In current times, it’s hard to resist feeling a nostalgia for the heady days of global surf travel. So, we’re encouraging you to indulge it enthusiastically with our ongoing series of discovery stories from some of the world’s most prolific surf explorers, running all this winter here on the Wavelengthmag.com The first edition featured Martin […]
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Dad Dance: What’s Behind Surfing’s Fetish For Older Men?
One time they were just like youDrinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glueHelp the agedDon’t just put them in a home – Pulp “I’m old, I could take the Search sticker off… it gets boring after a while” – Tom Curren, Free Scrubber ITV made a documentary on the American surf scene back when Kelly Slater […]
Stories From The Road With Deus Filmer Andre Cricket
Since the beginning, Deus Ex Machina has been about much more than spinning quality threads, with art shows, custom bikes, boards, and films forming equally critical parts of its offering. Much of their approach reaches back to 2010 when Dustin Humphrey established a base for the Sydney born brand in the Island of the Gods. […]
The Unique Ascent of Indonesian Longboarder Flora Christin
[To kick off our new Movers & Shakers series on women making waves within surfing, we catch up with Indonesia’s longboard queen, Flora Christin] In any normal epoch, head on over to the bustling beach town of Bali’s Canggu, side-stepping the bottomless Bintangs, fluoro-hued antics of the horny, pawing surfers and you might catch 29-year-old […]
On Reefs: Joel Stevenson And The Norwegian Slab
[Welcome to ‘On Reefs’ a series of stories exploring the hidden quirks and perils of reefs around the world through the personal experiences of those who know them in intimately.] After Joel Stevenson arrived in south-east Norway in 2009, it didn’t take him long to grow bored of surfing the region’s fickle and lacklustre beachies. […]
The Quik Cup, 2002: The Party Animals’ Mass Extinction
[As Wavelength celebrates its 40th birthday in 2021, we revisit at some of the more colourful chapters in European surfing history.] How an era-straddling celebration of cross-over boardsport culture – and a Daily Telegraph kiss n’ tell of it – marked the beginning of the end surfing’s vaunted age of debauchery. “So now, less than […]
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