Kelly Slater, Lowers May 2023
Kelly Slater, 51 and on fire, the GOAT is showing no signs of slowing down. Give him a few years and he might even peak, hit play for a full Slater throw down.
Carve Magazine Issue 217
Carve Magazine Issue 217
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Travel. This issue is packed with it. It is without doubt one of the best things about surfing.
I remember, as a grom, my head being filled with tales of wonder by the crew hanging out at Tris surf shop after they’d returned from places like Morocco, Sri Lanka and Bali. How someone drove a Morris Minor from the UK to Colombo, of round the world yacht trips and waves like you’d never seen. I used to sit on the cliffs of Porthtowan and wonder what was over the horizon.
St Ives as it happened, but still, when you live in a valley with one road in and one road out and you don’t have a car, it kinda looked exciting!
Porthleven was my next aim. After bagging a ride I got my first surf there and I fell in love with the place. Then, on around the coast of Ireland, Scotland and beyond. My head is full of memories; laying in a tent listening to glaciers calving in the highest mountain ranges of the Andes. The sights and smells of Bali when it was a truly special place. Camping on a beach on a tiny island, off an island, off Tonga, just hanging out in the middle of the Pacific.
And then there’s also the people you meet, the on-the-road experiences, and of course the surf, which after all, drives us out of our comfort zones.
Some of our stories come from afar, some nearby, but all encompass the essence of adventure – which can be on the other side of the world, or like groms across the globe, just on the other side of the bay.
Dig in, we hope you enjoy, and maybe even plan a trip…
Steve
Editor
The Wedge
Who doesn’t love a Wedge edit? There’s something ever so pleasing watching people fall out of the sky. The Newport Wedge isn’t for the fait hearted, it’s a balance of pleasure and pain, the good the bad and the ugly. It’s full send or sand enema, and an unwanted one at that. Respect to everyone out there, and the Newport Lifeguards, some of the finest in the game, hit play.
Film and edit: @socal.surfer/
Steph Gilmore – Set Of Keys
Smooth as silk, Gilmore has her game so fully dialled, it’s no wonder she’s dominated the surfing scene since her emergence. Powerful and positive, in and out of the water, sit back and enjoy the true definition of style in action.
Edit: @danscotttt
Water companies “sorry”, but not sorry and want to charge you more!
In a letter to The Times ‘Water UK’ boss, who represents the industry said” We’re sorry. This is our chance to put things right.
And on behalf of water and sewage companies in England, I want to say: we are sorry. We get why people are upset and they are right that we should have given this issue much more attention. Rivers and beaches are often not at the standard the public rightly expect; we are sorry for the part we have played in that.
We want to put things right.”
Sounds good but unfortunately she also expects consumers to pay higher bills after years of paying out in extraordinary dividends to shareholders and pay to fat cats. The industry paid out £1.4bn to shareholders in 2022.
Izzy Ross from SAS said
““Water companies have seemingly bared their souls and told us they’re going to change. But why should we trust them? They’ve overseen decades of mismanagement of our sewerage network, all the while siphoning off tens of billions to shareholders and paying the fat cats at the top huge pay and bonuses. And this new plan is no different with consumers set to foot the bill, again. We won’t stand for it.
It’s clear that the water companies are on the back foot and that community activism demanding an end to sewage pollution is working. And we’re not going to let up the fight. We’re calling on everyone who stands against water companies’ profiteering to join us in protest this Saturday. It’s time to tell them that we won’t take their shit any longer.”
Feargal Sharkey told the BBC called it another attempt to extract more money from customers.
“What I am actually hearing is no apology for the fact we have paid them for a service we haven’t got, they are now suggesting we pay them a second time for a service we haven’t had,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“We should have an apology for the suggestion they are going to put bills up by £10bn for their incompetence and their greed. This is nothing to celebrate.”
The water industry did the same thing in the 90s with companies like SWW implementing the Clean Sweep programme which saw it’s customers, some 400,000 which in Cornwall are in the most deprived areas of Europe, have the highest water bills in the country.
The Worlds Most Crowded Wave? Discuss.
May 16th 2023 Raw footage of Greenmount too Kirra, flooded with people. How many is too many humans in the line-up, 10, 20, 30, 50 or more? This makes my head hurt, perfect barrels and littered with amped surfers all waiting for the same wave you are, fun times, but you’d give it a punt right, making one more person in the water.
Film: @danscotttt/
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