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Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 10:30PM 
Happy Beach, Surfing in Film, Sports Friday, June 15, 2012 at 10:15PM 
This looks like a lot of fun.
0 Surf for 8 weeks in Sunny little Jersey, Channel Islands. What to do... Tarp Surfing! of course. Check out this vid of some serious land barrels.
Watch this video that follows tarp surfing pioneers Dodge Weirath and Wyatt Brady as they explain how they created tarp surfing.
www.bluetarpsurfing.com
www.jerseysurfschool.co.uk
www.beobserved.com
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 9:00AM 
The Endless Winter - A Very British Surf Movie is a forth coming feature length documentary and web-series the surfing scene in Britain and how it all started.
The documentary is still being made and you can follow it's progress through The Endless Winter website. Pro-surfers Mark 'Egor' Harris and Mitch Corbett are travelling across of the UK on a road trip tracing the wild and unusual roots of British surf culture.
I'm really looking forward to the final film.
Monday, December 5, 2011 at 10:00AM 
I am in love with these 3 videos shot and edited by Riley Blakeway. You may know already that I love surf culture, not that I know how to surf, but these videos also made me realise how much I miss the beach.
If you are stuck at work or home and need an escape, watch these videos and dream of your next free spriited, fun loving summer holiday.
Fiji Vignette - Part 1
Music: Walk all over me by Sneakpeek
Fiji Vignette - Part 2
Music: Empty House by Matt Leech
Fiji Vignette - Part 3
Music: Frequency by Unouomedude
www.rileyblakeway.com
www.vimeo.com/rileyblakeway
www.sneakpeek.bandcamp.com
www.mattleech.bandcamp.com
www.unouomedude.bandcamp.com
Monday, March 28, 2011 at 11:35PM 
Just a little tilt shift surfing on an early spring saturday in Scheveningen.
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 12:30AM 
I never thought it was possible to surf in the Arctic Circle, but turns out I was wrong. Arctic Surf by Yassine Ouhilal follows five surfers trying to find waves no one has ever ridden before. Yassine Ouhilal specializes in pioneering and documenting new and unchartered surf destinations. For the past 10 years he has photographed dozens of locations around the globe, including several in Arctic regions.
Yassine's unique style superimposes unlikely scenarios with otherworldly settings. From swimming in the Arctic Ocean to capture a surfer in action with a snowcapped background to driving 4000 miles across the Sahara desert in search of unspoiled waves, he will stop at nothing to create images that set themselves apart. The reason? He loves what he does.
All I can say about this video is that it's chillingly beautiful.
http://www.yassineouhilal.com
(Thanks to Sam Rawlings.)
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 11:29PM 
By Peter Wise
The hedonism and purity of the surfer lifestyle meets the uninhibited mischief of skatepunks in Clic Gallery's summer show in New York called SURF/SKATE.
Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 12:13AM Caballitos de totora are watercrafts made of a natural plant called Totora used by Peruvian fishermen for the past 3000 years. Still used today, the fishermen use them to transport their nets, collect fish in their inner cavity and ride the waves back into shore. Could this have been the first form of surfing?
In this video, Sofia Mulanovich together with world-class surfer Sally Fitzgobbons and junior Nadja de Col exchanged their boards to test the surfing quality of these Peruvian boats.
I want one.
Sunday, April 4, 2010 at 9:23PM
After my recent surf related post, I found out there is a Surfing event in Dubai that starts this weekend and will run every weekend till 1st May.
Details from Surf Dubai page on Facebook:
Under the patronage of the Dubai Sports Council, Surf Dubai will be holding the Sunset Open, the first ever official surfing event in the U.A.E.
Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 11:39PM I love surf culture and my wish is to be able to surf one day, provided I am capable of waking up at the crack of dawn to take some lessons first, which so far looks very unlikely. So for now, I will just continue to admire from a distance.
Splinters is a documentary directed and filmed by Adam Pesce, it's about the evolution of indigenous surfing in Papua New Guinea.