Its Not The Length

With one of the biggest, cleanest and most beautiful swells ever ridden in Europe hitting 29/10/20, we catch up with Garrett G-MAC McNamara to get his insights into how big it really was, who ruled it... and his thoughts on the alleged fisticuffs that went down between battling tow crews in giant surf.

Plus:

- Paul & Ben wrap up on the WSL's Euro Cup of Surfing: Mondy's Italo Ferreira soggy bum kick and Paul's Kikas t-shirt shame

- Discuss the curious appeal of Surf Ranch loggers as tubby fibbers

- Wonder if anybody, ever has spent 30 mins in a Boardriders store?

- Reveal what an adolescent Mondy did over 10 times per day, everyday, much to the dismay of his poor mum

- And play a brand new quote-based quiz: What C*nt Said That?

Running time: 50m10s

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The Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley joins the show to talk about reading nature's clues and signs.

Sunday Times best-selling author and the only person to have both sailed and flown across the Atlantic solo, Tristan specialises in taking queues from the natural world in order to make a mind map of our surroundings.

An excerpt from his brilliant book 'How To Read Water', (How to see the Pacific in a Pond) features in the forthcoming Wavelength print issue 259 (out 31/10/20)

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Head to https://www.naturalnavigator.com/ and use code WAVE10 to get 10% off Tristan's Beginner's Guide To Natural Navigation online course.

Running time 42m40s

Topics:

Natural navigation - what is it?

Lockdown & getting outdoors

Solving natural puzzles

Does water have character & personality?

Surfing & reading weather

Wind shifts & fronts

Seeing natural phenomena before they happen

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Wavelength Magazine's It's Not The Length Podcast, your favourite surf culture and social commentary on demand audio entertainment returns with the full potency and authority of a crisp autumnal groundswell.

Hosts Evans and Mondy mull over surf news, reflect upon their own ever evolving roles as major assets to the global wave-riding community, and bring you insights that other podcasts simply cannot muster.

A brand new quiz feature, WSL vs WSL sees Mondy test his knowledge of the Wozzle and the Women's Super League, while Social Media Police return in full riot gear to make key arrests in the nick of time.

Topics up for discussion include:

- WSL Countdown Series Euro Cup of Surfing

- Mondy's Internet Purple Patch

- Is Joel Tudor shit?

- Facemask beach letter and imbeciles in giant vehicles

- Geoff Lawton, Dave Rastovich and the 3rd best description of surfing ever

- Something about Mick Fanning (classic Mondy)

and so much more.

Running time: 66 mins

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Paul Evans & Ben Mondy are back to mull over surf news and air their own surf views in the midst of smoking hot mid summer madness.

Paul finds himself billeted on a (windy) campsite in Capbreton SW France living the dream, while Ben joins from his WSL propaganda lair in an undisclosed location in SE England.

Running time: 42m15s

2m00s: Intro & summer debrief

12m50s: No That's Good

Australia E Coast Swell / Quik Pro France relegated to QS / WL Drive In Cinema / Wozzle Speciality Events

23m12s: oh That's Bad

RIP Derek Ho / Bobby Martinez on BG pod

29m10s: Ad break

30m40s: Niccolo Porcella

33m50s: Are You Smarter Than A Smooth Talkin' Matt Barr Steward?

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With Wavelength Drive In Cinema showcasing the classic Brit surf feature Blue Juice 24-26th July 2020 on the clifftops of Watergate Bay, Paul Evans catches up with Sean Pertwee and director Carl Prechezer to reflect on the making of the movie.

Sean, back in London after six years in NYC shooting Gotham, reveals how the film was the best project he's ever been involved in and the bonds he still has with the Cornish surf community in St Agnes that welcomed him and the crew 25 years ago.

The 1995 film, Film4's first ever theatrical release, received a warm reception from the critics and provided a Brit counterpoint to Point Break (also showing at Wavelength's Drive In Cinema summer!)with a warm characterisation of the times, where Cool Britannia meets the Cornish surf scene in an entertaining rollick through British shred sensibilities at a time when king skins and Gary Abletts were as much a part of the scene as a banana rockered Fluid Juice (no relation) 6’3” x 17 3/4” with Nose Guard.

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Running time: 41m43s

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Paul Evans chats with Andy Higgins, former Rip Curl International Events Director about the competition many believe to be the greatest tour event ever held, the 2006 Rip Curl Search WCT 'Somewhere in Mexico'.

Andy Irons won the event in perfect grinding righthand sand point surf at a venue only referred to in the media as 'La Jolla'. As for the surf, Slater gushed, “This place is better than the Gold Coast and better than Jeffrey's”.

Higgo travelled to Mexico on a scouting mission in 2005, surfed the place for a week and was happy to report back at Rip Curl HQ that the venue was, in fact, very much good enough for the Championship Tour.

Following the event, word inevitably got out as to the exact location, now known as Barra de la Cruz.

Get the inside scoop on how the project came together, what the event was like to experience on the ground at the time, and the legacy of the Search CT events.

Running time: 43min 20s

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As if your regular gentleman broadcaster hosts, Evans P and Mondy B weren't enough to deliver the finest in surf themed on demand audio entertainment, this time INTL invites Beach Grit's Derek Rielly & Chas Smith on the show to compete in a battle of wits.

The Greatest Surf Quiz In The World Ever sees Team Evans & Rielly take on Team Smith & Mondy in two rounds of probing quizzing:

1. Specialist Subjects // 2. General Surf Knowledge

Running order:

2m 10s Intro with Chas Smith

Rd 1 Specialist Subjects:

4m 55s Chas on Surfing & Smoke

9m 55s Derek on Filipe Toledo's Big Wave Career

13m 30s Evans on 'Welcome To Paradise Now Go To Hell' by Chas Smith

20m 55s Derek reads from 'The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter' by Carson McCullers

23m 40s Ben on the 2019 WSL Qualifying Series

Rd 2 General Knowledge:

30m 30s Chas

38m30s Derek

42m30s Ben

52m20s Paul

57m outro

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Have recent events made you double down on your appreciation of our coastlines and the waves that break on them?

More specifically your right to access them?

In this episode, Paul Evans chats to land justice campaigners Guy Shrubsole and Nick Hayes of LandJustice.uk about Right to Roam, and their books Who owns England? (Guy) and The Book of Trespass - Crossing the Lines That Divide England (Nick).

While surfers and other coast users generally benefit from access to the intertidal zone in most of Britain, what about rights to free camping, wild swimming and broader access to the Natural Health System - the great outdoors - most of which tends to be walled off and inaccessible in England and Wales (Scotland introduced R2R in 2003.)

With government plans afoot to change trespass from civil law to a criminal offence, Nick and Guy want you to get involved to protect rights to access our open spaces.

Running Time: 49m20s

Topics:

Lockdown vibes

Guy & Nick's relationships with wave riding

Surfers as a subculture

Paganism

The current status quo & SW Coast Path

The 11th Duke of Beaufort

Scotland vs England

The Natural Health Service

MoD land

Enclosure & abolition

Free camping, nomads & New Age Travellers

Romani 'gypsies' & Henri VIII

Criminalising trespass

Guy's book 'Who owns England?'

The National Trust

Nick's book 'The Book of Trespass'

How to get involved

Cover Illustration by Nick Hayes

Get involved: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300139

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Evans & Mondy reconvene to consider all things lockdown, shred & life.

Following recent announcements, could this be the end of the World Surf League as we know it? R-Cal doesn't seem to think so, your hosts aren't so sure.

Mondy's efforts as part time freelance zero hours subcontractor co-scriptwriter on the WSL Surf Breaks has landed him 1/12th of a Webby Award nomination, with the famously hard to please judging panel claiming some of the technical quality of the writing reminded them of Marcel Proust's 'In The Shadow of Young Girls In Flower'.

Impressive stuff.

Elsewhere, hot topics include Zoom pub quizzes, Laird's sagging rig, and female longboarders' hang tens resembling 'the girly tuck'.

Also, why does the Portuguese government hate the Malloys?

How did joint 2020 CT wildcard L Fioravanti's juxtapose bad posture with female objectification?

What app did Mondy use to order edibles on dark web?

Running time: 49mins

Running order:

1m30s: Intro

2m30s: Breaking News

19m20s: Good

26m10s: Bad

43:20s: Mondy's UK place name game

In association with www.FourFiveCBD.co.uk

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Paul Evans chats with Andy Martin, author of SURF, SWEAT & TEARS: The Epic Life & Mysterious Death of Edward George William Omar Deerhurst.

Andy Martin may well be one of the cleverest people in surfing (podcast hosts included). A Cambridge University lecturer whose body of written work includes numerous books as well as surfing columns for The Times and The Independent, his latest book investigates the murky circumstances surrounding the 1996 death of his friend Viscount Ted Deerhurst, Britain's first ever professional surfer.

Having been warned to stay away from a Waikiki stripper he'd fallen in love with known only as Lola, Deerhurst was found dead a short time later, while Andy was still on the North Shore.

While the surf world has generally attributed a variety of causes of death, from drowning at Sunset to a heart attack in a hotel bathtub, Andy suspected foul play and returned to Hawaii to investigate.

Paul caught up with Andy at his home in Cambridge over Zoom to find out more about the book, as well as Andy's surfing life.

Running time: 26mins

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