Last year we brought you a list of five private islands for sale around the world that looked likely to have their own secluded collection of pumping waves. A quick scan of those listings reveals that most are still available, however, just in case you didn’t spot any on the last list that took your […]
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A Decade In Review; European Surfing’s Defining Moments From 2010-2019
Smell ya later, twenty teens. We started the decade not wanting to be part of no f*kin tennis tour, and ended it on the eve of being part of the Olympics, whether we like it or not. If we cast our minds back a decade, we probably didn’t particularly see a wave pool CT event, foiling, or the Brazilian Storm coming. Elsewhere, […]
Between Struggle & Rubble; The Besieged Surfers Of Gaza
[This article originally appeared in Volume 255. Subscibe to Wavelength now to never miss an issue.] In the farthest-flung corner of the Mediterranean Sea, there lies a small strip of land. Looking at a map it is largely inconspicuous; lodged in the crook of the eastern coast, its 365 square kilometres are neatly contained by […]
Only The Simplest Of Pleasures; Catching Up With Torren Martyn
It’s a cold afternoon in mid-November and I’m sat in a busy cafe, on a nondescript industrial estate on the outskirts of Plymouth. Opposite me, wearing glasses and a thick puffer coat is Torren Martyn, the wirey, 29-year-old surfer from Byron Bay who’s been setting the surfing world alight over the last half-decade with a […]
