Sunset Beach! You know it, don't you. It's that wave that looks so easy on the webcast. So fat! But that ain't my experience. I still tremble at the thought of my first trip to Hawaii.

I literally surf Sunset, Kami Land, Haleiwa and Pipe, and then Freddy Land on the really busy days. Every day that those waves were breaking, I was out there. I didn’t even surf Rocky Point this ...

Mamiya won at Sunset as recently as 2022, and as a North Shore kid, has spent more time in the water there than most other surfers on tour. And Simmers is a style master in right point surf.

The Hurley Pro Sunset Beach wrapped, officially, on Wednesday, Feb. 21st with pumping surf and memorable performances. (Molly Picklum’s hail mary turn!

But far fewer know that nearby Sunset Reef is a far more perfect prospect — and where big-wave surfing in South Africa really began.

The towering humps of the northwest swell have been hammering through the west bowl here at Sunset Beach since dawn and he has timed his noon go out for the best conditions of the day. The massive ...