Every now and then an opportunity crops up for us to do something a bit out of the ordinary. So when an email arrived, looking for surfing Stormtroopers to promote the new Start Wars film, I just couldn’t say no! (Sounds a bit random, but the connection being […]
Summer lasts longer in Jersey than anywhere else in the UK and the island is the ideal tonic from fast-paced city life. With its warm waters, relaxed pace and blaze of fiery colours, Jersey is at its most intoxicating during the autumn season. The island punches far above […]
Surfing indoors? Yep, welcome to the flowrider! Having surfed for over a decade, I was hoping to be reasonable at this and was looking forward to seeing what the wave would be like. So lets get the technical side out of the way. A flowrider is an indoor […]
I’ll wager that not many of us remember the Beach Boys Christmas Album released way back in 1964. The California quintet were generally associated with the gnarly (rather than holy) trinity of sun, sea and surf instead of snow, turkey and church. However, there is perhaps one group […]
Mark Harris and Mitch Corbett are two surfers on a mission; to discover how Californian cool arrived on Britain’s bracing beaches, and grew from splashy summer fun, to a serious obsession with waves. They’ll visit the most iconic surf spots around Britain’s 5000 miles of rugged coastline; unraveling […]
Paddling down a river on surfboards might sound a little crazy and somewhat hard work, but when it’s in aid of charity, it seemed like a great idea! Bring on the Severn Paddle 2012! Together with a band of Severn bore surfers, we headed to Tewkesbury on the […]
After an exciting year surfing the Severn Bore with the Boreriders, and with stacks of footage which I had filmed on the Go Pro HD, I decided to put some of it together to give a short insight in to what draws us to the Severn. After all, […]
On April 1 this year – only days after returning from Indonesia – the Rip Curl Tip 2 Tip mission unveiled a taste of what is undoubtedly the best river bore surfing to ever be captured on film with Panasonic LUMIX GH1 and GH2. And today, April 11, […]
Tidal bore surfing is by no means a new sport, however it comes as a surprise to many that it is even possible. Climbing into a river at exactly the right time to catch that elusive wave attracts the more adventurous surfer, and surfing the Severn Bore is […]
Shell Island is situated between Barmouth and Llandanwg on the north west coast of Wales and although rarely breaks, when it does it can give nice left and right handers. The island isn’t an island any longer but a campsite which still gets cut off at high tide. […]
