With the swell taking a break the beachies in Legian were a great option for a quick fun session. The SE trades were blowing, but this part of coast was handling it just fine and with some decent ...

“This is where it all started,” says Rizal Tandjung, gazing out over a sandy shoreline lapped by dying breakers. Almost 40 years old, Tandjung is one of Bali’s surfing pioneers. Picking up his first ...

A powerful regular-footer from Durban in South Africa, Jordy Smith is a regular winner on the World Surf League Championship Tour. The Balinese leg of surfing's world tour was always going to be an ...

"Indonesians believe that the ocean is very, very dangerous and the sea god is going to take you away," says Bali surfing pioneer Rizal Tandjung (pictured here) of why the locals were slow to join the ...

Surf school owner Halfia Londa is pinning all her hopes on Indonesia's plan to reopen the island of Bali to some foreign tourists from mid-October. A surfing business owner, 38-year-old, Halfia Lando ...

You can see it in their eyes. The hunger these females have for progression, and the games they must play for it, here on Bali. Even though they surf better than most men, these young ladies still ...

Australian surfing pioneer Kim 'Fly' Bradley died last week at his home on Bali, the Indonesian island he surfed almost alone in the early 1970s. He was 54. His daughter, Dewi Bradley, said he died on ...

Pro surfer Rizal Tandjung was one of the first locals to defy cultural norms and take up the sport Surf photographer Jason Childs says Indonesian surfers need to take things to the next level if they ...