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Where’s your head at?!
Life can be an arse. Fact. The drudgery of the 9-5, family pressures, a complicated partner, money worries, health worries… LIFE! It’s weird – you can be perfectly fine, everything is going great… but somehow you can just feel MISERABLE! And your head can be your own worst enemy – it’ll blow everything out of…
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Are you piste fit?!
For most of us we get one week in the mountains – this can be a huge change of pace for mind and body… to make the most of your trip, it helps to be at least a little bit fit. The sooner you can get working on a few moves, the better. Now for…
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Surfing, the next step
Loads of people go surfing – have a few lessons, stand up, ride into the beach, in the frothy water, in a straight line. Completed it mate… not quite. This is the first step though and brilliant fun that it is, you’ve work to do before people will mistake you for Kelly Slater. The next…
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Are you Spartan?
Every year I think… maybe next year. The Spartan obstacle course races are EPIC and happen all over the world. Click on the banner to buy a ticket to any of the races ——> The Obstacle Course Races (OCR) are getting more and more popular and Spartan is surely one of the best. The Ultra…
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That sinking feeling
I’m not a strong swimmer. I mean, I’m ok – but I don’t think I could rescue you and I’m always a little unsettled when I can’t touch the bottom. I think it hinders me; my paddling whilst surfing is the least efficient thing ever and it makes me not overly keen to ‘go out…
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Top 4 tips for a great GoPro movie
So many people come on our trips come armed with all kinds of wearable ‘action cameras’ – most commonly the GoPro. Fantastic, fully encouraged we loving seeing your videos. But, some of them are pretty rubbish and / or never make it for public viewing! Now, I’m not a pro but I see basic errors…
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Shall I buy a wetsuit?
If you are going in the water regularly (particularly in the UK) you should definitely get your own wetsuit. The better the fit, the warmer you’ll be and the better time you’ll have in the sea / lake / river / puddle. Also, there are two types of people in this world: those who pee…
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Learn to surf in the UK
We just got back from one of our weekends away to Cornwall – there was 28 of us! A bigger crew than normal, I think due to the fact it was May bank holiday and the campsite we stay at hosted the Chill at the Mill festival. Frankly it was epic. Our normal surf weekends…
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Summer in the mountains? Really!!??
Yep, really. In many ways the mountains are way better during the summer. Obvs, my passion and first love is the snow and all things sliding – but during the summer the mountains are B. E. A. UTIFUL!! And, they can get super warm. What’s not love about wild swimming in a mountain lake, spotting…
