Posts tagged: 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.

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

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!

Over the past five weeks I’ve been on an 2500 mile journey of a lifetime around California, Nevada and Arizona. I’ve seen some amazing scenery, met some cool people, seen my best bud get married and caught some nice waves. We’ve covered a lot of terrain, both physically and metaphorically and it’s been a blast.

I’m nearly on the home straight now, driving back to San Francisco this morning and then hopping on the big bird back to the UK for a summer of hard work, in a hope to finance a trip to Brazil with Rosie this Christmas.

Check out the map below to see where we’ve been (rough route, as google maps was acting up this morning).

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Caught a few more sweet rides today at Cardiff By The Sea. A bit more swell came in and there were a few walls to carve along. Good crowd, good fun, good times!

Stopped in at Cardiff By The Sea for a few waves, wasn’t really working, but nice setting for getting in the water. And nope, Rob wasn’t in the water that day! Next time eh!

Following Beej’s lead, whilst in San Clemente I popped into Republik of Kalifornia and got myself this tasty looking board for surfing the sidewalks!