Pipeline’s earthquaking waves are like the Pied Piper’s flute for surf photographers. The bone-crushing sound of the raw ocean energy pounding the reef calls to all surf photogs to emerge from the tropical woodwork, plant t[...]

Joel Tudor has brought 32 of the best loggers in the world to the South China Sea where they will compete in the freewheeling ode to traditional longboarding contests, the Duct Tape Invitational. In a few hours, the hooter will sound a[...]

Iconic surf photographer LeRoy Grannis (1917-2011) lived the type of surf life that most romanticize. He was surfing Malibu in the 1930s when six people in the water was considered “crowded.” When Grannis decided to pick up[...]

“They were poor but they were also rich because they were surfers,” John Grannis says as he flips through the archive of  John “Doc” Ball’s photos of the Los Angeles’ South Bay’s early surf sc[...]

If you were to hop in a time machine and travel to Santa Barbara in 1979, you'd find a surf culture on the brink of sweeping change. Pro surfing was still in its infancy, the thruster was about 3 years away from being unveiled and a sm[...]

There are few surfers in the world who look cool just going down the line, but Michael February is one of them. You can study the placement of his knees or hands or every limb in between, but it probably won't get you anywhere—ac[...]