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!

We met Markus Emerich on the Surfing Medicine International Conference in Biarritz two years ago. As an ENT Doctor, he was impressively exhibiting two scientific posters and was eagerly visiting all of the lectures. His just-married wife Charlotte was accompanying him and they were traveling with their most beautiful balsa-wood longboard, a wedding gift. As there weren’t as many waves as we would have wished for, we didn’t share a large amount of time in the water. But during several talks and drinks it became obvious what a cool person he is: literally sharing a great passion for surfing and medicine, traveling and having a good time with good people. Needless to say Charlotte was at least equally charming.

As a landlocked, hard working doctor, those passions could not roam freely, so the young couple had a plan. The plan was: Traveling around the world to get as much surf as possible, being a Surfdoc and meeting great people along the way.

And so it went: the project Mobile Surfdoc was born. And what was more natural to Charlotte to set up a travelblog as a journalist so we could all be part of the „Surfsmurfs’” adventures.

Photo: Mirja Geh

Not living on the coast and no vacation in sight?

No problem! Try surfing concrete or when you are close to some mountains: surf the snow.

Here are 5 tips how you can improve your surfing on the snow and on concrete from versatile shredder Lisa Veith, Surfdoc, surf-/skate-/snowboard competitor and board-addict.

Survive. Surf. Live.

We are lucky. At least most of us are. We can travel, walk around, learn a great watersport, or skating, or skiing. We can walk out of a hut, grab a board and jump into the waves. We can have happy minds and healthy bodies. And we all want to live our life light-hearted and full.

If there is something that makes us grumpy, our favorite sport, named surfing can cheer us up instantly. There is so much power we can draw out of it.