How to Paddle Out Through Breaking Waves Picture this: it’s a grey Tuesday morning at Croyde Bay in North Devon, the kind of morning where the car park smells of wetsuit rubber and instant coffee from flasks. You’ve hired a board from the surf school on the headland, watched a brief safety chat, and now…
Scottish Surfing: Cold Water and Stunning Scenery Scotland is one of the best-kept secrets in European surfing. While the masses flock to Cornwall or the Basque Country, Scotland quietly delivers some of the most powerful, consistent, and spectacularly beautiful waves on the planet. The country’s rugged Atlantic coastline, shaped by millennia of geological drama, produces…
Surfing in Devon: Beginner-Friendly Beaches and Tips Devon is, without question, one of the finest counties in England for learning to surf. Flanked on its northern coast by the Atlantic Ocean and on its southern edge by the English Channel, it offers an extraordinary range of wave conditions, beach types, and surf schools that make…
The Best Surf Spots in Cornwall for Beginners Cornwall is the jewel in the crown of British surfing. Stretching out into the Atlantic on England’s south-western tip, this rugged peninsula receives consistent swells that have attracted surfers from across the UK and Europe for decades. For beginners, Cornwall offers something genuinely rare: a wide variety…
Surfboard Wax: How to Apply It and Which Type to Choose If you have ever watched an experienced surfer glide effortlessly along a wave at Croyde Bay or Fistral Beach, you might assume their skill comes entirely from years of practice. That is certainly part of the story. But there is a far more humble…
How to Choose a Wetsuit for UK Waters If you are new to surfing in the UK, one of the first things you will quickly realise is that the sea here is absolutely nothing like the Caribbean. Even on a warm August afternoon in Cornwall, the water temperature in the Atlantic can hover around 15-17°C,…
Surfboard Types Explained: Longboard, Shortboard and Foam Choosing the right surfboard is one of the most important decisions a beginner surfer will make. Walk along the beach at Croyde in Devon, Fistral in Newquay, or Llangennith in the Gower Peninsula, and you will see a wide variety of board shapes being ridden by surfers of…
Choosing Your First Surfboard: A UK Beginner Guide Picture this: it is a grey Saturday morning in Newquay, Cornwall. The Atlantic swell is rolling in at a steady three feet, the smell of pasties drifts from a bakery on Fore Street, and you are standing in a car park watching a twelve-year-old glide effortlessly across…
Surfing for Over 40s: Is It Too Late to Start? Alan didn’t own a wetsuit until he was 43. A secondary school teacher from Harrogate, he’d spent most of his adult life convinced that surfing was something you did in your twenties, preferably with sun-bleached hair and a van. Then his daughter dragged him to…
Beginner Surfing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them So you’ve decided to learn to surf. Maybe you spent a weekend in Newquay, watched someone glide effortlessly along a wave, and thought “I could do that.” Or perhaps you’ve been living near the coast your whole life and finally decided to stop watching from the beach….