I first fell in love with the photographs of Ron Stoner through that iconic image of the balloons and surfer. Then there was the shot of the boards on roof,...

There’s the man behind the move, and then there’s the move itself. Paul Strauch learned to surf at Waikiki Beach in the late ‘40s. His grace, flow, and epic style...

Welcome back to Hang 10 with Birdie, where we catch up with friends Birdwell has made along the way, in and out of the water. It’s hard to think of...

I know Toots from his Instagram feed, @mr._t00ts, a chronicle of stylish, playful longboarding and gorgeous, hand-shaped surfboards. The wonderful thing about Instagram is you get to project; you the...

The history of surfing is the history of design. Look at the surf spots of the last 100 years, look at the boards that rode them—there’s a correlation. The 12-foot...

Welcome back to Hang 10 with Birdie, where we catch up friends Birdwell has made along the way, in and out of the water. Today we’re linking up with Firewire...

Rich and varied and full of high achievers. And because of the density and fast pace of city life, the need to wash it all off in the ocean is...

It was a confluence of events, an aligning of stars. Pro surfing hit a high-water mark in the ‘80s. The industry flourished. Tom Curren featured in Rolling Stone. Tom Carroll...

This time around we’re catching up with surfer, climber, photographer, author, filmmaker and epic human Jeff Johnson. A California native like us, Johnson moved to Hawaii when he turned 18...

To leash or not to leash, that is the question. Albeit a relatively new question—for much of surfing’s history there was no option. You blundered, you swam. In 1970, Santa...

In the ‘50s and ‘60s skateboarding—aka “sidewalk surfing”—was severely limited due to the rough roll of metal and clay wheels. Sure, you could tic-tac down the sidewalk. But you couldn’t...

One of the best parts about being around for as long as Birdwell has are the friends we’ve made along the way, in and out of the water. On one...

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We surfers owe a lot to John Severson. The founder of Surfer magazine in 1962, he did more than just pioneer surf media, he elevated surfing to fine art. “A...

Throughout the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, competitive surfers followed what they called the “gypsy tour,” a string of global contests that were not bound by a governing body or...