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The 24 competitors in Red Bull Magnitude will surf Pe'ahi, Waimea Bay, and Hawaii's Outer Reefs with $50,000 in prize money on the line across eight categories.

Winter's been good to Hawaii this season. On Maui, Kai Lenny and Albee Layer scored huge Jaws, but not without some mental scares and heavy wipeouts. Over on Oahu, big wave surfers dominated the outer reefs, Waimea, and bombing Pipeline, which sent Joao Chianca to the ...

The hits keep comin’ from Hawaii following the historic Black Friday swell. While much of the attention was focused on Oahu’s North Shore – with survival sessions at the Outer Reefs from Nate Florence, Koa Rothman, et al, lifeguard towers flooded by rogue waves, maxing out Waimea Bay, etc. – Maui ...

Nate Florence spends most of his life following waves around the world. He's surfed the biggest and heaviest waves on Earth, but there's no place like home.

From Hawaii to California, the biggest swell of the year has wreaked havoc. On Black Friday, Hawaii saw wash-through sets at Waimea Bay, lifeguard towers inundated by rogue waves in the dead of night, pro surfers tackling deadly closeouts at Oahu’s Outer Reefs, and Kai Lenny doing Kai Lenny things ...

A huge swell hit the North Shore over the weekend, and Mark Healey was there to wrangle it. No one saw just how big conditions were going to get.

Hawaii was hit hard by a historically huge swell on Friday. And particularly, as expected, the apex of the energy slammed the North Shore of Oahu. It was the Black Friday swell; closeouts sets washed through Waimea Bay; big-wave surfers went full survival mode and tempted fate at the notorious ...

2023 Red Bull Magnitude winners Paige Alms and Izzy Gomez discuss the changing landscape of female big wave surfing and how this contest has contributed.

The event was first conceived in 2020 when COVID-19 restrictions put a halt on travel and competition through much of the year.

Red Bull Magnitude is on! Winter swells at Pe’ahi and Waimea Bay put big-wave surfing’s best women to the test.