"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." THE SURFER IS typically depicted as a solitary figure. One person flowing with the force of nature, ...

For Big Wave rider Garrett McNamara and his wife and manager, Nicole, the HBO adventure series, 100 Foot Wave, began as a way to introduce big wave surfing to the world. What followed was just that ...

Like most every other aspect of surfing at the moment, the state of big-wave riding is hurdling forward. New frontiers are being explored, performance barriers are being shattered, and thanks to ...

THE SURFER IS typically depicted as a solitary figure. One person flowing with the force of nature, nothing but a board between them and the violence below the surface of the sea. This image is even ...

Women surfers have often been marketed in a sexualized way, with images of girls in string bikinis or minimal clothing on beaches. This portrayal is far from the reality of big wave surfing. Out on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inglewood, California is changing. Thanks to SoFi Stadium, the (revamped) Kia Forum, the Intuit Dome – and all the gentrification ...

NIC VON RUPP is a big wave surfer, but he doesn't tend to present himself as the type of steely, overly-serious athlete you might expect. His sport—which might be closer to a vocation—demands someone ...

Cody Purcell is more like you and me than his fellow finalists in the Thriller at Killers, a big-wave invitational held at Todos Santos last weekend. He just wants to spend as much time in the water ...

Frenchman Laurent Pujol, riding epic swells across the world on a custom Jet Ski, has one of the most singular jobs in cinematography. By Gary Baum Senior Writer “Big-wave surfing is life-and-death,” ...