25 years since the XL Big Wave Awards were first held in LA, the revamped Big Wave Challenge BWC held its annual awards night at the Newport Lido Theatre last week. While the much-bandied term ...

Russell Bierke is a slab connoisseur, charging the type of heavy water you’d file somewhere between the “nightmare” and “only in dreams” chamber of the mind. The Australian burst onto the scene in ...

Maverick’s, Jaws, Nazaré…these are some faces on big wave surfing’s Mount Rushmore, the perennial spots, which every year, serve up some of the most unfathomably massive surf. But there’s a quiet ...

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,” ...

Twenty-five years ago, the first iteration of the Big Wave Challenge presented by Aquamar went down in Orange County. A quarter century later, it has returned. Celebrating the most heroic efforts of ...

I remember the first neurologist I saw after my concussion,” Albee Layer said. “I told him, I’ve had many concussions surfing, and this one’s by far the worst. It happens in big waves. He’s like, ...

Welcome to Episode Eight of Season Three of Late Drop – The Big Wave podcast. The series was created to showcase conversations with some of the best big-wave surfers in the world — hosted by one of ...

Local Santa Cruz surfer Wilem Banks is heading to the 2025 Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational at Waimea Bay on the North Shore of Oahu. The invitational is an extremely prestigious big wave surfing ...