Volcom Presents: GUILLOTINE

A glorious, disorganised, wetsuit-stinking ode to the mid-winter Portuguese escape.

Welsh Nationals Finalised and Champions Crowned for 2025

The Puravida-MiPost Welsh National Surfing Championships 2025 successfully concluded at a stormy Llantwit Major recently.

Occy at Mundaka 

60 seconds of the raging bull surfing Mundaka, don’t mind if I do.

Bleubird Nordic Robe

Bleubird Nordic Robe

From Bleubird, the Irish outdoor and adventure brand, comes the Nordic Robes. They’re built for the elements and made from recycled plastic bottles.

The Cave

The Cave

Is this the most dangerous wave in Portugal with Nic Von Rupp, Tom Lowe, Ben Larg and crew.

Hey Ho

Hey Ho

Slide into the weekend with the OG son of fun, Mr Mason Ho and crew.

Wedge Madness

Wedge Madness

All the beatings, the guts and glory from an epic year at the Wedge in this raw edit, hit play.

Following with JOB

Following with JOB

As the new winter rumbles to life, Following looks back at Jamie O’Brien’s attack on the last Hawaiian season.

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Beats Down South

Beats Down South, started by two Bude locals with a love for music, is an organisation aiming to boost the Hip-Hop scene in the south west by pairing local talent with national stars. Little focus has been placed on Hip-Hop in the rural settings of Devon and Cornwall...

The Safety Dance

Keeping The Crew Safe with Peter Conroy Interview by Steve England There have been a couple of incidents in Ireland recently requiring coastguard assistance. Helicopters rescued a stranded surfer from the bottom of the Cliffs of Moher and Australian pro bodyboarder...

Adventure Surf Photography: Nailing The Shot With AVG.

https://youtu.be/0ilpzT5TBf0 Alan Van Gysen has been Carve's main man on the African continent for many years. He delivers gems from all angles, you'll see two of his works opening up the imminent new issue. Come see how it all happens. Watch the FULL documentary...

Surf Photography Then & Now…

20 Years of Surf Photography & Magazine Making Technology moves fast. We know this. In the twenty years the magazine has been in existence the way it's produced has changed immeasurably. Back in 1994 producing a magazine was a lengthy and expensive process. Hard...

Zombies Surf?

https://vimeo.com/132922916 Here's something you don't see every day... It's the video for a Nicolas Godin track (him what is half of Air) from his upcoming debut solo album. Great track, mad video, we like...

JOB 5.0 – River surfing and skiiing at Pipe

https://youtu.be/71jXVNpP84Q On this episode of Who is JOB 5.0 it's a Waimea Bay theme as Jamie O'Brien and friends open up the overflowing Waimea Bay river and creates the best river surfing waves of the year! Plus, Poopies learns freestyle snow skiing at Pipeline...

A Reader Writes…

Got this in my inbox this morning. Not often I get a response to an editorial that's as moving as this... Hey Carve,  FAO Sharpy. Editor. Sharpy, Read your leading article in latest mag, issue 161. 'Do you ever lose your mojo?' What an incredible and succinct piece of...

On A Serious Note…

Ten years ago London was rocked by the events of 7/7. I wrote this in response at the time... *** Writing a column for a surf mag is a fun thing to do, surfing is fun, the whole deal is fun. Fun can be a bit selfish. As surfers we can sometimes be accused of having...

The Best Surf Excuses…

A handy raft of excuses to get out of work/school/family commitments to help you get your fix of saltwater gravy. Especially handy when we've got unseasonably fun summer swell around... Here are some tried and tested excuses that should do the trick*. Remember that...

Surf Snowdonia online booking system goes live

Surf Snowdonia has announced today that it has launched an online booking system at its website http://www.surfsnowdonia.co.uk/. The world-first inland surf lagoon in North Wales opens 1 August 2015. The system will allow customers to reserve a session on the wave...

Solo Island…

Fed up of clickbait and throwaway web content more about hits than user joy? Come get deep with Oli... PART ONE: NOTES ON GETTING THERE It took a while this trip. Eight or so years of waiting. Eight long years of watching the charts and missing season after season as...