Blurring boundaries between local and global, physical and digital, leisure and commercial experiences, surf cameras are facilitating transformations in surfing. The present paper investigates surfers’ relationships to surf camera livestreams, a pervasive and understudied form of surf media, in an effort to better understand the evolving dynamics of surfing as sport and culture in the digital age. To begin to unravel the impacts of this technology, in-depth interviews were conducted with U.S.-based surfers concerning their use of Surfline’s real-time cameras. Whereas previous work related to surf cameras in tourism and surveillance studies has privileged the spatial dimension, preliminary results presented in this paper suggest that surf cameras facilitate compressions and dilations in the linear progression of time as it is experienced by surfers.