This month I’m going to delve into some iconic logos in skateboarding, as graphics on boards are such an important aspect skateboarding. It seems as if brand logos have become more important in skateboarding than in any other industry, with people vehemently defending their favourite brands as if their life depended on it. I’m not […]
It’s finally winter: the season of consistent swells and still slightly warm water. The summer crowds have scurried back to the safety of their city apartments, with their 8 foot mini-mal (or second-hand 5’11” pop-out that they found on eBay and still don’t understand why they can’t stand in the 1 foot whitewash) securely stored […]
Picture this: you’re riding in prone on your final wave after a wild winter surf in the North Sea. 120 excruciating minutes battling everything the elements could throw at you; it seemed sunny when you left the beach, right? But the ever-sadist Mother Nature managed to lure you out, before mutating those light offshores into […]
Hi guys Ed here again with this month’s blog. A lot of you seemed to like last month’s blog, tricks you should know, where I talked about tricks that set up a good base for learning other tricks, and are good for a beginner to learn. Some of you guys wanted me to expand on […]
A memoir of 3 weeks spent in Sennen, Cornwall, teaching a French to surf. Read on for a comprehensive recap of why you should learn to surf in Cornwall!
This month’s skate blog is a list of tricks that you should aim to learn. These are all mainly beginner tricks, but the criteria for them to be on this list is that it is either a good base for learning other tricks and advancing or that they look good. Remember for every trick is […]
Forget meditating at your desk or taking that brisk stroll before work; everyone should periodically replace their alarm clock with the soft purr of waves caressing the shore. Thankfully, I’m lucky enough to call the little village of Sennen – under 1 mile from Land’s End – my second home. Each time I awake in […]
It’s always convenient when your passion coincides with most people’s idea of a dream holiday location. So when your parents are considering a winter beach escape overlapping the dates of the Billabong Pipe Masters in Hawaii, it would be rude not to drop some gentle hints. Two days after a frustrating hunt for stormy Cornish […]
Hi guys Ed here again, this month’s blog is about all the hate a lot of the YouTube skateboard channels seem to get and why I feel it’s not deserved, no I’m not just on about skateboard channels in general more specifically the stuff like Braille Skateboarding and John Hill, who are typically referred to […]
Ed here again with this month’s blog, before I start, I just want to say that yes I am aware of the irony of calling it unwritten rules of the skatepark then writing them down. Hopefully some of these you will have figured out yourself already, don’t worry if you haven’t we all start somewhere. […]