It was all about style and great vibes to kick off the nine-day Lexus US Open of Surfing Presented by Pacifico festival, and the WSL Longboard Title race is officially underway.

The Lexus US Open of Surfing kicked off in Huntington Beach on Saturday, beginning with the World Surf League's Longboard ...

The WSL Longboard Tour multi-World Champ list is led by just two names, the pioneer great of Nat Young and the modern era icon of Taylor Jensen. Both have claimed four World Longboard Titles, and ...

The US Open of Surfing is considered the largest surf festival in the world, not only giving fans an up-close look at surfers ...

Alice Lemoigne took the Gold Medal in the women’s, defeating compatriot Justine Dupont who took Silver. In the men’s the brothers Antoine and Edouard Delpero were denied a Tricolor clean sweep by Peru ...

Longboarding has had to struggle for its moment in the sun since its richer cousin of shortboarding was incepted back in the late ‘60s. The first men’s Longboard World Champion was crowned in 1987 and ...

There’s something truly extraordinary about longboarding with friends. Certainly, learning to longboard (or, learning to surf on a longboard) is far easier than learning on a shortboard…or whatever ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To talk about the history of longboarding is to talk about the origins of surfing as a whole. Ancient Polynesian cultures rode ...

The perfect longboard wave is a curious thing. While shorter surfboards perform best in large, fast waves, the ideal wave for longboards, which can reach 11 to 12 feet long, isn’t about power or size.