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The Top 5 Beards in Surf

The Top 5 Beards in Surf

The surf world is occasionally blessed with prodigious facial hair. Here's a list of contemporary favorites.

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Shawn Dollar Interview

Shawn Dollar Interview

Shawn Dollar took home two XXL Awards on Friday for the world-record setting 61-foot wave he paddled into at Cortes Bank back in December. It's the second time in three years that he's owned the benchmark for the largest paddle-in wave ever caught.

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The Billabong XXL Awards

The Billabong XXL Awards

Last night the most audacious wave riders and scantily-clad surf fans arrived at the Grove in Anaheim for the 2013 Billabong XXL Awards. What followed was an emotional look back at one of the most eventful years in the history of big-wave surfing. The massive swells ridden at Jaws, Cloudbreak, and Cortes Bank provided not only a glimpse into the future of big-wave surfing, and what these surfers are truly capable of achieving, but also a much more sobering look at the importance of water safety in this era of broken limits.