Last night on the West Side of Oahu, invitees from the Quiksilver In Memory Of Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational hobnobbed with NFL Pro Bowl players at the Ihilani Hotel as the players and their families were welcomed to Hawaii for the annual gathering.

This was yesterday on the North Shore of Oahu. Not quite large enough for "The Eddie" to run at Waimea Bay, but plenty big for a nearby outer reef.

A powerful GoPro sunset Pipeline session on record. Mark Healey, Mikey Bruneau, Anthony Walsh, Jamie Sterling, and Koa Smith get spit out of rifling barrels.

With more coastline than the East Coast and West Coast combined, the Great Lakes hold unlimited surf potential...

Cloudbreak goes nuts for the second day in a row and an all-star crew of big wave chargers rip the swell of the year.

Double overhead and firing on Lake Superior? Check out this clip of Red Bull team rider and certified hellman Jamie Sterling. You won't believe your eyes...

Pipe and Backdoor have had an amazing run of surf in early 2011. Check out the visual butter in our awesome new photo player...

An emotion-filled ceremony at Waimea Bay kicks off the waiting period to the greatest big wave surf event of the Hawaiian winter.

The first solid swell of the season slams into Pipeline on the North Shore of Oahu and dishes out its usual dose of amazing barrels and board-snapping carnage... Check the exclusive photo gallery and GoPro highlights!

Hawaiian surfers Jamie Sterling and Mikala Jones join Robert "Wingnut" Weaver and hot longboarder (and the first woman to ride the Silver Dragon) Mary Osborne in China for some river ripping during an annual surf and skate festival in Hangzhou, China.

Big Wave World Tour founder Gary Linden sheds insight on the growing big wave contest scene and the chances of top notch pros like Kelly Slater joining the ranks.

The Billabong Pico Alto Invitational 2010 presented by Sony, went off in fantastic, huge surf and Pico Alto in Peru showed why it deserves to be part of the Big Wave World Tour.

Today, guest host Chris Cote is kickin’ it in the studio with Reef team rider and pro surfer Tonino Benson, who is here to tell us about his standout part in the film “Cancer to Capricorn”. Plus, Red Bull team rider Jamie Sterling is here to tell us about his big wave surfing adventures.

Xcel’s Chilean charger Cristian Merello has won the Quiksilver Ceremonial Big Wave Invitational in 30′ Punta de Lobos, Chile.

The North Shore has been all time and we have the photos of Andy Irons, Jack Johnson, Pancho and more to prove it. That and Flynn gets to the bottom of Chinese girls and their grooming (or lack thereof) with Jamie Sterling.