Retired professional had captained young Belgians and played in Italy, Belgium and Austria

Tough qualifying fight on Sunday in Australia gave enough points

'If it weren't for the fin cut, I never would have known'. WARNING: Graphic Images.

'I wonder what the judges are scoring that?'

In a sleepy little Californian town, a surf competition was etched into the history books

'I just got the best wave of my life', says surfer before he was knocked out.

Seven surf breaks studied for 'Surfonomics'. Made with funding from NZ On Air

Monica Guo Shujuan is set on becoming the first woman from China to surf at the Olympics.

Fanning says he won't be deterred from surfing despite another close call with a shark.

Surfing has been called off at Jeffreys Bay, with a mako shark spotted in the line-up.

Surfing great Kelly Slater has shared an x-ray image after breaking his right foot

As Antarctic blast froze the country, a group of big wave surfers had a swell time.

A long awaited surfing movie will have its world premiere in Auckland tomorrow night.

Darren Mills hasn't been surfing since he fought off a shark at Curio Bay in 2014.

Kelly Slater was one of several surfers who saved the life of a friend in Australia.

Teen daughter dragged underwater in fatal attack, before father carried her body ashore.

The 17-year-old was surfing with her dad in West Australia when she was bitten.

A shark scare halted the action at the World Surf League at Margaret River today.

More people taking up the sport, united in a fierce love of the waves.

Mathews, a fearless Australian-based daredevil with a reputation for being one of the best riders of huge waves in the world.

As the surfer readies himself for a wave dolphin commits the ultimate surfing sin.

Kiwi surfer Paige Hareb's bid to requalify for the elite World Surf League championship tour has got off to a great start.

Marguerite Vujcich's mission to bring gender equality to the male-dominated sport of surfing has reaped rewards.

COMMENT: It appears Kaikoura's surfing community might actually end up benefiting from the region's post-earthquake coastline.

Auckland's mayor has said he's open to building a pontoon-like structure whose consent was put on hold by the council earlier this month.

Sabre Norris, 11, won the internet last month with a hilarious interview with Australia's Channel 9 - now she's taken her talents to the US with Ellen DeGeneres.

While his world tour peers are jockeying for waves and points on the North Shore, Mick Fanning is standing on a desolate beach in Norway, the sky ready to open up and dump snow. "I don't think I'm well," he says. "I can go anywhere in the world. Boardshorts, whatever. But no, I come here." He's not complaining. He's actually in awe.

American author Peter Dixon is the man behind many hit TV shows from the 1960s, '70s and '80s, including, Flipper, Little House on the Prairie, Knight Rider, and Bionic Woman.

A dream to run a surf school from a new seaside home is out of reach after the earthquake left a Kaikoura family out of pocket.

Kaikoura's surfers are anxiously waiting for a swell to see what the weekend's earthquake means for the region's famous surf breaks.