The Wedge

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

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!

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.

 
“I want to tell everyone today that we’ve listened and we’ve heard.
 

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.
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The Worlds Most Crowded Wave? Discuss.

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/

John John Florence In Black & White

John John Florence In Black & White

John John Florence Surfing around the North Shore of Oahu during the winter of 2022-2023. Featuring clips from Pipeline, Sunset Beach, Waimea Bay during the Eddie, Rocky Point, and some sand bars.

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Score Lord featuring Nate Behl.

Score Lord featuring Nate Behl.


While everyone has an opinion these days, after almost 20 years in the Mentawai and Indonesia, the heaviest waves we’ve come across are Kandui Left, GreenBush and Desert Point Grower. In regard to Best Surfer, of course Kelly, Andy, etc are top of the list but ask any of our local surfing crew, one name comes up every time without hesitation, Nate “McNasty” Behl. Nate has what we call the perfect combination of talent and stupidity. Talented enough to ride the heaviest surf in Indonesia and stupid enough to think any wave is makeable. The result, 14 minutes of the heaviest Indonesian edit we’ve come across. – @KanduiResort