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Man has actually done a much better job of creating premier waves than destroying them. The are the top 10 man-made surf spots according to Sam George.

Mark Martinson, a professional surfer from Long Beach, CA, has died. A burly regular-footer, Martinson won the 1965 US Surfing Championships, then also trotted around the globe for surf movies with 1960s greats like Greg MacGillivray. He was 76 years old. But surfing and shaping surfboards wasn’t ...

In a world of industrialization, population, explosion, and environmental destruction the surfer somehow has managaed to establish a wonderful harmony with the oceans' waves and nature. "The Sunshine Sea" is a surfing film about the changes that have raised the art of surfing from the limitations of the past to the free and easy harmony of today. Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman embark on a surfers' odyssey with champion surfers David Nuuhiwa, Nat Young, Mark Martinson, and Bill Hamilton in Portugal, France, Hawaii, and California. From the makers of the all time classic, ...

In 1969, Richard Nixon moved next door to Surfer mag founder John Severson. The San Clemente beach wasn’t big enough for the both of them.

Drew Kampion pens a retrospective tracking the life of one of surfing's most influential personas, from Southern California to the North Shore to Kauai.