On The Road With Sophie Fletcher
Surfer, designer and C-Skins rider Sophie Fletcher recently returned to Australia after catching the tail end of a European summer. Together with her partner Felipe, the pair spent two months on the road, touring Europe and the UK for Felipe’s music tour, whilst Sophie took part in QS events in France and Portugal.
Treading Light and Digging Deep
With the aim of reconnecting with the land and travelling as regeneratively as possible, photographer Bella Bunce and her partner Tom spent Spring in Ireland; surfing, cycling, planting trees and testing the C-Skins NuWave range.
The Land of Saints and Scholars
Is there anywhere better suited to putting the new NuWave natural rubber winter wetsuits through their paces than the Emerald Isle? Ireland is renowned for being cold, wet, windy and wild, and your gear has to withstand the weather if you want to score a decent swell. Logan Nicol set off to do just that.
Foil Around Britain
This autumn, Stephen Bowens and Simon Osborne are attempting to wing foil 3000km and circumnavigate mainland Britain in six weeks. Read their story here.
Session of the Season // Northern Hemisphere Summer 2024 // Edouard's Boardmasters Win
Edouard Delperro made the most of one of the few days of offshore surf this summer to win himself a sixth Boardmasters Longboard title.
Beth Leighfield at Mexi Log Fest
For almost a decade now, Mexico’s celebration of classic longboard surfing has been the must-visit event on the alt-surf scene. For the last few years, C-Skins team rider Beth Leighfield has been invited to compete in the event and has made the trip to Mexico.
Session of the Season // Spring 2024 // The Maldives
Hanging around the equator you'll find C-Skins rider Barnaby Cox, living the good life. After spending the second half of the British winter in Sumbawa, Indonesia, Barnaby and his girlfriend headed over to the Maldives for spring. Working as a surf coach and yoga teacher, Barnaby has been scoring at Kandooma between shifts.
Core Store: Troggs Surf Shop, Northern Ireland
This July, Troggs Surf Shop celebrates four decades of serving Northern Ireland’s surf community. It doesn’t get more core than Troggs: a family business founded by a passionate surfer frustrated at how difficult it was getting hold of equipment in Northern Ireland, run by a multiple Irish National Surfing Champion, and with a surf school and now a new store dedicated exclusively to surf and watersports hardware. We caught up with proprietor Andy Hill to find out more about the store and its history as they build up to Troggs’ 40th birthday.
Bodysurfing World Tour: Let’s Get Lucy To Hawaii!
“I want to prove to myself, my children and anyone, that you can go for challenges in life and push yourself to the limits! It is not often this type of challenge comes along when you're 43!”
Team France In Surf City
Team rider Edouard Delpero recently captained the French team in El Salvador for the ISA World Longboard Championship. After a week of epic waves, meals shared, point breaks explored and heats competed, the team ranked in an impressive 3rd place out of the 39 countries that took part.
Session of the Season // Northern Hemisphere Winter 2023/24 // Ollie at Riley’s
Through the winter months, Ireland’s west coast is barraged by weather, and waves. There are windows of opportunity though, for those in the know, and when they open the local surfers like C-Skins team rider Ollie O’Flaherty don’t let them go unridden.
A Day In The Surfing Life of Beth Leighfield
How do top surfers spend their days? How do they structure their life and work around the waves and the tides, how do they stay at the top of their game, and what else do they do? We spent some time with Cornish longboarder and C-Skins team rider Beth Leighfield, just as winter started to transition to spring.
