Big wave surfing is one of the most extreme and awe-inspiring action sports in the world. These surfers not only push the sport to its outer limits but also carve paths through infamy by pushing the ...

Big waves, bigger performances. Now in its fourth iteration, this winter the Red Bull Magnitude, a specialty big-wave event, got underway with 24 of the top female big-wave surfers on the planet. With ...

In July, South African CT surfer Matt McGillivray performed a skydive at the J-Bay Open in his wetsuit and singlet, landed on the beach, and paddled straight into his heat. Even better, he progressed ...

(CNN) — Poised on a surfboard and dwarfed by a tower of water some 10 times her size, fear is one of the first emotions that big wave surfer Laura Crane feels before she hurtles down a 60-foot ...

Natxo González is the latest big-wave surfer to have dealt with a serious head injury. The brain trauma almost ended his career and took the affable, positive and articulate Basque charger to a very ...

NIC VON RUPP is a big wave surfer, but he doesn't tend to present himself as the type of steely, overly-serious athlete you might expect. His sport—which might be closer to a vocation—demands someone ...

Russell Bierke is a slab connoisseur, charging the type of heavy water you’d file somewhere between the “nightmare” and “only in dreams” chamber of the mind. The Australian burst onto the scene in ...

Outrigger canoes filled with people, plants, and animals traveled across the Pacific to the Hawaiian Islands a very long time ago. But the cultural tradition didn't fade away and remains alive and ...

Dana Point surfer Scott Muir tucked into a deep barrel in the Oceanside surf, his surfboard and body disappearing into the ...