First Lap: A Rookie’s View of the World Surf Tour
Fifty years of the World Tour, a new sudden-death format, and a rookie class arriving with nothing to lose — one first-timer's notebook from inside the travelling circus of professional surfing.
Category Outdoor Adventure
Magazine-style stories from the Outdoor Adventure world — sky, water, and land
Cleared for Takeoff: Inside the World of Personal Drones & Flying Cars
What's actually flying today, who's certified and who's collapsed, the real China-vs-everywhere-else regulatory gap, and why batteries — not imagination — are still the limiting factor.
Wheels, Wings & Everything Between: The Story of Personal Mobility
From King Henry VIII's chair lift to circus unicycles to the first DJI drone — the surprisingly tangled, accelerating history of how we've moved one person at a time.
Riding the Thermals: Inside the World of Hang Gliding
A NASA spacecraft-recovery invention that became a sport with no government licence, a five-rung rating ladder, three very different ways to learn, and the flight-park culture that holds it all together.
Open Throttle: Inside the World of Jet Skiing
No global rulebook, wildly different laws state-by-state and country-by-country, a 45-year-old world championship in the Arizona desert, and the two very different crowds who own rather than rent.
Catching Wind: Inside the World of Windsurfing
From a California garage invention in the 1960s to a World Tour with twelve-time champions — the learning curve, the certification ladder, the legendary wind spots, and the people who chase it.
First Tracks: Inside the World of Snow Skiing & Snowboarding
Resort culture spanning every continent with snow, the four-level instructor ladder, what avalanche control actually looks like, and the tribes — racers, park riders, freeriders, apres-skiers — who all share the same mountain.
Falling for It: Inside the World of Skydiving
Drop zones, license ladders, costs that swing wildly by country, weather rules nobody warns you about, and the surprising truth about who actually skydives — a full tour of the sport.