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Retro surf festival in Ericeira: Twins & Fins

Before neon, surfing in leggings, wetsuits, artificial reefs and wave pools, when modern surfing was but a young sport, it was associated with things like Aloha shirts, wood-panelled station wagons, VW buses and twangy instrumental guitar music. Then came the Beach Boys, Gidget, Frankie & Annette and the things simply got out of hand. By the mid 1960s surf culture had already become commercialised. It then took on many forms,

Cascais Trophy: October means surfing in Portugal

In October Portugal will play host to four major surfing events: The men’s prime qualifying round of the Cascais Billabong Pro, the 9th stage of the Women’s World Championship Tour (WWCT) — also in Cascais, the Moche Rip Curl Pro Portugal in Peniche and the Junior World Championships in Ericeira. The Cascais Billabong Pro will take place early in the month on Carcavelos beach, which is a wide sandy stretch

GoPro cam provides POV surfing dogs videos

Surfing dogs are nothing new. Canines have been documented shredding as far back as the 1920’s apparently. So why do we like it so much? Because dogs are cute? Because they’re funny? Or that we somehow just can’t believe they are actually doing it and liking it (maybe some of them don’t)? The Petco Surf City Surf Dog event in Huntington Beach, California (where else?) is about to have its

Ericeira photo tour

The other day I walked around Ericeira with my parents to take in the sites and sample some local cuisine. We checked out a few antique shops, strolled through the crowded main square, had a tasty lunch in front of the sea and checked out a couple of Ericeira’s main beaches. What did I learn from an afternoon stroll through Portugal’s best surf town and the only World Surfing Reserve

Surf photography in Ericeira: Tó Mané

We’ve posted before about surf photography in Bali — now let’s learn a bit about the scene in Portugal. Surf photography ace Tó Mané saw international exposure after he captured big wave surfing star Garrett McNamara catching what just may be the biggest wave ever surfed — a 100-ft (30-meter) monster off the coast of Nazaré. Mané’s shot even made the front page of the London Times. He later shot

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