Paul French

How to Not Suck at Surfing

Paul French — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:42:24 +0000

“Surfing recreates you. I went into the water literally ready to blow my brains out and came back out of the water a warrior.” ~ Doc Paskowitz (Click to tweet) How long should it take to learn to surf? It’s difficult to know. It is, it seems, a monstrous task for anyone who’s not twelve. From [...]

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Understanding Barça: Guillem Balagué’s Tiki-Taka Library

Paul French — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:18:02 +0000

There’s a key to developing a deeper appreciation of the football of Barcelona. All you have to do is ask the experts; the men who’ve spent years studying – not just watching – how Barcelona got to where we see them today...

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Finding Joy in Simplicity: Living in Itacaré

Paul French — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:40:12 +0000

Some say Brazil’s a dangerous place. On my first days in the Bahian surf town Itacaré, where the mouth of the Rio de Contas meets the Atlantic Ocean, I was mugged, as it were, by the contrast between two things. The first was the shit-out-of-luck search for a newspaper; a situation which is foreign to anyone who’s [...]

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