The pictures above are from Tuesday the 27th’t of October, a day when 2.6m of swell with a WSW direction and a wave period of 14 seconds decided to visit Newquay. Earlier this year, it had been a very long time since I’d had a good surf; literally I couldn’t remember the last great session [...]
A while ago I lost the keys to my old Mercedes 190E. Absolutely vanished from the face of the earth they did. I hate keys at the best of times; it’s a daft system. If you can ‘lock’ your credit card with potentially unlimited funds with a 4 digit number, then why not your old [...]
In the next issue of Kitesurf Mag, you’ll see a new photo competition. We’re looking for the biggest wave kited between April 2009 and April 2010, so submit your photos to us of macking waves you have ridden during that time with the kite. The Poole based kitesurf and surf store, King Of Watersports, [...]
I notice the blog is getting a lot of hits from people wundrin’ whether the Boscombe Surf Reef project is working or not. Well, maybe it’s too early to say, but I suggest keeping a close watch on the 22nd October when a forecasted 4m plus swell will slam into Cornwall, no doubt sending [...]
One thing I’ve noticed people are searching for on this blog is how to do a hard toeside carve with a surfboard. A good toeside carve is very much like a bottom turn when you are surfing; it is completely fundamental as a good toeside carve / bottom turn dictates your approach – and thus your [...]
City2surf is the name of a package deal that gets you to Newquay and back from Hammersmith, London and two nights accommodation (Fri and Sat) or three nights accommodation (Mon, Tue and Wed) for £94.The coach is laid on by BioTravel whose fleet runs on vegetable fuels so there’s no pollution other than the crisp packets you throw [...]
I’m in Egypt, and more specifically Dahab, which sits up on the eastern side of the Sinai Peninsula. If you look at the map of the Red Sea, that’s the bit at the top that sticks down like a tiny version of India. It’s hot as a kiln out here, so clean and pure and [...]
Jo Wilson, or Joswilson as they call her in China (s’true, but that’s a story for another time) or as we know her, the leading exponent of women’s freestyle to come from the UK and one of the most…hmm….one of the most…er…well, Jo Wilson is basically what you call a ‘real sparkplug’ – she’s always [...]