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Litmus: Ireland Unveiled & The Birth of Ride Everything

How a melancholic 90’s indy surf film championing middle aged outliers revealed Hawaiian style surf in the Emerald Isle, and changed what everyday surfers have ridden ever since. Andrew Kidman and Jon Frank’s 1996 surf film Litmus was nothing if…

By Paul Evans

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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 –…

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Locked Down But Not Out: Aritz Goes To Jail in Jo’Burg, 2007

[As Wavelength celebrates its 40th birthday in 2021, we revisit at some of the more colourful chapters in European surfing history.] Aritz Aranburu might be the hardest working man in European surfing over the past decade and a half. An…

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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…

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The First ‘Real’ Surf At La Graviere, 1980

[As Wavelength celebrates its 40th birthday in 2021, we revisit at some of the more colourful chapters in European surfing history.] By the end of the ’70s, the map of the surf world was still being drawn, with well-established scenes…

By Paul Evans