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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Say aloha to Kuli, the one-eyed surfing cat from Honolulu, Hawaii
Cats that enjoy the water are rare. Rarer still are cats that surf. Rarest of all, is a one-eyed surfing cat. In all likelihood […]
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. […]
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 […]
Queens of Instagram: Alana Blanchard, Bethany Hamilton, Anastasia Ashley top surfer girls
Model Alana Blanchard is tops among surfer girls on Instagram in terms of followers, which may explain her many sponsorship deals including Rip Curl, […]
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 […]
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, […]
Skater kids Sky and Ocean impress with skateboard ramp skills on ‘Little Big Shots’
Almost a year after appearing on the Steve Harvey show, eight-year-old Sky Brown and her four-year-old brother Ocean were invited to show off their […]
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 […]
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 […]