It’s the winter of 1995 and the North Shore is taking a beating. Biggest swell in five years. Most of Oahu is unrideable, but for the deranged and death-adverse, there’s two options: Waimea Bay, or ...

Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy has made films about Vietnam, Abu Ghraib, AIDS, and other topics. Now she’s made something completely different: a documentary about a surfer. But not just any ...

What do retired professional wrestler Hulk Hogan and big wave surfer Laird Hamilton have in common? They're both big, blond, buff masters of their sports and they've been guests on "The Joe Rogan ...

Laird Hamilton is a man of legend and lore. Despite some light mockery in the modern era, his impact on surfing is palpable. He pioneered tow surfing; he stunt-doubled for James Bond; he rode a wave ...

When you know, you know! On a recent episode of the Women Our Age With Melissa Riverspodcast, former volleyball champion Gabrielle Reece, 56, got candid about her longtime love, big-wave surfer Laird ...

If you happen to be a fan of big-wave surfing, we just launched Twenty Foot Plus — a new series, chronicling the world’s best big-wave surfers in the heaviest waves on Earth. In between giant swells, ...

WAILUKU, Maui -- Big-wave star Laird Hamilton used his head and his shorts to rescue a surfing partner after he wiped out in a monster wave. Hamilton stripped naked to tie his surf trunks into a ...