Surfer Nasima Akter makes waves in conservative Bangladeshi beach town Cox’s Bazar
Nasima Akter was kicked out of her parent’s home at seven years old, but still managed to stay on her feet — a skill […]
Brazil’s Rodrigo Koxa sets new world record for largest wave surfed on 80-foot monster
As inexact a science as measuring the height of ocean waves is, a handful of inches can determine whether a record has been broken. […]
Silver Surfer Jesse Wellens has New Yorkers rubbernecking during Halloween prank
Jesse Wellens of the PrankvsPrank channel made a big splash in New York City a couple years ago as he skated/surfed the streets dressed […]
Skater kids Sky and Ocean impress with skateboard ramp skills on ‘Little Big Shots’
Almost a year after appearing on the Steve Harvey show, then eight-year-old Sky Brown and her four-year-old brother Ocean were invited to show off […]
Ian Walsh rides man-eating, sixty-foot waves in thrilling surf documentary
What seems normal to surfer Ian Walsh, is almost unfathomable to us mere mortals. A day at the office for Walsh involves being rocketing […]
Surfers Ross Clarke-Jones and Andrew Cotton ride biggest of big waves at Nazaré, Portugal
In the famous 1966 surf movie The Endless Summer, Mike Hynson and Robert August follow the sun from hemisphere to hemisphere to catch warm-water […]
Chris Bryan captures seriously slo-mo surfing with Mark Matthews, Clay Marzo, John John Florence, et al.
Traditional cinematic movies are still shot at 24 frames per second — a rate that’s been around since the inception of motion pictures. To […]
Close encounters of the paddle-boarding kind with inquisitive orcas (aka killer whales)
Apart from jumping in the ocean, there’s few ways one can have as intimate encounter with marine life as by paddleboard. Fewer yet are […]
Blair Conklin and skimboarder friends pull off insane rides in pumping waves off California’s coast
Skateboards originated as scaled-down surfboards for carving concrete contours when the waves weren’t breaking. With the ongoing evolution of skimboarding the line between wave […]
Made in Ireland: Meet the Emerald Isle’s surfing torchbearers, nutjobs and misfits
When one thinks of surfing, the waves off the coasts of California, Hawaii, Tahiti, Australia, South Africa or even Portugal may come to mind, […]
Close encounters of the paddle-boarding kind starring whales, sharks, dolphins and rays
In our previous paddle-boarding post we documented several spellbinding orca encounters from around the world. This time we feature a mix of marine meet […]
Spin Me Round Like a Record: Kelly Slater adds surfing to sports in the 540 club
In 2014, 11-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater carved another notch in his board when he became the first surfer to throw a 540 […]