While weight is the primary factor, height influences your balance and paddling posture. Taller surfers generally need a slightly longer board to accommodate their reach and stance. Fitness and Skill Level Fitness affects your ability to paddle and pop up. If you’re in great shape, you might ...
Since graduating, I’ve been, and continue to be, lucky enough to work for Feis Rois. Their vital work in promoting Scotland’s language, culture, and music ensures its survival, relevance and future in our communities. These awards made me reflect on my own musical journey and I felt ...
Sophie Kerr has the misfortune to be left with the chore of explaining those fingerprints, which she does in ten pages of near shaggy-dog tale telling by Glenda that serve more to achieve her word count goal than to facilitate a neat happy ending to the book. In sum, The Woman Accused...
I Surfed There: A place to share with others where you have surfed! An international community of surfers, listings of surf breaks worldwide, surf travel, photos, videos, forums, classifieds, more
They are beautiful-the young teenagers who surf and paddle are true blondes, the blue eyes scintillating pools of water, young women are saddled onto 6” platforms, and then there are the stand-out power people, who will not acknowledge anyone, and expect everyone to acknowledge them. Tucked...
I am now the proud owner of an 11ft inflatable stand up paddleboard, aka a SUP, which means I can go around saying things like SUP GIRL etc etc. to the consternation of poor Mark and the kids. We rent kayaks when we go camping every year, which I enjoy as well, but the SUP has...
Things to See and Do on the Lagoon Front of Bacalar I’ll forever be dreaming about the sunsets in Mexico.Photo: @joemiddlehurst Go on a sailing trip around the lagoon Paddleboard to Pirates Channel Visit the Cenote Azul and swim in its crystal clear waters Watch sunrise and sunset from...
This made me feel much more comfortable. We decided to go for a swim. My thoughts were, “I am at a naturist resort, and although some are still wearing their bathing suits, I’m not going in that water with it on.” Off the bottoms came and we hiked across the sand towards the ...
Parker, teaching was much of the same: I never even was able to paddle out to the really good waves much less own a single newsworthy ride. I barely even got up for more than 20 seconds. Why? Because it was my first time! And teaching is as hard as hell. The kind of hell that...
So today, I made two sets of cheesecakes: one for me and one for Periphery to take on their trip. Mine has chopped and toasted hazelnuts along with striped dark chocolate on the top. Theirs has the band’s logo on the surface of each individual piece. Mine is a larger and thicker pi...