Surf News
Headlines and Top Stories
Surfing is a safe sport, but injuries can happen, as with any other sport or physical activity. Surfers are constantly in contact with water and with their boards near sandy or rocky obstacles.
Matt Mohagan has conquered the inaugural South Bay Boardriders Club Big Wave Challenge. The Los Angeles surfer caught a 15-foot wave at the El Porto jetty, in Manhattan Beach, and got away with a $1000 check and a custom-made 10-foot big wave gun shaped by Pat Readon.
"Soul Surfer," the surf movie featuring the life and courage of Bethany Hamilton, is already a tremendous success. The film tells the true history of a young surfer girl who has been attacked by a shark and struggles to make her dreams come true.
The "Seven Ghosts" is the new mysterious wave discovered in Indonesia. The Rip Curl Search team has been traveling the world looking for new surf spots and found an incredible tidal bore that can be surfed eternally.
The first surf game in the history of computers is "California Games." The Commodore 64 video game was released in 1987 by Epyx, and it was a total success.
Top Stories
Imagine a wave that behaves like a super-fast cargo train, rushing to reach its destiny at incredible speed. This wave is real. It's called Maalaea.
Kelly Slater's entrepreneurial journey has always been relatively kept under the radar, with surfing doing most of his talking. Let's take a look at how the Floridian planned the move from waves to the boardroom.
Three foreign surfers were murdered while on a surf trip through Baja California, Mexico.
The world's first city center wave pool is ready to welcome surfers. Meet RiF010, the Dutch answer to urban surfing.