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How to Build a Balance Board

A step by step guide on how to build your own balance board using materials from your local hardware store. By Kathy Westergaard, Encinitas, California. (Mar 2003). Unfortunately this isn't republished with permission, I've been trying for ages to get hold of Kathy to ask her but have had no luck. Send me a mail if you ever see this Kathy 'cause I think it's great.

Surfcore Home Movie Competition

From Indo bazza's to Cornish closeouts we're looking for the best home made surf vid that you've got stashed away. Wipeouts, airs, freaky double ups or sand dredging shore breaks - it can be anything. But it doesn't have to be waves waves waves, show a bit about your surf life, from ice on the inside of the van to pulling donuts in the car park! Check out all the entries so far.

This is an example of how to repair a simple puncture ding - the sort of ding that you might get when you have surfed onto a bit of rock or accidentally put something heavy on top of your board.

Summer is here and that's when the wave climate changes. The low pressures that spiral out of the North Atlantic providing most of the West Coast of the UK with quality waves have subsided, and it's the slow moving high pressures which are getting ready to park themselves over us in the next couple of months. This means the waves start to drop in size and become few and far between.