Cornwall Artist Clara Jonas on Hand to Surf and Create Art Wavelength is stoked to announce RVCA as a partner for the Spring Classic Surf Invitational. As part of their Balance of Opposites Summer Tour, the design-driven lifestyle brand is getting behind the UK’s newest surf and music festival to be held at Woolacombe between […]
Introducing Vol. 264
[Want to get your hands on a copy? Wavelength gets delivered straight to your door either as a single edition or annual subscription. Our subscription packages include a free gift and along with plenty of other benefits, subscribers get their copies of Wavelength before anyone else.] An actual real-life magazine that stares into the bright lights and dark […]
The Uni Surf Invitational Comes to the Spring Classic
The UK’s brightest minds, biggest partyers, and keenest surfers set to battle it out in North Devon. It’s such a genius idea, it’s a miracle it hasn’t been done before. The inaugural Uni Surf Invitational will gather the brightest minds of the nation for a varsity surf challenge on the North Devon coast, offering a […]
“We Are The Anti-Christ Of Surf Contests.”
Wavelength sat down with Joel Tudor in Rio to talk through the Vans Duct Tape Invitational, the state of longboarding, and why it’s all about the party. Over a decade ago, Joel Tudor created the Vans Duct Tape Invitational. The two-time World Longboarding Champion wanted to create an event platform that showcased style and creativity […]
VISSLA Reminds Us Why Style Matters
With a new digital video entry contest and video series, Vissla has set out to remind us that Style Matters. “There is no greater medal than to be acclaimed for your style,” said the iconic Dutch Footballer Johan Cruyff, known for his “Cruyff Turn,” the roundhouse cutback he invented in the 1970s. In surfing, style […]
UK’s Best Surfers Stacked Up for the Spring Classic Surf Invitational
“What I’m most looking forward to is my first couple of dark and stormy rum cocktails after a day at the beach. Surfing isn’t about being serious.” Evie Johnstone. “I loved the location for the Spring Classic. That view from the bar at sunset, and the music, was so insane,” said The Spring Classic Surf […]
Looking Under The Hood Of North Devon’s Best Waves
The University of Plymouth’s research into the area’s wave mechanics was pivotal in North Devon being selected as the UK’s first World Surfing Reserve. On Friday, May 12th, North Devon will be dedicated as the first World Surfing Reserve in the United Kingdom. With our very own Spring Classic festival taking up residence on the […]
Defending Champion Ambre Victoire Talks Through Vans Duct Tape Invitational and Festival in Rio de Janeiro
“I fit better into a type of surfing that is more holistic and brings a community together to share something real through their unique style.” The Vans Duct Tape is kicking off its 11th season by heading to Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Macumba Beach from May 12th to 14th. It is a beautiful Venn diagram […]
SAS Introduces ‘The Floater’: A Surfboard Made from Raw Sewage
Ahead of the UK’s first ever mass paddle-out water pollution protest on 20 May. Surfers Against Sewage is staging a mass paddle-out protest against sewage pollution, with more than a dozen events to be held at beaches and rivers across the UK on Saturday 20th May. We’d advise you to grab your surfboards, paddles, rafts, […]
Postcards from Mexico: Homeward Bound
I’ve been at this for most of my adult life, but it still feels like a dream every time I come home. Like it’s happened to someone else. I sit across the table from my pal Matty, on the train to Penzance, we’re mostly silent, our bodies resting at last. Enough chat for a lifetime […]
Postcards from Mexico: Equal Parts Joy and Sadness
I opened my laptop and scratched around for some internet this morning. For the first time in a week. The Mexi Log Fest is on its penultimate day, and I feel as empty of energy as my inbox is full of emails. The festival is seven days of intensity. Surfing of the highest quality from dawn […]
Defending Champ Mike Lay Ready for Round Two of the Spring Classic Surf Invitational
After training in Mexico, he’s surf and festival fit. The finest surf sliders in the land have been invited to North Devon to go toe to toe with local legends and shredders in the Spring Classic Surf Invitational. Sponsored by Dead Man’s Fingers and AllPress Espresso, it’s part surf competition, part jamboree, part festival, with […]
Postcards from Mexico: on the road to La Saladita
The bougainvillaea is in bloom and we pass field after field of mango, avocado and coconut trees on the hot road south to Saladita. The steep hills are dotted with papaya and behind the distant mountains a fire rages, staining the sky orange and acrid brown. Off the main drag and we bounce down the cobbled […]
Perfect Post-Surf Cocktails at the Spring Classic with Dead Man’s Fingers
With Dead Man’s Fingers sponsoring The Spring Classic Surf Invitational, we provide a rum cocktail of good times, good vibes, and good surfing. We are stoked to welcome Dead Man’s Fingers as proud partners of the Spring Classic Surf Invitational. It makes all kinds of sense. The unique spiced rum came to life in the […]
Through the Keyhole: Sligo County, Ireland
With Irish female pioneer surfer Melanie White, founder of Rebelle Surf Different Perspectives “I’m from Northern Ireland and I started surfing late, but I was always a sailor. Managing fear and being exposed to the wildness of the ocean and the Atlantic is something I learned very early. Last year we sailed around Ireland. To […]
The Ultimate Packing List for Female Surf Trips
If you’re packing up for a surf trip (perhaps you were inspired by our rundown of the 8 Best Women’s Surf Retreats to hit up this year) we’ve done you a solid and put down a go-to handy list of what you might want to take with you. Covering everything from surf kit, apparel, skin, […]
Q&A with Lewis Arnold: Director of The Big Sea
‘The Big Sea‘ is a new documentary that has investigated surfing’s hidden links to Cancer Alley. Filmmaker and surfer Lewis Arnold travelled to the Denka factory in Louisiana, where most of the world’s neoprene, the commercial name for chloroprene rubber, is made. Here the EPA states that the cancer risk to the community is the […]
10 Ways to Plan a Sustainable Surf Trip
The bad news: surf travel sucks for the planet. The good news: there’s plenty you can do to make it suck less. Let’s not beat around the bush; surf travel sure ain’t the greenest kid in the room. Tobias Shultz, mechanical engineer and author of an extensive study on the carbon footprint of the surfing lifestyle, ‘The […]
New Movie ‘Yama’ Shines a Light on Pioneering Female Surfers and Skaters in Ghana
‘Yama’ is a new movie that follows Australian surfer and activist Lucy Small as she travels to Ghana to meet with a group of pioneering female surfers and skaters. Once a stronghold of the transatlantic slave trade, and with a history of Atlantic aquatic surf culture long before colonial invasion, it is a story of […]
‘Good Days Surf Camps’ Teach Ukrainian Refugee Kids How to Surf
Founder Kshisya Tachanskaya is using the healing powers of the ocean, but needs your help. Kshisya Tachanskaya describes herself as a Ukrainian, mother of two kids, and a surfer. She runs Good Days, a charity surf camp for refugees from Ukraine. Before the Russian invasion, Kshisya had been part of Ukraine’s tight-knit surfing community and […]
The Spring Classic Surf Invitational Returns To Devon
The UK’s funnest gathering of the surfing tribe brings the best European surfing talent and good times to Woolacombe Bay. The Spring Classic Surf Invitational is returning to Woolacombe Bay, North Devon. It is a key plank, if you will pardon the pun, of the Wavelength Spring Classic, a surf, music, and ride culture festival […]
ALYS BARTON TOPS EUROPE ELITE AND BRINGS HOME COLD WAVE TITLE
British surfer and reigning British and European Champion, Alys Barton, recently became the youngest ever winner of the Porsche Cold Wave event in Poland, competing in sub zero conditions and beating off some of the biggest names in Europe. 18 year old Barton is proving that age holds no limit to ability, successfully establishing herself […]
OUR TOP 5 FEMALE SURF STORIES
As we welcome International Women’s Day, we’ve rounded up some of our favourite female surf stories that showcase incredible women of the waves. From battling icy barrels in Canada to pioneering wins at Pipeline, these sisters of the sea well and truly set the bar. The Rad Women’s Surf Communities of Scandinavia First up, three […]
