the USBRC National Championships presented by New Earth Project field is officia...
https://www.surfer.com/news/encinitas-board-riders-usbrc-nationals-field-locked
The WSL has not run a heat at The Box in Western Australia since 2019. At that time, Griffin Colapinto was still a wet-behind-the-ears Championship Tour surfer in his second year on the circuit. ...
https://www.surfer.com/videos/colapinto-brothers-unwrap-oversized-gifts-at-the-box-watch-
A month ago, while everyone in the United States was staring up at the sky during the hotly anticipated "total eclipse of the sun", Dylan Graves was surfing underneath it. Only Graves would fly...
https://www.surfer.com/news/watch-dylan-graves-recent-solar-eclipse
The biggest waves, the biggest names. The SURFER Big Wave Challenge, a celebration of surfing’s greatest chargers, is coming to SURFER.
https://www.surfer.com/big-wave/surfer-big-wave-challenge-2024
Chasing the biggest, heaviest waves during an unrelenting big-wave season, Dupont and Florence exemplify commitment and the dedication to the big-wave pursuit.
https://www.surfer.com/big-wave/big-wave-challenge-dupont-florence-surfer-of-the-year
Riding giants under their own power, Laura Enever goes huge at an Oahu outer reef, while Chacha Ibarra takes things at Punta Lobos in Chile to a new level.
https://www.surfer.com/big-wave/2023-big-wave-challenge-enever-ibarra-paddle-biggest-wave
This year's honors for the dubious Wipeout of the Year award go to Danny Griffiths for surviving this heart-stopping pounding at the infamous Shipstern Bluff in Tasmania.
https://www.surfer.com/big-wave/2023-big-wave-challenge-griffiths-shipsterns-wipeout
Justine Dupont takes the win for her Cortes giant, while Nathan Florence and Shaun Walsh call it a draw at Jaws.
https://www.surfer.com/big-wave/2023-big-wave-challenge-dupont-von-rupp-biggest-wave-award
From Cortes Bank 100 miles off the California coast to Ireland's Mullaghmore Head, Dupont and Florence went to the ends of the Earth to bag the baddest waves of 2023.
https://www.surfer.com/big-wave/big-wave-challenge-dupont-florence-ride-of-the-year
Rising star Ned Hart made his presence known during a winter full of hard charging, breaking into the big-wave world in a big way.
https://www.surfer.com/big-wave/2023-big-wave-challenge-ned-hart-young-gun
“Today it was them, yesterday it was others, tomorrow we don’t want it to be us.”
Bianca Valenti and Alo Slebir took home coveted titles from the 2023-24 Mavericks Awards, which held its closing ceremony in Half Moon Bay on May 4.
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/bianca-valenti-alo-slebir-mavericks-awards
The spring of 2020 saw one of Southern California’s most prolific red tides on record, and while the bioluminescence left beaches from Santa Barbara down through Baja California with ravishing ...
The Bonsoy Gold Coast Pro. It was the event the World Surf League needed so badly, only it happened on the wrong tour. That wasn’t a bad thing though, with the Gold Coast Challenger Series even...
https://www.surfer.com/features/bonsoy-gold-coast-pro-snapper-surf-contest-wsl-needed-badly
Jessi Miley-Dyer has a new gig with the World Surf League. The former professional surfer and, more recently, WSL Chief of Sport, has assumed the role as Commissioner for competitive surfing’s ...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/jessi-miley-dyer-tapped-for-wsl-commissioner
The waves were a fun four foot, but nice and powerful as Indonesia gets. Lakey Peak, Sumbawa, was crowded but good enough to keep us out there, hoping for a set wave. It was a really inconsistent...
https://www.surfer.com/features/cory-lopez-current-state-of-surfing
Following the disappearance of three traveling surfers in Baja, Mexico, three bodies have been discovered in the area where they were reported missing. Australian brothers Callum and Jake Robinso...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/bodies-found-search-for-missing-surfers-baja-mexico
The OG Dumpster Diver was designed for Dane Reynolds in the lead up to the 2009 CT stop at Lowers. The forecast for waves that year was bleak. And rumor was, the judges wouldn't give out big scor...
https://www.surfer.com/blogs/dumpster-diver-2-surfboard-review
When you consistently push your limits in the ocean, the ocean is bound to push back. South Africa's Matt Bromley – one of the hardest charging surfers in the world –learned that the hard ...
https://www.surfer.com/news/what-it-feels-like-getting-pinned-to-the-bottom-at-mavericks
The West Coast Board Riders 2023/2024 season’s end looms with the Sun Bum at Ponto South region finale beginning Saturday, May 4. It’s all or nothing for Encinitas, Oceanside, Carlsbad, and L...
https://www.surfer.com/:section/west-coast-board-riders-teams-clash-ponto-season-finale
A trio of traveling surfers has gone missing in Mexico. Brothers Jake and Callum Robinson – who hail from Perth – and an American friend, Jack Carter Rhoad, were last seen at K-38, a popular ...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/three-surfers-missing-mexico-search-underway
A few weeks back, during this season’s Western Australia Margaret River Pro, finals day unfolded with explosive surfing (JJF’s 10!) at moderately-sized Main Break. Dreams were crushed due to ...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/watch-sophie-mcculloch-back-breaking-wipeout-the-box
Outside of his professional surfing career, which may be approaching its sunset era with a suspected, as-of-yet-official retirement, Kelly Slater is a business man. The 11x world champ has his ha...
https://www.surfer.com/news/kelly-slater-merges-brands-big-business-move