I’m trying to think outside the box on how I want to approach big-wave surfing. Snowboarding has been a great source of inspiration because of how the riders utilize all the different parts of the ...

On December 23 2024, 23-year-old Santa Cruz surfer Alo Slebir rode a wave at Mavericks surf break that has been estimated by some at 108 feet tall, a potential new world record. With the end of 2024 ...

HBO’s 100 Foot Wave, which premiered earlier this month, follows a group of big wave riders as they travel the globe hunting for the planet's biggest swells The docuseries is about "so much more" than ...

Like most every other aspect of surfing at the moment, the state of big-wave riding is hurdling forward. New frontiers are being explored, performance barriers are being shattered, and thanks to ...

Greatest Big Wave Rides of All Time? How could we even make such a claim? Well, Big Wave Challenge mastermind and promoter Bill Sharp has been judging big wave riding for nearly 3-decades now. They ...

The invitations have been sent and the list of (potential) competitors for the 2025-2026 Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational has been announced. The list of 32 invited surfers and 28 alternates were ...

Some of the world’s best big wave surfers are descending the coastal town of Half Moon Bay to ride the huge waves at Mavericks. The athletes took advantage of the massive swells that slammed the ...

Kai Lenny is an explorer. He's an explorer of his own limits. In March, a good opportunity arose to test the limits of big ...

Unless you can remember your first wave or your first hundred wipe outs, unless you can imagine how sick it is that Jeff Clark surfed Mavericks alone for 15 years, unless you can remember the day Mark ...

The nominees have been announced for the 2011 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards fueled by Monster Energy, and it is shaping up to be another spectacular showdown of surfing's greatest rides and ...

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 ...