Tony Butt has been surfing all his life and likes bigger waves. He dislikes crowds, contests, towsurfing and the intrusion of greed and materialism into the world of surfing. He makes a meagre living writing and teaching people about waves and the coastal environment. He ran an oceanography column for the Surfer’s Path for 17 years and has published hundreds of other articles. He is the author of Surf Science: an Introduction to Waves for Surfing (2014) and The Surfers Guide to Waves, Coasts and Climates (2009), in addition to numerous chapters, forewords and contributions to other books. Tony also works with NGOs, trying to convince people that the coastline is one of the most delicate and poorly-understood parts of Nature, and that the more we interfere with it the more problems it will cause us. He lives most of the year in a forgotten corner of Northwest Spain, and makes one long-haul flight a year to spend the southern winter in Cape Town, South Africa. Check out his book, Surf Science, and Introduction to Waves for Surfing
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