Last month, a crisp Saturday morning welcomed Space Coast Board Riders, Treasure Coast Board Riders, New Smyrna Beach Board Riders, and St. Augustine Board Riders Clubs to the home field of Jacks...
https://www.surfer.com/news/waves-jacksonville-beach-pier-for-u-s-board-riders-florida-cup
"The Right" is a psycho slab that breaks way out in the middle of nowhere in Western Australia. It's awe-inspiring in its beauty, but it's also terrifying. It's basically a rock shelf surrounde...
In an announcement from the WSL, today, Kelly Slater will be resurrected from his Championship Tour grave, receiving a wildcard entry into the 2024 SHISEIDO Tahiti Pro and Corona Fiji Pro – bot...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/kelly-slater-wildcard-2024-tahiti-fiji-wsl-events
If you break your back falling in the maw of Jaws, as Nathan Florence did in January of 2023, milk alone will not save you. The workout regiment he’s stuck to over the years was the reason he w...
https://www.surfer.com/videos/nathan-florences-heroic-workout-honors-fallen-veteran
On July 17th, 2000, Shannon Ainslie was attacked by two great white sharks while surfing Nahoon Reef in East London, South Africa. Miraculously, he lived to tell the tale. And years later, he did...
In December of 2018, Mikey February surfed his last event as a full-time surfer on WSL’s Championship Tour. Fellow South African Jordy Smith showed him the door and an equal 13th at the Billabo...
https://www.surfer.com/videos/mikey-february-harnomizes-with-barra-de-la-cruz
The problem – or, rather, concern – with childhood stardom is that kids often burn too bright, too young. Musicians, actors, athletes, and yes, even surfing's seen its child proteges flare ou...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/kelly-slater-on-childhood-amid-pro-surfing-retirement-rumors
Nate Florence keeps it real. No fancy editing or overproduced edits, just a realistic look at what it's like to chase the world's heaviest slabs, day after day, swell after swell. In his latest c...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/watch-nate-florences-slab-tour-continues-at-shipsterns-bluff
Geoff McCoy, one of surfboard shaping’s most creative minds from the early shortboard era, has died at home in Byron Bay, Australia. He was 79 years old. As news of the legendary board-builder�...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/rip-legendary-surfboard-shaper-geoff-mccoy-passes-away
Lombok's Desert Point is objectively one of the best waves in the world. Especially if you're a goofyfoot. Where else can you hammer a half dozen turns before locking into a 30-second tube? It...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/watch-barbados-tube-hound-score-best-waves-indonesia
Over the past decade and change, the realm of big wave surfing has seen a gravitational shift towards Europe and, particularly, Nazaré, Portugal. It’s now ground zero for the world’s largest...
https://www.surfer.com/videos/big-wave-women-surfing-nazar%C3%A9-portugal-video
Whether it’s in big waves or small, straps or no straps, hydrofoils or SUPs, Maui waterman Kai Lenny is all about pushing the boundaries in surfing. Over the course of his career, he’s had mo...
https://www.surfer.com/videos/first-ever-tandem-tube-surfed-jaws-ridge-kai-lenny
An exclusive interview with the hard-charging waterwoman
https://www.surfer.com/features/justine-dupont-talks-motherhood-big-waves
As has been the case so many times in the past, the Margaret River Pro will be remembered for a Hawaiian power surfing masterclass, led by event winner, Gabriela Bryan from Kauai, and men’s run...
https://www.surfer.com/news/jack-robinson-gabriela-bryan-win-2024-margaret-river-pro-hawaiians-rally
Finally, there were waves. Capping off finals day at the Western Australia Margaret River Pro – stop #5 on the World Surf League’s Championship Tour – a moderate (nothing too crazy) swell g...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/perfect-10-dolphins-finals-day-margaret-river-pro-2024
Four years after the URBNSURF wave pool opened in Melbourne, the company is heading north into New South Wales to launch the second Wavegarden park in Australia. The pool, reportedly a $75 millio...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/sydney-is-getting-australias-second-wavegarden-pool-
The "Fun Boys Second Summer Of Love" is a 16-minute short featuring Dave Rastovich, Creed McTaggart, and Wade Goodall surfing up and down the east coast of Oz during the 2020/2021 Covid lockdowns...
You can feel it in the air. The seasons are changing in southern California – the weather is warming up, birds are chirping, wildflowers are blooming, and the seasonal shift from northern to so...
https://www.surfer.com/videos/opening-day-surf-shenanigans-the-wedge
San Clemente has long been a hub for strong surfing and bold attitude. Think of the brash marketing of …Lost and Matt Biolos. Christian Fletcher showing that to air is divine at Lower Trestles....
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/kolohe-andino-declares-surf-culture-dead-launches-2-union
Pipeline is the most (in)famous surf spot on earth. Hands down. No question. And that’s for a couple reasons: 1) it produces some of the most dramatic waves, particularly tubes, possible in nat...
https://www.surfer.com/videos/wipeout-traps-surfer-underwater-cave-pipeline-video
“I’m in my 50s now. So, I can’t be trying to shred all the time.” Finally, it seems, Kelly Slater’s age is catching up with him. He’s 52, he just fell off the Championship Tour likely...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/kelly-slaters-new-surfboard-midlength-boss-up
Only four heats ran at Margaret River yesterday. The most important matchup was Miguel Pupo versus Sammy Pupo. Winner keeps their spot on tour, loser gets relegated to the Challenger Series. W...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/samuel-pupo-eliminates-brother-miguel-from-championship-tour
It’s a tricky business, measuring wave heights. There’s the Hawaiian scale, which takes from the back of the wave, not the face; there’s the issue of the wave’s trough, or the bottom, and...
Anyone can take a pretty picture in Hawaii. Just point your camera at the sea, the palms, the impossibly green mountains, the bright orange lava and click away. But it takes a special eye to take...
https://www.surfer.com/features/new-photo-book-peeks-under-the-aloha-curtain
A novelty wave, for some surfers, is like a mythical creature. They hunt for them, just like those eccentric cryptid enthusiasts on late-night National Geographic shows, searching for bigfoot, al...
https://www.surfer.com/videos/weirdest-waves-ever-surfed-ben-gravy-video
For the second year in a row the WSL is getting unlucky with swell for its event windows. Pumping waves just before and after the comps have been commonplace, and at Margaret River, it's the sa...
Come late July, and into early August, surfing will return to the Olympic stage. After its debut appearance at Tokyo 2020, the sport got a sequel: Paris 2024. But being that surfing is a relative...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/olympic-surfing-new-correspondent-video
Kelly Slater, surfing’s proverbial GOAT, has had a long, storied career – spanning decades, different eras of the sport, the good, the bad, and everything in between. After 30-something years...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/10-memorable-moments-kelly-slater-surfing-career
Despite the modern explosion of soft top surfboards, just look at any lineup worldwide and you’re bound to see more than a few foam crafts floating around – the squishy, beginner-friendly boa...
https://www.surfer.com/features/isle-surfboards-soft-top-gear-review
The sand on the North Shore is always moving around. A big west swell can lift thousands of tons of sand off the beach at Pipe and deposit it next door in the ocean at Ehukai overnight, and so t...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/watch-mason-ho-ride-a-30-second-wave-on-oahus-north-shore
Big waves, in surfing, are the pinnacle of the sport. But big waves outside of surfing are something else entirely. There are waves on record – some not even at typical ocean surf spots – tha...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/largest-wave-ever-recorded-mega-tsunami-lituya-bay
Step inside for a curated collection of recent photographs captured by master coldwater lensman Marcus Paladino
https://www.surfer.com/features/mesmerizing-photos-empty-waves-mindsurf-material
After the arrival of the first El Niño season in eight years, the Pacific Ocean is starting to shift back into its neutral phase and will likely head into a La Niña this summer, according to sc...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/noaa-la-ni%C3%B1a-is-likely-coming-back-
What started as a South African surf trip turned into a journey of self-discovery. Watch Koa Smith go off the beaten path in "The Source."
https://www.surfer.com/videos/koa-smiths-south-african-barrel-and-foraging-bender
Portugal is place of polar opposites. On one hand, it’s a tiny country. (California is about four and a half times bigger, for reference.) On the other, it’s home to the world’s biggest wav...
https://www.surfer.com/videos/nic-von-rupp-surfs-secret-scary-slab-portugal-video
Immediately following his elimination from the Margaret River Pro, Slater's post heat interview was understandably raw. You could see him processing his emotions in real time. A few hours late...
Yesterday at Margaret River was a sad affair. With multiple surfers competing for their 'CT lives, when the ax started to fall, things got really somber, and quick. It all started with Deivid ...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/mid-season-cut-margaret-river-pro-takes-7
Shipstern Bluff is one of the world’s most terrifying waves. When it’s on, the Tasmanian surf spot – if you can even call it that – is a mutant, hulking, freak of nature wall of water wit...
https://www.surfer.com/videos/pro-surfer-nathan-florence-pinned-on-bottom-shipstern-bluff-video
Many years ago, a surfer went viral. It was long before Instagram or TikTok ever existed, and yet, countless people saw this video of a Huntington Beach surfer on local news hilariously talking a...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/viral-surfer-dude-hospitalized-freak-accident
Kelly Slater has fallen off Tour. Surfing’s 11x world champion, the greatest of all time, the most winning competitor in history…failed to make the World Surf League’s Mid-Season Cut. And o...
It wasn't supposed to end like this. The 11-time world champion. A guy with 56 event wins over four decades. The oldest and youngest world champion. No way the GOAT's long and illustrious 'CT ca...
From Shipsterns Bluff to Cape Fear in just a few days, Tim Bonython's lens is everywhere. Like Nate Florence, he lives on the Slab Tour, except rather than surfing, he's the one documenting al...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/watch-sydneys-cape-fear-live-up-to-its-name
Talk about being in the wrong place at the worst possible time. Laura Enever, after riding a few warmup waves during a recent swell at XL Shipsterns Bluff, whipped in on a monster. She let go o...
After his performance at Lowers last year, Ethan Ewing's an odds on favorite to win at every wave on tour. While he's been incredibly consistent so far this year, he hasn't won an event yet. Hi...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/ethan-ewing-shines-on-opening-day-at-margaret-river
The word “timeless” gets thrown around more than a bar of sandy wax when describing the style of Stephanie Gilmore. But time is a relevant factor in the recent collaboration between the eight...
https://www.surfer.com/videos/stephanie-gilmore-rips-a-custom-single-fin-asym-from-bob-mctavish-
It’s a compelling scene, Shipstern Bluff. One of the world’s most dynamic and difficult waves perched on a corner of Tasmania under the shadow of a towering geological feature, Shippies is bu...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/when-shipstern-bluff-lights-up-the-footage-never-disappoints
If you think the best waves in the world have all been discovered, think again. The first season of "Maps to Nowhere" saw the Surfline X O'Neill crew score on four different strike trips to fou...
Waves are, once again, breaking in the southern California desert. The Palm Springs Surf Club – aka the current belle of the wave pool ball – has returned. And to kick things off, they’re t...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/palm-springs-surf-club-reopens
Not to lure you away from watching the opening day of the Margaret River Pro, but things got off to a fairly average start yesterday during the women's first round of competition for stop No. 5 ...
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/opening-day-margaret-river-pro-2024
Former video game exec Ryan Crosby named World Surf League boss.
https://www.surfer.com/trending-news/new-possibly-goofyfoot-wsl-ceo