There’s something undeniably magical about hitting the open road in a country as scenic and culturally rich as Portugal. The ...

Each country makes sports movies on games that are popular among their populace. And there is no need to exaggerate how popular surfing is in the United States and Canada. As the sport caught the ...

The combination of high surf and strong offshore winds is creating ... of rough seas and strong winds reaching up to 25 knots. A map shows where rip current warnings have been issued.

The sound and sights of crashing waves. The warm sun beating down on your skin. It only makes sense that surfing is so popular — though it does come with a learning curve. That’s never ...

Surfing champ Daniel Farr is relishing the prospect of defending his title on home surf in Taranaki this week. The New Plymouth surfer is the incumbent men's open-division champion and says it is ...

Mike Hynson, an iconic figure in the surfing world and star of Bruce Brown’s legendary film The Endless Summer, has died at the age of 82, leaving an indelible legacy in the history of the sport ...

It's why we cross the Nullarbor to tiny towns and dots on maps and take dusty byways such ... are now effective enough for a fear-free surf. The answers are complicated. I wanted to know how ...

Everest every day of the week for 100 years, it never moves,” said Bill Sharp, who has spent decades orchestrating the world’s most rigorous big wave surfing awards. “But even the biggest ...

Google Maps is likely your go-to app for getting from point A to point B, but it's more than a navigation tool. Whether you're finding places, checking public transit schedules, or exploring new ...

and the breaks we aimed to surf were uncharted – so unknown they’re on no surf map anywhere. Packing my trusty 6’8” thruster, padded with bubble wrap and bikinis, I headed off on my first ...

The current surfing world record for the tallest wave ever surfed belongs to Sebastian Steudtner who rode an 86-foot wave at Nazaré in Portugal. And despite Nazaré’s break being right off the beach so ...

In the winter of 2016-17 the World Surf League held its first ever big wave event in Portugal, the Nazare Big Wave Challenge.After a day of carnage the event – a strictly paddle surfing affair ...