Why does summer surf get such a bad rap? Southern California is only a couple weeks into the sultry season and it already feels like there has been better surf than all of last winter combined. The famished were finally able to feast&#[...]

Keramas provided the juiciest of waves and surfers provided the progressivist of performances, adding up to one hell of a surf contest during the Corona Bali Pro. The only downside to the event was that it had to end. If you’re s[...]

As the wave pool’s foil reeled back and forth for two days during the Founders’ Cup this weekend at the Surf Ranch, SURFER staff photographer Todd Glaser was in the pool to capture whatever transpired literally in its wake.[...]

Welcome to “Liquid Portraits,” a series that features photos of iconic surf breaks captured by the photographers who know them best. We ask every photographer in this series to showcase their most widely-recognized images [...]

After sending tubes galore to the Atlantic seaboard, Winter Storm Riley took a tropical vacation to Puerto Rico where it decided to trade gloomy, silty cylinders for turquoise tubes. Some of the island’s fickle spots, like Gas Ch[...]

Riley is a beast. What started as a snow storm in the upper midwest underwent “bombogenesis” off the coast of New England during an extreme drop in pressure, transforming Riley into a “bomb cyclone.” Thus far, R[...]