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This experimental new film reframes the magic of surfing

Tapping the source — Bringing together eight musicians, 16 surfers and three oceans in one surreal film, Self Discovery for Social Survival subverts the format of surf's cult classics to hypnotic effect. And for director Chris Gentile, the moment reflects a wider renaissance for surf culture.

  • Film
  • Cian Traynor

Seven women reflect on their journeys in football

A global game — For the 2019 Women’s World Cup, photography project Goal Click asked women to share what the game means to them. Here, we share some of their responses – which features grassroots players and international stars.

  • Outdoors
  • Huck

Huck: The Hedonism Issue

Out now! — This issue is a celebration of pleasure-seeking at its purest: the lessons learned when ‘excess’ and ‘extreme’ become a way of life.

  • Magazine
  • Huck

What happens when urban runners take on the wilderness

Partner Content: Hood to Trail — Our friends at Stance took three of Europe’s most infamous running crews, disconnected them from their cities and then dropped them in a spot surrounded by snow-capped mountains. Their experience roughing it up would change them forever.

  • Outdoors
  • Huck

Dance, sport and the unspoken trauma of retirement

Exit stage right — Dancers and athletes can dedicate their entire life to their career, for it then to be cut short by the time they turn 30. This point of retirement – or ‘transition’ – can present a variety of issues spanning the physical, financial and psychological.

  • Outdoors
  • Rachael Healy

Chessboxing: the new craze where brain meets brawn

Season’s beatings — We enter the ring for a night of chessboxing: a curious combination of four-minute speed chess and three-minute boxing.

  • Outdoors
  • Tom Hale

A survival guide to 'Munro bagging' in Scotland's hills

How to not die — There are 282 mountains standing over 3,000ft in height across Scotland. Every time you climb one, you've 'bagged' a Munro... and some people are determined to conquer them all.

  • Outdoors
  • Cian Traynor

Detroit and Chicago come to London via The 108 Sessions

Music, style & baseball — This weekend, Amp Fiddler and Roy Davis Jr are heading to east London to celebrate the long-awaited second edition of The 108 Sessions.

  • Outdoors
  • HUCK HQ

The Lebanese football team uniting the displaced

‘When I play, I forget everything’ – In Lebanon, a small local football team is healing the rifts of a fractured community, uniting expats, outcasts and refugees from across the Middle East.

  • Outdoors
  • Adib Chowdhury

On the sidelines with football's favourite anti-fascists

Clapton CFC — In a corner of East London, a grassroots movement is helping football rediscover its soul. But the fight to maintain one team's tradition of togetherness has forced fans into a move they never imagined: forming a new club of their own.

  • Magazine
  • Alex King

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