"I knew I was getting myself into something special," remembers Bruce Irons of his epic 2011 Cloudbreak tube. Wrangled on a 10'1" affectionately dubbed the Pink Pony, "It was just beautiful," Bruce ...

As the planet gets smaller, and we grow more connected via technology and ease of travel, the world’s most coveted, most mythical, most exclusive surf spots are coming more and more into grasp. So it ...

Nathan Hedge is a different man from the lad who went huge on the night of his 23rd birthday. In the middle of the night, the Aussie screw-foot solo kayaked the roughly four miles journey from the ...

The man behind the counter grinned. While purchasing a stash of energy drinks to support my 4:30am, jetlag-induced wakeup routine, he made me promise. “Do me a favor,” he said, “have the best time you ...

Major format and schedule changes will be made to the World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT) for the 2026 season and beyond, including the return of Pipeline – the sport’s most revered ...

It was a reasonably historic day for women's surfing. There were a couple dramatically made, across-the-reef Cloudbreak pits. (Sally nailing the best one in the semis.) A bunch of valiant attempts at ...

There's an old riddle that asks if you'd rather surf every wave perfectly or only surf perfect waves. Here's a perfect example: the world's best are in Brazil for the Billabong Rio Pro. The waves are.

The World Surf League's championship tour is well underway, bringing the best professional surfers to places like Australia, Brazil, southern California, and beyond to paddle and battle it out on some ...

Lower Trestles has been the choice four-years straight as the salt-water stage for the surfing world championships. But that’s going to change next year, with the World Surf League on Monday, June 17, ...