As our regular readers will know, we usually display a fervent dedication to journalistic rigour here at the ‘length. However today, we’ve decided to take a day off from fact-checking and quoting on the record accounts to bring you five of the kind of dubious tales you’d usually overhear propping up the bar at your […]
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How Did Brazil Become The World’s Best Surfing Nation?
In 2019- just a mere half-century after a Brazilian first stepped foot on a modern surfboard- it’s almost impossible to argue that they are not the world’s best surfing nation. Over the last 5 years Brazilian’s have notched up three world titles, a big wave world record and more men’s championship tour wins than any other […]
The Extraordinary History Of Surfing On Rapa Nui; The Most Remote Inhabited Island On Earth
Rapa Nui is the world’s most remote inhabited island, sitting almost a thousand miles away from the nearest livable landmass, way out in the South Pacific. It’s home to the world-famous Moai stone statues, carved out of volcanic rock over 500 years ago by the ancient Polynesians and set proudly on platforms around the island’s […]
An Idiot’s Guide To: Surfing In Boardshorts
Surfing, a sport with a fine pedigree in platitude and cliché, reserves some of its very finest for the boardshort surfing experience. That not just surfing, but in fact life itself is better in them. That the highest accolade for wetsuit technology is that it feels just like surfing in them. That surfing isn’t really […]
The Faroe Islands Has Just Two Local Surfers; We Travelled There To Find Out Why
[This article originally appeared in Volume 255. Subscibe to Wavelength now to never miss an issue.] When the future King of Denmark made his annual visit to the Faroe Islands at the end of August, he was treated, upon his request, to a surfing display put on for him by David and Katrin, the archipelago’s […]
Confessions of a Teahupoo First Timer
You get a job as an editor of a surf mag, and it’s mostly good news. Good news for the Student Loans Company after all those years, ok news in credit card and overdraft land, epic news for your quiver of boards and wetsuits and general surf gear freebies. Your close friends though, will suffer. […]
