Old guys rule. At least the ones who surfed in this summer's Caribbean Open Masters in Panama do. World champion Tom Curren was one of them and he's still ripping hard. What's even cooler, is that he ...

“I’ve had a few occasions when single waves of Tom Curren become culturally significant,” legendary lensman Tom Grambeau told SURFER. “It only happens retrospectively and so the photos become a ...

The year is 1980. Kenny Rogers and Diana Ross are tops in music. Cheech and Chong's "Next Movie" is in theaters. And a young Tom Curren has just touched down in Biarritz, France, for the first ...

Since the inception of a world competitive tour 50 years ago, over forty surfers have laid claim to the title of “world champion”. It’s a stacked list, filled with legends like Kelly Slater, Andy ...

Tom Curren could've been giving a tuberiding master-class out at Jeffreys Bay during the second day of competition. His long, pure, minimalist lines through the rifling barrels of the Impossibles and ...

What's the definition of a skunk? For some, it means not scoring waves on a surf trip. Not if you're Tom Curren, Mason Ho and Conner Coffin. Somewhere on The Search, the trio spent 10 days getting ...

More festival than contest, William Aliotti’s brainchild is a celebration of a specific surfboard design that so easily lends itself to a variety of styles. To put it bluntly, there are not many surf ...

Three-time world champion Tom Curren executed a bottom turn on a Mozambique wave in 1993 while filming “Searching for Tom Curren.” The festival’s principal contemporary feature is “Wade in Water,” ...

Like all sports, surfing has always had it's heroes, but while many come and go, true heroes are never forgotten. Their legends only grow. In the world of surfing, no surfer proves this point better ...

He made a decision to retire from competitive surfing in the mid-1990s. In 1990, at Margaret River, Curren rode a wave all the way from the take-off zone to the Rivermouth - roughly a 1200-foot ride.