Still Stoked Longboard Skates For Surfers

The Severn Bore

At Last — 8 years on from start of filming, the long awaited Severn Bore footage is in the cutting room.

No promises on release date yet but will keep you all posted with the trials and tribulations of making what I aim to be the best bore surfing film ever made (ok so its the first feature length bore film and should not be too difficult to make it the best!)

Seriously though this film is going to be awesome and will tell the story of the bore riders, the record holders, the myth, magic and history of the bore and surfing since the 1950s, with fabulous scenery great waves and an in depth at the unique sub culture of tidal bore surfing on the river Severn, Britain and Europes most powerful river.

This entry relates to: [ Surfing ] [ Videos ]

Posted at 21:17:49

The diary of a surfsk8 explorer

This is the start of my Blog, so I thought a few intros are in order….

I started my surfsk8 explorations in 1997 when I took a sort of year out to explore the other side of life. I did this by going out and buying for £900 a 1972 Mark 1 Ford Transit autohome which was so beaten around that it did not matter what I did to it next.

I took my surfboards and my Longboard Skates and started exploring the coasts and towns of southern Britain from somewhere east of Brighton all along the south coast to Lands End, up to Gloucester along the southwest northern coastline,all around the coasts of Wales and across to the northeast coast at Scarborough, and as many towns crisscrossing the interior to suit my travels. I lived on as little money as possible, most going on petrol! I mixed with people from the richest to the poorest, spending time with the alternative groups living in tepees, benders and cardboard boxes. Always i surfed and skated and turned my van, Old Red, into a unique and slightly mad max vehicle which I somehow managed to keep beyond the arm of the law. I wrote a book which is still in manuscript and never got published, but will be one day??? I kept on travelling, surfing, skating, and making films and videos.

Old Red finally came to rest at a secret spot on the north Wales coast in 2001 where he patiently waits for revival and people occasionally pass and think: "that is Donny's van which was in the Longboarding film UK2K.

While this was going on, Tom my son created the still stoked lifestyle website and Danny, Tom's university mate and my friend, came up with the name Still Stoked for the longboard skates which we started producing in 1997.

Many of my stories from 1997 to '98 can be found on www.stillstoked.co.uk and this weblog is going to be a retrospective account of my travels around Britain, Ireland and Europe in my 30 year old vans, of which I have three. As far as I am aware there was no expression called van life before I started my travels. It is an amazing life and extraordinarily easy to pursue in Britain, how long this will continue only time will tell.

I along with many of my generation have slowly but surely progressed backwards in our mindsets to the time when life was free and easy and good – that was sometime happening probably in the 1950s for kids leaving home, for me it was without doubt the coming of pop, rock and liberation in the 60s and 70s. Those who cant remember it aren't those who were there and stoned or smashed all the time, but those who didn't get the opportunities to enjoy the radical breakout of freedom. I did and I enjoyed every minute of it. Today I enjoy it still!

My surfing and skating Blog is my diary of my explorations, discoveries, friends and new family. It will be a slow haul from 1997 to the present with random interjections of what I'm doing right now.

This entry relates to: [ Skating ] [ Travel ]

Posted at 09:50:33