Long before Laird Hamilton revolutionized big-wave surfing with the Strapped Crew (Buzzy Kerbox and Darrick Doerner included), whipping into previously unthinkably big waves at Jaws, California’s ...

Tow surfing is contentious, fringe, a nutso little hobby. Is it cheating? Using the assist of motorized aquatic vehicles – most often a jetski – to match mother nature, and surf ungodly-sized waves.

Tow surfing, in theory, makes surfing big waves easier. With a PWC assist, surfers can ride waves moving too fast for human arms to catch. There’s also the safety element; someone wipes out, a ski ...

An international surf contest in Oregon? When one thinks of this forested, fog-shrouded coastline, it usually conjures images of frigid water temperatures, incessant rain, shark attacks, and hostile ...

Kai Lenny knows that tow surfing shouldn’t be all the rage. “With a Jet Ski, you could barely be able to surf a six-foot wave and then go get a 60-foot wave and win an award and get a hundred grand or ...

Andy “Cotty” Cotton on the ride of his life at Praia do Norte, Nazare, Portugal, October 2020. Andrew “Cotty” Cotton has pretty much done it all in surfing. But you’d never know it by chatting with ...

In a move more akin to Tom Cruise in a Mission Impossible flick, two men just smashed an obscure Guinness World Record – the “Highest Kite Surf Tow-Up.” Kite surfer Jake Scrace and stuntman Chey Anich ...