“You can tell when it’s a big one when the lines march in from the outer ledge,” Benjamin “Sancho” Sanchis told SURFER after his heroic, albeit cataclysmic, ride at Jaws on December 22, 2024. Fate ...

At an awards ceremony Saturday night, 24-year-old Santa Cruz surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir will finally find out if he set a new world record while riding the towering wave at Mavericks last winter — ...

The invitations have been sent and the list of (potential) competitors for the 2025-2026 Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational has been announced. The list of 32 invited surfers and 28 alternates were ...

Take, for example, the Aliso Creek river wave in Laguna Beach, CA. This one is riddled with controversy; there’s an ongoing battle between local surfers, who advocate for breaki ...

Most days, 44-year-old Brazilian Michaela Fregonese juggles the same responsibilities as any parent: running her small travel agency, shuttling her son to and from soccer practice, and squeezing in a ...