An ocean wave is a miracle. It’s an inimitable, magical, and singular creation that, despite short-lived, changes all living beings. Waves are like humans. Each one of them was, is, and will be a unique, exclusive, and unrepeatable entity.
Save The Waves announced that Playa Hermosa has officially been approved as the next World Surfing Reserve (WSR). Locate in Garabito, Costa Rica, this is the first WSR in Central America and promises an exciting conservation vision for the country’s surf breaks. The announcement will generate environmental, social, and economic benefits for the local Costa […]
Meet Weret, the analog surf smartwatch inspired by the Swedish automotive design and powered by Swiss watchmaking expertise. Surf watches are getting increasingly smarter and technical and have become a fundamental piece of gear in any surfer’s life. Weret opens a new chapter in the surf watch segment and brings something new, distinctive, elegant, and […]
The Momentum Generation is the name given to a tight-knit group of professional surfers that marked an era in the sport. In the early 1990s, a new school crew of surf stars started hanging out together in a small house on the North Shore of Oahu, in Hawaii. The core members of this tribe were […]
Adriano de Souza will retire from professional surfing at the end of 2021. The 2015 World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT) champion has decided to compete for just one more season at the elite surfing level and say goodbye to the friends he has made. De Souza was born in Guarujá, Brazil, and started surfing […]
Basque pro surfer Aritz Aranburu is a big believer in the therapeutic effects of surfing. He has been riding waves since he was four years old and that has kept him fit and healthy all his life. Back in 2012, he partnered with Almudena Fernandez and some close friends to create “Kind Surf,” a non-profit organization […]
Longboard surfing is a beautiful sport that allows riders to adopt their favorite style. Riding a 9-foot board means performing basic surfing maneuvers – such as the cutback and bottom turn – with a completely different technique from the one commonly used with a shortboard. For example, a longboarder must adapt the take-off to the […]
Tyler Wright and Ethan Ewing have taken epic victories at the Tweed Coast Pro, event one of the Australian Grand Slam of Surfing. Both Wright and Ewing looked destined for victory, each dominating the final day in fun two-to-three foot waves at the beautiful Cabarita Headland in what has been professional surfing’s return to the […]
How do the World Surf League (WSL) judges analyze and measure the largest waves ridden each year? The professional surfing circuit developed a new formula for wave height measurement. In order to determine – or estimate – and formalize wave height measurement standards, WSL teamed up with researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University […]
The World Surf League (WSL) announced that Maya Gabeira won the 2020 XXL Biggest Wave Award and set a new world record for the largest wave ever surfed by a woman. As part of the Red Bull Big Wave Awards (BWA), the judging panel validated Gabeira’s ride as the new Guinness World Record title holder for the largest […]