After a season of getting lost around the world, Ian Sams has made his way back to California with a full part in hand. Watch as Ian kicks back and celebrates the culmination of a successful season and his first full part.
The best way to wind down from the European leg of the world tour for Jordy: exploring the old world charm and waves of Portugal.
Make a wrong move at one of these spots, and you can expect a (well-deserved?) beating.
Surfing has always had its fiercely local breaks. It seems localism, where local surfers intimidate visiting surfers to discourage them from surfing “their” waves, doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. The latest example occurred in Streaky Bay in South Australia when a local group called the The Mid West Coast Surfriders Association put a halt to a proposed Big Wave World Tour event at a relatively new big wave spot called Yanerbie Bombie. Given this recent incident, we came up with five of surfing’s most “localized” beaches, where the extremely dangerous waves are the very least of your worries … More
PARK CITY, Utah — On a snow-covered mountain near Lake Tahoe last May, Olympic snowboarder Elena Hight suddenly found herself very uncovered.
Hight steeled her nerves with a board, but sans clothes, during a photo shoot for ESPN The Magazine’s “Body Issue.”
The two-time Olympian who finished sixth during the halfpipe at the 2006 Games in Torino, Italy, continued her run as a pioneer — minus the snow pants.
“I never expected in my life to snowboard naked,” … More