The success of wake surfing had to wait for innovation to emerge. In the late 1990s and 2000s, manufacturers such as Nautique and Malibu introduced boats with ballast systems, enabling drivers to ...

For Big Wave rider Garrett McNamara and his wife and manager, Nicole, the HBO adventure series, 100 Foot Wave, began as a way to introduce big wave surfing to the world.What followed was just that ...

A new exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History brings back a popular show from 2015 about the three Hawaiian ...

A step change in the evolution of surfing brought about by an Australian teenager has electrified the world of extreme sport and drawn praise from the doyen of skateboarding, Tony Hawk.

Richard Schmidt, a Santa Cruz native and owner of the city’s original surf school, has been entwined with the culture long enough to remember the evolution of the sport — from body surfing on ...

The Texas Surfing Museum, which opened in February 2025 in Galveston, honors the state's rich but often below-the-radar surfing subculture. ... One wall traces the evolution of modern surfing.