Today's SURFING news

Big-wave surfer Bianca Valenti has led the fight for gender equity in the highly dangerous sport.

Is professional surfing committed to making the world a better place? Is Surf Ranch really eco-friendly? Ricardo Simmonds explains why WSL should return to ...

Melbourne Beach surfer pulls off rare double wins in Portugal.

Life lessons from the 48-year-old former World Tour hellraiser.

New York surfers Dylan Rhonec, aka The Surfing Samurai, and Justin Testaverde trade waves for a dreamy and emotional day at Kelly Slater's Surf Ranch.

Sunny skies, fun waves for humans and dog alike, and plenty of fond memories highlighted the 55th annual Easter Surf Festival at Lori Wilson Park in Cocoa ...

Seven-time world surfing champion Stephanie Gilmore has opened her Bells Beach title defence with a win in round one.

Surfers will find pleasant waves in Brevard this weekend.

More than 1000 people are likely to attend his memorial paddle-out during the Easter Surf Festival at Lori Wilson Park in Cocoa Beach.

Pacha Light talks gender equality in surfing, female empowerment and how she's paying the inspiration she got from Laura Enever forward.

Surfing became the “first and only US-based global sports league” to require equal pay for its female and male athletes – and state legislators are being inspired ...

Step aside Mr. Slater. Caroline Marks coming through. The fearless 17-year-old Melbourne Beach native who grew up on the small waves in Brevard County ...

Trudeau was spotted surfing in the western Vancouver Island community as his family vacationed there for Easter long weekend.

For the first time in its history, the World Surf League requires that cash prizes be uniform for men and women. But gender inequality isn't completely eradicated ...

Expert instructors on what to expect when you're learning to surf.

Filmmaker Ryan Cannon isn't the surf to soundtrack surf cinema with hip hop, but he's the most dedicated to it, as seen by "Log Rap."

NEW YORK — For the first 14 days of the 2019 season, Gabe Kapler had the same 25 Phillies in his clubhouse every day. Same rotation, same bullpen ...

Hello killer whale friends! It seems as if every other story here on BeachGrit over the past five years has been about a shark attack. Every other other story, ...

From food to football, fashion to pop music, South Korea's creative exports are making their mark.

Paul Glossop is founder of the Sydney-based buyers' agency Pure Property Investment. He answers our Time Out Q&A. How long have you been surfing?

A 10-year-old boy “surfing” on the roof of a car fell off and was run over by his parents, suffering critical injuries, police in California City, California, say. The boy ...

False alarm as surfers paddle for safety during Rip Curl Pro event in Australia.

Whether you're a newbie just learning how to maintain your balance or an experienced surfer looking for epic swells.

Paddle-out for legendary Cocoa Beach surfer expected to be huge; popular dog surfing returns to Lori Wilson Park.

Upon winning two divisions at the recent National Scholastic Surfing Association's East Coast Championships, 9-year-old Ocean City surfer Cruz Dinofa happily ...

If you're new to surfing's best new video game, start here.

The SURFER staff weighs in on the first event of the season.

In 2016, after years of lobbying, the International Olympic Committee announced that surfing had been added as an official event for the Paris Olympics in 2020.

I'll never forget the first time I laid eyes on the small-scale model of American Wave Machines' PerfectSwell system at their San Diego headquarters.

*A few caveats apply. If you've ever had the pleasure of meeting professional surfing's first champion, Pete PT Townend then you know he speaks our language ...

Irish surfers are clearly the hardiest of all wave-riders.

While it's technically a competition, it's more about catching up with old friends.

Qualifying for the inaugural Olympic surfing competition has begun with a World Surf League event which also features equal prize money for male and female ...

Of Brazilian Gabriel Medina's 7.7 million Instagram followers, most began tracking him after his first world surf tour win at age 17, his first world title at 20 or his ...

#The Baja Peninsula is a Rorschach test. Visitors see heaven or hell in an arid landscape. Three million-plus citizens see a homeland free of the congestion of ...

I was actually looking forward to being choked out by six-time Jiu Jitsu world champion, Rafael Mendes. Or perhaps being tapped out with a bone-twisting ...

It was a showdown of surf clubs. Twenty-two clubs from along the California coast, with more than 400 surfers from as far as Santa Cruz, came to San Onofre ...

Stephanie Gilmore carves her baby pink board against the turquoise waves at Mākaha Beach in Hawaii with a measured force. While other surfers fight the ...

Burleigh Heads on Queensland's Gold Coast was the 'centre of the universe' for surfing in the '70s and '80s and veteran photographer and filmmaker Dick ...

A 43-year-old man in the U.K. is on the road to recovery and in the planning stages of a project to teach surfers how to help in an emergency just two months ...

It's been nearly 30 years since the state produced a surfing World Champion, and that's just the longest-running indignity ...

GOLD COAST, Australia -- Eleven-time world champion Kelly Slater is out of the season-opening Quiksilver Pro in the World Surf League. Slater, returning from ...

The shoe brand is venturing way outside-the-box with their new line of surf gear.

A Brazilian female surfing champion died Wednesday after she was struck by lightning while training at a beach in central Brazil, local media reported.

"Log Rap" is a 22-minute film by Ryan Cannon that blends hip hop music and longboarding.

I'm not typically a “joiner” in the traditional sense of the word, but being part of a surf club has always seemed a wonderful dream. Wearing cool sweaters or ...

When looking at surfing as a sport, many people feel as though it requires a lot of skill. However, with the right equipment and a little bit of practice, you can make ...

Shamali Sanjaya, a confident, 30-year-old mother and surfer from the small Sri Lankan town of Arugam Bay, serves as the president of the country's first ...

California masterfully markets its surfing culture and Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday he wants to share that expertise with El Salvador to help the country.

Every single piece of plastic ever made still exists. One garbage truck of plastic is dumped into our ocean every minute. It's estimated that by 2050 almost all ...

A surfer was saved in a dramatic rescue near Jordan River earlier this week. It was in the dark of night and how it all went down, can only be described as an act ...

The VAL apocalypse comes to Santa Cruz! The name Jeff Clark rings some bells, don't it. He was the first person to surf Half-Moon Bay, or Mavericks as it would ...

Big way surfer Keala Kennelly has been fighting for women's equality in the sport of surfing for a long time. As a founding member of the Committee for Equity in ...

Caroline Marks, a 17-year-old surfer living in San Clemente, earned a $100000 paycheck for winning a major surf contest in Australia, beating some of the ...

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Before the act of guessing event winners became a spin of the roulette wheel, picking a Fantasy Surfer team for Bells was (semi) predictable. Those with a.

The surf was up at Kings Beach on Lake Tahoe Tuesday. The Placer County Sheriff's Department captured video footage of a surfer hanging ten on the waves ...

A 10-year-old boy is in critical condition after he fell off his parent's car while "surfing" on the roof.

The Nikon surf photo of the year awards once again searched for the most creative and unique surfing images from Australian photographers.

The day starts with "Hells Bells", ye olde Bells ritual, etc. What is not part of Bells lore is that it is followed immediately by Pantera's "Cowboys From Hell", played ...

This film trailer is pretty much the most Norwegian thing ever.

Surfing star Caroline Marks tops this week's list of Brevard athletes making international, national news.

Surfing documentaries reveal never-before-seen mindsets of Brevard surfing stars Kelly Slater, CJ Hobgood and twin brother Damien Hobgood.

Reckon the bush is better for scoring? Down Under's got heaps of that.

Surfers Koby Oberholzer and Roydon Bryson got crafty and set their sights on a particularly coveted wave deep in the heart of Africa.

New financial documents show that the Space Coast Office of Tourism spent more than $400,000 of tax money on a surf competition at Sebastian Inlet State ...

The Mavericks big wave surf spot was evacuated Sunday after a group of surfers had close encounter with a humongous great white shark estimated to be 16 to ...

This GoPro Award-winning video comes to us from four-time kitesurfing world champion ​Keahi De Aboitiz, who clearly is a pretty good normal-surfer as well.

The Golden Boy is back to his old ways. Santa Cruz's Nat Young won the World Surf League's Caparica Surf Fest Pro, Men's QS 3,000 event in Praia de ...

California masterfully markets its surfing culture and Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday he wants to share that expertise with El Salvador to help boost tourism ...

(Reuters) - Landlocked Mongolia has become the latest country to join the International Surfing Association, taking the world body's total membership to 106 ...

India News: Surfers Ishita Malaviya and Tushar Pathiyan's club in the tiny village of Kodi Bengre is bringing in tourists and opening the world to fishermen and l.

Congratulations are in order for two Hawaii surfers.

The window for the Maverick's surf contest slammed shut Sunday. For the third straight season, no event was held at the big wave surf break. The end of the ...

A father-of-three is lucky to be alive after a vicious shark attack while he was out in the waves of a north coast New South Wales beach.

Back in 2013, after being diagnosed as bipolar, Grant Trebilco did what many surfers do in times of personal struggle--he went surfing. Although surfing is.

The waves were pumping, the sun was shining and the young surfers' performances were on fire at the second-to-the-last stop of the West Coast Toyota USA ...

In the early '80s, American culture as a whole was shifting drastically—guitars were being replaced by synthesizers, hairstyles were becoming more gravity.

Photographer Mike Moir captured a crew of Newport Beach's neon clad youth that was equally talented at surfing as they were at making a fashion statement.

Mt. Bachelor's Gerry Lopez Big Wave Challenge marries surf culture with snow culture.

The surfer walks through the sand, paddles into an ocean twinkling beneath the open sky and waits among the dolphins and sea birds for a wave shaped by the ...

Santa Cruz's John Mel and Sam Coffey, the remaining two Santa Cruz surfer competing at the World Surf League's Caparica Surf Fest Pro, were eliminated from ...

New Jersey Repertory Company (NJ Rep) will present Surfing My DNA by actress/playwright, Jodi Long from Thursday, May 2 through Sunday, May 26, 2019.

According to Agence France-Presse, a suburb of Paris with a population of about 50,000 people, has placed an official bid to host surfing when the 2024 games ...

QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 8: Caroline Marks of USA wins the 2019 Boost Mobile Pro Gold Coast after winning the final at Duranbah Beach on April 8, ...

It appears that the Mavericks Challenge big wave surfing contest at Half Moon Bay will not take place for the 2018-19 season.

The House of Representatives has approved on second reading a bill seeking to declare Camarines Norte as the “Surfing Capital of the Bicol Region.”

Kelly Slater's possible WSL competition swan song at Bells Beach nearly had a bad start before he advanced after his round-one heat.

The rash-shirt violated the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act of 2012.

The Mavericks big wave surf spot was evacuated Sunday after a group of surfers had close encounter with a humongous great white shark estimated to be 16 to ...

San Diego's Jojo Roper has spent the better part of the past 12 months ping-ponging around the world, putting himself in precarious situations, under or near the ...

Mavs surfer and ski driver Drake Stanley should probably get a medal for this.

As spring came to to the Beaches 55 years ago, as the Atlantic got warmer and the sun brighter, you would have noticed this sight: Skinny teen and preteen ...

Santa Barbara High's women's longboard team won the championship for the Coastal High Schools Division at the Scholastic Surf Series High School State ...

A wave of boys ebbs and flows on the black rocks, watching surfers paddle out, pop up and catch the right-hand point break they know so well. Surfers from all ...

WARNING: GRAPHIC *CONTENT*. Steve Bowens, 43, had been using a stand-up paddle board in Portreath, Cornwall, when a 3ft swell wiped him out.

Big-wave charger and BWRAG instructor Brian Keaulana breaks down the most common safety procedures each surfer should be aware of when paddling out.

The perils of renovating should be a breeze for WA's House Rules' team Mikaela and Eliza Greene after touring the world surfing.

The parents of a New Jersey man who died last year after contracting a deadly brain-eating amoeba after surfing at BSR Surf Resort near Waco has filed a ...

Dear WSL Elite,. If I were surfing's equivalent of a social justice warrior I would certainly demand a recount on the dimpled/hanging chad of the Italo/Kolohe final ...