The black sheep
Rui from Magic Quiver in Portugal chats to Jeff McCallum. This article is also available in Portuguese…
Rui from Magic Quiver in Portugal chats to Jeff McCallum. This article is also available in Portuguese…
A couple of weeks ago, Carlos and Ligia tied the knot, amongst the flurry of wedding preparations, family etc, Carlos had a little time to nip off to west coast of South America – Peru to be exact and compete in South America’s most prestigous big wave event – the Pico Alto Invitational.

How the hell did I get here? A 12-year career in journalism was all I had to go by when I crash-landed in Zarautz in the beautiful Basque Country to manage a surf camp for Stoke Travel.

Clearing out an old bookcase the other day, I came across ‘Caught Inside’ by Daniel Duane and was reminded quite how important a book it was to me at the start of my surfing obsession.
A group of internet users are bringing a whole new meaning to ‘surfing the web’. The virtual-reality program Second Life allows you to create a character in your own image, grab your virtual surfboard and head to the beach. Photo: Dharma Austin
Here are some old pictures I took on a little adventure to Mundaka a few years ago. I somehow managed to get my university to let me know on an “exchange” so I basically got to travel across europe from Spain to Poland. It was pretty rad but the surf wasn’t so good in the Czech Republic.

The soul arch is seen by some as a functional element of style, and is dismissed by others as a flamboyant indulgence. I see the soul arch as a functional expression of a surfer’s joy.
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We are committed to helping getting the SAS message across to as many folks as possible so here’s a little film we made that we hope will get more of us to help them out.
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El Mar, Mi Alma
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Tyler Warren Experiments
Tyler Warren pilots a steady course through the hype.
Castles made of sand
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Dont Jump Off the Pier
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Forty Bonzer Years
Malcolm Campbell lists fourty notable things to represent the forty years of the Bonzer.
Mission: possible
Portugal explodes onto the global big wave circuit.