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20th March 2022

Paddling towards a new relationship with wildness

When Daniel Shailer kayaked the Arne Peninsula in Dorset, he expected wildness. Instead, he encountered a landscape scarred with human activity.

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20th March 2022

The power and pitfalls of championing emerging surf cultures

As a professional longboarder, geographer, writer and filmmaker, Sam Bleakley is a passionate seeker and champion of emerging surf culture. How can the surf community empower people doing things differently?

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22nd July 2021

From behind bars to breaking world records

At the start of 2020 David Haze was sitting in a prison cell. Just over a year later he's broken four stand up paddleboarding world records on his way to a new life. 

Authors

Lizzie Carr

Lizzie Carr

Lizzie is the founder of Planet Patrol, a global movement for tackling plastic waste and other environmental degradation with more than 15,000 volunteers around the world. She is also an environmental consultant, writer and and eco-adventurer (mostly on her paddle board).

Amanda Thibaut

Amanda Thibaut

Amanda Thibaut is the Marketing and Communications Execusitve at Ocean Independence: a full-service superyacht brokerage company.

Jo Moseley

Jo Moseley

Writer and filmmaker Jo Moseley is known as HappyHealthy50 on Instagram. She is 53 and lives on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. She has two sons aged 21 and 17 and is a practice manager for an engineering company, recently starting teaching deep water running, hydro jog and aqua fit.