Whales surf Lennox
Whale and dolphins joined surfers in the lineup at Lennox a couple of days ago. Some even catching waves. Pretty amazing footage.
BOARDMASTERS TICKETS ON SALE FOR 2021
Boardmasters festival returns to Newquay, 11-15 August 2021, and it is announced today that tickets will go on sale this Thursday 1 October at 8am. Cornwall’s own surf and music festival welcomes huge names making waves in international surfing at Fistral Beach, as well as an unbeatable line-up of world-class musical talent taking to the stage at Watergate Bay. Tickets will be available via the Boardmasters website.
This Thursday, ‘Tier 1’ tickets for Weekend Camping, Charger (the ultimate Boardmasters ticket), VIP Camping and 3-Day No Camping will be going on sale. Fans will have the option of booking their ticket with a £20 deposit and paying nothing until 2021, and customers can book with confidence in the knowledge that they will be eligible for a refund if the festival is unable to go ahead due to Covid-19.
Boardmasters Festival Organiser and Co-Founder, Andrew Topham said, “We are excited to be looking ahead to next year, making plans for Boardmasters and welcoming you all back in 2021. While we are living in uncertain times, the entire Boardmasters team remains positive that we’ll be able to gather to enjoy the very best live music and surfing, at our home on the Cornish coast next August. We are keeping a very close eye on the current situation, as well as the UK Government guidelines, which we will follow as the festival approaches. Boardmasters 2021 will go ahead, so long as it is entirely safe for us to do so.”
Tickets for Boardmasters 2021 go on sale this Thursday 1 October at 8am. Visit boardmasters.com for more information.
Summer vibes – Tahiti
Kyllian Guerin on his first adventure in Polynesia.
“I have traveled to a lot of places since I was little.’ says KG “Beautiful, wild or incredible places. But deep down inside, I had always dreamed of coming here. I was told about the beauty of the landscapes, the people, the culture and then there was Teahupoo. Scary and bewitching, an almost mythical wave. I dreamed about it but every time I saw my friends leave and I said to myself ok, next time. And then at the beginning of September, I had the chance to go with @Jorgann Couzinet on my first trip to this island which is truly the pearl of the Pacific.
Carve Magazine Issue 204
Carve Magazine Issue 204
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Stoke-ed
It’s a grey autumn day, raining cats and dogs, but out beyond the browning flowers, muddy puddles and flooding pavement, the sea is packed. The dulled brine occasionally moved by three-foot sets and a light offshore has drawn out large numbers of surfers right up the coast. Ordinarily sane people are up at dawn in torrential rain waiting to get their fix. Just one slide, one turn, maybe if there are lucky, a head dip to claim. For years I have enthusiastically espoused the benefits of surfing, and questioned what makes the pursuit of ‘stoke' so addictive. I know some people claim there is no such thing. But I am a believer, and proof of my theory was laid out on beaches for hundreds of miles this morning. Everyone chasing their fix in what were less than perfect conditions on the global scale.
I guess some people would love surfing to be just another sport, like football or tennis. Something you can pick up or leave. Dip in and out, wear the scarves, and chant on terraces. But for the majority us, it is way more than a sport will ever be. It is an addiction, our raison d’etre to get up in the dark, to explore the world, to educate ourselves, to fight to protect the environment, to raise our physical performance and fitness, and so much more. We now have studies trying to understand why surfing makes us feel good in ways that go beyond standard endorphin release provided by jogging, and senses of achievement greater than rolling about in mud with 29 other blokes and an odd-shaped ball. When journalists were asking about Olympic inclusion, my go-to answer was always: “On any day, any surfer or any ability can feel like a gold medallist.” Is it cold water reflex? Is it ozone? Or is it something more. I have no idea. Being a product of a tight and committed surfing community I never questioned why. We all just felt it and we were all hooked from day one.
These days there is a larger surfing population, so core values have been watered down in part. But at the same time, during these weird times of stress and change there are more people addicted, and that addiction provides greater escapes and more meaning. The ‘stoke' is real and one day I have no doubt science will prove what we already know.
This issue is full of addicts: Wales’ finest young competitive surfers, PLD and Logan, who are up at dawn every day and chasing dreams, no matter the conditions. James Hendy, who has always worked to surf, starting sanding surfboards under a tarp, but has ended up living on the Bukit as a surf brand executive. Jack Johns, surf stoked grom who is now a regular Condé Nast cover shooter. Al Mackinnon, whose job is it is to try and encapsulate inspiring surf travel. And of course, the British and Irish surf photographers who capture moments that burn like super novas in the sky maps of our lives.
What connects you, and me to them is that we are all chasing the fix. We are all chasing ’stoke’. Even those who are in denial. It’s for the best if we all just hold our hands up and admit it. We are addicted.
Steve Editor
DON’T CHANGE OVER SUMMER
Autumn is here, winter is on the way, it’s been a helluva year with a pandemic grounded most of the planet. Thankfully we've been blessed with waves across the globe to ease some of the Covid madness. Check out this short film by Tanner Gudauskas and Alex Kilauano, and lets be thankful that summer wasn’t a total right off, there was still some good vibes and will continue to be.
Win A Beach Front Home
A stunning beach house in the affluent blue-flagged area of Wittering, Sussex, that is being raffled off for just £2.50 a ticket, has partnered up with one of the UK's leading marine conservation and campaigning charities, ‘Surfers Against Sewage’. The partnership hopes to raise vital cash and awareness to the 8 million pieces of plastic that end up in our oceans every day.
Owner, Jan Michaelis, who is a two-time Olympian snowboarder, and wife Alina, are enthusiastic surfers and passionate about marine conservation after experiencing pollution in the ocean first-hand. The announcement has been made during Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) Plastic Process campaign, which runs from the 5th September to the 18th October to highlight the explosion of plastic pollution from PPE on our beaches and rivers following lockdown.
*With over 2 million tonnes of plastic packaging used in the UK each year, between 8 to 14 million tonnes enter our seas every 12 months. This leaves more than 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine animals dying from plastic pollution each year, as well 100% of baby sea turtles living a life with plastic in their stomachs. *Supermarkets create an estimated 59 billion pieces of packaging totalling over 800,000 tonnes per year.
It was during lockdown when the couple decided they would raffle their stunning £475,000 beach house with the hope of raising £50,000 as well as awareness for two charities that are close to their hearts, whilst giving someone the opportunity to live a mortgage-free idyllic beach life.
The three-bedroom property comes complete with an additional one-bedroom Airbnb cabin and is walking distance of the sandy West Wittering and East Head beach, graded among Britain's most beautiful within a National Trust Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Not only will the lucky winner win a mortgage free beach-house and potential Air B&B business, but the couple are also paying the conveyancing fees up to a maximum of £1500, Stamp Duty to a maximum of £15,000. As well as the first year of running expenses and council tax that is due after the date of completion, up to a maximum of £2,000.
Entries cost just £2.50 and people can buy their ticket here:
The competition was launched on 6 August 2020 and runs until 6 February 2020. The couple need to sell 240,000 tickets to reach their target. Otherwise the winner will receive a cash prize instead while a proportional donation will be made to charity.
Surfers Against Sewage is a national marine conservation and campaigning charity that inspires, unites and empowers communities to take action to protect oceans beaches, waves and wildlife.
The money raised will help contribute towards initiatives the charity runs, such as the Plastic Free school education programme, where it hopes to increase the volume of schools it serves over the next three years. As one of the largest networks of volunteers undertaking regular beach cleans in Europe, the money would also contribute to regular beach clean programmes as well as build up its Plastic Free Communities programme that works to rid communities from unnecessary single-use plastics.
Pete Lewis, Director of Fundraising at Surfers Against Sewage, says: “We’re delighted that Jan and Alina have chosen to support Surfers Against Sewage and our work protecting the UK’s marine environment. Their support will have a huge impact on our work around the UK.”
Speaking from the property, Jan says: “We love the sea and believe it’s important to protect it, not only for our own benefit but primarily because it is an essential component of our planet’s ecosystem. Surfer’s against Sewage are a community dedicated to the protection of oceans, waves, beaches and wildlife. Therefore, it was just natural for us to choose them as a charity that we want to support.”
The second charity will be announced in the coming weeks. You can enter the raffle by visiting here: you will be asked a simple competition question when entering.
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