1ST ANNUAL APPROACHING LINES – LINE UP ANNOUNCED

7_SIGNS_HRoach_PHOTODodds Approaching Lines Festival: The Cinematic Surf Sessions Presented by Reef, is stoked to announce the official selection of International features for the first annual event. Hosted 24th and 26th April, at the state of the art Lighthouse Cinema in Newquay, and 25th April at the iconic Poly in Falmouth, The Approaching Lines Festival is a three-night extravaganza showcasing the cream of UK and International surf filmmaking.

“We’ve worked with filmmakers around the world to bring to the southwest a hand-picked selection of the year’s most exciting surf films including a European Premiere, 3 UK Premieres and a host of award-winning movies,” says Festival Director Chris Nelson. “The programme showcases the very best in waveriding, from cutting edge performance in films like Se7en Signs and Groove Move to thought provoking documentaries like The Salt Trail and mind-blowing travel epics like the Arctic-tripping The Cradle of Storms. Across the board, the cinematography is stunning, the sound tracks are epic and the surfing pushes things to a whole new level. I can’t wait to see the films played out in the way they were designed to be seen – on the big screen, in surround sound, amongst a stoked crew”

Tickets are £5, available from the Lighthouse Cinema, Newquay T: 01637 878650 and The Poly in Falmouth T01326 319461. A limited number of evening passes are also available through the box offices which cost £8 and include entry to all the movies on your night of choice plus a complimentary beer courtesy of our friends at Rebel Brewing Company.

We have a few surprises up our sleeves… so stay tuned at approachinglines.com

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE LINE UP

Thursday 24th April: LIGHTHOUSE CINEMA, NEWQUAY

7pm UK PREMIERE: SE7EN SIGNS, Dir: Nathan Myers, USA

Showcasing some of the most exciting surfers of our time including Pete Devries, Asher Pacey, Ozzy Wright, Torrey Meister, Joel Fitzgerald, Harrison Roach, Otis Carey, Chris Del Moro, Noah Cohen Kiron Jabour, et al SE7EN SIGNS is a rollicking, surprise-filled adventure. If this does not inspire your wanderlust, nothing will.

8.45pm EUROPEAN PREMIERE: GOOVE MOVE, Dir: Jack Coleman, USA,

Take a liberal sprinkling of Derek Hynd, Joel Tudor, Alex Knost and Ryan Burch add a dose of Machado, Rasta, Ozzie Wright, Ford Archbold, Ari Browne, mix it in Australia, Hawaii, New Zealand, Mexico, and California with Jack Coleman’s trademark independent filmmaking radness and you have one awesome movie showcasing alternative board design and the surfers who ride them

Friday 25th April : THE POLY, FALMOUTH

7pm CORNWALL PREMIERE: THE SALT TRAIL, (cert 18) Dir: Mark Waters, UK

Journeying through Indonesia from the crowded points of Bali to the isolation of The Mentawai Islands, this cinematic masterpiece captures the joys and the pains of exploration, and the rewards that will stay with you long after the journey is over. It is a film to stir the soul and, showcasing some deepest, sweetest tube rides, it’ll have you packing your bags for your own Indian Ocean voyage of discovery. Winner: Best Cinematography & Best British Film, London Surf / Film Festival 2013

8.45pm UK PREMIERE: THE OLD THE YOUNG & THE SEA, Dir. Mario Hainzl SUI,

“A movie that makes you proud to be a surfer – the  most compelling surf film to come around in a long, long, time.” Jake Howard – ESPN

Exploring the Atlantic Coast of France, Spain and Portugal this award-winning documentary provides a vivid snapshot of Europe’s post-modern coastal culture, bringing to life the epic waves and cultural diversity of this well-worn trail from the beaches of the Basque region to the mighty Nazare.

Saturday 26th April : LIGHTHOUSE CINEMA, NEWQUAY

7pm UK PREMIERE: CRADLE OF STORMS, Dir: Ben Weiland, Bryce Lowe-White USA

Alex Gray, Josh Mulcoy, and Pete Devries went on a journey through the remote Aleutian Arc of Alaska. They braved heavy weather, flew on rickety prop planes, and ate seal meat en route to discovering one of the best cold-water slabs in the world. Set against a volcanic backdrop, this is cold-water surf exploration at its finest.

SHOWING WITH: THE FORTUNE WILD Dir. Ben Gulliver, CAN

A small group of surfers set out to seek their own kind of riches on some of the most remote beaches of the Canadian coast. Surfing, camping and foraging for food on British Columbia’s island chain, the surfers step away from the modern world and into a quieter, more attuned and more self-sufficient existence. Winner: Yeeew Factor London Surf / Film Festival 2013

ALSO SHOWING WITH: RUSSIA Dir. Chris Burkard, USA

A film that jumps in at the deep end of surfing’s exploratory boundaries. Keith Malloy, Dane Gudauskas, Trevor Gordon, and Cyrus Sutton journey to the shores of remote Kamchatka on Russia’s Pacific rim, where the only way to scour remote breaks is by Soviet era truck or rickety helicopter. Surfing back to basics, beautifully captured by one of the world’s leading lensemen.

9pm CORNWALL PREMIERE: MISSING, Dir: Taylor Steele, USA,

Mick Fanning drops out of the competitive circus and drops into a three week magical mystery tour with a rad crew. Legendary filmmaker Taylor Steele is there to capture all the highs and lows as John John Florence, Jordy Smith, Taylor Knox, Matt Wilkinson and Tom Curren all hop onboard in the search for something different.

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Bleak treasures

Marcus Lascelles and Skindog rack up a bit of tube time and a few beatings in cold water barrels. See the full story on the trip in the March issue of Carve magazine.

Carve 150 – twenty years on!

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March 1994. Porthleven is under threat from a marina, Derek Ho is the ASP World Champion and a little magazine called Carve sets on its merry way amongst the surfing world. It’s raison d’être: to give British surfing, surfers and industry a voice, a showcase and a bit of amusement to be proud of. As I wrote about a trip to Portugal for issue one on the sofa behind which I literally lived in the front room of a friend’s student house little did I know that 20 years later I’d still be here tapping away on a keyboard late into the night.

Over the years there have been many memorable and worthwhile moments documented by the magazine that many of you have shared with us, but for me personally the greatest rewards have been behind the scenes helping young British and Irish surfers chase their dreams, receiving the tweets and emails that read simply “Thanks!” and the smiles, laughs and hoots the simple act of riding waves and making a magazine have brought.

And thus with issue 150 we set sail into the future and hopefully another 20 surfing years. As for an introductory thought to this brand new chapter I shall furnish you with this. If working here has taught me anything it is that there is nothing more joyful and fulfilling than living a life chasing the simplistic pleasure of riding waves and there is no telling what life events following such a path may lead you to. Whether your experience is that of 30 second rides fanging down a tropical point, or two seconds wobbling about before face planting into a two foot shoredump in four degree water, we can all feel like world champions on any given day. It is that feeling of what we call ‘stoke’ (because there is not another relevant description) that binds us all, whatever our ability, board choice, facial hair trend, sex, political agenda, skin colour, race, or religion. Once we open the door into our surfing world our eyes are opened and we become educated in so many facets of life like geography, oceanography, environment, sociology and the sometimes the school of hard knocks. And anything that can do all of that is a wonderful thing.

On behalf of everyone who has worked on or been involved with Carve I would like to thank the surfers, shapers, wetsuit design geeks, photographers, designers, writers, critics, trolls, competitors – past and present, and the advertisers without whose backing the magazine wouldn’t exist. You have all helped us along the way.

Above all we would like to thank you and the thousands of readers and followers without who all of this would still be an amusing but ultimately pointless pastime. In the age of the web and low, or no cost throwaway internet posts it takes balls to lay out the thousands of pounds to put a mag together and get it out there. But we are convinced people want to see their pics in print, gaze at the mesmerising photos and pick up, hold, keep and cherish a high quality print mag. There is not a day goes by that we are not trying our hardest to be that mag.

Steve England
Editor in Chief

Digital surfing books for your tablet!

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The Complete Guide to Surf Fitness

The aim of this book is to help surfers surf longer, surf stronger, and catch more waves. What surfer wouldn’t want that? For the first time, “The Complete Guide To Surfing Fitness” brings together all the latest knowledge and techniques to offer a complete training programme for beginners to pros. Illustrated with over 150 annotated photos and inspiring surf images, the guide covers everything frrom stretching and flexibility exercises to core strength, resistance training and plyometrics.

Shooting the curl

Surf photographers are the unsung heroes of surfing. They do crazy things to get the shots that fill the pages of the world’s top surfing magazines. Some risk life and limb shooting the action at deadly reefs like Teahupoo and Pipeline. Some lose themselves in the Arctic for months, braving sub-zero temperaturres for the chance to score a perfect day at some remote point. Some drive hundreds of miles along potholed tracks in war-torn countries like Angola and Namibia, searching for pristine unridden breaks.

Shooting The Curl showcases the work of 15 top surf photographers and gets the inside story on the surfers and waves that inspire them. Loaded with incredible images, this is a book for every surfer who loves great photos of top surfers and amazing waves.

 

 

 

 

 

Fergal – 4

Growing Ferg visits his favourite local shaper, Elvis, where they start work on Ferg’s new board before scoring some bombs at Aileen’s on a 5’8″ single fin.