Surfing doesn’t always involve surfboards. There's heaps of different ways to ride waves – some conventional, some not so much. From inflatable rafts, to hydrofoils, to literal trays swiped from the ...

Tokyo hosted the first-ever Olympic surfing competition, and it did not disappoint. American Carissa Moore came away with the women's gold and Brazil's Ítalo Ferreira topped the podium in the men's ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. -- One of the world's best surfers was swallowed up by a massive El Nino-boosted wave off the coast of Northern California. He called it one of the "craziest" wipeouts of his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surfing comes up often enough in film, from surf edits, to documentaries, to features, but is much less frequently seen on the ...

Since the early days of surfing – or heʻe nalu, as the ancient Hawaiians called it, which translates to “wave sliding” – boats were used commonly alongside boards. And that tradition of boat surfing ...

“Falling is indispensable in terms of our evolution as wave riders, in terms of grounding our egos, and in terms of seeing surfing for the unpredictable, explosive fun that it is… To fall is to fail, ...