Category : Surf

You’re a KooK but don’t be offended: A British surfing Newspaper

You’re a KooK but don’t be offended: A British surfing Newspaper


There is no surf in England but someone made a newspaper on surfing anyway. What a Kook! An extraordinary newspaper landed on my mat the other day, a paper that I anticipated as being one that would not end up in the recycling bucket or as a plate for fish and chips. Issue 01 of [...]

Beauty of the board: from shaping to surfing

Beauty of the board: from shaping to surfing


With Ash Lawton praising the surfboard Chops Lascelles shaped for him, we couldn’t resist introducing you to the artist himself. Chops has been shaping boards since the 1960s, he currently shapes with Beachbeat Surfboard factory and to say that his is a familiar name in the European surf world is a bit of an understatement. [...]

Surfer interview: Surfing the Severn Bore with Lumoxs

Surfer interview: Surfing the Severn Bore with Lumoxs


“I can’t wait to do that again,” Ash ‘Lumoxs’ Lawton said after surfing the legendary Severn Bore in Gloucestershire, the surge wave that sweeps the Severn Estuary. Lumoxs is a pro longboard surfer based in Perranporth, Cornwall. It was a chance to see a great surfer meet the great bore and to catch it ourselves. [...]


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