Nate Florence 2021 Highlights
How was your 2021, Nathan Florence blew the doors off 2021, click into the pits.
Slab Happy
Ollie O’Flaherty and crew, slab happy in Ireland over Christmas, definitely on the good list.
Home
Home has always been more than just a place, welcome to the North East of England.
Year Of The Goofy
Who got the most tubed in 2021, and were they going right or left?
Cornish surfer gets MBE for lifesaving over 40 years
Great work Martyn Ward!
Eve
A Devon surf edit from a single session, Christmas eve, 2021.
Domestic tourist – G Mans trip around his motherland
GMan is a well-travelled young Irish man, but as he knows all too well, there’s no place like home! Well his home…
Quarter
Scottish power with Mark Boyd and Chris Noble trading waves.
Young Guns 2021
The best young surfing talents of the Quiksilver team in Young Guns ‘Bay of Biscay’
Gap Year
Born and raised in Cronulla, Jordy Turansky follows in a long line of iconic Southside surfers. Don’t miss this sick edit!
Lakey Peak
Threading one of the best days of the year – Sumbawa, Lakey Peak
Laethanta Draíochta
Magic days in Ireland with Conor Maquire, Cillian Ryan, Noah Lane, Taz Knight and more.
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Frosty Fistral Fun…
Friends, brethren, comrades ... rejoice! The permanent grey blanket that's enveloped the UK for months has gone for a laundry day. The sun is actually out and one of those frosty, bluebird winter days we dream of has finally happened. About time as there's only so...
Killer Whale Nibbles SUP
https://youtu.be/Vaq4pHxM5P4 The mighty orca, the very beast our publishing house is named after, might have the slightly terrifying moniker of 'killer whale' but they don't kill people. Seals yes. They slay those furry nuggets with abandon ... but in the wild they...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nope. It’s Bearman!
Words & Photos Sharpy Adam Griffiths is an affable gent. He’s one of the leading lights in the ferociously strong British longboard scene and just an all round bloody good bloke. It was a pleasure to share the Indonesian trip (featured in issue 165) with him....
Kerrzy Takes Todos!
Josh Kerr (AUS), longtime competitor on the elite World Surf League (WSL) Samsung Galaxy Championship Tour (CT), claimed the Todos Santos Challenge today, besting a field of 24 of the world’s top big wave surfers in mammoth 30-to-40-foot surf off the coast of Baja...
Slaters first session, the biggest wave ever and paddle madness at Jaws!
Slaters first session at Jaws. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2HD93hR_jY Biggest Wave Paddle Into At Peahi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGVwrx1Yp8M All filmed by @puredigitalmedia
Win a Billabong Adventure Division jacket.
Win a @billabong Adventure Division Fjord jacket! So winter has kicked in and you may be feeling a tad nippy. Fear not cos we have spoken to our mates at @billabong and they have given us five Adventure Division Fjord jackets to give away. Like the one...
The Carve Awards…
Winter is awards season, what with the Oscars and Golden Globes and all that. The Carve awards aren’t quite on that scale. So we don’t need to bust out the tuxedos and frocks. It’s our tongue in cheek round up of a wild year. So. Enjoy 2015 through our distorted...
Win a Rip Curl Search pack for your best mate!
Everyone has a funny friend they just have to take on a surf trip for the laughs. Tag the funniest friend you would take with you on the Search on our Instagram www.instagram.com/carvemag and tell us why they are such a legend. We will pick three winners and send them...
A Sharp's Surf Adventure in Nazaré…
https://youtu.be/d068Th3foTs Some things in life are easy to organise, others, generally those related to surfing massive waves, take a bit more effort. Enter stage left Dave Zaple. A genial south coast chap who’s a ninja grade paramedic by trade. He entered a Sharp’s...
Seven times Irish Longboard champ wants to be the first openly gay surfer on tour
Craig Butler is a seven time Irish national champion, 21 years old and from Tramore Co. Waterford, Ireland. In 2016 he wants to represent his country on the World Longboard tour, and be the first openly gay surfer on the Mens World Tour. In truth we shouldn’t even...
The Rise Of The Land Camp…
Words and Photos By Sharpy If there’s one word in surfing that epitomises our collective idea of perfection it’s: Mentawai. The mythic Indonesian island chain home to flawless reefs, glassy walls and a deep seated spot in surf lore. It’s a chain where the dream of...
Fergal Smith to stand in Irish general election for the Green Party
https://youtu.be/wX6_vvKjFHs Brilliant news from Ireland's favourite surfing son Fergal Smith... He's looking to make change happen at the highest level. What was the tipping point that made you decide to stand? Having a one year old girl made me realise I have to...
How the World Tour looks in 2016…
If you’ve been hiding in a survivalist cave, or something similar, chewing on Oreos and waiting for the world to end you might not know it’s 2016. Well. It is. Another year means another go round on the world tour and it’s looking like this: 2016 Men's Samsung Galaxy...
SURFBOARD VS FACE (BEWARE! IF YOU'RE SQUEAMISH)
Interview & Action Photos Sharpy If you’ve spent any time in Thurso when it’s on you’ll have no doubt come across the genial gent that is Chris Clarke. He’s out at Thurso when it’s big, mean and cooking and until recently at the more surreptitious heavy spots by...
Catching Up With Barters…
https://vimeo.com/150812218 Interview by Sharpy Lee Bartlett has been a fixture in British surfing for the last couple of decades. Whether it was winning more trophies than a standard mantlepiece can hold or shaping cutting edge shred sticks he's one of the stars in...