How you hold your breath and what you do underwater during those turbulent moments can make wipeouts, or getting caught ...

Calm under pressure: Top big-wave surfers say staying relaxed during wipeouts conserves energy and can be life-saving. Breathwork benefits: Controlled, deep breathing lowers heart rate, improves ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maui big wave surfer and all-around waterman Kai Lenny is known for charging the most gnarly, terrifying, and huge waves in the ...

"In the beginning I started off super excited for big wave season and by the end I was just happy I made it out alive," Lenny recalls of his early surf career Tony Heff/World Surf League/Getty In case ...

Surfers caught waves as tall as 50 feet high Sunday in Hawaii, producing epic rides and wipeouts during the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational. More than 20,000 spectators showed up at Waimea Bay for ...

Big wave surfing has a new home. The New Big Wave Challenge, a reimagined annual awards celebration founded by surf industry stalwart, Bill Sharp, honoring the world’s best big-wave surfers, is here; ...

If you follow big wave surfing, the name Maya Gabeira should ring a bell. A barrier-shattering pioneer, in 2013, the Brazilian surfer took the beating of a lifetime at Nazare, nearly losing her life ...

(Reuters) — Brazil’s Lucas “Chumbo” Chianca survived two brutal wipeouts to claim another Nazare Big Wave Challenge title in huge, clean waves in Portugal on Saturday, while France’s Justine Dupont ...

When the wild waves wake up at the Wedge, the monster surf break always puts on a show. “Most days, it doesn’t even break, but when it does, people stop what they are doing and they walk like zombies, ...

Maui big wave surfer and all-around waterman Kai Lenny is known for charging the most gnarly, terrifying, and huge waves in the world. While he usually emerges from big waves unscathed, in the last ...