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Tonight we are driving up to Gatwick, and very early tomorrow morning we fly to Agadir, Morocco, and start our 4 weeks of surf heaven! The surf is looking like its getting big and there is unfortunately some rain, but we will be having some fun out there. It’s so much warmer than the UK, [...]

After all the hype of the various on-line websites predicting a massive 10ft plus swell, we experienced something more tame today. The cribber did break, but not as big as would have been liked. There were a few surfers getting towed into it, and a couple of surfers trying to paddle into it, but the [...]

If you like surfing you can’t help but love following the ASP World Tour. But what is it?
Well the ASP is the Association of Surfing Professionals. It is the foremost governing body in professional surfing.It governs the ASP World Tour, the ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS), the ASP World Longboard Tour (WLT), the ASP Pro [...]

In the last article in our series about surfing and the weather we look at the location of your local coastline in relation to the position of active low pressure systems. We relate this to the direction and movement of the ‘low’, and how this affects waves in the ocean, and ultimately, swell at your [...]

Why not head to France in September with our French Surf Trip. Enjoy surfing in warm seas, hot sunny days, miles and miles of beautiful sandy beaches, and great surf. What more could you want?
It was 32C at midday on the beach! Fantastic! And its still a balmy 26C at 3:30pm. Paradise!
See the Seignosse live [...]

Today’s blog will consider local weather conditions and their affect on groundswell at your local beach.
As groundswell approaches your local beach the quality of the surf will be will largely be dependant on local weather conditions including wind direction and strength.
Lets use the Newquay area of the North coast of Cornwall as an example.
Imagine we [...]

In our last article we looked at the creation of waves in the North Atlantic by low-pressure systems. Today we will consider what happens as the waves approach our shores.

Now that the waves have been created (the swell) they keep on travelling across the ocean until they reach land and the wave energy [...]

In the second of our regular series of articles on how the weather affects surfing, we look at what happens out at sea.

Waves out at sea

If there was no wind the sea would probably be like millpond, calm and relatively motionless, but thank goodness for us surfers, this is not the case!

As we [...]

In the first of our series of articles about how the weather affects surfing, we look at what causes our swell in the South West of Britain;
Low pressure systems

As you know the UK is situated on the Eastern side of the North Atlantic Ocean. Out at sea there is  a lot of activity in the [...]

This week we have been considering our France surf tour. We’ve been planning logistics and where to surf.
There are plenty of spots to surf along the coast near Seignosse. Hossegor and Biarritz are well known, but there are plenty of other great places with less crowds and great waves.
Let us know what you want from [...]