Textured Waves
Chelsea Woody is a surfer, registered nurse, filmmaker and co-founder of Textured Waves. From challenging representation in surfing to raising awareness of maternal health, she's using the ocean as a platform for change.
Chelsea Woody is a surfer, registered nurse, filmmaker and co-founder of Textured Waves. From challenging representation in surfing to raising awareness of maternal health, she's using the ocean as a platform for change.
What’s it like to be friends on land and bitter rivals the second you hit the water? We head to Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch to meet five of the world’s best surfers, a generation that has grown up together, now competing for the same titles as each other’s greatest support system and most dangerous obstacles.
Wake up at 4am to hang out on the beach? Yes please! We packed our bags and headed to Cornwall to meet three passionate water-women and discuss their profound love of the ocean
Maya Gabeira overcame a near-fatal injury to ride the world's biggest wave, an achievement captured in the documentary Maya & The Wave. The film's director and cinematographer, Stephanie Johnes, embarked on her own remarkable journey to bring this story to life.
Think surfing’s all about sunny beaches and golden tans? Meet Lucy Campbell, the UK’s seven-time Women’s National Surfing Champion, who’s making waves in freezing British waters.
Rhonda Harper accidentally found a surf school in Dakar. Now the Californian has made it her home, plans for a bigger and better school and is helping empower local girls for whom surfing was always ‘for the boys’
Wake up at 4am to hang out on the beach? Yes please! We packed our bags and headed to Cornwall to meet three passionate water-women and discuss their profound love of the ocean
From the adrenaline rush of action sports to the thrill of creating life-size sculptures, we chat to artist Holly Bendall on how she’s found her work-life balance
As surfing embraces “more women, genderqueer and trans people in the surf conversation”, we talk to photographer Gabriella Angotti-Jones about the changing scene
Wake up at 4am to hang out on the beach? Yes please! We packed our bags and headed to Cornwall to meet three passionate water-women and discuss their profound love of the ocean