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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

While the lion’s share of Balinese surfing focuses on the Bukit Peninsula – with its storied, considerably crowded, and lengthy lefthand pointbreaks like Uluwatu, Padang Padang, and others – there’s a ...

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 ...