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Rising Son

Japanese Surfer Kanoa Igarashi Is Having A Breakout Year And Is Set To Keep The Japanese Flag Flying High.

The Next Level

Four Seasons Champions Trophy Steps Up.

Mirage

The Ever-changing Story Of Skeleton Bay

Cymru

Summer Storms May Be Bad News For Holiday Makers But They're Good News For South Welsh Surfers.

Patrick Langdon Dark

PLD is the New UK Pro Surf Tour Under 18 Champion. He Is Leading What Could Be the Biggest Welsh Resurgence on the Uk Competition Scene Since, Well the '80s or '90s Depending on Who You Believe 

Foam Party

When You Order a New Board You Think About the Shape, Dimensions and Possibly a Fancy Spray Job. As Long as It Paddles Well and Gets You Where You Want to Be on Waves Then Your Shaper Will Be Happy. But What of the Dark Art That Produces the Foam? 

Chainsaw Art

Paul Edwards is a chainsaw sculptor specialising in surf & sea art. Which is an intriguing idea so we had a chinwag. At a safe distance, whilst wearing correct health and safety wear...

Iceland...

Conot maguite goes for a wander around the joint that doubles for everything north of the wall...

Pursuit In Motion

How I learned to relax and let surf photography take over my life.

An Open Mind In Galicia

Many pilgrims have followed this route through the ages. Slowlyi nching their way, by foot, to theme dievalcity of Santiago de Compostela.

The Anderson Tapes

Monday mornings are generally are a bit disagreeable. This one wasn’t. A morning spent drinking fine coffee whilst chatting with one of surfing’s most influential figures is a pretty good way to ease your way into the working week...

It's A Frenzy

The shark scenario is out of hand

The Medina Mindset

Talented, calculating, passionate if there's one surfer that can polarise opinion in the blink of an eye it's gabe medina. Mimi lamontagne gets inside the head of the boy from Brazil 

Seat Of Storms

The battleground between cornish granite and the fearsome fire power of the atlantic has shaped some of our more interesting wave riders. There’s a unique quality to everything ‘out west’. Writer pete geall knows it well, lifeguarding the beaches and surfing its secret corners, read on as he takes a poetic dip into the seat of storms... 

Amazing Waves

Dive into our brand new coffee table book stuffed to the gills with wave pics that’ll make you drool... We asked a bunch of photographers involved a few questions in the process of making the book and didn’t have enough room to fit in all the answers so here’s some of them with a preview of the book. It’s out now so grab it from carve.Shop or your favourite book store.

Wave Wall

Lewis Arnold Transforms an Unused Stretch of Wall on the Beach Approach at Longsands Into a History of Surfing in the North East.

Always Look Around the Next Corner

The surf world is all mapped out right? There's no more exploring left to do...

Board Masters Summer Festival 2017

Boardmasters Is Back With an Even More Epic Line-up This Summer.

Barbados 

Ukpst Under 12 Champ Sam Hearn Headed Off for a Dream Trip to Barbados This Winter. We Asked Him to Report Back...

Seth Morris

Young welshman seth morris just finished in the top 20 of the world in the under-16 division at the vissla world junior games. After such a great achievement we thought we'd better catch up with young man from haverfordwest.

All Seeing Eye

HOP ON BOARD FOR A BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF YOUR FAVOURITE SURF SPOTS

Pier To Paradise

Bournemouth local James Taylor spent his younger days frothing on south coast swells, now his job allows him to surf places like this….

Tanked

The pros are stoked. Those outside of the circle of trust are grumbling. The question is: are wave pools going to become cool? 

The Smithy Sessions

Just before this issue went to print we got to hang with current world number one in the welsh hills. For two days Jordy sessioned the surf Snowdonia pool and hung out with stoked O'Neill retailers who had no idea he was going to be guest of honour. We made a little film and had a chinwag...

Listen To The Winds Of Change

The WSL Is Not Staying the Same...

Anatomy Of A Surfer

Take a Peek Inside the Mindset and Mechanics of Influential Surfers of Our Time...

Chocolate Barrels

The North Sea Has Been Delivering the Goods, One of the Surfers That Knows Its Wiles the Best, Jesse Davies, Guides Us Through Recent Swells

Ted Talks

Adventurous Surf Expeditions Are All the Rage These Days. They’re However, Nothing New. Wherever You Think You Might Be Making Fresh Tracks Odds on Legendary Australian Image Maker Ted Grambeau Was There Documenting It Twenty Years Ago.

Shaping Bright Futures

Johnny Purton From JP Surfboards Has a Long History of Putting Magic Sleds Under Feet, but His More Recent Challenge Has Been to Extend That Magic to Adaptive Surfers. 

The Allure of the Other

Why we love winter