It all started as a joke; an April Fool’s Day prank claiming a crew of Average Joe surfers had been invited to North Korea. The purpose? To explore the Hermit Kingdom’s coastline and sample a ...

And speaking of those menacing slabs – like the one they call “Avalanche,” which reared its ugly head onto our screens recently – here’s a dispatch from another one, just outside Rio de Janeiro.

If a high-performance shortboard is a sleek Lamborghini, purring through turns in the Italian countryside, then a groveler is a shabby, old — yet reliable — Toyota Tacoma. It’s true, grovelers aren’t ...

Koa Smith refers to this fresh cut of the January 2020 swell at Silverbacks as the “raw footage.” But this isn’t actually raw, because it’s set to music and most of the rides are in slow-motion. But ...

Good chance, if you live in Hawaii or on the West Coast, you’ve just about run out of excuses for missing any kind of work or familial obligations by now. Can’t really hide a head tan on a Zoom call ...

These days, the virtual world is nearly as tangible as the good ol’ fashioned terra firma. There it is, constantly in our pockets, awaiting our scrolls and likes and hashtags. But Oahu’s own Mark ...

It’s early days in this whole coronavirus lockdown, and nobody knows just how long the shelter-in-place and social-distancing will last, but for the time being, most folks are living like an ...

The greatest surf story never told? That was my opinion when, conferring with executive producer Stacy Peralta about a potential documentary chronicling the life and times of Eddie Aikau, I asserted ...

Sure, there’s a couple options these days in the big wave world for vests with pull tabs and bladders and CO2 gases poppin’ off…but how realistic is a pull-tab in large, albeit shallower, slabby surf?

Just a mere couple of hours after Wiggolly Dantas clinched the win of the 2020 Volcom Pipe Pro, North Shore heavies, QS sluggers and starry-eyed groupies filed into Surfer [The Bar] at the Turtle Bay ...

Right now, many beaches around the world are closed to surfing due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In an effort to stay sane, and connect surfers with the thing they care most about, we’re ...

Welcome to Episode Ten of Season Two of Late Drop – The Big Wave podcast. The series was created to showcase conversations with some of the best big-wave surfers in the world — hosted by one of the ...