On Wednesday, California will welcome this year’s eighth CT event at Lower Trestles, the 2016 Hurley Pro. Defending champion Mick Fanning will be battling to re...
It's that time of year again - public voting is open for the 2016 London Surf / Film Festival Shorties! The submissions are in and the long list of short films ...
We've featured a few of Ian Battrick's videos and there's a reason for that - they are awesome (surf the freezing waters of Iceland, anyone?). Filmed in France ...
Our Captain Erwin, an immediately likeable and smiling chap who had kindly picked us up from the ramshackle Sumatran port, was now confidently speeding across a...
Northern Irish innovators set to take their unique boards to the world.
We have been following the SkunkWorks Surf Co team from Portrush in Northern Ireland ...
An exploration of the limits of the unprepared and overly ambitious on a Sup the entire lengthen of the Cornish coast.
Fact One - Total distance (minus repad...
Professional surfing, just like other professional sports, requires incredible sacrifices and an intense amount of time and effort.
Unlike the past, where su...
Long gone are the days where surfers would have to tune in to the radio or check the weather report on TV to know when to hit the waves.
The advance of moder...
John Callahan is a photographer’s surf photographer. His images from the seven seas bring surf exploration and adventure into our lives offering rich contextual wavecapes that out smart all the dehumanizing in-your-face/big punt/big decal/big deal surf porn.
Sunsets and surf; this year’s Boardmasters Festival had them in abundance, as well as abounding talent on both sea and stage. This was a new and improved Boardm...
We have covered the wonderfully named Spivo GoPro stick before, but this time the kind Canadian folk from Ottawa have shipped one of their glory poles all the w...
Finals day of the Boardmasters Surf festival saw a mixture of conditions both in and out of the water.
The day started with mizzle, that wonderful Cornish comb...
It's a not her first Boardmasters, but this year Lee-Ann Curren and her band, Betty The Shark made their performance debut on the View Stage, against a blue-sky...
Have you ever wanted to develop your skills as a surf photographer? Or take the plunge into underwater photography? Perhaps you know your DSLRs from your MicroS...
I’ve long recognised the issues with our plastic addiction.
I have cleaned up enough beaches, recycled enough trash, opted paper over plastic enough times to...
Love the waves but wonder where it all began? What was happening when there wasn’t anything to surf and what drove mankind to start riding? Here is our concise...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has voted to include surfing in the Tokyo 2020 games.
This is a massive milestone in the history of the sport and c...
Surfvault was started in 2015 to create a better online alternative for the sale of second hand and new surfing products from members of the surfing community....
London Surf / Film Festival x REEF is delighted to announce that submissions to the 6th Edition of the prestigious Shorties short film competition are now open....
Jamie Baughan
It’s the soft voice of Jamie Baughan at the beginning of FREEZING that draws you into Iceland’s dramatic and craggy landscape.
It’s also Jamie...
Drift caught up with Nicky and Darryn from Surfholidays.com, two young tech entrepreneurs that are causing a stir in the surf school business with their new Dir...
Having played to sold-out crowds across the UK and Europe in spring in support of their debut album ‘Very Rarely Say Die’, Sunset Sons have revealed the video f...
Continuing the adventure with Tom and Sally’s year long surfing road trip, riding 150cc dirt bikes north on the Pan American highway along the coastal length of...
Can you handle going one week without posting on Facebook?
With phones getting more and more high-performance and strong wifi being ever more omnipresent int...
A year after he tussled with a great white shark on live television, three-time WSL champion Mick Fanning took the title of the JBay leg of the 2016 Samsung Gal...
Alder Sportswear celebrates its fiftieth year supporting ocean addictions.
‘Bucolic.’ That’s the only word to describe Devon in early summer. The only way, in fact, to describe the Westlake home. T
Late last year a few friends and I ventured to Crescent Head on the north coast of NSW, Australia.
Staying and surfing on the back beaches to avoid the c...
A 300-mile paddle along the length of the Cornish coast.
As the first touches of summer reached the Cornish coast author, photographer and Drift’s Features E...
Transitions is London’s only beach festival which combines world class extreme sports with internationally renowned DJs and artists. Reachable by one direct tra...
When you go to a surf film festival, comedy isn’t the genre you’re always expecting to see. Surfing as a sub-culture has been trend setting since its commercial...
Staring into your own eyes and spotting lumpy growths is a disconcerting experience to say the least. First reaction: panic, a bit more panic, followed by a hef...
‘I Love the Seaside: The Surf & Travel Guide to Southwest Europe’ offers the best of both worlds: surfing and travelling.
In order to write this travel g...
At the beginning of July (and allegedly the start of summer) over 150 women arrived at Saunton beach for a day of surfing, yoga and general good times.
After...
One year ago a Canadian startup Spivo unleashed their product on an unsuspecting Kickstarter looking to raise $30,000 to put their camera accessory stick on the...
The last time we featured Tom and Sally on the site they had thankfully left behind a very sketchy situation after departing Colombia and landed safely in Panama after sailing across the Caribbean to the next Central America
A new wetsuit which is cleverly cut differently from all other suits on the market is claiming to revolutionise your speed in the water.
Traditionally all we...
I changed job and my plan now was to save some money. But first things first, my initial paycheck went, of course, to a surf camp. Money is supposed to be inves...
Think of tandem surfing and you immediately envisage something out of the opening credits of Hawaii Five-0, girls held aloft by guys performing daring acrobatic...
You know when you read a book and it takes you away. It takes you to a place, through untouched lands and untravelled waters. It takes you past the horizon, it ...
The coverage of the Fiji started long before the competitions did, with footage streaming out across the Internet of barrels being tucked into before the vests ...
