Gabriel Medina may be competing for gold, but he's already won coolest photo at the 2024 Olympics. The Brazilian surfer earned a huge 9.90 score during the 5th heat of men's surfing on Monday in ...

Surfing is inherently tied to travel. What began as wave riding centuries ago in Polynesia has evolved into an international obsession that now compels surfers to chase waves all over the world. And ...

When Mick Fanning was coming through the competitive surfing ranks as a teenager, the training regime was pretty simple. "Fitness wasn't even part of it growing up, it was just, 'Let's go surf,'" the ...

This week, 40 surfers, including four Americans, are hitting Tsurigasaki Beach in Japan for surfing’s Olympic debut. (That is, if the weather allows.) Two Brazilians, Gabriel Medina and Italo Ferreira ...

Jock Sutherland’s childhood home, on Oahu’s North Shore, was a picturesque ruin when he brought me there. It was built after the attack on Pearl Harbor: a wooden barracks at the water’s edge, part of ...

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Say the word “ surfer” and we tend to think of a muscle-bound hunk with sun-bleached, blonde hair and Schwarzenegger-style pecs. Bill Finnegan defies the stereotype. A bookish kid who went on to ...

Surfers like to rhapsodize about being one with the ocean---but between every surfer and the wave he's catching, you'll find a crucial piece of equipment: the surfboard. The history of surfing is, in ...

One day 40 years ago, actor and stuntwoman Sharon Schaffer returned to her SUV after riding the waves at Silver Strand Beach in Oxnard, California, to find a racial epithet written in dirt on its ...