Lots of surfers love golf. Why? Extremely unclear, since on the surface, the two pastimes couldn’t appear more different. However, look at any pro surfer on the Championship Tour during a lay day of ...

Adrian “Ace” Buchan and Glenn “Micro” Hall – two of the greatest competitive surfing minds, turned surf coaches, to come out of Australia ever – recently found themselves in a seemingly suspect ...

Anyway, recently, on Sterling Spencer ’s podcast, Bert made an appearance and delivered a heart-felt sentiment – a life ...

Gazing into the crystal ball of surfing’s future, things are looking bright…and chlorinated. With the mass proliferation of surf parks – a manmade utopia, arms race, synthetic revolution, ...

(CNN) — Abu Dhabi has many of the things that surfers hunt for in their quest for perfect waves: warm weather, year-round sun and clear water. The only thing it did not have was waves. That changed in ...

In 2009, Red Bull was looking to pull together a quick strike mission to Mexico with some of its favorite star surfers. The invite list included the mercurial brotherly duo of Bruce and Andy Irons, ...

Ever since Greg Noll’s fabled ride at Makaha during the historic swell of 1969, measuring big waves has been a tricky business – controversial, in fact. And so, when Alessandro “Alo” Slebir rode a ...

Surfing the world's biggest waves takes a certain kind of commitment. Whether it's paddling undeterred into an over-sized XL bomb, or letting go of the rope on an 80-to-90 foot monster, there's a ...

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 behemoth. “From ...

Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future.

Surf’s up — in the desert? Inside southern Utah’s $25M human-made paradise. If the Beach Boys had traded palm trees for sagebrush, they could have ditched “Kokomo” for a song about Southern Shores — a ...