Archive for: Surfing

Just watched Seaworthy, a surf movie by independent film maker, Nathan Oldfield. Beautifully shot, with a chilled out soundtrack and a moving story as the centrepiece for the film. Check out the trailer below!

Thanks Brad for buying this for me for Christmas.

Third teaser shot in Sri Lanka of the new surf project by Block10. Pretty sick visuals!

We’d been planning a little surf trip down to North Devon for about a month and randomly choose the last weekend in September. Having travelled to Devon so many times and invariably missing out on epic conditions (such is the life of a landlocked surfer), we went with an open mind and tried to have little (or no) expectations of what the conditions would be like.

On what was apparently the hotest October in the UK on record, we scored some of the cleanest waves, offshore winds and best weather we’ve EVER had on a North Devon surf trip. I surfed in a pair of board shorts all weekend, with a short wetsuit top just to keep the wind off. In all, I reckon I put in about 10-15 hours in the water over the course of the weekend, testiment to the fact that we just couldn’t get enough of what had been served up to us.

Now, call it fate, call it reward for all the times we’ve gone down and it being crap, or call it higher intervention, this time it was an epic session that will go down in the memory as one of the best times we’ve had down in Woolacombe and one that will be hard to top.

You know what comes next!

Stoked :)

Another short video from Do Lectures, this time by Michael Fordham about the lessons he has learned from surfing and how those experiences have transcended and enriched other parts of his (non-surfing) life such as business, family and friends. Michael echoes a lot of what Shaun Tomson says in his book The Surfer’s Code and we can all learn something from both of their wise words.

When I was in California back in May I had the pleasure of meeting surfing legend Shaun Tomson whilst he was giving a presentation about his book: The Surfer’s Code.

Month’s later I’ve just got around to reading his book. Very interesting stuff and definitely some valuable insights to be taken into the water with me next time I hit the surf. Here’s a video clip from his presentation that I filmed whilst in California. You’ve just to go love Shaun.

The awesome surfer and musician Timmy Curran has just released a new album: Options.

I dig his style of music (and surfing) and love throwing on a few tracks on the way to the coast (or whilst travelling) to get me in the spirit and raise the stoke for what lays ahead!

You can download the new album: Options by Timmy Curran for free from his website.

Check out the video clip below of our WAVES colleagues over at Ho Surfboards busting out an amazing hollow wood surfboard!

A few photos from our recent trip to Woolacombe in North Devon.

Rich and Seb

Me cooking up a storm on the trangia

Rose basking in the summer sun!

Stoked to be so warm!

Pleased with her moves, Rose celebrates!

Barricane sunset #1

Woolacombe sunset #1

Barricane sunset #2

Barricane sunset #3

Barricane sunset #4

Barricane sunset #5

Barricane sunset #6

Woolacombe sunset #2

All cleaned up and ready to rejoin this summer’s quiver: 6’8 Surftech Tuflite! Just in time for Devon in a few weeks. Lets hope there’s some swell, otherwise it is back onto the longbaord, or even SUP!

Off to the West Country this weekend for some surf and hopefully sunshine. Debut trip with Rosie, so need to behave myself and not leave her on the beach for four hours whilst I f*ck off into the water. Putting in the ground work already and booked up tip top three night stay with Uncle Colin followed by two days camping somewhere in Cornwall.

Been shopping and bought a load of new bits to jazz up the tent and give Rose a comfy home away from home. Also prepped up the boards and narrowed it down to three which should hopefully cover all conditions.