Author Archives: Xue Gil

"A place of balance with deep darkness following light. Intensities converging in every moment." Words: Pacha Light Photography: Paula Ortega I took off on 77 hours of train travel beginning in Hossegor, France- crossing borders and hauling my surfboard bag into countless trains, making sure I gave my biggest smile to train conductors with my [...] More

OUT FOR A WALK WITH JAN BEIN Remember when the Northern Hemisphere wasn’t an oven? We followed our rider Jan Bein during a casual scroll across Barcelona on our Surf Cruisers. No plans nor route were set, we only had the desire of keeping ourselves entertained while looking at the city from other perspectives. Filtres [...] More

YOW PIT STOP CHAPTER 2 - SURFSKATES Better late than never they say. On this new episode of YOW Pit Stop we will tell you all (or almost all) you need to know about our surfskates. Our good amigo Griffin is back and will talk you through the different parts of our boards: the Meraki [...] More

YOW PIT STOP CHAPTER 1 - SURF CRUISERS Welcome to YOW Pit Stop, a new series of video guides in which we will explore all our products in more depth, try to solve all your FAQs and have some fun on the way. In this first episode, we will talk you through our new Surf [...] 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