Alongside the adventure north and south of Dakar, they meet up with Cherif Fall, Jesper Mouritzen, Aita Diop, Marta Imarisio, Pierre-Louis Denaro, and many others at the forefront of surfing in Senegal. In Dakar they learn about Teranga, the celebrated Senegalese character of hospitality, sharing, and welcomeness. Oumar Seye was West Africa’s first sponsored surfer, and has paved the way for surfing to become more than just a hobby in the region, running international events and supporting sustainability.
Their first stop is N’Gor Island, where they ride the wave seen in the opening sequence of The Endless Summer and meet the thriving local surf community.
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Sam travels through Senegal with Irish big wave surfer and scientist Easkey Britton and French pro Adrien Toyon. Sam Bleakley | Luke Pilbeam | Robin Simpson | Finisterre Sam reluctantly says farewell to the stunning backwaters of Kerala, knowing he’ll return.Įpisode 01 Land of Teranga | episode 02 Surf Drums | episode 03 African Renaissance
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Later he experiences the intense festival spice of India as Thaipusam is marked with heavy skin piercing and a trance like dancing. Back in Varkala, Sam learns about the delicate economic balance where surf breaks and fishing communities share the same space. In the final chapter, Sam meets up with Kerala’s best skateboarders breaking boundaries down in Kovalam, and finds out how a charitable school helped inspire India’s best surfers. He then travels to the spice capital Kochi to witness the beauty and brilliance of kalaripayatu. In chapter two, now armed with some phrases in the local language of Malayam, Sam discovers that waveriding could have a much more ancient history in India.
Surfing has provided new and exciting possibilities to carve an exciting future. In the first chapter Sam meets the local surf crew in Varkala at the forefront of the growing surf tourism community. Sam travels to Kerala in southwest India to explore Varkala, Kovalam and Kochi, and discover how surfing, skateboarding and their cultural expressions are making waves, whilst ancient arts like katakali and kalaripayattu are still bringing joy to new generations. Sam Bleakley | Greg Dennis | Robin Simpson | Soul & Surf He jumps between these two stories as he explores the way surfing is directly benefiting the locals, ultimately experiencing the cultural delights of a sing sing (where the ancestors come alive in powerful celebrations), before testing his nerve while travelling back through Port Moresby.Ĭhapter 01 Soul & Surf Kerala | chapter 02 Old Spice | chapter 03 Kovalam Skate Club This adventure through PNG happens across two trips: Sam works as a commentator at the inaugural World Longboard Tour event in Tupira in Madang Province, and then travels to meet Shane Clark and the crew at Rubio Plantation in New Ireland. Sam travels to Papua New Guinea to see a cutting edge model of sustainable surf tourism, learn about the long history of waveriding on broken pieces of canoe called palangs or ‘splinters’, and see the power of the pink nose revolution that is empowering women on the front line of surfing’s known frontiers.
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They learn about how surf tourism in remote areas can help support local education, and face their fears over the fire coral reef at Flameballs on the swell of the trip, before saying farewell to Anakao to travel back through the incredible landscape of Madagascar.Ĭhapter 01 Rubio Plantation | chapter 02 The Pink Nose Revolution | chapter 03 Timber Boards The crew stay with Blair Rogers at Mada Surf Lodge in Anakao, the heartland of the Veso, the legendary nomads of the Mozambique Channel. Sam travels to the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar with Mike Lay and James Parry to soak up the ghostly atmosphere of old Antananarivo, celebrate the 700 mile long Route du Sud from the capital, through Ranomafana and the land of the fiercely proud Sakalava people, to Tulear, before surfing through a web of Veso fishing communities surrounded by shallow reef passes in the southwest of this vast and varied country. Sam Bleakley | Greg Dennis | Robin Simpson
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In the latest series with WSL Studios presented by Hydro Flask Sam travels to Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, India, Senegal, Algeria and Zanzibar.Ĭhapter 01 Route du Sud | chapter 02 Vezo Reefs | chapter 03 Nomads of the Sea
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