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Rising Son

Japanese Surfer Kanoa Igarashi Is Having A Breakout Year And Is Set To Keep The Japanese Flag Flying High.

The Next Level

Four Seasons Champions Trophy Steps Up.

Mirage

The Ever-changing Story Of Skeleton Bay

Cymru

Summer Storms May Be Bad News For Holiday Makers But They're Good News For South Welsh Surfers.

Always Look Around the Next Corner

The surf world is all mapped out right? There's no more exploring left to do...

Patrick Langdon Dark

PLD is the New UK Pro Surf Tour Under 18 Champion. He Is Leading What Could Be the Biggest Welsh Resurgence on the Uk Competition Scene Since, Well the '80s or '90s Depending on Who You Believe 

Foam Party

When You Order a New Board You Think About the Shape, Dimensions and Possibly a Fancy Spray Job. As Long as It Paddles Well and Gets You Where You Want to Be on Waves Then Your Shaper Will Be Happy. But What of the Dark Art That Produces the Foam? 

Chainsaw Art

Paul Edwards is a chainsaw sculptor specialising in surf & sea art. Which is an intriguing idea so we had a chinwag. At a safe distance, whilst wearing correct health and safety wear...

Iceland...

Conot maguite goes for a wander around the joint that doubles for everything north of the wall...

Pursuit In Motion

How I learned to relax and let surf photography take over my life.

An Open Mind In Galicia

Many pilgrims have followed this route through the ages. Slowlyi nching their way, by foot, to theme dievalcity of Santiago de Compostela.

Wave Wall

Lewis Arnold Transforms an Unused Stretch of Wall on the Beach Approach at Longsands Into a History of Surfing in the North East.

The Anderson Tapes

Monday mornings are generally are a bit disagreeable. This one wasn’t. A morning spent drinking fine coffee whilst chatting with one of surfing’s most influential figures is a pretty good way to ease your way into the working week...

It's A Frenzy

The shark scenario is out of hand

The Medina Mindset

Talented, calculating, passionate if there's one surfer that can polarise opinion in the blink of an eye it's gabe medina. Mimi lamontagne gets inside the head of the boy from Brazil 

Seat Of Storms

The battleground between cornish granite and the fearsome fire power of the atlantic has shaped some of our more interesting wave riders. There’s a unique quality to everything ‘out west’. Writer pete geall knows it well, lifeguarding the beaches and surfing its secret corners, read on as he takes a poetic dip into the seat of storms... 

Amazing Waves

Dive into our brand new coffee table book stuffed to the gills with wave pics that’ll make you drool... We asked a bunch of photographers involved a few questions in the process of making the book and didn’t have enough room to fit in all the answers so here’s some of them with a preview of the book. It’s out now so grab it from carve.Shop or your favourite book store.

The Allure of the Other

Why we love winter

Nazare Bites With Tom Butler

Historic times at the back end of last year when tom butler and cotty got invited to the first nazare challenge. It was a heavy event and tom was among those that ended up in hospital...

Angus Scotney

2016 was a bum year for mangoose. But he's bouncing back...

My Name Is Jonas

My Name Is Jonas

Mexi Lowe

We unleashed global roving editor jarvi on lowey post his epic mexico wsl big wave finals result. From st ives to the biggest stage in the world for hellmen … heck of a ride.

Weird

Take Six shapers, give them a blank. A handplane and two hours to push boundaries and the nixon weird is the result...

The Other Cave

The algarve nubbin of portugal is a winter bolthole for surfing brits, giving respite as it does from the cold tendrils of our long winter. Empty beaches, awesome seafood and unfettered access to that glowing ball of fire in the sky are all plus points. Obvs question: what the hell is it like in the summer? We thought we'd find out...

Seth Morris

Young welshman seth morris just finished in the top 20 of the world in the under-16 division at the vissla world junior games. After such a great achievement we thought we'd better catch up with young man from haverfordwest.

All Seeing Eye

HOP ON BOARD FOR A BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF YOUR FAVOURITE SURF SPOTS

Pier To Paradise

Bournemouth local James Taylor spent his younger days frothing on south coast swells, now his job allows him to surf places like this….

Tanked

The pros are stoked. Those outside of the circle of trust are grumbling. The question is: are wave pools going to become cool? 

The Smithy Sessions

Just before this issue went to print we got to hang with current world number one in the welsh hills. For two days Jordy sessioned the surf Snowdonia pool and hung out with stoked O'Neill retailers who had no idea he was going to be guest of honour. We made a little film and had a chinwag...

Board Masters Summer Festival 2017

Boardmasters Is Back With an Even More Epic Line-up This Summer.