When you just have to surf you just have to surf. It’s not your fault. It’s a higher calling. It’s as if everyone up stairs got together and pushed you through town, over the sand and into the water without any way to stop them. Damn those Gods at work again. So just how do [...]

Hello and welcome to another week of University Challenge, the show in which people just out of their nappies display incredible knowledge on the most dullest subjects imaginable, putting their parents to shame whilst leaving the rest of us to gawp open mouthed at such intellect… and bad haircuts. This week we see a slight [...]

Winter surfing really can become quite the ball ache at times. You’ve got the merciless conditions, the constant head ringing, the loss of feeling in your extremities and morose people at every turn. So I thought I’d share with you my 5 sure fire ways I’m going to avoid ever having to surf through another [...]

Ah, the old definitive list. Subjective opinion dressed up as fact and the cause celebre of arguments amongst friends around the camp fire. Well who am I to stand in the way of another round of shadow boxing? So here is my list of the top 10 surf films (or top 10 surf movies for [...]

What’s that you say? Someone’s produced a mildly offensive advert and people are getting their knickers in a twist? It must be those politically correct buttoned down shirt types you read about right? You know, the ones who write into Points of View to moan that Moira Stuarts lips don’t move enough. Well no actually. [...]

And today they are calling for your help. The clean water campaigners are asking surfers and coastal users to join the Marine Management Organisation’s (MMO) new Marine Planning programme so that your favourite coastal environments are officially protected when the entire UK coastline becomes the subject of marine planning. Energy companies, the Ministry of Defence [...]