The Australian seaside village of Lennox Head will not hold a Championship Tour (CT) event at Lennox Head, New South Wales. The Ballina Shire Council rejected a World Surf League (WSL) competition at the iconic point break. WSL wanted to add an extra venue to this year’s Australian CT leg, but the authorities voted against […]
Paddling is a fundamental technique in surfing that provides forward motion. If you don’t know how to paddle, you’ll never reach the lineup or ride a wave. It allows us to get to the peak, move around to find a better position, triangulate, and catch waves. Make no mistake – the better you paddle your […]
I’ve been reading Surfer Magazine for three decades and subscribing to it for a long time. But in the end, the owners failed to honor their commitments with subscribers. In 2020, I lost my favorite publications – Q and Surfer Magazine. I subscribed to both titles for years. Q was probably the world’s greatest music […]
John John Florence and Carissa Moore have taken out the first-ever Digital Triple Crown of Surfing. For the first time in its history, the prestigious three-event series crowned its champions in a digital free surf competition. Between December 21, 2020, and January 15, 2021, male and female surfers submitted their filmed waves ridden at the […]
Two-time world surfing champion Gabriel Medina has been added to FIFA 21, the world’s best-selling football simulation video game. The Brazilian surfer is one of the stars – named the Groundbreakers – featured in the game’s new Volta mode. Medina will appear in the game series that has already sold around 300 million copies worldwide […]
The North Shore of Oahu is an open window to the powerful swells that often march across the Pacific Ocean. But this time, it was special. On January 16, 2021, the Hawaiian islands greeted some of the biggest waves in years, with giant walls of water popping up on the horizon without previous warning. The […]
Justine Dupont has ridden one of the biggest and deepest barrels of her life at Jaws, in Maui, Hawaii. On January 16, 2021, the French big wave surfer took off on a humungous blue mountain of water and drew the best possible line. What happened next defied some of the best performances ever seen in women’s […]
Iconic Hawaiian surf legend Ben Aipa has passed away at the age of 78. Aipa was an accomplished surfer, an innovative surfboard shaper, and a tenacious coach who influenced several generations of wave riders. As one of the standout figures of 1970s surfing, he introduced the swallowtail and the “stinger” in surfboard design.
Chuck Patterson is probably the world’s most famous wave skier. But he had never surfed Mavericks. Until this day. On January 10, 2020, Patterson was at Half Moon Bay, ready to take one of the finest swells of the century at the infamous Northern California surf break. He had always dreamed of skiing down Mavericks […]
Soul surfing is a philosophical and spiritual concept first developed and introduced in the 1960s to define the sport – or activity – in its purest form. As with many other sports, there is always an innate drive to seek and find the original and unadulterated values, virtues, and essence of something that is simultaneously […]