“Like if Nathan is a sun cooked duck,” writes a supportive John John Florence on an Instagram clip of his brother Nathan preparing to paddle out at Pipe. The two-time world champ is right. His brother does indeed look like a bit of poultry left hanging in a window in China town. However, the explanation […]
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The Inside Scoop On China’s Olympics Surfing Programme
It’s 6am at Riyuewan – Sun and Moon Bay, Wanning, China. A full moon shimmers off the surface of rockpools in the exposed reef a few hundred metres offshore, a reef that provides reeling, fun, if not life-changing lefthanders under consistent, clean wind swells off the South China Sea. Bizarrely, from the current low watermark, the […]
5 More Private Islands With Pumping Waves You Can Buy Today
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 […]
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, […]
