Currently, the Guinness World Record for the “ largest wave surfed (unlimited) by a female” is held by retired Brazilian big ...

Big wave surfing's totally predictable trend of immediately marketing the latest bomb of the day as a "world record" or ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The bay has called the day! The 2024 Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational is officially a go, organizers announced Friday morning. The contest is set to begin at 8 a.m. Sunday ...

Fresh off Season 2 of Red Bull's "Life of Kai," extreme surfer Kai Lenny continues his quest for the perfect waves and life-balance. Get exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the imagination, ...

Kai Lenny is an explorer. He's an explorer of his own limits. In March, a good opportunity arose to test the limits of big ...

Like many extreme sports, big wave surfing is male-dominated. Portuguese surfer Joana Andrade is one of a handful of women trying to change that, and the documentary "Big vs. Small" follows her in her ...

Kade Krichko is a contributing writer for Outside, a journalist, college professor, and the founder and editor of the print travel magazine Ori. Surfing Nazaré, in Portugal, a wave that can reach up ...

A few weeks ago we had a big northwest groundswell come in on the North Shore (of Oahu) and the buoys were showing 17-foot with an 18 second interval. I paddled out to Log Cabins alone in the morning ...

SANTA CRUZ – Every time a massive swell is forecast, Santa Cruz’s hard-charging, big wave surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir can hardly contain himself. Several times each winter, Slebir drives an hour up ...

Laird Hamilton has never been one to cloak himself in subtlety or nuance. He’s big and brash, with an ego as mammoth as the waves that have carried him to fame. Whether by design or accident, those ...

For the uninitiated it would be easy to guess the biggest waves in the world likely break off the shores of Hawaii or perhaps Australia. But over the last ten or so years, a wave known as Nazaré ...