Improve your surfing with the new style of surf skateboards How I pushed past my fear of skateboarding with the new style of surf skateboards with the help of Tiny Whale Surf Lodge in Portugal. Skateboarding has...
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Arms Wide Open – The first all-female skateboarding film from Vans
Arms Wide Open – The first all-female skateboarding film from Vans An all-girl skate trip to Indonesia showing some sick skating from Fabiana Delfino and Breana Geering as well as some ripping new talent. We usually...
Trust Your Vibes – A review of Sonia Choquette’s book
Trust Your Vibes: Secret Tools for Sixth Sensory Living by Sonia Croquette A fascinating book filled with practical advice for becoming more intuitive. Intuition is a guiding principle for any athlete involved in adventure...
Patagonia Nanogrip Surf Bikini Review – Solid in every way!
Patagonia Nanogrip Surf Bikini Review The Nareta top is a bikini top designed to perform. Patagonia’s new Nanogrip fabric adds another level of performance to a design that already meets all you active needs, in and out of the...
Nissan Supergirl Pro is back with an all-star surf lineup – July 26-28th
Nissan Supergirl Pro is back for the 12th Year! Celebrating 12 years at the iconic Oceanside Pier, July 26-28th. The World’s largest surf event features WSL surf contest and a female empowerment festival. ...
She Surfs Big Waves, He Films: Meet Brazilian Big Wave Champion Michaela Fregonese
Big Wave Surfer Michaela Fregonese and Film Maker Marcelo Amaral A Surf couple defying gender roles She is a mother, a wife, a stunning beauty and a big wave surfer; Michaela Fregonese brings the fierce to the...
VanLife – Why travelling the US is best by camper van
Why travel the US by camper van Why taking to the road in a camper van or RV is surely one of the best ways to see the USA. Good ole USA. The open road, made famous by cult novels such as On The Road by Jack Kerouac, or...
First We Surf Then We Eat – Recipes from a lifetime of surf travel
First We Surf Then We Eat – Recipes from a lifetime of surf travel A cookbook mixed with tales of far-flung surf adventure, seasoned with personal stories, and garnished with local characters, charms, and nuances. This is a...
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Sailing The Pacific Ocean – 26 days & 3,300 miles on Finding Avalon
Surfer Boys are Like Ice Cream: The waves aren’t the only thrill we seek
Road Trip Through Mainland Mexico: How to budget
Meditation: One thing every injured athlete needs to do
Breast Augmentation for Athletes: Are my boobs in the way?
Las Sirenitas of Popoyo: Empowering Nicaraguan girls through surfing
A Point Break Scheduled to Become a Shipping Yard: Waves, indigenous people, and the environment at risk in Punta Conejo
Five Reasons to Surf a Dumping Beach Break, and One Big Reason Not to.
Surf Travel and Inequality: Are tourist dollars helping or hurting the locals?
Sailing to The Galapagos – 960 nautical miles from Panama City
Becoming a Waterwoman: What riding a surfboard didn’t teach me about the ocean
What is it About a Surfer Girl? 10 reasons why surfer girls are special
When ambition gets the best of a surfer
Drilling for Oil in The Great Australian Bight – What’s in it for us?
Sailing The Pacific Ocean
Sailing The Pacific Ocean – 26 days & 3,300 miles on Finding Avalon
Crossing 3,300 miles of the Pacific Ocean over 26 days What is sailing the Pacific Ocean really like? Three of us did this ocean passage and 3,300 nautical miles in 26 days, on 38ft Elan sailing boat, Finding Avalon Books...
Sailing to The Galapagos – 960 nautical miles from Panama City
Saying yes to sailing to The Galapagos – 960 nautical miles, Panama to Galapagos In the spirit of always saying ‘Yes‘, I find myself at the start of a 3-month sailing and surfing trip across the Pacific Ocean on...
Sailing Around the World – The less obvious ‘How To’ steps
Dream of sailing around the world? Here’s how. All the things you never thought of. It’s an honor to introduce you to one of our best friends who made her dream happen. We’re so excited to be following (&...
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Musings
Losing My Identity: How injury forced me to question who I was
Sport as a sense of identity If someone asked me to describe myself in a few sentences, I’d answer immediately. I know exactly who I am. My identify is intricately linked to my biggest passion; I’m a snowboarder. I’m this...
Alexa Hohenberg – Graduating from park-rat to the backcountry snowboarding (film)
From park rat to the backcountry Growing up is weird. I’ve definitely been struggling with it recently. I turn 34 next month. Apart from the artheritis in my neck that has started to RAGE since surfing in 5C water...
An Open Letter to the International Olympic Committee on the “Shit Show” that was women’s slopestyle
The “shitshow” that was women’s Olympic slopestyle – This letter was written by Amber Stackhouse (an exceptional snowboarder that was a HUGE inspiration to me). Thank you Amber. I have added my...
Don’t call me lucky. You make your own luck
You make your own luck One 12 hour flight. Two grueling 7 hour bus journeys. 3 countries and 2 continents later, here we are in the Andes! My face beams with excitement. I write this with a bus window view that spans the...
Why you shouldn’t quit your job to travel the world
Don’t quit your job to travel the world – Guest post by Nina Ziezman from Shewhoadventures.com It’s become a cliche of the 21st century, hasn’t it? Quitting your job to travel the world. From your local...
Surfing Hokkaido in Winter – The snowiest place on earth
Surfing Hokkaido in winter I remember watching this video of surf legend Sally Fitzgibbon’s documenting on a surf trip to Novia Scotia, Canada. Beat down from the cold, she wept in the car, saying to her dad over and over...
Why women need the support of men in the outdoors
Aspiring to be a strong female ski guide – This article took a long time to write. First started in 2016 and finished in 2017. I was scared to publish it. ‘Girl. You’ve got to be better, faster, stronger’ – that was...
When someone shows you who they are, believe them
When someone shows you who they are, believe them – Famous quote by Maya Angelo This is an unusual post. Not at all action sports related, but life lesson focused. It’s about wanting to let something go...
Sex Sells You Short – Social media & the pressure on female athletes
Sex Sells You Short When I look back on the female athletes I admired as a kid, they were strong, unapologetic badass women, who shattered gender prejudice and trail-blazed a highway for other girls to follow (thank you Lisa...
Open letter to Department of Health – Instagram models paid $600,000 to promote health to young girls
Open letter to Department of Health Australia MissAdventure penned this open letter in response to breaking news that The Department of Health paid Instagram models & influencers $600,000 of taxpayer’s money to promote...
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Yoga
Meditation: One thing every injured athlete needs to do
When injury prevents participation in the thing that brought you the most joy, meditation can help Inactivity for an athlete can mean boredom or even depression. Especially for those sports that come with an adrenaline rush...
Surf
Surf Skateboards – Revolutionising those flat days
Improve your surfing with the new style of surf skateboards How I pushed past my fear of skateboarding with the new style of surf skateboards with the help of Tiny Whale Surf Lodge in Portugal. Skateboarding has...
Snow
Meet Michaela Davis-Meehan, the 1st Aussie snowboarder on the Freeride World Tour!
10 questions with Michaela Davis-Meehan, the Aussie snowboarder who just qualified for the Freeride World Tour! The struggle is real on both the surf and snow qualifying series and coming out on top after a year of endless...
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Arms Wide Open – The first all-female skateboarding film from Vans
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a land shaped by women – Film teaser is here!
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Fitness
Five Reasons to Surf a Dumping Beach Break, and One Big Reason Not to.
Beach breaks in less than ideal conditions can be brutal. Here are a few good reasons paddle out anyway, and one not to. Sometimes it takes a little motivation to paddle out. If the water is cold or the conditions at the beach...
Reviews
Best Surf Sunscreen – Full review of reef safe, natural sunscreen brands
What is the best surf sunscreen? We test the best reef-safe surf sunscreens. Please look after your skin & don’t put chemicals in the ocean. Clue up on this stuff & READ THE LABELS! Each year I spend well...
Nutrition
How athletes can improve their brain power with food
How athletes can improve their brain power with food – Contributing article If you’re a hard-working athlete, it’s not uncommon to experience symptoms like mental fatigue, irritability, low mood or even poor memory...
