Shouting profanities and the tremors of Trestles
With the Quik Pro just around the corner, do we remember the best or worst of Lowers 2016?It’s been two weeks since the events of the Men’s Hurley Pro rumb...
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UK Pro Surf Tour stops at Surf Snowdonia wave pool
On October 24th the UK Pro Surf Tour will make it's debut at the Surf Snowdonia wave pool (in north Wales for the international readers). It's a decision that's...
The most beautiful surf video you’ll watch today
1000 frames per second makes one hell of a difference.Shot with a 4K Phantom Flex camera by Chris Bryan, this montage of his favorite 2016 moments is stunni...
Greener Pastures – Finding balance
There is something inherent in us all that pines for another life.We long for what we haven’t got, yearn for what we had, envy burrows deep into our hearts,...
Reef – Life From The French Coast Episode 1
Reef just launched a new mini series of surf documentaries taking you a little deeper into the lives of their brand ambassadors living on the French coast.I...
Italy’s pumping – The Four Moors: a journey through Sardinia
When huge swell is headed for the coast of Sardinia, the chance to surf is too good to miss. After all, Italy is not known for it's waves, right?In this vid...
Surf photography focus – Luke Williams
At Drift Surfing we're keen to give exposure to up and coming talent in the world of surfing. Luke Williams is a young surf photographer based out of Ventura, C...
The Seed of Portuguese Surfing
Following on from "The Legend of Mundaka", the latest trailer for "The Endless Winter II; Surfing Europe" is available on YouTube.As a reminder Level Films ...
The Legend of Mundaka
"The Endless Winter II; Surfing Europe" is a new project from Level Films that follows the journey of British surfer Mark ‘Egor’ Harris as he travels the surf t...
Ultimate glossary of surfer slang
Like any sport with deep roots in culture, surfing has it's own language. If you're new to surfing it might take a while to pick up surfer slang but this list o...
Constant call of the wild – Adrift by Passenger
I'm ashamed to admit that I've been sitting on an email sent to me by Passenger founder Rich Sutcliffe for about a week. You know what it's like - inbox full, t...
£25 off Cross surfboards with TVSC.co
This article is sponsored by TVSCCross surfboards are a range of ultra modern, high performance boards named after Gul founder Dennis Cross. The 45 year her...
Stoked with big wave legend Chris Bertish
“There’s a new motorway services on the A30!” Chris exclaimed; his soft South African accent animated as he strode into Watershed showing no effects of the 40hr...
Women taking longboarding to the next level
Let’s dive into the world of female skateboarding and delve into the realm of the female long boarder.
Let’s begin to take a look at the women of the skating w...
A 15,000 mile surf road trip – The West Road
It's Monday morning, I'm in the office and really don't want to be. I guess that's normal but I just made the feeling a zillion times worse by watching part 3 o...
Plane & Simple – Handplanes and Bodysurfing
How we find our joy in the ocean is as wide and diverse as the craft available to experience it.Surfboards, paddleboards, bodyboards, boards of every shape,...
Escaping crazy London for the Jersey surf
This is a guest post from Rebecca Coley of Drift Retreats (no relation to us). If the name sounds familiar it's because we talked to Rebecca last year about her...
2016 London Surf / Film Festival line-up announced
If you're in London at the end of September be sure to go and see some of the films showing at the London Surf / Film Festival. Plenty of inspiration to transpo...
Kelly’s back, Bring on Trestles
On Wednesday, California will welcome this year’s eighth CT event at Lower Trestles, the 2016 Hurley Pro. Defending champion Mick Fanning will be battling to re...
Voting open for 2016 London Surf / Film Festival Shorties short film competition!
It's that time of year again - public voting is open for the 2016 London Surf / Film Festival Shorties! The submissions are in and the long list of short films ...
Surfing moonlight barrels, van life & alien activity – France
We've featured a few of Ian Battrick's videos and there's a reason for that - they are awesome (surf the freezing waters of Iceland, anyone?). Filmed in France ...
Banyak dreaming
Our Captain Erwin, an immediately likeable and smiling chap who had kindly picked us up from the ramshackle Sumatran port, was now confidently speeding across a...
Probably the toughest boards out there…
Northern Irish innovators set to take their unique boards to the world.We have been following the SkunkWorks Surf Co team from Portrush in Northern Ireland ...
Audacity and ambition
An exploration of the limits of the unprepared and overly ambitious on a Sup the entire lengthen of the Cornish coast.Fact One - Total distance (minus repad...
The things professional surfers do on their day off
Professional surfing, just like other professional sports, requires incredible sacrifices and an intense amount of time and effort.Unlike the past, where su...
Top five mobile apps for surfers
Long gone are the days where surfers would have to tune in to the radio or check the weather report on TV to know when to hit the waves.The advance of moder...
The delight in life: An interview with John Callahan
John Callahan is a photographer’s surf photographer. His images from the seven seas bring surf exploration and adventure into our lives offering rich contextual wavecapes that out smart all the dehumanizing in-your-face/big punt/big decal/big deal surf porn.
Sunsets and Surf – a fitting finish to Boardmasters 2016
Sunsets and surf; this year’s Boardmasters Festival had them in abundance, as well as abounding talent on both sea and stage. This was a new and improved Boardm...
Hands on: Spivo rotating stick for GoPro
We have covered the wonderfully named Spivo GoPro stick before, but this time the kind Canadian folk from Ottawa have shipped one of their glory poles all the w...
Hot action and fierce sun; everything was cooking down at Fistral
Finals day of the Boardmasters Surf festival saw a mixture of conditions both in and out of the water.
The day started with mizzle, that wonderful Cornish comb...
Interview Exclusive: Betty The Shark
It's a not her first Boardmasters, but this year Lee-Ann Curren and her band, Betty The Shark made their performance debut on the View Stage, against a blue-sky...
Surf photography workshop: Hossegor
Have you ever wanted to develop your skills as a surf photographer? Or take the plunge into underwater photography? Perhaps you know your DSLRs from your MicroS...
By accepting plastic, we are the problem…
I’ve long recognised the issues with our plastic addiction.I have cleaned up enough beaches, recycled enough trash, opted paper over plastic enough times to...
How did a form of fishing become an Olympic sport?
Love the waves but wonder where it all began? What was happening when there wasn’t anything to surf and what drove mankind to start riding? Here is our concise...
IOC green light the path with gold
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has voted to include surfing in the Tokyo 2020 games.This is a massive milestone in the history of the sport and c...
Surfvault: Sell you kit for free
Surfvault was started in 2015 to create a better online alternative for the sale of second hand and new surfing products from members of the surfing community....
Submissions to the 2016 London Surf / Film Festival Shorties short film competition open!
London Surf / Film Festival x REEF is delighted to announce that submissions to the 6th Edition of the prestigious Shorties short film competition are now open....
FREEZING Part 2: Behind the scenes with those who froze
Jamie Baughan
It’s the soft voice of Jamie Baughan at the beginning of FREEZING that draws you into Iceland’s dramatic and craggy landscape.It’s also Jamie...
Tech whizz shaking up the surf market…
Drift caught up with Nicky and Darryn from Surfholidays.com, two young tech entrepreneurs that are causing a stir in the surf school business with their new Dir...
Sunset Sons reveal new video for single ‘Remember’
Having played to sold-out crowds across the UK and Europe in spring in support of their debut album ‘Very Rarely Say Die’, Sunset Sons have revealed the video f...