From the high latitude Scandinavian outposts preferred by bearded rubber fetishists. To Macaronesian Atlantic isle beauties and much on the Continental mainland between, Europe has an embarrassment of riches in terms of the variety and quality of its surf. Sure, some zones can be pretty crowded. And yeah, your chances of snaffling a legit set […]
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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 […]
Newquay Surfer Arrested On Board Sailboat Transporting 1.8 Tons Of Cocaine
On the 20th of June, 200 miles off the coast of Gran Canaria, a Spanish police boat pulled up alongside a UK flagged 40-foot yacht, with the name ‘Pepper Sauce’ emblazoned on its hull. The boat was swaying steadily in the Atlantic chop as three Spanish officials made their way on aboard. In the hull […]
Mining Deep Into The Mindset Of Luke Dillon; GB’s Highest Ranked Male Hopeful
Newquay boy Luke Dillon has been a mainstay in ranks of British competitive surfing for over a decade. He won the King of The Groms at aged nine and has held every British title since. A down to earth character, well liked by his contemporaries and lauded for his powerful surfing, with pepperings of progression […]
British Women’s Success Stories Are Not Being Told. It’s Time To Rectify That.
In a recent British Surf Broadcast, documenting surfer’s success stories so far this year, I couldn’t escape noticing that alongside the nine male surfers mentioned, there was only one female. And rightly so that young Ellie Turner was included, Ellie has been pushing the standards of British female surfing and continues to endlessly amaze me […]
The British Surf Broadcast, June 2018
Welcome to the British Surf Broadcast, June 2018 edition; your guide to all that’s been going on in the world of British surfing. Summer seems to have arrived in Blighty and if you haven’t been getting amongst it, you’ve been missing out. By now those boots and 5/4 should have been jubilantly cast aside and […]
Are There Great White Sharks In British Waters?
All over the world surfers remain constantly mindful of that which lurks below. Received wisdom says we’ve got it pretty good in Britain, because although our murky depths serve as a home for several species of sharks, attacks are virtually non-existent and there’s never been an officially confirmed sighting of, or an encounter with a […]
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 […]
We Need To Talk About Wetsuits; The Toxic Elephant In The Room
A good wetsuit is core to a good surfing experience, especially for those of us who enjoy the sideways glide in colder parts of the world. However, there is no doubt the wetsuit in its modern form is somewhat of an environmental catastrophe. Luckily, as with many of the gravest environmental issues there are some […]
In Conversation With Adam ‘Bearman’ Griffiths; New Father, Restaurant Owner & The 5th Best Longboarder In The World
Twenty-seventeen was a big year for Newquay’s Adam ‘Bearman’ Griffiths. He came fifth in the world on the longboarding world tour, fathered his first child with his wife Holly and opened up a bar and kitchen at Great Western beach. He hit the ground running once again in 2018, chasing swells around his native coastline […]
The Long View; Alan Stokes Reflects On 20 Years Of Professional Surfing
As Alan Stokes prepared to jet off to Costa Rica for his inaugural winter retreat, we sat down with him and asked him to reflect on the lessons learned from his career so far. Interestingly a large part of the discussion centred around his recent adoption of an approach to wave riding which has been […]
Meet Sam Boex; The Sponsored Surfer Turned Designer Behind A New Revolutionary Board Packaging
Hoots erupted from from headland as the wiry frame of Sam Boex emerged from the bowels of solid turquoise keg, lit perfectly by the low winter sun as it drained across Cornwall’s premiere stretch of reef. ‘That was a fun one’ Sam recounted modestly a few days later of the wave many were calling the […]
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 […]
Nixon’s ‘The Weird’ Brings Bizarre Craft Surf Comp To The UK
It’s been a hugely experimental few years for wave riding and board design. Through the desire of surfers around the world to ride waves differently, an anything-goes culture and a hugely creative global fraternity of shapers, surfing and board design are evolving as fast as they ever have, and it feels like the possibilities for […]
Introducing ‘North Coast Asylum’; A Cornish Art Collective Setting Up A Gallery In An Old Newquay Church
Meet Jo and Ben, the artist – photographer duo behind Newquay’s freshly launched creative sanctuary, North Coast Asylum. Previously based in the big smoke, the pair pooled years of experience working in London’s creative industries and relocated south to promote emerging and established artists. Whilst Cornwall’s association with the creative arts go way back, NCA’s […]
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 […]
Fancy A Surf Trip? Here’s How To Get Ridiculously Cheap Flights
Here in Cornwall we’ve had an almost unprecedentedly bad start to the winter. Weeks and weeks of on-shores and lacklustre swell have got the entire south west surf community about ready to run for the hills. While other parts of Blighty have been enjoying a slightly less tragic start to the season, as temperatures drop […]
Our Verdict On The Endless Winter II Newquay Premiere
Last night saw the Newquay premiere of the Endless Winter II, a feature length documentary charting the voyage of early surf pioneers down through Europe and into Africa. The documentaries co-director James Dean and presenter Mark ‘Egor’ Harriss greeted a packed auditorium, introducing the culmination of two years of hard work to an excitable gathering […]
The Endless Winter II Hitting A Cinema Near You
Off the back of an international festival tour (resulting in a Viewer’s Choice Award for Best Feature at the Santa Cruz Surf film Festival), The Endless Winter II is landing on British shores later this month. The British made feature doc traces the classic European surf trail from Cornwall to Morocco. Combining pioneering stories from […]
BUCS: Brit University Students Go Head To Head In Surf Champs
It’s a blustery day on Fistral beach, the waves are choppy, getting out the back is a challenge, and you have over 300 university students throughout the day, battling it out to catch a wave. BUCS also known as British Universities and Colleges of Sport is the leading association for university sport and organisers of […]
Wanted: Couple Needed To Run Private French Surf Island
Off the coast of Brittany sits a small island called Quéménès. It is barely inhabited, playing host to only a small farm which houses just one family. Thanks to its position, the island is frequently battered by Atlantic swells, but due to violent currents around its coastline, the surf is almost inaccessible. However in the […]
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 […]
London Surf / Film Festival 2017 Line Up Announced!
This year’s epic programme of premieres award winning features and underground projects from the world’s best showcases the multi-layered world of waveriding, exploring our salt water realm and the diverse characters that inhabit it with documentaries to inspire, travelogues to stir up the wanderlust and surfing to blow minds. Accompanied by Q+A’s with some of the world’s […]
Belinda Baggs On Fairtrade Surfing And Swapping Logs For Swim Fins
The room was packed, 50+ pairs of eyes staring intently at Belinda Baggs onstage. It was clear the turnout had surpassed all of Patagonia’s expectations, good effort Cornwall. The talented logger and bodysurfer best known for her graceful and fluid approach, is a passionate advocate of Fairtrade and a sustainable surf lifestyle. Having worked with Patagonia […]
Sam Supplier: The UK’s Most Unlikely Frother
Back in 2011 I received a tweet from @samsupplier saying “Alright Bruv, do you want to come on a surf trip with me and give me some coaching, I’ll pay everything innit.” I thought OK who’s this rudeboy DJ wanting to add surfing to his resume, so I politely declined the generous offer as I […]
How To Start Boosting (And Landing) Airs, With Alan Stokes
Top turns are so last year! With modern surfing hitting the stratosphere with pros like Holy Toledo throwing down two giant double ally’s on one wave, whilst wearing a jersey, it’s no wonder the air reverse has kinda become the new fins out top turn of modern day high-performance wave shredding. So if you haven’t […]
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 […]
After The Burn
Rich Blake was on the road in Morocco when the word Yallah got caught in his head. Buzzing on the local coffee, arms noodled from laps at a dusty right, he kept hearing local kids shout Yallah, which means ‘Let’s Go!’ in Arabic. Far from the latte-sipping hoards and without a handlebar moustache in sight, […]
These Are The Cornish Beaches Affected By Today’s Raw Sewage Outpourings
Whilst much of Cornwall has been enjoying clean fun sized surf today, the large amount of rain has left sewage infrastructure unable to cope, leading to raw sewage pouring into many of our local line-ups. According to Surfers Against Sewage’s Safer Seas app, which provides users with real time water quality updates, the following beaches […]
Independent Schools Surf Champs returns for third year
The Independent Schools Surf Championships is coming back to Perranporth, Cornwall this October 21st – 24th for the third year running and is set to be a banger with a record number of competitors entering the unique event. The three day surf festival has gained more of an educational surf camp reputation rather than an old school […]
We Spoke To The Local Surfers Who Rushed To Rescue Three Drowning Men At Crantock Beach
On Tuesday this week, we heard the tragic news that one man had drowned and two others were admitted to hospital after they were caught in a rip at Crantock beach, just south of Newquay. Yesterday Oneil Din, 27,known as Kenny to his friends, from Coventry was named as the man who lost his life. […]
The City Man: ‘Sod Keeping Up With The Joneses’
It was on a much needed trip down to Cornwall to escape the city and take some well-earned rest from my heavy workload that my wife, my two young boys and I took up the offer from an old school friend of to visit him and his wife, of whom I had yet to meet. […]
Boardmasters 2017; The Warm Ups, The Forecast & The Ones To Watch
The UK’s biggest music and action sports festival is upon us, bringing five days of surfing competition and world famous bands and artists Britain’s surfing capital. The surfing comp spans several divisions, with the Men’s open kicking off the European leg of the WQS. The event serves as a stepping stone for many of the […]
Finisterre Are Setting Out To Tackle The Big Toxic Elephant In The Room
Born from a love of the sea, Finisterre – in partnership with Exeter University’s centre of excellence for Materials Reengineering – are offering a full-time job for a wetsuit recycler in support of the brand’s commitment to innovation and sustainability. As committed surfers, we all have a stack of old suits laying around somewhere. Whilst […]
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 […]
The Gourmet Euro Cycle Surf Tour
After watching a celebratory fundraising cycle video at a charity do, Will Jessup and I insisted on going a step further and cycling from Newquay to Santander, surfing along the way. I hadn’t actually ridden a road bike before and had a couple of months to get sorted – here’s how it went: We started […]
Beneath The Glossy Tourist Veneer: A Summer Spent In WA
A wry grin widens on Zac Haynes’ animated features as he explains the intricacies of the Western Australian summer sea breeze to me, which at this moment, just as we are biting into the first sandwiches of our lifeguard shift is spinning around the quadrants in front of us.
Surf And The City: The Urban Surf Conundrum
Twelve days deep into a trip to London and I was staring at the reflective glass wall of a skyscraper’s ground floor. The pane was mottled, rising and sinking in gentle depressions like wind chop on water’s surface and distorting the brass interior of the atrium inside. I was transfixed, the sun’s movement off the […]
Celebration of the Life of Jack O’Neill
Wetsuit legend Jack O’Neill to be honoured with a global paddle out with Britain’s original surfing beach, the Great Western in Newquay, to host UK leg. On Sunday 9th July 2017, O’Neill would like to invite everyone to join a paddle out in celebration of Jack O’Neill’s life & adventures. From Santa Cruz to Cornwall, O’Neill […]
High-performance Surf Camp with Llewellyn Whittaker
Pro surfer Llewellyn Whittaker is hosting a high-performance surf camp ideally suited for up-and-coming youngsters either intermediate or elite who are looking to take their surfing to the next level. Surfers don’t need to be competitive riders as this training camp focus more on the individual and his or her technique. Five nights accommodation at smartiessurflodge.co.uk, three meals a day – full English breakfast […]
Walking And Waves: A 300 Mile Stroll To The Surf, Part Two
Follow Dan Sharp on his journey to walk the 300 miles of the Cornish coastal path, stopping to surf wherever he found a wave along the way. Read part one here. I never suspected that surfing my way around the Cornish Coastal Path would be a simple endeavour. I was at the mercy of the […]
Cornish Inventor Tows the Tide
To describe surfer Daniel Dicker as an innovator would be a disservice. As we speak, Dan pulls samples of otherworldly materials from drawers, email contacts from his inbox and shares sketches of products that refuse to accept any preconceptions of material and function. Having left his job as designer and inventor at Dyson in 2003, […]
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, […]
Are Wave Pools About To Change Surfing In Britain Forever?
Yesterday Scotland joined the long list of nations with a wave pool in its sights, after their application for an artificial wave in Edinburgh received massive public backing. There are also plans, in various stages of the development process, for wave pools in London, Bristol and Newquay. If all these projects manage to get off […]
Six Young British Up-And-Comers To Watch
Since the mid 2000s the surf industry worldwide has been in a state of never-ending flux. New brands rise up, old mainstays melt into insignificance, and whilst this volatility makes little to no difference to the lives of the average surfer, it does have a significant bearing on the small group of younglings aspiring to […]
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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, […]
Reubyn Ash Signs For Xcel Wetsuits
Reubyn Ash, who has been bagging UK comp results and dropping banging edits while riding unsponsored for several years, has finally been snapped up by premium wetsuit brand Xcel. Hailing from Bude, in North Cornwall, Reubyn was in the ocean learning his trade from as young as four. During his formative years he established himself as a […]
Early Indications Suggest Swell Headed For Europe Bigger Than Expected
As many who keep a regularly eye on the forecast will have spotted, there’s a serious low pressure forecast to slam into Western Europe early to mid week. We’ve been reluctant to make a big song and dance about it as the forecast has been hugely changeable – at one time forecasting wave heights of […]
Welcome to: Scarborough North Yorkshire
The town of Scarborough was the UK’s first ever holiday beach resort. After the discovery of spa waters in 1626 Scarborough soon became the focal point of health conscious Victorian tourists. The Spa complex was purpose built to utilise this natural spring and with the introduction of the York to Scarborough rail network in 1845, […]
Meet Jonny Leon: Britain’s Most Underground Charger
When Storm Doris hit a few weeks ago, after watching the Cribbar out of my window for a while, I wrote that despite hosting a few windy bombs, Newquay’s premier big wave spot would not be surfable that day. It turns out I was wrong… The day after, a sequence of images landed in our […]
Storm Doris Devastation: England Fires as Storm Smashes the South West
Storm Doris officially landed in the south-west bringing with it 70mph winds, monster swell and pouring rain. Despite the Met Office not officially naming the storm as Doris, media from across the globe have latched on to the title which is next in line. Nevertheless surf has been pumping across Cornwall and this morning produced, without a […]
Where To Surf In Spain – The Wavelength Guide
With a long and sprawling sun kissed coastline, Spain offers more variety and sparser crowds than its European neighbours. Along with its beautiful scenery and excellent food, Spain is the perfect surf trip destination for everyone from seasoned travellers keen to explore, to those looking to escape for a quick week of fun waves. The […]
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 […]
Hawaii: The North Shore Guide For Dummies
With the Volcom Pipe Pro kicking off on the North Shore, the world’s best surfers are once again flocking to Hawaii for another session of premium big wave surfing.
Fancy a visit? Anya Gilbert gives us the Brit’s abroad lowdown on everything you need to know about the legendary Pipeline break and beyond.
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?
The Best Features of 2016
From Britain’s rarest waves, to a giant paddle session in the Canaries it has without doubt been a damn fine year for surf and one of which we have been proud to bring you the incredible stories from across the globe. Without further ado here is the very best of our features from the site over […]
A Quick Catch Up With Cornish Surf Legend Rik PegLeg
Rik Pegleg Bennett is somewhat of a local legend in Cornwall and whilst we’ve featured him in the mag over the years after he made it to the semi’s of the World Adaptive Surf Champs last weekend, we decided it was high time we had a quick catch up with him. First, for those unacquainted, […]
Big Friday & Super Saturday- A Social Media Round Up
Virtually the entire coastline of Western Europe has been firing for the last two days, and we’ve decided to wade through the reams of coverage it has received on social media to bring you the very best of it. Friday saw plenty of action at many of Europe’s most well known big wave spots spots, […]