As a teenager, Fabrizio Passetti was a promising Italian surfer. He was living in the seaside village of Varazze – Italy’s de facto surfing capital – where he was competing and honing his skills at ...

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 ...

Last Friday, the first chunk of a serious mid season SSW swell landed on the southern fringes of Bali’s Bukit Peninsula, just in time for the first week of the Rip Curl Cup Padang Padang waiting ...

Fabrizio Passetti lost his leg when he was 17. Ingenuity and persistence have allowed him to get back to surfing, the sport he loves. Surfing the Padang Padang is like surfing no other wave. Sure, ...

While the lion’s share of Balinese surfing focuses on the Bukit Peninsula – with its storied, considerably crowded, and lengthy lefthand pointbreaks like Uluwatu, Padang Padang, and others – there’s a ...

Anyone who got a whiff of the lines coming into Bali’s Bukit Peninsula yesterday was a winner. To be able to select waves and get space at one of the most sought-after lefts in the country is ...

A tiny island chain in Indonesia has achieved mythical status in the surfing community. Here come the resorts. In 1991, an Australian named Lance Knight came upon a perfect wave. Brushed by gentle ...