Surfing with Children: Safety and Starter Tips Taking your children surfing for the first time is one of the most rewarding things you can do as a family on the British coast. The UK has a genuinely impressive surfing scene – from the world-class breaks of Newquay in Cornwall to the gentler beach breaks of…
Cold Water Surfing Safety: Avoiding Hypothermia The United Kingdom is not the first place most people picture when they think of surfing. Yet from the thundering beach breaks of Newquay to the remote reef waves of Thurso East, British surfers ride waves year-round in some of the coldest, most challenging water in Europe. The North…
Rip Currents in the UK: How to Spot and Escape Them Every year, rip currents are responsible for the majority of lifeguard rescues on British beaches. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) estimates that rip currents account for around 60% of all lifeguard interventions in the UK, making them the single greatest hazard faced by…
How to Read Surf Forecasts for UK Beaches You’ve bought the wetsuit, borrowed a board, and you’re ready to get in the water. But when you open a surf forecast website, you’re met with a wall of numbers, arrows, coloured bars, and abbreviations that look more like a weather report from another planet. Sound familiar?…
Surfing in Yorkshire: The North East’s Hidden Waves Why Yorkshire? Seriously, Why Yorkshire? When most people think of surfing in the UK, their minds drift south and west – Cornwall, Devon, maybe the Gower Peninsula in Wales. Yorkshire rarely features in that conversation, and honestly, that suits the locals just fine. The North Sea coastline…
Top Surf Spots in Wales for Learners: A Complete Guide to Getting Started Wales is one of the best places in the United Kingdom to learn to surf. With over 1,200 kilometres of coastline, a string of west-facing beaches that catch Atlantic swells, and a well-established surf culture that has been growing since the 1960s,…
Surfboard Leashes: What They Are and Why You Need One If you are new to surfing in the UK, the list of equipment you need can feel overwhelming. Wetsuit, board, fins, wax – and then someone mentions a leash. It is a small piece of kit that often gets overlooked by beginners, yet it is…
UK Wetsuit Thickness Guide: What to Wear in Each Season If you’ve ever stood on a beach in Cornwall in February watching surfers paddle out and thought “how on earth are they not dead?”, the answer is almost certainly a good wetsuit. Getting your wetsuit thickness right is one of the most important things you…
The Best UK Surf Schools for Beginners Standing on a beach with a surfboard under your arm, staring out at the Atlantic, can feel equal parts thrilling and terrifying. The waves look bigger from the shoreline. The wetsuit feels unfamiliar. And everyone else in the water seems to know exactly what they are doing. If…
Learning to Surf in the UK: What Beginners Need to Know So You Want to Surf in Britain? Most people picture surfing as something that happens in California, Hawaii, or Australia — somewhere warm, exotic, and reliably sunny. The idea of learning to surf in the UK, with its grey skies and famously unpredictable weather,…