Polly Ralda recently found herself in a precarious position at Waimea Bay on Oahu. After catching a wave and returning to the lineup, a team of four making a drop on an outrigger canoe came straight ...

Polly Ralda traveled a long way to get to Nazaré. She was born in Guatemala City, well inland from the Pacific Ocean. But she dreamt of surfing big waves since she was 13 years old watching Maya ...

Video by @kaiquephoto. Edit by Tom Vaughan. “That was the fee I had to pay,” says big wave surfer Polly Ralda, after one of the more nightmare-esque wipeouts at Nazaré we’ve seen this season.

Polly Ralda recently experienced a one-two punch, literally, in Hawaii. The big wave surfer – originally from Guatemala, who had big dreams of big waves, and thus moved to the North Shore of Oahu – ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Big Wave Babes is a women's collective whose mission is to empower women to take on their big waves in life. On Good Morning Hawaii Sunday, Polly Ralda Co-owner of Big Wave ...

Poised on a surfboard and dwarfed by a tower of water some 10 times her size, fear is one of the first emotions that big wave surfer Laura Crane feels before she hurtles down a 60-foot behemoth. “From ...