Surfing got you 17.03.2026 – Photos by Vahineura Itchner @Vahine_way_of_life
Don’t worry. Surfing got you. It’s gonna be ok, everything!
It has been an intensive 3 months since late December 2025 when Vahine and I got to know that finally our dream project with our shop and cafe is finally confirmed and we can start expanding the place.
It was almost at the point we lost hope that it would happen and the municipality would need another year or so to go through the paperwork to give us the building permit.
I was just thinking ‘’that’s it, I will have a whole winter to chill, surf, write blogs and do whatever I feel like every morning’’
But the universe, as usual, has its own plan for us.
Just like this morning! But I will get back to that after the quick catch up on what is actually going on.
After 16 years of running the shop, cafe & surf school we finally got the opportunity to expand our small business and get more room. That shop is a community place since the first day and we always struggled with square meters. Guests and friends want to hang out, talk surf, touch the boards, have a coffee and more… but then Ill have to kick them all out of the way because we block the way for people who actually want to explore the shop. I always feel terrible doing that, but I’m trying to run a business afterall…
Anyway, now we will have the place for it all!
Some years we will have more focus on the cafe and it will go great, then other years we will have more focus on the shop, and that would go great too. But it will always be at the cost of each other. From this year, we will finally have the place for doing both to the maximum of Surf & Hygge.
Last April I was telling Vahine, ‘’let’s just break the wall one or two weeks in June and we are ready’’ that’s so much me, to think that it can be done that easily.
After finding out that I can’t just break the wall and add an entire apartment to the shop without getting the right papers and do it the right way I was leaving it in the hands of the professionals and the universe to let it happen whenever it’s time.
Since mid January the place has been a construction site, carpenters, electricians, dust, dust and more dust… luckily this time i remember that we need to empty the entire shop before starting everything. Not like in 2012 when we sanded the wooden floor in the free air when we had a shop full of clothing getting the dust to stick to it. I remember my friend who helped us to sand the floor back then saying ‘’well, luckily it’s not gucci’’, I had no words for that hehe. At least I learned my lesson.
I never had such a long period of time working physically like that. It feels like it’s all one long day since we started and I am on a loop of waking up, racing the work, getting so tired and falling asleep. So much that I put surfing on the side and stopped chasing the forecast. At least in my head, because I can’t do that as we are parallelly working on a surf documentary, Me, Vahine, Oliver, Finn and Roc. So the notifications are popping every time there’s a forecast and we have been chasing waves semi successfully to score for the movie.
This morning, I knew there’s a swell, but it’s been kinda average pumping for 2 weeks now and I thought it’s another small pier day so I was thinking, whatever. I’ll go to work. But when I saw the waves this morning, I panicked!
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I am exhausted and semi stressed out with the shop project, almost to a level I don’t know what has to be done next. Vahine knows me so well and she feels exactly when it’s time to kick me out to the ocean. Lucky me that one of her greatest passions is filming surfing, else I will never have the visuals for all these stories from the most unique and rare surfing moments in Denmark.
I paddled out with 2 friends at first and surfed alone most of the session afterwards. The raw energy we received from the ocean this morning was unique, powerful and mostly beautiful.
I felt privileged to be able to have this gift and enjoy these waves almost alone.
On my third wave I had the best ride in a very long time, a solid joyful takeoff into cruising sections and a barrel I was sure I was not going to make. I was put back on track. Mind sane. Salt water in my brain. Surfing got me. It always has. Every time I think I can leave surfing behind, It comes back to me stronger. Heals me. Reminds me who I really am and how much I love it.
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Surfing is not about the best turn anymore, not about improving style or performance, but about getting the rush, feeling the joy and appreciating the opportunity to experience a truly spiritual moment, and for that I am thankful.
Surfing has always been making me happier, filling me with joy and making me a better person. It even got super powers and gave me the energy to get back from a session and write this blog, another thing I love doing.
Until next time.
Mor
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