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Wilma Johnson surfs her dreams. (English version)

February 16, 2015 by Wilma Johnson

  Wilma Johnson surfs her dreams. In her book ‘Surf Mama’, Wilma Johnson tells the story of how she left an Irish fishing village with her family to come and live in Guéthary and live her dream – to surf. Words Sylvie Barrens ( translation WJ) Photos Bertrand Lapègue   To be honest, Wilma the artist wasn’t destined to become a ‘real’ surfer, the type who heads off in December in the rain to catch waves  beach, and comes back with […]

Categories: press, surf mama • Tags: Ballydavid, Biarritz, surf, surf mama, surfbooks, surfmama, wilma johnson, women surfing, Womens surfing

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Surf Mama in the Sud Ouest

February 15, 2015 by Wilma Johnson

Categories: press, surf mama • Tags: guethary, surf, wilma johnson surf books, women surfing

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Surf Mama in Psychologies Magazine

August 6, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

https://psychologies.co.uk/why-wilma-johnson-making-waves  

Categories: press, surf mama • Tags: Biarritz, psychologies, surf, surf mama, surfbooks, wilma johnson, women surfing

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Surf Mama #1

July 1, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

I arrived in London at my mother’s house and there by the door were these two wooden bellyboards, they brought back vague memories of childhood holidays in Lyme Regis. Stormy days when the whole family would pack a picnic and head off to Charmouth beach to catch the waves under the cliffs, Mary Anning’s dinosaurs embedded in the mud. The children were only allowed waist deep half terrified by threats of currents that would whisk us away, half ecstatic to […]

Categories: Blog, Photos, surf mama • Tags: 80 something, surfing, women surfing

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Back to my Roots

June 18, 2014 by Wilma Johnson

After a crazy week in London launching the book it was quite calming to get back home and back to my roots with the Mamas Surf Club on friday. A bit too calm in fact – we had the sort of waves I dreamt of when we first started in 2005, tiny to non-existent. For a while we had another motto alongside ‘Out of the kitchen and into the Surf’. ‘Never too small for the Mamas.’ But I’ll say the […]

Categories: Blog, letter form Olatua, surf mama • Tags: Biarritz, mamas surf club, surf, surf mama, wilma johnson, women surfing

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