Local surfer Cam Richards has won the Rip Curl Pro National GromSearch at Ocean Beach in San Francisco today. Held in conjunction with the Rip Curl Pro Search, the contest pits regional qualifiers in a showdown that sends the winner on to Bells Beach, Australia next year for the International GromSearch finals. In the final contest of the day, weather began to deteriorate during the Boys Under... 

November 2, 2011 Today marks one year since the surfing world lost Andy Irons.  Alone in a hotel room 300 miles from any salt water, I submit to you that most surfers would rather be drowned in salt water by the waves that we love than to die hundreds of miles away from it.  No one deserves to die in Dallas, let alone the reigning, living Hawaiian King A.I. Closer to home and the heart of some... 

While reigning NSSA champion Cam Richards was surfing a high profile contest in France, 10-year-old Micha Cantor of Garden City Beach was making his NSAA Mid-Atlantic season debut last weekend. Cantor was named the National Scholastic Surfing Association’s Surfer of the Week for winning three different divisions in the Nags Head, N.C., tournament. So how is it that the Grand Strand is churning... 

Of all the sandy beach locales in the world, Soorts-Hossegor, France may not stick out as one that excels as a surf destination. The truth is the beaches of Southwest France, Spain, and Portugal are ripe with swell driven by the same gulf stream that brings hurricanes to the Southeastern U.S. Surf apparel company Quiksilver has been growing its King of the Groms contest into a multinational circuit... 

October on the Grand Strand means a cool down from the summer insanity.  Non-surfers would think the local surfer community disappears after hurricane season and the summer sun fades.  For the past 12 years many local surfers and ocean-minded others have made themselves part of something much bigger than the local waves. The Lip-Rippin’ Chilympics Chili Cookoff is the Surfrider Foundation Grand...