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Wave Garden planned for Bristol, UK

20 / 01 / 2012

This press release from a company called ‘Wave Garden UK’ bears fresh, fascinating news for those wondering when artificial waves will take over the world.
Scroll down for great video of pros and prodigies riding the prototype, in the Basque Country.
NEW £5MILLION LEISURE DEVELOPMENT SET TO MAKE WAVES IN BRISTOL

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Kickstart Korduroy.tv!

10 / 01 / 2012

Cyrus Sutton and his Korduroy.tv crew have been making original, beautiful, left-field surf films for a few years now.
Think Stoked and Broke, Under The Sun, Tom’s Creation Plantation plus the perennial series on their website Surf Sufficient, Sea Movies and Inner Views.
Their vision of “DIY surf movies” is, in our minds, the finest and most [...]

C-Skin’s Pipe Dream

12 / 12 / 2011

C-SKINS would like to congratulate team rider Kieren Perrow who has won the most prestigious WCT event of the year, The Pipeline Masters. Mark Brown, from C-SKINS says, “We re so stoked for K.P and so proud that he is on the C-SKINS Team and able take us along for the ride! Not only is [...]

Biggest Pipe Masters ever – Perrow wins

11 / 12 / 2011

It was an epic event, no hype required. A 12-15 swell arrived for the first day of the waiting period, out of the NW, the perfect direction for Pipe. Up to this point there hadn’t yet been a Pipe swell, so even the locals had nerves to get rid of, and the reef had plenty [...]

Harry and the gang – 1929

5 / 12 / 2011

From the Museum of British Surfing:

Lewis Rosenberg – standing proud c1929
Added to the surf history archives on Jun 30, 2011
Around 1929 Lewis Rosenberg and a group of friends saw a newsreel showing Australians surfing standing up on their surfboards – it was a moment of inspiration that changed their lives.
This close-knit group of Jewish immigrants, [...]

Surfing and Sharks – coming soon

30 / 11 / 2011

Here is the official trailer for the documentary film Surfing and Sharks which will have its World Premiere on December 15th at Wavescape Film Festival in Captetown.

SURFING AND SHARKS TRAILER from SURFINGANDSHARKS on Vimeo.

Join SAS now – free organic Tee

28 / 11 / 2011

This just in from our Surfers Against Sewage brethren:
JOIN SAS OR BUY A GIFT MEMBERSHIP & GET A FREE T-SHIRT

We’re giving away a free organic t-shirt to everyone that joins SAS quoting the offer code in the Terms and Conditions, whether it’s a membership for yourself or a Christmas Gift Membership for friends or family!
Gift [...]

TED2: A non-surfer’s key to everything

25 / 11 / 2011

TED1: A surfer’s theory of everything

25 / 11 / 2011

From a 2008 TED talk, still worth trying to get your head around, here’s surfer and physicist Garrett Lisi attempting to explain his controversial model of the universe that just might answer all the big questions.

Wave pool wrangle: Kelly Slater responds

23 / 11 / 2011

Yesterday we ran an excerpt and link to an article published on swellnet.com about two artificial wave pool concepts already under development that apparently conflict. On one side is Australian surfboard maker Greg Webber, and on the is Kelly Slater, 11-time world champ and the man behind the Kelly Slater Wave Pool company.
Today, Kelly decided [...]