Instead of ending the 2025 World Surf League’s Championship Tour at Pipeline, once again, the season will begin at the world’s most famous, infamous, heaviest, and deadliest wave on earth. Start with ...

Makana Pang summed it up well, so he gets the mic to start: “It’s not about the money and clips, it's all about the Feeling and Love for the Ocean,” he shared. “But to get paid every now and then for ...

Eight Championship Tour surfers, including the reigning world champion, will enter the 2026 Lexus Challenger Series event ...

For centuries, Hawaii has been the spiritual home of surfing. On these volcanic islands, surfing isn't just a sport—it's embedded in the culture. That's likely because some of the greatest waves in ...

“I didn’t think I was gonna make it,” said Jamie O’Brien of this Second Reef roll-in bomb from Black Friday’s swell. (More on this soon.) “But I came around the corner, looked up and I was like, ‘Oh ...

The 1960s would have been an interesting era to be a surfer. The crowds weren’t quite as bad. Surfing wasn’t as mainstream as it is today. It was more feral, looser, and frowned upon as a waste of ...

Think Jamie O’Brien ever gets bored getting barreled at Pipe? He is, after all, one of the most tubed, and still to this day, one of the best, surfers to ever paddle out at the famed reef. And every ...

A sleepless night on the North Shore as the first in a series of XL swells approaches. At dawn, I check an outer reef. A legend joins me, squinting at the horizon. “Good day to have a jet ski,” he ...

Makai McNamara was seriously hurt while surfing in Hawaii, family members said. Photo from Landon McNamara's Facebook post A prominent surfer was pulled from the water by lifeguards and friends after ...