His Royal Highness, The Duke of Cornwall attended Surfers Against Sewage’s special 30th anniversary event in Cornwall today, held at the Skol Nansledan, Newquay where his patronage was officially announced. As part of the event, the His Royal Highness signed a unique surfboard, created from wood from his Highgrove Estate, to commemorate the anniversary. Surfers […]
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Welcome to St Davids, Wales
Surf Checking Britain’s Smallest City
We live a slower pace of life here; flat spells are whiled away with windy walks on the cliff tops or spent conversing in the pub around a log burner, drinking fine Welsh ale.
Surfing in Sh*t – popular sites for aquatic dancing in UK fail to meet minimum safety requirements
Surfers Against Sewage’s recent report has found 60% of popular locations are unsafe for swimming or surfing with pollution at unsafe levels. The annual water quality report explores the shocking state of UK bathing waters in a year when untreated sewage was discharged over 399,864 times into UK waterways – the equivalent of more than […]
Surfing, Science and Indigeneity with Dr Cliff Kapono
This article is lifted from the pages of Wavelength Vol. 263 and is always better in print. You can grab a copy of Vol. 263 here or subscribe for £25 a year, to receive both mags direct to your door along with a bonus freebie of your choice as a thank you for being part […]
Drop In Sessions Episode 9: Steph Gilmore
“You can win a bunch of trophies, but if you leave people with a genuine sense of inspiration for themselves to go out there and achieve their dreams and goals then that’s really the main point of this” Every so often in life, an athlete comes along who truly blows the doors off the realms […]
The Weekly Wavelength Q&A: Patrick Langdon-Dark
“What’s your guiltiest pleasure? Florence and the Machine, or longboarding.” Short questions and big answers from the key players in the surf world. Patrick Langdon-Dark is a former Under 18 British Champion and QS surfer from Swansea, Wales. PLD had a breakout year in 2021 when he secured a career-best 5th place in the Azores […]
Jalaan Slabb: Chasing Rainbows
We meet 17 year old Jalaan Slabb, the New South Wales surfer and shaper born-and-bred in Fingal Head, who is making waves in the industry for her far-out designs and unique approach to shaping. I’m speaking to 17 year old board-shaping prodigy Jalaan Slabb via Zoom from her home in Fingal Head on the East […]
Boards, Bikes and a Rolling Home
With a growing demand for people buying campervans and rolling down the open road, the dream of hitting the highway is increasingly becoming reality for a handful of tactical travellers. Intertwining daily adventures with remote working, where there’s wifi and waves you’ll now find a whole hoard of digital nomads enjoying an office in nature. […]
Ride & Glide: Your Guide To Britain’s Finest Coastal Bike Trips
We’ve had a great summer at Watergate Bay with our friends from Harley-Davidson up at the Wavelength Drive-In Cinema, offering attendees the opportunity to check out their range of classic and contemporary bikes up close. Don’t forget, you can still win the chance to ride one for a weekend. Click the link, or scroll to the bottom […]
Deep Cuts From The Wavelength Archive – Part I – The Early Years
Twenty-twenty-one marks Wavelength’s 40th year in print. So far to celebrate, we’ve created a special anniversary edition filled with stories considering shifting realities and re-released some of our original loungewear from the era in the form of the Wavelength Heritage Range. Over the coming months, we’ll be diving deep into the Wavelength archive to bring […]
Arctic Walrus Spotted Off The Cornish Coast For First Time In History
Yesterday an arctic walrus was spotted near Padstow, marking the first sighting of the species off the Cornish coast since records began. The walrus, affectionately named Wally, is thought to have been hanging out around the British Isles for some time, with various sightings in Ireland and Wales of an identically sized and marked animal […]
We Asked The Chairman Of British Surfing How The £1.35 Million Of UK Sport Funding Will Be Spent
Last year British Surfing were awarded £1.35 million of Olympic funding. Ahead of the British Nationals this weekend, we called up the chairman of the organisation to find out how they plan to spend it. Here’s what he told us:
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 […]
Photos From An Epic Run Of Swell On The British Isles’ Atlantic Coast
When it comes to waves, weather and world events, January has been a pretty bleak month for many. So, when the forecast lit up last week with prophecy of the biggest clean swell in recent memory, it was the perfect ticket to lift the spirits of surfers and storm watchers alike. After a few fun […]
The Stormrider Guide Europe, 1991: The Birth of European Surfing?
[As Wavelength celebrates its 40th birthday in 2021, we revisit at some of the more colourful chapters in European surfing history.] When was European surfing born? That is of course, a trick question, depending on what exactly you mean by European surfing. Perhaps it was in the late Cretaceous, as the European and Iberian tectonic […]
Finding Thurso: A Tale of Two Scousers
[As Wavelength celebrates its 40th birthday in 2021, we revisit at some of the more colourful chapters in European surfing history.] Essential accoutrements for the golden age of surf discovery surely include VW vans, moustaches and open minds. The valiant quest for long, reeling point tubes was mainly undertaken in the 1970’s, the decade that […]
Stories & Shots From The Monumental Epsilon Swell
First spotted as a spinning wind somewhere off the coast of Newfoundland, the level of hype ahead of last week’s swell looked, to a miserable pessimist, like a recipe for disappointment. However, after Hurricane Epsilon merged with another Atlantic depression early in the week, it did just as it was supposed to, making landfall on […]
5 British Mysto Waves To Look Out For This Winter
So that’s it for summer then? This time last week, the view outside the window was one of autumnal perfection. Head high waves, light winds, sunny skies. The sort of conditions almost every surfer would break into one of those tottering jogs for. Now, the view looks very different. The horizontal rain is back and […]
The Real Stories Behind The Internet’s Most Viral Surf Shots
Once released into the digital wilds, photos have a habit of taking on a life of their own. Like the biological agent after which they’re named, viral shots live in a constant spin cycle of copying, editing, resizing and resharing, until one day enough variations exist to fill a small desert server farm. Surf shots […]
Discovering Bagpipe; A Brief History Of A Crazy Scottish Slab
It was a balmy summer’s day in 1975’s when Welsh surfer and photographer Paul Gill crossed a boggy field on Scotland’s north coast and watched waves breaking across the shallow flagstone shelf that would come to be known as the Bagpipe. He’d first visited the coastline four years earlier on a geography field trip and […]
Introducing The TOMS X OuterKnown Summer Subscription Special
To celebrate the launch of our brand new print edition, we’ve partnered with our friends at TOMS and OUTERKNOWN to create an exclusive subscription offer, perfect for the season of long balmy days and light relief. As we type, somewhere in South Wales our summer volume is rolling hot off the presses. It’s dedicated to […]
Listen: ‘The Public Are Vandals Who Can’t Be Trusted, They’ll Run Amok’
New podcast episode: Right to roam with Guy Shrubsole & Nick Hayes
Europe Officially Back In The Water
For the first time in over two months, Europe’s Atlantic lineups, from the Arctic Circle down to the Gibraltar Straits are open for surfers Five days after lockdown officially ended in France a week ago (11/05), and after some 66 days banned from the nation’s lineups, French surfers were allowed back in the water this […]
Inspired Surfer – Richard Walker – MD of Iceland foods
A surfer who juggles running a £3B+ turnover business with having a positive environmental impact, pioneering mountain ascents and getting in the water as much as possible…
An Honest Review Of The Wave Bristol’s New Expert Settings
It was easy to forget, as I joined several dozen surfers frolicking in the sun at The Wave Bristol yesterday, that the country is currently in the throes of a mounting pandemic. Sure there was the odd elbow bump in lieu of a handshake and the odd mutter about lockdown, but for the most part, […]
In Defence Of The Hastings Storm Surfer
On Monday of this week, a lone surfer jumped off a harbour wall for a surf in Hastings as solid 6-foot onshore waves pounded the shoreline. Nestled way up the channel coast, in the south-east corner of Britain, Hastings isn’t exactly a surfing hub. But still a small community of wave riders exist there, waiting […]
The Incredible Life Of Cribbar Pioneer Ric Friar
[This article originally appeared in Volume 255. Subscibe to Wavelength now to never miss an issue.] “He was implying I was a coward if I didn’t paddle out,” recalls Ric Friar with crystal clarity of a morning back in 1963, when a monster storm swell battered his local stretch of reef. Despite a barrage of […]
British Surf Community Steps Up; Instantly Donates Over 100 Boards To Great Cause
Some days, you’d be forgiven for thinking that social media is nothing but a scourge, and surfers are a wholly selfish bunch. However, over the last few weeks, a campaign started by Cornwall based surfer, shaper and industry bod Brad Rochfort has proved both of those assumptions are entirely false. A few months ago Brad […]
Is A Mix Of Ocean And Artificial Waves The Key To Fast-Tracking Progression?
Ever since the world’s first commercial wave pool opened up in the wilds of north Wales, speculation has been rife that a new generation of wave pool based wunderkin will one day take over the surfing world. While this battalion of uber-consistent freshwater shredders are yet to materialise, a much more prevalent, but much less […]
British Surfing Respond Over Team Selection Controversy
Yesterday we reported on the social media furore that followed the decision to leave Luke Dillon- the highest ranked Brit on the QS- off the British team heading to the 2019 ISA world games. While controversy often follows national team selection, people’s frustration was particularly acute as this year’s ISA’s stand as Britain’s best shot […]
Great British Van Trips
So you fancy a trip away, of course you do. By the looks of things – and allow me to be frank here – you look like you need one. You want to ride waves, you want to get out there and explore, have epic experiences in the great beyond. Sure, you could take the […]
Should Surfers Travel?
We surfers are way ahead of all the riff raff out there. Streets, light years, etc. So much so, in fact, that any comparisons between us and the ‘legions of the unjazzed’ as one of our foremost prophets, Phil Edwards labelled em in the mid 60’s, seem unfair. Oh go on then… let us indulge in […]
How Not To Surf The South West
When spring has properly sprung, the ocean curious Briton’s conscience turns instinctively down and left, towards the granite index finger fringed in foaming surf known as the South West Peninsula. Sure, there are great waves elsewhere on our island, like the brave NE, or perhaps the charismatic Wales. Scotland has some of the very finest reef breaks in Europe […]
Emergency on Planet Shred: 5 Books for Eco Woke Wave Riders
“Because I am happy at sea and perhaps to save my soul” There are different ways of honing your own surf-tinged strand of eco-woke awareness. It could be through time spent gorping at the News Feed, practicing Insta’s more performative brand of alleged environmentalism. But alas, there are only so many vegan yoga humblebrags, so […]
Brexit: Cornish & Welsh Surfers “To The Back of Lineup Queue”
EU Culture and Sports Secretary Federica Lessais has sparked controversy by suggesting that UK passport holders from regions known to have voted leave in the 2016 EU Referendum might receive less favourable treatment on Continental surf trips if the UK crashes out with No Deal on April 12th. The quote came days after a EuroSIMA memo also suggested […]
Storm Freya Set To Batter Britain With Howling Winds And Solid Storm Swell
The last few winters have been all about the named storms. Notable monikers from yesteryear include Eleanor, Brian, Ophelia, Hercules, Doris and Imogen, but here we are, at the end of February 2019, without having had a single one worth getting excited about. According to the Met Office, there has only been one storm worthy […]
WATCH: Dave Rastovich & A Pod Of Dolphins
This is ‘Wajung’, a magical new little short from Nathan Oldfield, featuring Rasta surfing with a pod of dolphins. Here’s a little more insight into the film from Oldfield: ‘Wajung’ is the name given to the bottlenose dolphin by the Arakwal People, the traditional custodians of this region of Bundjalung Country on the Far North […]
Why You Need An Asymmetrical Surfboard In Your Quiver
It’s been said that the universe was born from spontaneous symmetry breaking. “Only some living things have the pleasure of a sex, whereas everything in the world, whether animate or inanimate, is provided with a direction,” writes the French philosopher Michel Serres. “Things lean to one side: force fields, boreal auroras, twisting turbulences, cyclones, spots […]
Everything You Want To Know About Bristol’s Almost-Finished Wave Pool
This interview was conducted prior to the opening of the Wave Bristol. You can find all the latest information about the Wave here, and read our honest review here. Yesterday we brought you the news that the wheels are in motion for a London wave pool. The team behind the plans include an extensive collaboration […]
Eden Faces Backlash Over Plans For Devon Wave Pool
Last week it was announced that plans for a £200 million surf lake and mini Eden Project near Tiverton are to be looked at by a planning inspector. Plans for the development have been in the pipeline since 2002, however they’ve been subject to a series of hurdles and delays. The project’s current incarnation would […]
Britain’s Surfing Olympic Hopefuls Announced
Over the weekend the names of the British surfers heading to the 2019 ISA World Games to compete for Olympic qualification were announced. In the mens, the team features Bude’s Reubyn Ash, who’s widely considered as Britain’s premiere all round surfing talent, Newquay’s Luke Dillon, undoubtedly our finest contemporary competitive surfer and Kiwi Jay Quinn, […]
Five Inspiring Revelations From Ocean Plastic Solutions Day Presented By SAS & Finisterre
On Monday a collection of activists, academics, businesspeople and royalty convened at the Wheal Kitty workshops in St Agnes to discuss the largest issue blighting our ocean environment and share some of the most innovative and exciting solutions currently being proposed. We listened attentively as a procession of inspiring speakers took to the stage, with […]
Is Hurricane Chris Coming To Britain To Save Us From Our Small Wave Woes?
Britain has seen nothing better than choppy knee to chest high waves for almost a month, but now, with a named hurricane making it’s way across the Atlantic, is our luck set to change? ‘Chris’ started out as a tropical storm late Tuesday evening, just over 200 miles south east of South Carolina, before being […]
Champions Crowned At The Rip Curl GromSearch Croyde Event
With the largest entry in recent years the second stop of the Rip Curl GromSearch UK series went down in solid waves at Croyde Bay in North Devon on the weekend of 16 and 17th June. The thumping onshore sections provided an altogether different challenge than the clean small waves on offer at the previous […]
A Week Of Pumping Waves And Sunny Skies Forecast For SW England & Beyond!
Spring has been off to an excellent start here in the south west and next week it looks like things are set to get even better. Both weather and wave forecasters are lodging predictions bound to bring a smile to the faces of Devon and Cornwall based surfers, with a run of sunny skies, warm […]
Four Places In England You Never Knew Had Waves
Although the idea that Britain has no waves at all is starting to fade worldwide, coverage of our beloved surf scene is still very much focussed around a few key areas. Accordingly, you’d be forgiven for thinking very little surfing goes down outside of SW England, Thurso, the NE and South Wales. The reality though, is […]
Are Surfers Really More At Risk Of Antibiotic Resistant Diseases?
Earlier this week news websites from around the world lit up with headlines which claimed, according to a new study, surfers were three times more at risk of contracting antibiotic resistant superbugs than those who never venture into the sea. The study, conduced by researchers at Exeter uni, examined the bacteria living inside the guts […]
Two Massive Atlantic Swells Are Heading For Europe
After a quiet start to the winter for much of the UK and Europe’s Atlantic coastlines, it looks like things might be starting to wake up as we head into 2018. Forecasters are predicting a succession of Atlantic storms currently making their way towards Europe’s western facing coastlines, with the height of the swell forecast […]
Meet Swansea Super-Grom & British U18 Champ Patrick Langdon-Dark
From winning this summer’s U18 UK Night Surf in Newquay, to representing Wales at senior level in the European Championships on the frigid Norwegian coast, it’s been a pretty good year for Swansea shredder Patrick Langdon-Dark. The Gower youngster sealed the deal last month at Fistral, where he prevailed in wind-stricken 3ft ramps to win […]
Hurricanes Combine To Create Rare Super Storm, Britain To Be Smashed With Swell
Two North Atlantic hurricanes are set to converge and create what forecasters are calling a UK bound superstorm, set to arrive on our shores at the end of this week. The two hurricanes, named Maria and Lee, have already had a significant impact on the other side of the Atlantic. Maria, which is the tenth most […]
Welcome To Porthcawl; Welsh Surfing’s Most Popular Heartland
My fingers drum the steering wheel and I’m ready to tear my hair out. The line of traffic stretches out in front, blocking the way to the waves, which are inevitably going off. Frustration consuming me, I try not to dwell on what I’m missing – or the stench from my wetsuit boots. I first […]
Man O’ War Jellyfish Wash Up On Cornish and Welsh Coastlines
Large numbers of Portuguese man o’ war jellyfish have been washing up along the coastline of Cornwall and Wales after a series of heavy storms. Earlier this morning Perranporth beach was red flagged after a smack (yep, that’s the collective noun) of potentially lethal man o’ war were spotted in the sea. The news comes as […]
From Culling To Subsidised Shields: Shark Attack Prevention Around The World
With more attacks occurring than ever before and recent deaths in WA and Reunion Island, the debate around the best way to deter sharks from making contact with ocean users is more relevant than ever. The discussion remains fiercely contentious, with nothing highlighting the volatility on both sides better than the debate which raged on […]
Where Are The Nearest Surf Breaks To London?
For surfers living in London, getting to decent waves can be a real mission. Whether travelling by car or public transport, the obstacles are plentiful. For those bound for the South West there’s the choice between the perpetually congested M5 or tractor clogged A303 and if you’re planning on hoping over to Cymru for a […]
Surfing England Recognised As Surfing’s NGB (And Why It Matters)
It’s a harsh and irrefutable reality that is not often discussed in the surf media, but in this country, the ability to become a pro surfer has been limited to those whose parents can afford it. Competition entry fees, coaching and travel to competitions (both ISA & WSL) abroad are all essential and costly steps […]
Five Welshies To Watch
Despite being the smallest of the Celtic nations, the surf scene in Wales has always had a big impact on Britain as a whole. Since the early 70s it has churned out a string of British and European champions, including pioneer Pete “PJ” Jones, Linda Jones, Carwyn Williams and Simon Tucker . Since then the […]
Welcome to Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Cresting the top of the cliff, the split second before the North Sea is laid out before me, my heart rate still increases palpably as the rush of adrenaline hits. In my early days of surfing, before I figured out how to read a chart and before the Internet brought swell forecasting to the masses, […]
Everything You Know About How To Survive A Rip Could Be Wrong
It’s an age old adage that most ocean users swear by; if you get caught in a rip sucking you out to sea, simply swim or paddle parallel to the beach and soon you’ll find yourself released from its grip. It’s advice doled out by water safety experts and information boards at thousands of beaches […]
Welcome To South Pembrokeshire
Discovering the first stop for swell in Wales
Welcome to Whitby, Yorkshire
Forget the stereotypes, Yorkshire isn’t all flat caps, whippets and ‘ee by gums,’ for over here in the small coastal town of Whitby, things have developed in relative isolation and therefore have a distinct character more in common with Scandinavia than say, Leeds. Surrounded on three sides by the spectacular North Yorkshire Moors National Park, […]
Huge Atlantic Storm Surge set to Paralyse the UK Bringing Monstrous Surf
Britain is on high alert as a raft of storms are set to batter the coastline this week bringing with them the biggest surf so far this year. Waves are set to swell to in excess of 20ft in some areas as the storm (which may be named Doris) slams into the country causing upset and disruption […]
The Art of Camping
Times are tough, money for travel gets scarcer but waves still keep rolling in. so why not take a surf trip within the UK, living under the stars in a tent?
We Need To Talk About British Surfing
For many of us, surfing is an escape from other boring, politics-laden areas of our day to day lives, and as such, we try to fill our magazine with the kind of stories and photography which aid that escape. However, sometimes we feel it’s important to take a step back and address some of the […]
This Is How Many People Have Surfed Surf Snowdonia Since It Opened
Despite a seemingly shaky start, according to newly released figures, Surf Snowdonia has enjoyed a thoroughly successful first year. The stats revealed it has welcomed a massive 150,000 visitors over the course of the season, which is more than double what they had originally forecast. The number includes 18,000 overseas visitors, ratifying the parks initial claims […]
Hacker Uses Surf Web Cams to Perv on Sunbathing Women
A webcam normally used to check the waves and conditions at one of Sydney’s top surf spots has been hacked to instead zoom in on scantily clad bathers up and down the beach. Women at Freshwater beach in Australia were unaware that their sunbathing antics were being monitored by the virtual infiltrator. The local Police have said the intrusion should […]
Late Season Snapper
Snapper throws a last horrah as the season draws to a close, featuring Joel Parkinson, Sheldon Simkus, Nick Vasicek, Brent Dorrington, Luke Egan, and Asher Wales:
Surfing GB & The ESF’s Big Merger
It’s a harsh and irrefutable reality that is not often discussed in the surf media, but in this country, the ability to become a pro surfer has been limited to those whose parents can afford it. Competition entry fees, coaching and travel to competitions (both ISA & WSL) abroad are all essential and costly steps […]
My Canvas With Alan Stokes
To celebrate the official online launch of ‘My Canvas’, a new short film starring Alan Stokes, we decided to catch up with the brains behind the lens, film maker Mr B. First up though, here’s the film itself: Mr B has has been one of the most prominent names in surf film making in the […]
From this City
As every surfer across the globe will know, living in a city comes with it’s consequences – often missing the swell and the minimal daylight hours to meet deadlines, watching your mates score back home while you’re sat at a computer desk and, in my case, clicking away on a mouse in the edit suite […]
Rhys Barfield at the Wave Garden
Welsh junior champion Rhys Barfield recently joined a whole host of international pros up at that pond with a wave in it North Wales you’ve been hearing so much about lately, for the Red Bull Unleashed event. Here’s a new super slick little edit from Olly Fawcett, the lensman behind Tea and Cake productions, documenting […]
La Danse Macabre
‘La Danse Macabre’; an edit created by Desillusion’s editor-in-chief Sebastien Zanella, which follows him spending a night with Anderson as they wander round the East coast of New South Wales, Australia. In this we are privy to the thoughts and processes of Anderson’s mind, where he confronts his past demons and illustrates the depth of his […]
The Muddy Brothers
[The article ‘The Muddy Brothers’ originally appeared in Volume 239. Subscibe to Wavelength now to never miss an issue.] If you were going for a leisurely stroll through the Gloucestershire countryside around the spring equinox, you might be surprised to find a convoy of cars, surfboards loosely strapped to their roofs, racing down the narrow […]
County Limits
The latest news is there’s three tow teams getting ready to launch, hordes of pro surfers, photographers from every surf mag in Europe and a man running around with an iron bar looking for a fight… apparently. Tensions have reached an all-time high and by the end of this day, blood will be spilled. If […]
The Geeks behind the Peaks at Surf Snowdonia
The company behind a visionary, one-of-a-kind engineering project in North Wales has revealed some of the details behind the unique machinery and technology that will transform a redundant former aluminium quarry in Snowdonia into the first inland surf lagoon of its kind. Until now, the precise detail behind Surf Snowdonia’s state-of-the-art patented technology has been […]
Surf Snowdonia Announces Launch Date
Surf Snowdonia, the world’s first ever publicly accessible Wavegarden® surfing lagoon has announced it will open its doors to the public on Saturday 1st August, 2015. The one-of-a-kind inland surf facility is being constructed at the village of Dolgarrog, in the Conwy Valley, North Wales. The announcement of the summer 2015 launch follows an ambitious […]
Surf Snowdonia appoints former British Junior Team Coach
Surf Snowdonia, the world’s first publicly accessible Wavegarden surfing lagoon, has announced the appointment of Jo Dennison as head coach at its surf academy. The inland surf facility, which is widely anticipated to be a game-changer for the global surf scene, opens in the Conwy Valley, North Wales, in July 2015. Jo is a three-times […]
Welsh National Surfing Championships
The Welsh Surfing Federation is pleased to announce that this year’s Welsh National Surfing Championships will be co-sponsored by Rusty, FCS and Gorilla (through Holysport UK) and MiPost Mailing Solutions, Cardiff. In a statement President Huw John said: “We’re delighted that following last year’s successful sponsorship deal that Rusty, FCS and Gorilla will again be […]
Rip Curl sign partnership with Surf Snowdonia
Surf Snowdonia, the world’s first ever publicly accessible Wavegarden® surfing lagoon, has announced a major partnership deal with Rip Curl, one of the world’s leading surf brands. The partnership agreement will see Rip Curl provide wetsuits for Surf Snowdonia’s Surf Academy as well as wetsuits, clothing and accessories for sale in Surf Snowdonia’s retail space. […]
The Grom Files – Finn Gamblin
We’re back with a fresh new from file, this week first one is Finn Gamblin from Tynemouth. Name: Finn Gamblin Age: 12 Instagram / Twitter: Finn_Gamblin Local break: Tynemouth Longsands When did you first start surfing: When I was 6 years old at Tynemouth it was 4ft with my dad How did you get into […]
Grom Files – Rory Morgan
We’re back with a fresh new from file, this week first one is Rory Morgan from Bournemouth. Name: Rory Morgan Age: 15 Instagram: rorymorgn Local break: Bournemouth When did you first start surfing: 3 1/2 years How did you get into surfing: Had a lesson on Waikiki beach, Honolulu Who are your surf buddies: Elliot […]
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It’s cold underfoot. Looking back over the marshes a brisk westerly cuts across frozen fields. Everything is white, crispy, even whilst the rest of the country is blustery here in Suffolk we’ve had a brief but hard frost. Further north the swell is heaving. I know this because I have checked the charts and it’s […]
Grom Files – Seth Hughes
The fourth of our groms from Portugal is Seth Hughes from the south coast. Name: Seth Age: 15 Instagram: seth_hughes2311 Local Break: Sandbanks Started surfing: Started surfing when I was 9 and started training with Joel when I was 11. How did I get into surfing?: I got into surfing in Boscombe at Surf Steps surf school. […]