I have fond memories of America’s Funniest Home Videos. Weeknights, after dinner, the family would gather on the couch in our doublewide, dad with a tallboy of Bud in hand, mom with a splash of Pinot, ...

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 ...

"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 ...

“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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the lion’s share of Balinese surfing focuses on the Bukit Peninsula – with its storied, considerably crowded, and lengthy ...

Bali's most perfectly shaped wave also happens to be the shallowest. Bingin generally doesn't get too hollow over head high, but at around shoulder high it can suck out with just ankle to knee high ...

On a Monday morning in early December, I met Gina Jaguttis as we loaded our surfboards into the camp van just before sunrise. We only got to talking on a choppy boat ride that took us a mile off the ...

Editor’s note: In honor of International Women’s Day, we’ll be rolling out a week’s worth of stories — one each day from March 8-14 — that celebrate and showcase contributions women have made to the ...

Comparisons followed. “The Bali of Europe,” some called it. “Europe’s California”. Not geographically accurate, but ...

The first surfer in Bali was the handsome photographer, tennis coach, CIA agent, and natural-footer Bob Koke. Koke had learned to surf in Waikiki when he had been an assistant to the film director ...