Surfing was once banned in Hawaii When the ancient Polynesians migrated to the Hawaiian Islands as far back as 400 A.D. , they brought the sport of riding waves.

Kim Ball, a former Lahai ­naluna High School wrestling coach who has a chain of surf stores on Maui, said school surfing was at the club level for 19 years on Maui, including nine after the state ...

Kekoa Cazimero, a 2007 Kaiser graduate who was on a Saint Louis School surf club team in middle school, said it’s crazy to him that surfing isn’t more of a widespread high school sport in Hawaii.

Hawaii has deep-ranging ties to surfing. Referred to many times as the birthplace of modern surfing, these islands are steeped in history and culture associated with wave riding. From ancient ...

It is Hawaii's first and only surf school offering adaptive surf lessons. “We’re really setting the center stage at what’s possible and, at the same time, keeping them safe,” O’Brien said.

Duke Kahanamoku is the oriiginal "Big Kahuna." He won three Olympic gold medals in swimming, plus became Hawaii's "Ambassador of Aloha" and an international surfing icon.

Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and it was Hawaiian legend Duke Kahanamoku - a 5-time Olympic swimming medalist - who popularized the sport beyond the islands. He brought it from Honolulu to ...

A 39-year-old surfer died after a shark encounter in Maui on Saturday, officials in Hawaii said.. The man encountered the shark in Paia Bay around 11:10 a.m. local time, the Maui Fire Department ...

Legendary Hawaii surfer, 61, captures his own final moments before dying in beach parking lot from heart attack. Veteran surf filmmaker and photographer Larry Haynes died randomly last week ...