[Welcome to ‘On Reefs’ a new series of stories exploring the hidden quirks and perils of reefs around the world through the personal experiences of those who know them in intimately.] Bagpipe, originally named for its likeness to the Banzai, is a short, intense left hander that breaks onto a shallow shelf of uneven sandstone […]
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Ben Skinner Blending The Traditional & Progressive
Whilst perhaps more well known for his progressive longboarding antics, including busting airs in comps and charging some of the UK & Irelands heaviest slabs on his log, Ben Skinner also relishes the chance to surf in a more classically traditional style. In this brand new edit from Chris Levi, filmed around Cornwall this winter, […]
Ben Skinner In Ireland
A brand new edit featuring British longboarder Ben Skinner threading his way through a few perfect peelers on the Emerald Isle.
Shaping The Future With Ben Skinner
The Powerful Water Company AKA POW, caught up with Ben Skinner for a chat in his shaping bay. Skinner discusses the influences behind his craft sculpting and the relationship between creating and surfing his own boards in this tidy little edit. Fancy winning your very own custom shaped board by Skindog himself? Check out here how to win! Images […]
Jack Unsworth on Shaping with Skinner and Surfing Westward Ho!
There is sometimes a sense of anonymity when you sit, neoprene clad in a line-up. How much do you know about the surfer next to you? Maybe they’re playing the arduous balancing game of surf and study; reading for a degree in mathematics whilst gunning for a place on the World Longboard Tour. If that’s […]
SAS Introduces ‘The Floater’: A Surfboard Made from Raw Sewage
Ahead of the UK’s first ever mass paddle-out water pollution protest on 20 May. Surfers Against Sewage is staging a mass paddle-out protest against sewage pollution, with more than a dozen events to be held at beaches and rivers across the UK on Saturday 20th May. We’d advise you to grab your surfboards, paddles, rafts, […]
250 UK Surfboards Get Donated and Delivered To African Kids
The Board Drive, a partnership between FCS and Surfers Not Street Children, is the feel-good surf story of the year. It started with one surfer, wanting to donate one board, from his tiny backyard man-shed in Newquay. And it ended with 258 sleds getting delivered to young surfers living in tough and challenging environments in […]
Local Underdog Storms Past Dozens Of Euro Pros To Boardmasters Podium!
On Sunday night, Kings Of Leon’s headline set roared so loudly through the balmy August night, there were reports of folk rocking out as far away as St Agnes head. It was a fittingly resonant end to what surely was one of the most memorable Boardmasters of the decade – featuring four days of incredible […]
Boardmasters 2022: Your Guide To The Surf Event, The Forecast & The Ones To Watch
It’s that time of year again when Europe’s top wave riders, a host of world-class music acts and thousands of revellers descend on sunny Newquay for the country’s finest surf and music extravaganza. While recent years have seen our Boardmasters pre-game a little marred by fears of gale force winds and a marauding pandemic, right […]
Locals Primed For The Spring Classic Surf Invitational
Small waves, but an epic weekend forecast as locals gear up to celebrate North Devon’s long history of good times in and out of the water. “Last Thursday was epic at Combesgate,” says Pete Starbuck, from Woolacombe Boardriders. “The forecast looked ordinary, but the sun came out and the wind backed off. There was a […]
Reef Announced as Title Partner of the Spring Classic Surf Invitational
Skimboard legend Blair Conklin is set to join the UK’s most creative surfers in a gathering of the tribe in North Devon. Wavelength is proud to announce that Reef is the title partner of the Spring Classic Surf Invitational, to be held at Combesgate Beach, North Devon. The Surf Invitational Presented by Reef is a […]
Spring Classic Surf Invitational
The Spring Classic Surf Invitational invites the finest nose-riders, tail-sliding surfers to descend on Combesgate Beach, Woolacombe to go head to head with some of the best local talent for a two-day surf comp with a difference. The competition format rewards the surfers having the most fun, championing classic style and flow, with a selection […]
The Pub Round Table: The Legends & Lore Of Surfing In Sennen
[We’ve teamed up with korev – a refreshing lager, born in Cornwall, with a deep heritage in surfing – to bring you a brand new series here on Wavelengthmag.com. Over the next few months, we’ll be heading to some of the South West’s most iconic surf towns and sitting down at the local with a few […]
WATCH: Highlights Of Boardmasters 2021
Last weekend saw the triumphant return of Boardmasters after a two-year hiatus, with four days of surfing action at Fistral beach followed by a top-class lineup of live music at Watergate Bay. It’s the distinct offerings of these two festival sites that makes Boardmasters such a unique event among the crowded lineup of British festivals […]
Boardmasters Week 2021: The Surfing, The Forecast, The Ones To Watch & What’s On In Town
After two fallow years, Boardmasters is finally back to blast away the last of the lockdown cobwebs with a mid-summer celebration of surfing, music and full send. With sun, waves and not quite enough wind to rip the tents from the clifftops on the forecast, the stage looks set for a triumphant return. (Just don’t […]
The British Surf Broadcast, June 2018
Welcome to the British Surf Broadcast, June 2018 edition; your guide to all that’s been going on in the world of British surfing. Summer seems to have arrived in Blighty and if you haven’t been getting amongst it, you’ve been missing out. By now those boots and 5/4 should have been jubilantly cast aside and […]
Big Results For Brits At Caparica Surf Fest
In a big day for British surfing, Ellie Turner and Ben Skinner have each achieved significant results at the Caparica Surf Fest. The most solid waves of the competition window greeted competitors as the sun rose this morning on the Caparica coastline, which sits just to the south of Lisbon, across the Tagus estuary, Despite […]
The Caparica Primavera Surf Fest; Bringing 10 Days Of Surfing & Live Music To Portuguese Shores
Costa De Caparica is once again gearing up to welcome revellers for 10 days of surfing and music in what is now the biggest festival of its kind in the country. Taking place from March 22nd to 31st, The Caparica Primavera Surf Fest brings together hundreds of athletes across dozens of categories and a whole […]
In Conversation With Adam ‘Bearman’ Griffiths; New Father, Restaurant Owner & The 5th Best Longboarder In The World
Twenty-seventeen was a big year for Newquay’s Adam ‘Bearman’ Griffiths. He came fifth in the world on the longboarding world tour, fathered his first child with his wife Holly and opened up a bar and kitchen at Great Western beach. He hit the ground running once again in 2018, chasing swells around his native coastline […]
What is a Dry Bag and Why do I Need One
The Dry Bag was created after one crisp spring morning on the Cornish coast where Matt Deaves, a British surfing pro, once again plunged his dripping, sand smothered wetsuit into a bag, a bothersome daily occurrence that tainted the pleasure of the sport he lives for. Determined to find a solution, Matt started experimenting with […]
The Natty Surf Jam
We invite you to join us in support of The Natty Surf Jam, held at Fistral Beach on Saturday April 1st 2017 The event has been organised to commemorate the life of local surfer Nathaniel (Natty) Loney, who sadly took his own life last year after a long term battle with mental health related issues. […]
The English Gun Club
This small band of brothers, an extremist group who arm themselves with the heaviest artillery, are notoriously quiet about their very personal pursuit. We decided it was time to conduct a full weapons inspection.
Fickle Frontiers: One Spring Session At A Heavy UK Slab
This article originally appeared in Wavelength Issue 240, subscribe now to never miss an issue. As the boat circles into position on the inside of the reef, its long fingers jutting out from the large deserted headland which towers behind us, the first proper set of the day appears on the horizon. The boat driver’s […]
Fickle Frontiers: One Spring Session At A Heavy UK Slab
As the boat circles into position on the inside of the reef, its long fingers jutting out from the large deserted headland which towers behind us, the first proper set of the day appears on the horizon. The boat driver’s glance flicks nervously towards the ribs engine, as it rasps and splutters, sending plumes of […]
The Cornwall Surfers Sexy List*
Cornwall Live, the last bastion of in-depth investigative journalism in the south-west, has just published its highly anticipated and profoundly academically regarded ‘The Cornwall Sexy List’. The list brings together the sexiest individuals from across the glorious Cornish county. From Phillip Schofield to some bloke off Britain’s Got Talent the team at Cornish Live have left no stone […]
East is East: Great Yarmouth
Cold, brown, polluted and fickle, but not always uninviting.
We Need To Talk About British Surfing
For many of us, surfing is an escape from other boring, politics-laden areas of our day to day lives, and as such, we try to fill our magazine with the kind of stories and photography which aid that escape. However, sometimes we feel it’s important to take a step back and address some of the […]
Wavelength Surf Photography Workshops go off in Hossegor
This Autumn saw the launch of Wavelength’s first surf photography workshops. It’s no coincidence that this coincided nicely with the annual surf pilgrimage that is the Quiksilver Pro in Hossegor, France. As regular as clockwork, this time of year provides not only some of the best conditions in Europe but also sees South West France […]
The British Surf Broadcast- July
Despite a severe good wave draught, which finally let up this weekend just gone, it’s been an exciting month in British surfing, with our resident pro’s across all divisions landing noteworthy results abroad. The end of June saw the Pro Juniors land in Espinho, Portugal with the usual turn out of British youths. The boys […]
The Wavelength Ten Year Predictions Part Two
In part one we looked back at an article published 10 years ago in Wavelength where we asked various industry experts to predict who were the likely up and coming QS contenders. Read it here. Here in part two we’ll gaze deep into our crystal ball and, with the help of a few current industry […]
The British Surf Broadcast- June
Lots has been going on in the world of British surfing since we last spoke. We’ve had a few comps at home, Brits landing results away, chargers charging and a host of high performance edits dropping from some of Britain’s best free surfers. Let’s dive in! Ben Skinner is currently sitting in 3rd on the […]
Under The Clock Tower
For the last few days the jewel in the crown of the south coast has been doing its thing and the world and his wife turned up to watch, surf and point lenses at the action. Here’s a cracking little edit from Chris Levi featuring some of the best waves surfed over the course of […]
Our Picks: The London Surf Film Festival
It’s that time of year again when film makers from up and down the country drop their entires to the London Surf Film Festival shorties division and you, the humble armchair pundit, is tasked with picking the films that should make it onto the short list. This year there are 20 entries, amounting to a […]
Our 10 Favourite British Surf Edits
As new web clips featuring British surfers pour out online with greater frequency than ever before, we thought it was time to look back and rediscover some forgotten gems from years gone by. So for the last few weeks here at Wavelength HQ we’ve been trawling through the archives, watching as many web clips featuring […]
Our 10 Favourite British Surf Clips… #6
Ben Skinner, Longboarding, 2012 The next clip in the series documents a year of logging around the British Isles with Ben Skinner. This edit goes a long way to demonstrating the expansive repertoire of the UK’s most successful competitive surfer. Filmed in 2012, the year Ben won his 10th European Longboard title, the clip is […]
Is this Surfing?
A couple weeks ago Wavelength went on a surreal mission strike, a surf trip with a difference. We piled into Skindog’s Vito and headed north. The conditions were perfect, 2-3 foot and offshore, guaranteed, uncrowded and waves that peel for up to a mile rights and lefts or longer if your legs can take it. […]
Paddle Round the Pier 2015
One for your diary is the annual Paddle Round The Pier Beach Festival taking place in Brighton on July 4th & 5th. Its free entry and packed full of your favourite brands, bands, bars and cool cars! “Paddle” as the event is affectionately known is said to be the world’s biggest free charity beach festival […]
Save Our Seas Marine Litter Tattoo Campaign
Surfers Against Sewage launches new ‘Save Our Seas’ Marine Litter Tattoo campaign to highlight the growing scale and permanence of the marine litter crisis. The ‘Save Our Seas’ Marine Litter Tattoo campaign takes it’s inspiration from highly stylised maritime tattoos that are synonymous with the sea and those deeply connected to it – mariners, sailors, […]
Newquay Boardmasters back on European Leg
WSL and organizers of the Boardmasters festival are excited to announce the return of professional longboarders to the iconic Fistral beach this summer. The Boardmasters Longboard Pro, a Men and Women’s LQS1,000 event, will gather Europe’s best talents from August 8-9, 2015. “For the WSL it is a great pleasure to be returning to Boardmasters […]
British Surf Awards 2014 Results
We asked our readers to decide who they wanted to celebrate and what they wanted to shout about. After a glorious summer and a good few waves, the British Surf Awards presented by Wavelength exposes the heroes, the much loved brands and the most exciting products of 2014. We fancied having a little peak inside […]
HANGING HEELS IN WEST PENWITH
Wherever the cool-water Atlantic greets our rugged coastline, sometimes with a kiss, mostly with a slap, there is now a thriving longboard culture. Why? It’s all about that unbeatable sense of trim – pure balance at maximum speed. To trim literally means to cut away, to get rid of superfluous activity for absolute lightness of […]
Surfing & Cannabis: A Potted History
Powered by Goodrays Virginal, unridden surf romped across our planet’s fresh-cut shorelines way back in deep time immemorial. Long before plants, or indeed life itself, were there to witness the violence, oceans first swirled and surged into being under a moody, toxic sky some 4000 million years ago. Not one to rush things, Jah then […]
Six Young British Up-And-Comers To Watch
Since the mid 2000s the surf industry worldwide has been in a state of never-ending flux. New brands rise up, old mainstays melt into insignificance, and whilst this volatility makes little to no difference to the lives of the average surfer, it does have a significant bearing on the small group of younglings aspiring to […]