SAM BLEAKLEY is a travel writer, author and professional surfer, from Gwenver beach, Sennen, Cornwall, UK. Sam’s first book, Surfing Brilliant Corners details a decade of extreme global surf travel, illustrated by renowned photographer John Callahan. The sequel, Surfing Tropical Beats is the first surf travel book translated into Mandarin Chinese . Sam has an MA in Geography from the University of Cambridge, is researching a part-time PhD in Travel Writing with University College Falmouth (Performance Writing Research Group) and has been a multiple British and European Longboard Surfing Champion. Sponsored by Biomimetics Health UK, Sam specialises in surf exploration projects with the surfEXPLORE team.
the future of surfing has to fuse sustainability, and an educational and ecological outlook with the pure buzz of riding waves. The Wave will do all this and so much more. In the same way a musician needs an instrument and an artisan needs tools, surfers need green, clean and cultured places, and if a new generation grows into these philosophies and vital values as instinct, surfing has a bright and sustainable future...
Sam Bleakley