There is no one person responsible for the birth of surfing, but there is lots of historical evidence about the origin point.

TESCO has revealed its top 10 toys for Christmas and all priced at £35 or under. With the big day just 62 days away, the ...

Now the Australian prisoner of war’s role has been detailed in a book by his niece. In A True Story of the Great Escape­, Louise Will­iams has pieced together the experiences of her uncle John ...

YORK, Maine - When the surf's up, you can find Mike LaVecchia and Rich Blundell carving the waves at York Beach, even in winter. Their surfboards, however, are nothing like the fiberglass-over-foam ...

Frazer Reid made his first wooden surfboard more than a decade ago and now he’s using his talent to give ‘foamies’ a second life, writes Roger Cox Sign up to our Scotsman Rural News - A weekly of the ...

For the past year there’s been a steady uptick of a new type of surfboard that has been turning heads and making waves. If you expected this to come from one of the big name legacy shapers, guess ...

We're used to luxury carmakers expanding the reach of their names to industries they’re not usually associated with, but I have to say, seeing a bespoke surfboard signed by Bentley did come a bit as a ...

Dick Metz with his collection of classic surfboards at the Dana Point Hobie Store in 1985 (Surfing Heritage and Culture Center) Editor’s Note: Dick Metz is well known in the surfing industry as the ...

Wave riding has been a cornerstone of Cornish culture since locals first took to the sea on prone wooden boards (nicknamed ‘coffin lid boards’) in the 1920s. Stand-up surfing arrived by way of ...

The farewell to winter in the Northern Hemisphere means, of course, the arrival of winter in the Southern Hemisphere and, with it, swells that light up the southern facing coastlines. Prime example ...