Surfing is being democratised on the French south-western coast and generates a new sociological and spatial layout of the beaches and seaside resorts of this littoral. Hence, the authorities endeavour to control the economic, social and territorial expansion of this sport, acting in favour of a standardisation, normalisation, and institutionalisation of practising and of surfing spaces. Yet, some surfers overestimate what they claim as being their practising territory as a reply to these town and country planning policies. They enforce thus specific strategies in order to preserve the cosmogonic dimension of their relation to that space. In this context, geography of the intimate striving to decipher the sensitiveness that the individuals summon up to create their territoriality, allows to understand these deviancies. This geography of the intimate can then constitute a tool for the town and country planning operations
