Buying a Van in Europe
If you’re planning to do the grand European surfing tour, you’ll want to buy a van. Having your own transport means you can get to all those out-of-the-way spots not served by bus or train and owning a...
View ArticleThe Severn Bore
August 6, 2009: the Gloucestershire news reports on a surfer who has chalked up 500 + rides on the Severn. There’s also a few tales of the Bore from alt.surfing: Newsgroups: alt.surfing Subject: Re:...
View ArticleMundaka on Lay Day
Slack surf at Mundaka, Spain has forced a layover day for the Billabong Pro contest. This is event number 8 of 10 on the 2009 ASP World Tour. The holding period for this contest is October 5 through...
View ArticleSupertubes Switches on for ASP
After a rocky start, Day 9 of the RipCurl contest at Peniche, Portugal, turned up with the goods. The world’s top 44 surfers competed in barreling 3-meter waves at Supertubos today. Australians Mick...
View ArticleArtificial Reef Breeds Localism
After a decade of planning and 14 months of construction, Boscombe Reef near Bournemouth on England’s south coast, opened for business last week. It is one of only a handful of reefs in the world that...
View ArticleThere Is No Planet B
As developing nations threaten to walk out of the climate talks in Copenhagen, street protesters seemed to be the only ones with a sense of urgency about the warming planet. An estimated 40,000...
View ArticleSurf Nazis Ride Again
Last week’s New Yorker had an excellent article by George Packer about Dresden and how history is revised. For those of you who haven’t read Slaughterhouse-Five, Dresden is a Medieval city in eastern...
View ArticleThurso Goes Off
The first day of the O’Neill Coldwater Classic, held at the famously fickle Thurso in far northern Scotland, got off to a good start in overhead and offshore conditions. The event is part of the WQS,...
View ArticleThread
Netflix brought us this moody, mostly black and white meditation on surfing by Patrick Trefz. Thread starts with a collaboration between Joel Tudor and photographer Michael Halsband and then sort of...
View ArticleOut the Back of Beyond
Talk about getting away from it all, Norwegian surfers Inge Wegge and Jørn Nyseth Ranum spent a winter surfing on the northwest coast of Norway. They built a driftwood shack above a cove on the...
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