South east England is no surfing hot spot! I’m sure when I was looking into places to live in the UK, I recall that there were surf clubs in London taking weekend trips to share costs and transit prices.
It’s only 3 hours by train from London to Swansea, wales (my home), from there it’s a 20min drive to numerous different breaks in the gower. Trouble is you need a car once there (or it’s 1-3 more hours by public bus), and driving from London to the gower takes more like 5 hours. It’s often messy too! If they don’t have a car, there’s a train to Newquay, corwall that drops you right at the beach but from London it’s 5-7 hours and so expensive!
If I was in London, given the cheap flights from there and proximity to airports, I might go for a weekend in morroco or Portugal, warmer and likely cheaper than Uk travel and better waves! 😉
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24 May 09:57
This is great! I was actually just reflecting on lines surfing in Hawaii- some breaks made it easy to go top to botton, cut back and maintain speed - these were the high performance shortboard waves. For the longobarder heavy waves, that same manouver wasn’t working for me as the waves don’t truely break or they werent steep enough (they hit deeper water soon after breaking and reform to a soft, flat wave face) -so Id loose the wave if I cut back too far and hit the wave reform accidently- it was not what the wave was giving me (likely a speed issue too and wrong board!) and I figured I needed to be more creative (and read the wave better!) to surf it well!