As a teenager, Fabrizio Passetti was a promising Italian surfer. He was living in the seaside village of Varazze – Italy’s de facto surfing capital – where he was competing and honing his skills at ...

The first surfer in Bali was the handsome photographer, tennis coach, CIA agent, and natural-footer Bob Koke. Koke had learned to surf in Waikiki when he had been an assistant to the film director ...

It was only a matter of time. Standing on the edge of the vertical limestone cliff that overlooks Padang Padang, I could only wonder why it took him so long to get here in the first place. Kelly ...

Fabrizio Passetti lost his leg when he was 17. Ingenuity and persistence have allowed him to get back to surfing, the sport he loves. Surfing the Padang Padang is like surfing no other wave. Sure, ...

Shane Borland is nothing if not committed. The rare pro surfer-skater hybrid from California is at the tail end of a marathon five month stint in Indonesia (not including a month in Australia) where ...

Unless you live under a rock or spend your days surfing the ocean more than you do the web, you heard about the recent Indian Ocean megaswell. For those who missed the memo, an Indian Ocean low the ...

There is a reason why surfers flock to Bali, Indonesia, in the winter. "The swells are really clean most of the time because they travel so far from South Africa to get there," Navarro says. "The ...