Last month, a crisp Saturday morning welcomed Space Coast Board Riders, Treasure Coast Board Riders, New Smyrna Beach Board Riders, and St. Augustine Board Riders Clubs to the home field of Jacksonville Beach Board Riders for the 2024 Florida Cup presented by Fat Tire. In an ode to the last time the Florida Cup was at the Jacksonville Beach Pier, conditions turned on once again for a showdown. After what could’ve been a disastrous showing following the previous day's conditions, the heavy wind slop that began churning later in the afternoon brought in the swell needed for entertaining Saturday ..read more

"The Right" is a psycho slab that breaks way out in the middle of nowhere in Western Australia.  It's awe-inspiring in its beauty, but it's also terrifying. It's basically a rock shelf surrounded by deep water that folds waves in half. Unlike some other slabs, "The Right" can't be paddled into. It's physically impossible to catch a 12-foot open ocean swell without the help of a Ski, so towing in is the only option.  Related: Video: The Best Waves Surfed at the World’s (Arguably) Most Dangerous Slab The edit above details a bluebird day from a couple years back, and it features the b ..read more

Slater, Chopes. Photo: ASP/Will H-S In an announcement from the WSL, today, Kelly Slater will be resurrected from his Championship Tour grave, receiving a wildcard entry into the 2024 SHISEIDO Tahiti Pro and Corona Fiji Pro – both events the 11x world champ has dominated in the past. Slater lost his spot on Tour, you may recall, after falling behind the Mid-Season Cut during the Western Australia Margaret River Pro. Retirement, finally? Not quite. Additionally, in Wednesday's announcement, the WSL confirmed the return of Carissa Moore as a wildcard into the Tahiti Pro. This c ..read more

If you break your back falling in the maw of Jaws, as Nathan Florence did in January of 2023, milk alone will not save you. The workout regiment he’s stuck to over the years was the reason he was able to surf eight weeks after cracking a vertebra. Nathan has documented some of his sessions in and out of the gym. His latest endeavor was done in memory of a deceased veteran, Travis Manion. Manion’s family operates the Travis Manion Foundation, which develops programs, training and events to empower veterans and families of those who served. Here’s the backstory on the foundation’s website: “On ..read more

On July 17th, 2000, Shannon Ainslie was attacked by two great white sharks while surfing Nahoon Reef in East London, South Africa. Miraculously, he lived to tell the tale. And years later, he did just that – told the story in his words – in the new video above. “I had this feeling, like, I’m gonna die today,” Ainslie recalled. “Today’s my last day.” Flashback to the year 2000. Ainslie was 13 years old then and, under the care of his single father, he and his siblings were left at the beach all day while dad worked. He gave them a surfboard, a loaf of bread, a bag of bananas, and wished them w ..read more

In December of 2018, Mikey February surfed his last event as a full-time surfer on WSL’s Championship Tour. Fellow South African Jordy Smith showed him the door and an equal 13th at the Billabong Pipe Masters. A blessing in disguise? Since his departure from competition, Mikey’s repertoire has blossomed – from the boards he rides, to the trips he takes. And through his partnership with Channel Islands Surfboards, he and Britt Merrick have dialed in twin fin design to the point where Mikey has become synonymous with upper-echelon surfing atop two fiberglass skegs. Related: Watch Dylan Gra ..read more

A young Kelly Slater, aged 19, at a Quiksilver press event in 1991. Photo: John Stanton/WireImage/Getty Images The problem – or, rather, concern – with childhood stardom is that kids often burn too bright, too young. Musicians, actors, athletes, and yes, even surfing's seen its child proteges flare out. From an early age, they’re thrust into a world filled with opportunity (good and bad), they’re burdened beyond their developing mental faculties, and thus, they may lose their spark, their fire. Raised in a broken home in Florida, Slater, who, at 52 years old may final ..read more

Nate Florence keeps it real. No fancy editing or overproduced edits, just a realistic look at what it's like to chase the world's heaviest slabs, day after day, swell after swell. In his latest clip, he paddles out with a GoPro tailmount and mixes it up with a local contingent of bodyboarders at 6- to-8 foot Shipstern Bluff. As you'll see, Florence spends the first hour of his session watching, while waiting for his turn in the rotation. That patience and respect is one of the many reasons Florence is so well-liked and welcomed in lineups all over the world.  Once he gets going, it's on ..read more

McCoy Surfboards. Photo: Encyclopedia of Surfing Geoff McCoy, one of surfboard shaping’s most creative minds from the early shortboard era, has died at home in Byron Bay, Australia. He was 79 years old. As news of the legendary board-builder’s passing permeated, the surf world paid homage to their fallen brethren – including former McCoy Surfboards team rider and four-time runner-up to surfing's world championship, Cheyne Horan, who penned: "From the beginning it was you and me against the world, so much resistance to all our developments, now today our designs are in almost every bo ..read more

Lombok's Desert Point is objectively one of the best waves in the world. Especially if you're a goofyfoot. Where else can you hammer a half dozen turns before locking into a 30-second tube? It's why surfers from all around the world descend on it every summer. Evan Puma, from Barbados, is one of those Deserts faithfuls. He'll do whatever it takes to get there, including taking a scooter from Bali across the Lombok channel and sleeping on the ground in a windowless room for days on end. Endless tubes tend to make up for a lot of uncomfortable things.  In the clip above, Pum ..read more