Big waves are making waves on the big stage. The HBO hit series “100 Foot Wave” earned two Creative Arts Emmy awards this week – nabbing the nod for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series award ...

Will Watson SB Boardriders club The 22nd Annual Hermosa Surfer Walk of Fame inductions take place this Saturday, April 25, starting at 11 a.m. on Pier ...

Local Santa Cruz surfer Wilem Banks is heading to the 2025 Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational at Waimea Bay on the North Shore of Oahu. The invitational is an extremely prestigious big wave surfing ...

Welcome to the first installment of Late Drop – The Big Wave Podcast. The series was created to showcase conversations with some of the best big-wave surfers in the world — hosted by one of the best ...

Cody Purcell is more like you and me than his fellow finalists in the Thriller at Killers, a big-wave invitational held at Todos Santos last weekend. He just wants to spend as much time in the water ...

An inside look at Ireland’s rise to the top of the big wave surfing world, and particularly, the nearly unfathomably massive waves of Mullaghmore.

25 years since the XL Big Wave Awards were first held in LA, the revamped Big Wave Challenge BWC held its annual awards night at the Newport Lido Theatre last week. While the much-bandied term ...

The waves were pumping — big, bombing and beautiful. For the “Thriller at Killers” surf contest off the islands of Todos Santos near Ensenada, the forecast was a fun event for the world’s best ...

Big wave surfing – the phrase comes with a heavy reputation of intense training regimes, sheer dedication and just plain guts. And then there’s the actual situation, being in the presence of ...

The Inertia, multimedia site about surfing, kicks off a new documentary series with an in-depth exploration of big wave surfing. Sine Qua Non is a portrait of champion Greg Long, who has spent years ...