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European Wooden Surfboard Meet 2024 heads to Spain

On Friday 27 September and Saturday 28 September a fourth European Wooden Surfboard Meet will be held at Playa de Berria, in the vicinity of Santoña (Cantabria, Spain). While many attendees know each other and communicate online, the event is…

By David Somerville

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Carving Up the Cornish Coast: Carver Skate Demo Day at 10 Over Surf Shop

This weekend 10 Over Surf Shop hosted its first ever Carver Skateboard demo day in Newquay, Cornwall. Under the Cornish sunshine surfers and skaters from all over the south west congregated to test drive some of the latest surf skate…

By Chris Thomson

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Boardmasters Festival Unveils Oceana As Official Environmental Partner For 2024 And Beyond

Today’s news marks further action for Boardmasters in its pledge to #LeaveOnlyFootprints, and Oceana’s first major partnership in the UK. Oceana recently launched in the UK with Hugo Tagholm at the helm and is making waves exposing the industrial threats…

By Chris Thomson

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Adaptive Surfing In The UK

As surfers we all know how good it feels to get in the sea and ride the waves. Everyone deserves the chance to feel that feeling – and that’s what adaptive surfing is about. Using specialist coaching and equipment there’s…

By Hannah Bevan

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A Flex: How Yulex Cleaned Up the Wetsuit Business

Jeff Martin’s flight had only just landed in Munich when he made time for us to chat the Yulex story. As a founder and CEO, it’s a transformative tale of shifting the wetsuit industry off petrochemicals and towards plant-based rubber.…

By Ed Temperley

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A Surfer’s Guide to Greenwashing: Navigating the Choppy Seas of Marketing

This is part one of an ongoing series looking at how to ask the right questions of your surf brands and understand how marketing isn’t always what it seems. Shock horror, right? Brands want to sell you their products and…

By Ed Temperley

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The art of Anchor Point with Vasco Ribeiro

Last month, Wavelength headed to Morocco for the Taghazout Surf Expo, situated in prime position right in front of the jewel in the country’s surfing crown, Anchor Point. Billed as ‘the international hub of the surf ecosystem,’ the event saw…

By Andy Tozer

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Everywhere I go: The Maud Le Car Interview

As you know, SW France can be surfing heaven or hell. Luckily, the swell gods had been kind to us on the morning of our Maud Le Car interview, and having paddled out in the dark, we were flush with…

By Ed Temperley

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Salt x Gravel Redefine the Surf Leash Aesthetic

Is there any reason surf leashes have to look generic? Hazel Chapman is challenging us to rethink the leash with her limited edition drop, available now to grab on Kickstarter. Like plenty of surf brands, Salt x Gravel was born…

By Wavelength

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Predn Surf – Shaping a revolution in Kernow

Revolutions are a messy business, often best talked about over the dinner table than actually conducted in all their randomness and unintended consequences. Often, the best kind of revolutionary acts are the quiet ones, the swapping of philosophies due to…

By Ed Temperley

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A new narrative with Hugo Tagholm: People want to hear about solutions; they want to hear about hope.

Imagine you are a pressure group who have managed to get your issue to the top of the news agenda. But now you must push home that advantage and turn column inches and public awareness into legislative change. How do…

By Ed Temperley

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Glory Days

The life and times of Art Brewer. Words: Dibi Fletcher Photos: Art Brewer It seems like another lifetime, that fateful winter of 1969, when Art Brewer moved into the house next door to Herb and I on the North Shore.…

By Wavelength

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