Author Archives: Xue Gil

The Nature of Gliding “Variety is the spice of life”, a friend of mine once mentioned during a well deserved sunset beer after a day filled with surfing and skating. It didn’t hit me then, the essence these words encapsulated, but slowly it made more and more sense. Imagine a world where every day is [...] More

Jack of all trades, master of all Ostend, to the outsider, and even to the average Belgian gent, is not more than a city tucked away at the shoreline of Belgium. To many, the place is known as a classic European seaside holiday, renowned for its beaches, seafood, entertainment and monuments that make up Ostend’s [...] More

With the recent release of her video profile - series we plan to keep for long - we decided to catch up with Marta and learn about her new life in the city of angels, her background, her future plans and her hobbies. At the same time, we kickstart this new format were we want [...] More

Welcome to the world of Marta For those who’ve been following our moves since day number one, you’ll probably know that Marta Davila Mateu and her imperishable style on a board are two things we can hardly get enough of. Inevitably, for the first profile in our portrait series, we gladly took a deeper peak [...] More

Welcome to the land of the surfskateparks Thailand! Paradisiacal beaches, temples, street food... and surfskate 'Mecca'? Let's put everything in context: During the first months of the pandemic, the world of individual sports boomed as it never did before. Surfskating went along with it - popularity of which, skyrocketed after the first lockdowns. And between [...] More

The YOW Raw Contest is a worldwide surfskate championship run entirely through Instagram. It intends to be a celebration of the sport and an opportunity for the best surfskaters in the world to show what they are capable of, earn money doing it and have some fun on the way.   The third edition of [...] More