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‘Ello sausage Welcome to the July issue of Carve. So what have we got for ya you lucky blighters this month? Well now Padawan we’ve got plenty of folk chinwagging. From big wave legend Cotty, longboard hero Ben Skinner, alt-guru Rasta to mini-grom on the rise Stanley Norman. Plenty of different aspects on this deal we call surfing. There’s also a trip to a sublime sandbar with Vincent Duvignac and Gearoid goes to Mozambique and has a bit of a shocker. But then, the trips where shit gets real tend to be the funniest, and most memorable. The end up providing the best pub anecdotes at least. If all that isn’t enough to sate you then there’s a bunch of retro boards to droll over and the usual smattering of world class photography from the globe’s best lensmen #standard.

Have you heard of the 10,000-Hour Rule? A simple enough idea that claims greatness requires enormous time devoted to any skill. If you put your mind to something and practice, in the correct way, for 10,000 hours then you’ll become an expert, world class even*.
That is, from our niche in life, a lot of surfing.
Take an average two hour session: that’s 5,000 dips in the brine. Even on two sessions a day that’s 2,500 days. Which you’d be hard pressed to manage in 10 years. Which might explain why there are not that many Slater grade world-class surfers in the world.

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