I’m a huge fan of girls surfing. Now, I’m not tracking down Steph Gilmore for autographs or anything (hard to get near her after the bar-to-the-head incident), I just think their being in the ocean is terrific. They mellow out lineups and look pretty and are generally graceful (on longboards). It’s no different in big waves. They mix it up. Ride cool pink boards and are wetsuited and booted and make waves look crazy-big against their slight figures.
But besides Maya Gabeira, you probably don’t know many of them. Every time you mention a big-wave girl’s name you have to qualify it with “that big-wave chick.†That’s a shame. Because any woman who willingly immerses herself among the chest-pounding apes  … Pictures & More
Imagine blisters the size of silver dollars, climbing 200,000 feet through the Rocky Mountains on a mountain bike, pushing it up snow-lined passes and rocky gorges, then long arid desert rides in the middle of nowhere to some Mexican border town 2,700 miles south.
Get it? If not, you might want to check out “Ride the Divide,†the cinematic story of three mountain bikers who set out to ride the Tour Divide, said to be the toughest mountain bike race on the planet  … More
This morning at 2:00am local Hawaii time, professional big wave surfer Mark Visser made history by achieving a night ride on waves measuring 30-40 foot faces off the shores of Maui with specially engineered LED lights built into a buoyancy vest and modified into the surfboard.
The lighting technologies were created especially for the project by Solus Corporation using ground breaking NASA submarine lighting to ensure the wave and board were lit in the right places, at the right time and illuminated the wave without hindering the vision of Visser, the jet ski drivers and the helicopter pilots  … Picture and more