Riding a board through the surf is a little like going on hashish. The addicts—and there are 18,000 of them in the U.S.—have their own fashions in everything from haircuts (long, but not too long) to ...

SANTA CRUZ – When Homer Henard gave a cheesy point for the camera and said, “Tarp surfing pretty much started blowing up right now – the very second you’re watching this,” he had no idea how close to ...

Soli Bailey has been trying to explain the effects of deep tube-riding on the human psyche. For nearly half an hour, we’ve gone around and around on this most profound, dare we say sacred of surfing ...

News flash for all the nouveau stoked out there: The Surf Ranch is not the only manmade wave on Tour. Snapper Rocks and Kirra are very much the babies of benevolent human engineering, and so is ...

Technology and surfing would, ostensibly, seem contradictory. The simple act of riding a handshaped piece of foam and fiberglass in the ocean, on a wave created by wind from thousands of miles away, ...