Champion, where are you going? Sports coaches will rarely tell you that they loathe certain behaviours brought on by the competitive practice of their sport - behaviours of parents, aspiring athletes and accomplished sportsmen and women alike. Yet...
Charter for the preservation of wild waves "Wild Wave Preservation Charter" is the title I had in mind at first, but it's less catchy! Let's be honest, I've only just invented this charter, but that's how all the ideas and beginnings of concerted...
Hodgepodge versus reality A few years ago, a magazine dedicated to ecology contacted me by phone, in my capacity as president of Eco-Safe Surfing, a group of surf schools with an eco-responsible approach. The question was: "In the wake of the Covid...
Offers of surf lessons for girls, supervised by an instructor, are all the rage. There's probably a sociological explanation for this, but I'm going to look at another explanation, which has to do with boyfriend syndrome. Definition Surfing is...
Lectures surf : Mr Sunset, l’histoire de Jeff Hakman
Pour un enseignement du surf de qualité : tourisme durable oui, uniformisation marchande non.
Enseignement du surf, la marchandisation des labels.
Lexique surf : l’instagrasme, phénomène narcissique des temps modernes.
Lexique surf : le bocal, le local du bocal.
Fiches lecture surf : Jours Barbares, de William Finnegan
Pour une approche nature et zen de la pratique du surf, avec Ki Surf School, à Seignosse.
L’abolition du temps productiviste au bénéfice du temps hédoniste du surfeur.
Tourisme, les usages du surf, développement durable versus greenwashing
Le localisme surf en France, survivance de l’esprit de clocher.
Le localisme dans le surf, part 1, les origines.