Protect our Waves – Bristol screening
This Friday, 19 March at 7pm, come along to the Howies store on the Triangle (62 Queen’s Road, 0117 929 8928), Bristol, for a double bill of surf goodness.
This Friday, 19 March at 7pm, come along to the Howies store on the Triangle (62 Queen’s Road, 0117 929 8928), Bristol, for a double bill of surf goodness.
I was a child when I first heard the name Bruno Lemos [writes Luciano Burin] – he’s famous in Brazil for his annual coverage of the North Shore, and his photos have been featured in many of our surf mags.
My copy of The KooK arrived this morning. Never has our grumpy postman been such a welcome visitor. Thanks to Dan Crockett and friends, instead of red bills I got a pink paper. Lush!
Our friend in Brazil, Luciano Burin, keeps us in touch with what’s cool in Florianopolis. So when he sent me the link to this little film he’s put together, I checked it out straight away. I know the sun has been making a break for freedom here in the West Country recently, but it’s still not a patch on the rays out in Brazil. It’s Luciano’s grin in this film that really warms you though – he’s just fooling around with a new camera and some editing software, but he’s having a ball. Check it out…

The wishthound gave me a new skateboard a month or so ago, much to my wife’s disgust I might add.
Most of us shy away from philosophy. It’s irrelevant; too complex, too boring, too time-consuming. But did you know that ‘philosophy’ translates literally from Greek as ‘love of wisdom’? So if your idea of a good education is spending hours on Swaylocks researching displacement hulls, you can still safely consider yourself a philosopher. Or a philo-surfer. Geddit?
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I’m counting down to the summer. The surf here has been pretty epic of late and the crazies of Pembrokeshire have been entering the chilly seas – massive swell and ice cream heads.
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