Playing a surfboard-shaped axe, Takanaka was a stadium-level artist at home but little known in the west – until YouTube brought him a huge new audience ...

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Think ‘Japan’ and many evocative images spring to mind. One that probably doesn’t is a beautiful beach. Yet between the coastlines of Hokkaido island in the north and the tropical Okinawa archipelago ...

Westcliff University, a small and largely unknown school in Irvine, California, built an unusual collegiate program by offering scholarships and academic flexibility for surfing. What initially ...

A gripping documentary revisits Japan’s combined catastrophe in 2011 of a tsunami and a nuclear crisis—which threatened to ...

At 17, Lucas Santiago Wehle is set to represent Malaysia in surfing at the 2026 Asian Games, a breakthrough for both athlete and sport.

Longtime surf industry mover and shaker Todd Kline will lead the charge for American Olympic Surfing into the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

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Surf along north and west-facing shores will remain small as a series of small, long- to medium-period northwest swells reach the Hawaiian Islands over the next week or so. Forerunners of the next ...

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The ‘Norway Model” for youth sport sees no scorekeeping until 13. No rankings. No early “elite” tracks. No trophies. Does it work? Absolutely.