Birmingham is set to become home to the UK’s most landlocked wave park after plans for a new £25 million facility were revealed today. The planning application lodged by Emerge Surf is for a 15-acre site, approximately seven miles to the east of Birmingham’s city center at Coleshill. Features include a 5.4-acre surf lagoon, powered […]
A group of British investors announced plans for the construction of a 35 million-pound wave pool in Bournemouth, England. The structure named “The Lagoon” is expected to produce 2,400 waves per hour and attract 500,000 surfers and visitors each year. “It has been a dream of mine for years. I’ve always wanted to teach my […]
Jay Quinn has been crowned 2018 British surfing champion at Fistral Beach, in Newquay, England. The iconic Cornish surf break has once again welcomed Britain’s best surfers. This year, athletes were confronted with challenging, yet highly contestable ocean conditions. The British Surfing Championships attracted riders from England, Wales, Scotland and the Channel Islands, who competed […]
Surfing England has been recognized as the national governing body (NGB) for the sport of surfing. The official announcement was made by Sport England, the country’s sports authority, and it opens a new chapter in the development of surfing in Britain. The governmental decision puts an end to a difficult seven-year ordeal that halted the […]
British shaper Ellie Miller teamed up with gilding artist Danni Bradford to create the world’s first 24-karat gold surfboard. Only one surfer will have the opportunity to own “The Aureus.” Can a surfboard be considered a piece of jewelry? Lux Surfboards has literally transformed a shortboard into a precious piece of jewelry. But make no […]
The Wave Bristol has decided to change the artificial wave technology used in the surf park scheduled to open in 2016, in England. Nick Hounsfield, the founder of The Wave Bristol, has signed a contract with US company Wave Loch to develop a project that will pump six-to-eight waves per minute. “For the last five […]
The World Surf League (WSL) surfers will feature their favorite numbers on their backs. Original idea? Not even close. Kelly Slater picked number 11 (for the world titles he has won); Gabriel Medina chose 10 (probably the most iconic number in football history), and John John Florence opted for number 12 (ready to beat Slater). […]
Three surfers have lost their lives in a rip current off Mawgan Porth Beach, near Newquay, Cornwall, in England. Two men and a woman, with ages between 42 and 52, were surfing in challenging conditions, with powerful three-to-six foot waves hitting the Cornish shores. “The waves were bigger, they were quite big. And it wasn’t […]
Westwood will be the third artificial surf pool installed in the United Kingdom. A surf park with its own beach in a man-made lagoon will be built near Junction 27 of the M5, in Mid Devon, in the Southwest of England. The surf park is one of the seven leisure attractions that will be connected […]
With El Nino priming the pump everywhere around the world, this could be a big-wave season to remember.