Is there anywhere better suited to putting the new NuWave natural rubber winter wetsuits through their paces than the Emerald Isle? Ireland is renowned for being cold, wet, windy and wild, and your gear has to withstand the weather if you want to score a decent swell. Logan Nicol set off to do just that.

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Edouard Delperro made the most of one of the few days of offshore surf this summer to win himself a sixth Boardmasters Longboard title.

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For almost a decade now, Mexico’s celebration of classic longboard surfing has been the must-visit event on the alt-surf scene. For the last few years, C-Skins team rider Beth Leighfield has been invited to compete in the event and has made the trip to Mexico.

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Hanging around the equator you'll find C-Skins rider Barnaby Cox, living the good life. After spending the second half of the British winter in Sumbawa, Indonesia, Barnaby and his girlfriend headed over to the Maldives for spring. Working as a surf coach and yoga teacher, Barnaby has been scoring at Kandooma between shifts. 

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This July, Troggs Surf Shop celebrates four decades of serving Northern Ireland’s surf community. It doesn’t get more core than Troggs: a family business founded by a passionate surfer frustrated at how difficult it was getting hold of equipment in Northern Ireland, run by a multiple Irish National Surfing Champion, and with a surf school and now a new store dedicated exclusively to surf and watersports hardware. We caught up with proprietor Andy Hill to find out more about the store and its history as they build up to Troggs’ 40^th birthday.

“I want to prove to myself, my children and anyone, that you can go for challenges in life and push yourself to the limits! It is not often this type of challenge comes along when you're 43!”

Team rider Edouard Delpero recently captained the French team in El Salvador for the ISA World Longboard Championship. After a week of epic waves, meals shared, point breaks explored and heats competed, the team ranked in an impressive 3rd place out of the 39 countries that took part. 

Through the winter months, Ireland’s west coast is barraged by weather, and waves. There are windows of opportunity though, for those in the know, and when they open the local surfers like C-Skins team rider Ollie O’Flaherty don’t let them go unridden.

How do top surfers spend their days? How do they structure their life and work around the waves and the tides, how do they stay at the top of their game, and what else do they do? We spent some time with Cornish longboarder and C-Skins team rider Beth Leighfield, just as winter started to transition to spring.

Last Winter we packed team rider and Welsh shredder Logan Nicol off to Morocco with a bag of new Autumn/Winter 2023 C-Skins product. Check the edit he came back with. . .

July and August were widely referred to as the worst months of winter in the UK, but that meant a solid session at a winter spot for Adam "Bearman" Griffiths.

The long, hollow, reeling lefts of Desert Point are on a lot of surfers’ bucket lists, whichever foot they put at the front of their surfboard. This spring, C-Skins team rider Logan Nicol travelled to Indonesia and when a swell showed on the charts, hopped on a moped for a strike mission to Lombok.