A new year has just started, and sometimes this is a special motivation for a change of our behavior such as loosing weight, eating healthier, stop smoking. How do you like the idea of enhancing you environmental awareness once more? As oceanlovers, we encounter the plastic floods on a daily basis – on the beach, in the water, under the water. The plastics originate often from far inland being carried towards the ocean by wind, rain, streams, rivers. Plastic pollution does not only matter in the oceans but everywhere around you.

It’s that time of the year when we think about our loved ones and about suitable Christmas gifts. Often we forget about the meaning of Christmas celebrations and get caught in the crazy hassle of consumption.

So, if you love the idea of a Christmas gift, but don’t want to get into a useless consumption spiral, let this motto be your guide: Buy less and choose well.

To make it easier for you, we have found some inspiration for you that will make you surfer friends and family, but even not-surfing folks happy. There are gifts for every taste and purpose. Whether you are searching for charity gifts with a meaning, a suited gift for the surfing traveller, beauty and fashion items for the stylish surfer or beautiful stuff fo the surfer’s home: Enjoy choosing! And merry Christmas.

Click on the gift category of you choice:

GIFTS WITH A MEANING

GIFTS FOR TRAVEL AND ROAD-TRIPPING

BEAUTY AND FASHION GIFTS FOR OCEANLOVERS 

PRESENTS FOR THE SURFER’S HOME

On a rainy afternoon I was browsing the internet, looking for a nice board sock for my new ride. I was dreaming away on the most beautiful hand-sewn stylish board socks that are out there.

There was only one problem: the price. Handmade and beautiful things made under non-exploitative circumstances have their price. Having spent quite some bucks on a new board, fins, leash and so on, I was just not ready to spend another 100 or something on a board sock.

So why not sew my own board sock? I am not a big sewer myself, but pillows and easy stuff are fine AND I own a sewing machine – so: let’s go! Here is how you can make your own surf board sock.

This part of our Roadtrip Essentials series is all about your safety and about some useful and helpful stuff that we store in our van or take it along to our surf trips. Of course the list is not complete, but we see these items as really “essential” must-haves, having experienced regular facepalms when we again forgot one or two or even more of them. So hopefully this post will help YOU not to forget them on your next trip!

Did you always wonder where to find both beautiful, functional AND sustainable Surf Bikinis?

Check out our favorites this summer. Some of them we got to test ourselves in real-time conditions.

There is a great variety of high-quality surfwear for every mood and every shape, all of them designed with love and crafted under fair and sustainable conditions. Choose well and get wet!

The Bikini is older than you might think – old mosaics from around 400 A.D. show women doing sports in bikini-style clothing. At the beginning of women’s emancipation, there was an on-off between favoring and tabooing that kind of garment, and since it became accepted in most places, it became the most popular beachwear item. (Photo: Josea Surfwear)

If you love Yoga like we do, you know that it is just such a good add-on to your sports routine because it is keeping you strong, flexible and balanced at the same time.

Yoga is the practice of tolerating the consequences of being yourself. – Bhagavad Gita

As the roadtrip season is approaching, we start our series of Roadtrip Essentials. Here are our ultimate personal road trip must-haves. On different tours around Europe, they have been tested and approved, sometimes forgotten, “aaahhh, we should have brought…!” and intensely been missed. So here is part one of the things you should not forget to pack in the category Style and Gear.

Our 6 Favorites of easy and delicious overnight oats – just prepare them in the evening and get up in the morning with a breakfast already waiting for you! Overnight oats are a fancy upgrade of the good old Swiss „Bircher Müesli“. 2-3 hours of refrigerating is sufficient, but the overnight version is very convenient for breakfast or to just grab it and take it to the office (or to the beach!) for lunch.