Bianca Valenti shares her journey as a professional big wave surfer in San Francisco, conquering icy waters, Mavericks, and ...
Big waves are making waves on the big stage. The HBO hit series “100 Foot Wave” earned two Creative Arts Emmy awards this week – nabbing the nod for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series award ...
Sebastian Steudtner holds the world record for the biggest wave ever surfed. At 26.21 meters (86 feet), it is equivalent to surfing an eight-story building. The record was set in the picturesque ...
Maverick’s, Jaws, Nazaré…these are some faces on big wave surfing’s Mount Rushmore, the perennial spots, which every year, serve up some of the most unfathomably massive surf. But there’s a quiet ...
Ridge Lenny believes hundreds of world-class big-wave surf spots may still be hiding across the globe.
There is a popular, Emmy Award-winning HBO documentary television series, “100 Foot Wave,” just beginning its third season of production. It’s about the personal lives of big wave surfers and their ...
One of the best sports documentaries in recent years was HBO’s 2018 documentary Momentum Generation, which followed a group of top American surfers through the 1990s and early 2000s and won the 2019 ...
For most of the world's population, the hardest part of surfing is getting to an ocean and scoring good conditions. But that's changing. Over the last decade, artificial wave pools have started ...
Cinematographer and surfer Mike Prickett developed techniques and camera systems for photographing these unrepeatable moments — and even had his story featured in one episode of the Emmy-nominated ...
Sachi Cunningham is one of the few photographers who shoots surfers at Mavericks while swimming. “You don’t want to get the same shots as everyone else on the boat,” she said. The surf photographer ...