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    Punta Huanchaco

    Punta Huanchaco became a World Surfing Reserve in October last year due to the two thousand year old wave ...

    On May 2, 2013 / By Mark
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    Pikerust

    Pikerust is Chris Bisson’s blog of his own illustrations and general curios. These illustrations are inspired by the environment ...

    On January 14, 2013 / By Mark
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    Hulls, Hulls, Hulls

    For the last two years Alex Rowse has ridden only displacement hulls, except for the odd log on small ...

    On January 18, 2012 / By Mark
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    Rumbles from the woodshed

    After being inspired by Tom Wegner’s hollow plywood alaia, dubbed the Tuna, Mark Roberts set about creating an alaia ...

    On December 6, 2011 / By Mark
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    Minds in the Water in Newquay

    Minds in the Water documents Dave ‘Rasta’ Rastavich’s five-year journey from apathetic pro to respected ocean activist. The film ...

    On July 25, 2011 / By Mark
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    Here’s Johnny…

    Johnny Abegg is a free thinking film maker and former WQS journeyman, who likes to take an unconventional path ...

    On April 13, 2011 / By Mark
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    Obeche

    Paulownia is arguably the best and currently the most popular wood for alaias and paipos, but here in Europe ...

    On September 19, 2010 / By Mark
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    Bonzers take Europe

    This spring, Malcolm Campbell will be heading to Europe for an extensive shaping tour. • Portugal, 13-22 May (contact ...

    On May 17, 2010 / By Mark
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    Eclectica Newquay

    If you’re in Newquay on a Saturday night and want to get your freak on, but don’t appreciate the ...

    On May 16, 2010 / By Mark
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    West country colours

    Steve Plydell-Pearce (aka Steve PP) is an impressionist artist and former animator living an envious lifestyle by the beach ...

    On April 12, 2010 / By Mark
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    Freshly peeled

    Launching a new company when the global economy was languishing in the depths of a recession might not have ...

    On March 30, 2010 / By Mark
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    Saving more than just waves

    Chile is somewhere that I have wanted to go for some time but, for whatever reason, I haven’t made ...

    On March 6, 2010 / By Mark
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    A rhino’s tale

    The recent spell of good waves and almost arctic conditions has been the perfect chance to try out my ...

    On February 17, 2010 / By Mark
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    The cost of a clear conscience

    Ironically, my recent surf trip to the Philippines coincided with the final session of the UN Climate Change Conference ...

    On January 21, 2010 / By Mark
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    “___”

    Johnny Abegg, the free-surfing, free-thinking, filmmaking whizz whom I spoke with this summer for Drift has now turned out ...

    On December 16, 2009 / By Mark
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    Ricardo y Ricardo

    When planning last year’s winter escape to Panama, we (misguidedly) thought that Heathrow airport would be quiet on Christmas ...

    On December 14, 2009 / By Mark
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    Colors of Coincidence

    ‘Colors of Coincidence’ is a monograph of Wolfgang Bloch’s art, designed by the venerable David Carson and with text ...

    On December 4, 2009 / By Mark
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    Board Shorts

    An evening of surf-related short films by independent makers showing the rich variety in British surf culture went off ...

    On November 29, 2009 / By Mark
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    Winter wonderland

    September sessions here in Cornwall are normally the best of the year, but this year the surf was pretty ...

    On November 6, 2009 / By Mark
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    The search

    Let me take you back to early Spring 2002, if my memory serves me correctly… I had timed a ...

    On September 7, 2009 / By Mark
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    Indian summers

    Southwest France is famous for its late Indian summers – long hot days, surfing in boardies, morning offshores, early ...

    On September 6, 2009 / By Mark
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    Sunday morning surf check

    I recently caught up with the habitually calm and collected Neil Halstead for a Sunday-morning surf check. ...

    On September 6, 2009 / By Mark
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    Acceptance is only an opinion

    I have just read the latest blog post by Mark Dickinson (of the Cell) and all I can say ...

    On September 5, 2009 / By Mark

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