At the tail end of 2024, just before Christmas, a large and memorable swell popped up in the Pacific Ocean. In Hawaii, The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational ran with the requisite 40-foot surf for ...

Native Hawaiians are known for the invention of surfing, but outrigger canoes are a huge part of modern culture too. It was outrigger canoes loaded with people, plants, and animals that traveled ...

Fringe, novelty, yet steeped in tradition. These might be a few ways to describe the current world of outrigger canoe surfing. But it wasn’t always this way. Riding waves in canoes is an ancient ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Is there anything more iconic in Hawaiʻi that says Christmas is coming like Santa Claus canoeing onto the shore of Waikīkī Beach? For 18 years, Santa has traded in his sleigh for an ...

Some of the biggest waves ridden in an outrigger canoe, Ikaika Kalama, Mark Healy and friends tempt fate at surfing's original proving ground. Some of the biggest waves ridden in an outrigger canoe, ...

One of the world’s most exclusive clubs that we never hear about is exactly what you would think it is. Hidden somewhat in the iconic 3.2km Waikiki Beach stretch, one club captures everything about ...

It's not what you do, it's the style and spirit with which you do it that shines brightest. San Diego's Ryan Levinson showed that the soul and spirit of surfing is alive and well at Waikiki today, and ...

The art of outrigger canoe surfing is an ancient Polynesian tradition, with British explorer Captain James Cook first encountering Tahitian natives riding waves in boats as early as 1777. In his ...