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NewsSpring Classic

31st May 2023

RVCA Bring the Art to Spring Classic Surf Invitational  

RVCA Bring the Art to Spring Classic Surf Invitational  

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 […]

Environment Travel

25th May 2023

Introducing Vol. 264

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 […]

Spring Classic

22nd May 2023

The Uni Surf Invitational Comes to the Spring Classic

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 […]

NewsVans Duct Tape

20th May 2023

“We Are The Anti-Christ Of Surf Contests.”  

“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 […]

News

19th May 2023

VISSLA Reminds Us Why Style Matters

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 […]

Spring ClassicTravel

17th May 2023

UK’s Best Surfers Stacked Up for the Spring Classic Surf Invitational

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 […]

News

11th May 2023

Looking Under The Hood Of North Devon’s Best Waves  

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 […]

NewsVans Duct Tape

5th May 2023

Defending Champion Ambre Victoire Talks Through Vans Duct Tape Invitational and Festival in Rio de Janeiro

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 […]

News

4th May 2023

SAS Introduces ‘The Floater’: A Surfboard Made from Raw Sewage  

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, […]

Travel

3rd May 2023

Postcards from Mexico: Homeward Bound

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 […]

Travel

2nd May 2023

Postcards from Mexico: Equal Parts Joy and Sadness

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 […]

Travel

28th April 2023

Defending Champ Mike Lay Ready for Round Two of the Spring Classic Surf Invitational

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 […]

Travel

22nd April 2023

Postcards from Mexico: on the road to La Saladita

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 […]

Travel

20th April 2023

Perfect Post-Surf Cocktails at the Spring Classic with Dead Man’s Fingers

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 […]

FilmTravel

20th April 2023

Through the Keyhole: Sligo County, Ireland

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 […]

FilmTravel

12th April 2023

The Ultimate Packing List for Female Surf Trips

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, […]

Travel

12th April 2023

Q&A with Lewis Arnold: Director of The Big Sea

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 […]

Travel

24th March 2023

10 Ways to Plan a Sustainable Surf Trip

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 […]

FilmTravel

23rd March 2023

New Movie ‘Yama’ Shines a Light on Pioneering Female Surfers and Skaters in Ghana

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 […]

News

22nd March 2023

‘Good Days Surf Camps’ Teach Ukrainian Refugee Kids How to Surf

‘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 […]

Cornwall GalleryPhoto Gallery

10th March 2023

Dreamy Cornwall On The Last Day of Winter

Spring Classic

9th March 2023

The Spring Classic Surf Invitational Returns To Devon

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 […]

Spring Classic

8th March 2023

ALYS BARTON TOPS EUROPE ELITE AND BRINGS HOME COLD WAVE TITLE 

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 […]

Women

8th March 2023

OUR TOP 5 FEMALE SURF STORIES 

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 […]

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6th January 2023

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