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Paul Evans

Paul Evans has been the Editor-in-Chief of Surf Europe Magazine since 2005 and a kook most of his life

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SE on DA ROCK Day 6

Day 6. The Surf Dog Loft, Kammies. 21.42 Today was canny windy on the North Shore. Now it’s dark and it still is.  I jumped in at...

SE on DA ROCK Day 6
Travel

GONY'S GUIDE TO THE NORTH SHORE

Rated 19th on the WQS at the time of writing, Gony Zubizarreta is not only Spain’s highest ranked surfer, but also one of the very...

GONY'S GUIDE TO THE NORTH SHORE
Videos

SUNSET, CUZ

Crazy wind blew across the North Shore last night. Madness. It was dramatic like the passage of a mid-latitude depression, even reminiscent of 91’s hurricane...

SUNSET, CUZ
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STONING THE DEVIL

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, a day of celebration for food, for the harvest. Many moons ago, indigenous Americans saved the...

STONING THE DEVIL
News

DONT COUNT ME OUT

” Ho brah, with those backhand snaps I thought you was going to win the thing brah,” reckoned Wade Tokoro, at the Quik house whilst...

DONT COUNT ME OUT
Events

BRING THE DRAMA

DAY ONE: Ke Nui Road, North Shore, Oahu, HI. Nov 24th 07.15am Are you ready to have the noise brought on you? I got to Hawaii last night....

BRING THE DRAMA
Features

O'NEILL CWC SERIES 2009 in review

  Hugo Savalli, Dream Inn, Santa Cruz, final stop of the CWC Series. Photo: Cartier-Bresson   SE: Coming from the tropics, how have you found doing battle in...

O'NEILL CWC SERIES 2009 in review
Event

COLD WATER CLASSIC PUMPS

Steamer Lane cranked today, the penultimate day of battle at the O’Neill Cold Water Classic Santa Cruz. The big news is that Blake Thornton has claimed...

COLD WATER CLASSIC PUMPS
Event

STYLE BANDITS AT THE LANE

Morning commuters were shocked and outraged when they saw the extent of the latest act of vandalism perpetrated on Steamer Lane’s famous bronze surfer statue...

STYLE BANDITS AT THE LANE
News

MODERN COLLECTIVE SANTA CRUZ PREMIERE

Went to see Modern Collective at the Del Mar Theatre last night in downtown Santa Cruz, starring Dane, Jordy, Yadin, Dion, Mitch Coleborn and Dusty...

MODERN COLLECTIVE SANTA CRUZ PREMIERE
Events

WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE

Santa Cruz, California. Home of the O’Neill Cold Water Classic, final event of the 2009 CWC Series. Santa Cruz, California, home of the strange.  Yesterday saw...

WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE
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NOW WHAT's THE SCENARIO?

I recently got an email from the Rip Curl press bods entitled: “How can Mick Fanning be 09 ASP World Tour Champion?” That struck me as really,...

NOW WHAT's THE SCENARIO?
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KELLY vs KYOTO

Kelly Slate has been around for a while. He knows more about the ASP World Tour than Kieren Perrow, he probably knows more about fitness...

KELLY vs KYOTO
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CRAIG DAVID ALL OVER YOUR BADY

Semi got a demi: Bedes of sweat vs billy Joel; Owen will I be famous? vs. Fanning     Photo: Warbrick     ICE ICE BABY Supertubos pumped today,...

CRAIG DAVID ALL OVER YOUR BADY
Events

Chicken or Fish?

Me and the Buondi coffee girls. They begged me for a picture and eventually I caved. Photo: Higgo   “It’s gonna be like, ten feet tomorrow for...

Chicken or Fish?
Events

Rip Curl Pro Search Rd 2: PARKO, MICK THRU, KELLY OUT

Belgas, Portugal. This afternoon: KELLY VS OWEN Kieren Perrow is somewhere between shock and outrage. “That’s fucked,” KP exclaims, as Slater is awarded a 7 something midway through...

Rip Curl Pro Search Rd 2: PARKO, MICK THRU, KELLY OUT
News

RC Pro Search Peniche Round One Done, Son

Sudden death Round One was completed today in headhigh, slow lefts at the back-up contest site of LaGido, Baleal. Despite less than epic conditions, the...

RC Pro Search Peniche Round One Done, Son
Interviews

RIP CURL PRO SEARCH PENICHE POP QUIZ

Little things please little minds, little pants fit little behinds… SE’s quizes Gilmore, Aranburu, Buchan, Knox, Davo and Perrow behind the scenes at ‘Off the Wall’...

RIP CURL PRO SEARCH PENICHE POP QUIZ
Videos

OWEN WRIGHT FREESURFING SUPERTUBOS

A violent squall swept through Peniche at breakfast time this morning. Sideways rain battered the windows at breakfast. “I woke up, looked out the window, thought,...

OWEN WRIGHT FREESURFING SUPERTUBOS
Photos

CALM BEFORE THE STORM

Peniche, Portugal, 7pm. For now all is calm and quiet at the Rip Curl Pro Search. Today was a layday, but there were some shiny little...

CALM BEFORE THE STORM
News

TIM BOAL PIPES UP

Tim Boal (Anglet, FRA), 26, who placed 9th in the Quiksilver Pro France then lost in Round 1 of the Billabong Pro Mundaka in tricky...

TIM BOAL PIPES UP
News

PARKO CHOKE-O(?)... FANNING NOW LEADS

Mick floats over a shoulder high crumbly Mundaka banana skin and past Parko into Rd 3. Photo: ASP/Cestari   Fanning Usurps Parkinson in ASP Ratings Race at...

PARKO CHOKE-O(?)... FANNING NOW LEADS
News

LEE ANN CURREN QUALIFIES

After making the semis in the 5* WQS in Rio, 20 year old French ripper Lee Ann Curren, has officially qualified for next season’s women’s...

LEE ANN CURREN QUALIFIES
News

KELLY STILL HERE

Soz about that…Turns out our informant was high.                                       ...

KELLY STILL HERE
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