The Stormrider Guide: Europe is loaded with the finest surfing locations from the North Sea to Morocco. Hundreds of beaches and even a few rivers are profiled in depth by some of Europe's most knowledgeable surfers. With an appreciation for the power of the weather and a deep respect for the sea environment, the guide offers all the information you need to buy a used van and immerse yourself in Europe's scene.
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The World Stormrider Guide Vol 2 is another inspiring and essential edition to the Stormrider Collection. --Surfers Path Issue 44
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The World Stormrider Guide Vol 2 is the second book in a 3 Volume set. A completely new book to sell alongside the phenomenally successful The World Stormrider Guide Vol 1. Visiting 80 fresh surfing destinations around the world, The World Stormrider Guide Vol 2 explores some of the planet’s lesser known coastlines from Norway to Argentina. Instead of the famous breaks of Hossegor, Sydney or the North Shore of Oahu, we scope Brittany, Byron Bay and the Big Island. The Oceanographic text in Volume 1 shifts onto the Environment in Volume 2, highlighting where the worst problems occur around the world. Anyone who bought The World Stormrider Guide Vol 1 will definitely need The World Stormrider Guide Vol 2 and are sure to want to complete the set when The World Stormrider Guide Vol 3 comes out in 2006!
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Low Pressure is and always has been a company devoted to surf and travel. Expanding horizons and highlighting the potential of a world of waves is the whole point of our business. We have all been lucky enough to experience a huge diversity of waves, people and cultures on our own personal travels, so sharing the stoke of discovery seems to be the right thing to do.
The Stormrider Guides have been the end product of this devotion. They are very slow to produce... sometimes too slow, but this is simply because we do not want to put out anything that is slapped together to make a quick buck.....we surf and travel and we know what we want to see in a book. So far this seems to have worked as our Stormrider books are the best selling and best known surf guides in the world.
It's always difficult to get the balance right with a surf guide. Often considered a taboo subject we have done everything we possibly can to give accurate and comprehensive information without taking away the thrill of discovery. In order to do this, all our information is contributed by and double checked by local riders. If you feel we've crossed the line please contact us and give us your constructive criticism.
While presenting the surf info we try to remove opinion and personalities from the books to leave the hard and fast facts. The stars of The Stormrider Guides are the waves themselves...all we do is try to present them in a clear and consistent fashion. One surfer's 5 star wave is another surfer's nightmare. The style is adapted to this approach - it is only a guide....you do the rest.
Bruce Sutherland is a director of Low Pressure, the Publishing Editor of The Stormrider Surf Guide series of books and has 35 years extensive experience of surfing and travelling.
Contributions also come from the Low Pressure team of Ollie Fitzjones and Dan Haylock, as well as numerous respected surf journalists including Antony Colas, who has travelled across the world, surfing in over 55 countries.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Useful, but could be better,
By Roger McEvilly (the guilty bystander) (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The World Stormrider Guide Volume 2 (Stormrider Guides) (Paperback)
The first 'World Stormrider Guide' (Volume 1) to world surf spots was a little bit better than this one, primarily because both the pictures and quality of the surf breaks listed were consistently better.
In this edition, it seems some surf spots are listed to sell copies based on population, rather than surf quality (eg Texas, Perth-except Rottnest Island), or because of tourism (eg Venezuela -"waves are always small"), or because that is where the compilers thought they would like to have a holiday to research the information. And this leads to the second problem-some of the pictures are not up to the standard of a surf publication-many look like they were taken on a single day-stop on a surf trip, which were obviously not even close to the better days of surf at the spot. (Crumbling 2 foot beach breaks do not exactly make a publication). Everyone knows surf pictures are usually exceptional for a particular spot, but at least they know how good it can get. The detail is as good or better than the first (ie water temperature, swell size, consistency, wind, costs, local stuff, spots highlighted in bold), but the pictures could definitely have been outsourced a bit more. (Hell, I've got better pictures on some spots on some of these-Lennox Head for example is rated as "one of the best right hand points in Australia" (in the top ten or so, along with the likes of Angourie, Burleigh, Kirra, Snapper, National Park Noosa, Winkipop, Bells, North Point, Mays)-yet the picture shows dribbly 3-4 footers-I've got pics which are better). And also, it isn't much value listing so MANY places which are at best average, or too inconsistent (eg like a number in the Carribean-obviously for the American market, the Seychelles-"very small", Northwest Phillippines and Vietnam-"always small"). A few average spots is ok, (or a really good spot but which is inconsistent), but there is too many spots which basically show you that it isn't worth going there (at least to surf, that is). Who wants to travel around the world to surf expensive 2 foot dribblers? (I can get that on an average day in Sydney). Quality, cheap, and uncrowded is what everyone wants-as well as the all-important consistency-ie often breaking!.(Hell, I know some spots in Australia that get absolutely epic, but only a couples of times a year!). In this respect a little more attention could be paid to details on consistency in general-it gives swell consistency/month, but a bit more detail here could be useful.And there needs to be much better differentiation between the very average areas and the really good ones; listing average ones worldwide is ok (I suppose) for completeness, but one can't easily tell from the information provided the DIFFERENCE IN QUALITY between somewhere like Nias, and the Seychelles. There is a HUGE difference if you want to go to one of these just to surf. A 5 star box system or someting like it might be useful. Particularly inviting were places like New Zealand (the place in general just gets better the more you look at it-like the first place shown after the inside cover-Mangamaunu Point-looks good), Peru/Lima area, Baja California (with the `seven sisters' stretch of pointbreaks), the `epic' Kumari Point in the Andamans, Rapa Nui, mainland Sumatra, Philip Island (I've seen better pics), Byron Bay (I've got better pics), Garden Route South Africa (poor quality pics), and the whole pacific side of Central America. Numerous other places like Madagascar, various Pacific Islands, Oman, Brazil, Venezeula, northwest Philippines, Vietnam, northern Spain, Angola, etc didn't exactly overwhelm with quality shots. A final issue is that always difficult one, the "secret spot". I am one of those people who think the surf is for everyone, and you may as well show on the map where the spot or picture shown actually is. There are several spots described, some with pictures, but which are not shown on the accompanying maps (eg the Philippine Dream-pic looks good anyway, and "Secret Spot" South Africa). (They also say in Volume 1 that they are keeping some spots secret). There is also the annoying occasional picture which has no reference to where it is at all. Some people might like surfers to drive past `their' world-class spot, but it is pretty frustrating to go half way round the world, spend hard earned money, get home and find out you missed the best spot, and you can't go back. And there is always the paradox that others (eg businesses) might want the spot known. Who benefits from the secret? Not you, me or the local businesses-a small group of local surfers only. Also, the world is a big place, and more world-class spots might thin things out a bit.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A beautifully detailed guide to any surfing person,
By Lionel (France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The World Stormrider Guide Volume 2 (Stormrider Guides) (Paperback)
You will find anythin' in here : waves theory, advices, spots with maps and directions, meteo, A-ny-thing.
Not all of it is always useful (because you can't travel through all the countries...) But the surfing possibilities that are described in here will be enough to fill anyone's surfing life!
4.0 out of 5 stars
You better have it !,
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This review is from: The World Stormrider Guide Volume 2 (Stormrider Guides) (Paperback)
If you need to prepare a surf trip, you want to go at the best (known) spot, or you're just curious to see how it looks like 10 000 miles away, go for it !
This book is really well made, nice text, all the details you need to know, beautiful pictures. You can feel it was made by surfers for surfers. The first pages will give a bit about wave creating system, weather forecasting and wind satelite map reading. Really Nice book. But don't fool yourself, the best secret spots won't be in there !
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