[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. […]
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Flora Christin On 2020, Zombieland, Russians & The Single Fin
[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 nocturnal antics of the horny, pawing surfers and you might catch […]
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 […]
The Story Of Martin Daly’s Most Exciting Surf Discovery
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 brand new series of discovery stories from some of the world’s most prolific surf explorers, running all this winter here on the Wavelengthmag.com We’re kicking things off […]
7 Hard-Charging Young Women Taking The Surfing World By Storm
Across every surfing discipline, from aerial specialists to light-footed loggers a new contingent of young women is emerging to challenge the old guard. Of course, this is always true to some extent, such is the evolutionary arc of professional sport, however, the last few years have seen the rate of progression lurch suddenly upwards among […]
Style Influences: Harrison Roach
There’s much to admire in the Harrison Roach oeuvre. A logger of global repute, but much more than just that, he’s also outstanding as a roaring tubesmith, an all around performer on shorties, mids, or fibreglass of any denomination. His refined touch and waterpersonship is matched by a trim and tidy aesthetic. Bright-eyed and sharp, […]
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