Northcore`s Clinton & Spears nab 1st at English Nationals
It was a storming weekend at the English National surf competition, held at Watergate bay, for three of the Northcore team. With fantastic results for both Lewis Clinton and Kathleen Spears taking 1st place in the U18 boys and girls categories respectively. Not only that, Lewis was awarded the Dave Gent Memorial Trophy for the best-placed junior surfer from Newquay.
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| An Art History of British Surfing` hits Red House Museum
An art history of British surfing` opens at the Red House Museum in Christchurch, Dorset on May 3rd and runs through until June 14th 2008. It`s a beautiful venue in a pretty town sandwiched between the New Forest and some amazing surfing beaches.
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Headworx English Nationals hits Watergate Bay May 3-5
England’s top surfers are making final preparations for the first big national competition of the year as the Headworx English Nationals returns to the Extreme Academy, Watergate Bay next weekend.
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| Bournemouth orders bags for the Boscombe artificial reef
Bournemouth Borough Council has announced it has now placed orders for the specialist bags and webbing base for the construction of the artificial surf reef in Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset.
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SAS campaigns for better sewage treatment in Guernsey
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) has begun its election campaigning for improved sewage treatment in Guernsey by asking all prospective candidates to answer a ‘sewage questionnaire’. The resulting answers will be compiled and shown online at sas.org.uk in the run up to polling day.
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| Gabe Davies appointed as Patron to British Surf Museum
One of Europe’s top pro surfers has been appointed Patron to the British Surfing Museum. Quiksilver and Gravis rider Gabe Davies, who holds multiple British and national titles, has agreed to join the not for profit organisation and will help out with publicity, advice and special events.
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Irish surf film `Sea Fever` receiving critical acclaim in UK..
Lahinch, Co. Clare, Ireland – Sea Fever is a documentary film covering the history of Irish surfing from the early 1960s up to the current big wave tow-surfing movement on Ireland’s Atlantic coast with lots of 60s & 70s archive footage and epic 50 foot big wave sessions at Aileens off the Cliffs of Moher. Sea Fever features, Mickey Smith, John McCarthy, Easkey Britton, Kevin Cavey, Dan Mole Joel, Sam Lamiroy and many more.
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| Headworx English Nationals launch May at Watergate Bay
England’s best surfers will return to the waves of Watergate Bay this May to decide national surfing champions in the Headworx English Nationals.
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O’Neill Highland Open, world`s coldest QS, hits Scotland
It is just over a month until the world’s northernmost and coldest professional surfing contest makes its third appearance in the north of Scotland. With its long, clean, super-fast icy waves, the O’Neill Highland Open by Swatch attracts a host of the world’s best surfers to the small town of Thurso in Caithness.
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| Northcore East Coast Drift 08 scores both snow and surf
This Easter morning of the Northcore East coast Drift surf competition saw some areas of the UK East coast covered in over 4 inches of fresh powder so a snowboard competition could have been an alternative if the swell hadn`t shown as forecast.
Mark Dickenson from South Bay shop Fluid Concept took down both the Shortboard and Longboard titles!! Way to go Mark!
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Irish surf magazine FINS back on shelves with issue #15
The new issue sees a major shift as the magazine now has a new editor. Founding editor Tony Lynch is busy doing a medical degree and simply hasn`t got the time, so the ex-editor-in-chief of SurfEurope and Slide- Sharpy is taking over the comfy editors chair. A surf photojournalist with over ten-years experience in Ireland and six-years mag production on his CV he is a safe pair of hands to guide FINS into it`s next phase.
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| White Stuff Surf Relief Fest. sharing stoke with disabled
The country’s only beach music and surfing event, the White Stuff Surf Relief Festival, will return to Watergate Bay on Saturday 26th July with even more going on. Organisers hope to raise significant funds for charity Surf Relief UK’s ‘Surfable’ project, which provides subsidised surfing lessons for disabled and disadvantaged young people.
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Footprint Books launch updated, revised Surfing Europe
Edition 2 of the indispensable surf travel guide Footprint Surfing Europe by Chris Nelson and Demi Taylor hits the shelves this March. Completely revised and redesigned for 2008, edition 2 is packed with in-depth, accurate surf information and mapping, helping to pinpoint where to score the best waves on the day.
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| Spectacular storm strikes Europe - XXL waves recorded
An Atlantic storm smashed Southern Britain, North West France and Northern Spain last Monday. Two people were killed, a fishing trawler sank in the English Channel, a cargo vessel was blown aground on the French coast, with another going up on the rocks in Northern Spain and breaking in three.
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UK Surf school overcrowding issues tackled with license
Harlyn Surf School is proud to announce that they have become one of the first surf schools in the UK to be awarded an operators licence as part of a new and unique “Surf School Licensing Scheme” launched this year by North Cornwall District Council.
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| Oxbow Euro Endurance Paddleboard Race hits Brighton
The Oxbow European Endurance Paddle Board Race is making its debut at this year’s Paddle Round The Pier Beach Festival on Saturday 5th July in Brighton. With the massive increase in popularity of Stand Up Paddle Surfing in the UK over the past year, it seems fitting to hold a race at the UK’s biggest free charity water sports event.
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Cornish surfer Dan Mole Joel nails a big one at Aileens
Great things come to those who wait for Doom Bar sponsored big wave surfer Dan `Mole` Joel, who has successfully returned from surfing some of the biggest waves in the British Isles this season, tackling swells of up to 40ft.‘Mole’ and two other Cornish surfers Ben Skinner and Tom Doidge-Harrison, have had to wait many months for the perfect combination of huge swell and offshore winds, in order to tackle the giant waves but have been rewarded with some of the best conditions yet.
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| 2008 ASP season gets going on Australias Gold Coast
It’s been a big week on the Gold Coast, the ASP Annual General Meeting and Board meeting is done and dusted, the ASP Banquet, where we crown the respective World Champions, went off successfully and the first shots have been fired in the 2008 Men’s & Women’s World Tours.
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British Student Champs in Newquay this Saturday
This weekend will see thousands of students from all over the UK descend on Newquay for a packed weekend of surfing in the BUSA Championships in association with The Koola, The Chy and Ticket to Ride.
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| Irish Surfing Irish Student National Surfing Championships in Lahinch, Co. Clare
The 23/24th of February saw the hosting of the annual Irish Student National Surfing Championships in Lahinch, Co. Clare. Run by the NUI Galway Surf Club, in association with the Irish Surfing Association (ISA) and Tubes Boardsports, it was the largest surf competition held in Ireland to date.
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Surfers Against Sewage Clean up Porthtowan
Surfers Against Sewage campaigners and over 60 volunteers turned up to Porthtowan on Saturday the 23rd of February to give the beach a spring clean. It was really shocking what the winter seas have deposited on the beach and in just 2 hours we collected more than 150kg of litter.
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