If you follow surfing, which you do if you're reading this, you're likely aware of what has been happening at Nazaré. And as usual, Nic von Rupp was there.

The largest wave ever paddled by a woman belongs to a ... In 2017, Rodrigo Koxa, age 38, flew into the history books straight out of the Nazaré Canyon. He looks like an ant descending down ...

German surfer Sebastian Steudtner holds the title for the largest wave ever surfed with Guinness World Records and the World Surf League, after catching the 86-foot wave off at in Nazaré off the ...

On December 23 2024, 23-year-old Santa Cruz surfer Alo Slebir rode a wave at Mavericks surf break that has been estimated by some at 108 feet tall, a potential new world record. With the end of ...

But a jaw-dropping photo of Slebir’s relatively tiny form racing down a collapsing mountain of ice-cold Pacific Ocean water has gone viral, with knowledgeable big-wave surfers around the globe ...

The current holder of the surfing “the largest wave (unlimited) — male” is Sebastian Steudtner of Germany, who broke the previous record in October 2020 at Praia do Norte in Nazaré ...

"Shooting big wave surfing for as long as I have ... The morning started with a few paddlers trying to make history, each set got bigger and bigger. We witnessed incredible waves ridden.

But that’s mainly when it comes to foil surfing in small waves. In big waves, and being towed in on a foil via PWC, it must feel like…a human cannonball? A peregrine falcon (the world’s ...

Nazaré's renaissance as a big wave surfing Mecca came fast, furious and only lately, as one of the more recent additions to the big wave landscape. In the mid-2000s Hawaiian big wave surfer ...

Brazilian charger and world record holder for the largest wave ever surfed by a woman Maya Gaberia took to Instagram on Tuesday to announce her retirement from professional big-wave surfing.