What’s the big deal with the barrel? Mick knows. Photo: Brandon Compagne Lately I’ve been thinking, why do we make such a big deal about the barrel? It’s not like it’s everybody’s favorite thing about ...

Tony “Harro” Harrington has been filming and photographing big waves and big mountains for most of his life. On Monday at Belly Up, the famed Australian adventurer will screen his latest surf film, ...

After weather suspended competition for two days, the surfers were finally back out in the reef of Teahupo'o looking to rekindle some of the magic from Round 3 of the men's event. Before the ...

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That’s Taj Burrow, who just won the Four Seasons Maldives Surfing Champions Trophy for the third time. These beautiful Indian Ocean atolls are well known for perfect, silky reef surf, but have rarely ...

TEAHUPO’O, Tahiti — With the ceremonial blow of a conch shell and blare of a judge's horn, the third day of the Paris Olympics surfing competition in Tahiti began on Monday with the men's surfers ...

John Peck, the pioneering Pipeline surfer who is widely revered as the first regularfooter to ride inside the tube at the infamous wave, has died. He was 81. Following news of his passing, surfers far ...

There are certain surfing spots around the globe that every avid surfer has on their list. Whether drawn by the barrelling Hossegor tubes in France, the Atlantic swells that pound Cornwall or the ...