Or in the words of Florence Welch, "what the water gave me." Earlier this month, I decamped to Montauk for Cynthia Rowley’s annual surf camp. Before then, I’d only been surfing once (unless you count ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a very basic analogy, surfing is somewhat like riding a bike. Once you learn, once you ride that first wave all the way to ...

I am in Nosara, a small, sleepy village on Costa Rica’s northwest coast, with my wife, Gabrielle, to try something I have only scant experience with and which she has none: surfing. Surf Simply seemed ...

Surf instructor Ru Hill opened the Innocent Surf School in Nosara, Costa Rica, in 2007, with three longboards that he drove to Guiones Beach every day in a car that served as his office and storefront ...

We all have to start somewhere. It’s the one experience every surfer shares — yet it’s the one that seems oh so easy to forget. We asked surfer/writer Lisette Drew to remind us of how it happens. In ...

Contrary to popular belief, SUP surfing is not easy. My first foray into SUP surfing ended with humiliation. I could barely manage to balance on my board–much less actually catch waves–and eventually ...

SURFING looks easy. This is a misconception. Surfing is hard. Each spring draws recruits to the breezy lifestyle of riding waves, but the newcomer must understand a basic truth: Surfing even at the ...

I'm a 23 year-old bloke wanting to head off to central america (or colmbia/ecuador area) and spend a couple of months in one place surfing, hanging out with people, learning some spanish and partying ...