Finding Good Surf Shops in Newquay

April 12, 2011
Thumbnail image of map of Newquay

Share Finding a shop that sells a decent wetsuit or surfboard can be a tough task in many cities inland. Try buying a wetsuit and surfboard in Birmingham city centre and you’ll certainly have your work cut out. And when it comes to buying a wetsuit in particular, its important to be able to try [...]

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Justin Lee Collins Learns to Surf – Sky TV show

April 12, 2011

Share JLC becomes a pro -surfer? Well sort of! Some folks may have seen this when it was originally broadcast on Sky TV in 2009. Its Justin Lee Collins / JLC’s brave attempt to learn to surf from scratch and then enter a UK PST surf comp a few weeks later (having spent some time [...]

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Newquay Sunset – Over the Headland this time last year…

April 11, 2011

Share Below are some images of the Newquay Headland at exactly this time last year in 2010…We had a couple of pretty awesome sunsets this time last year and from memory the sea water was a fair bit warmer than it is this year…But hey, with a bit of luck it’ll soon warm up quickly [...]

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Surfboards: A Beginners Guide to Buying a Surfboard

March 5, 2011

Share How to select the best Surfboard for YOU! Ok, you’ve had a lesson/s and decided your hooked on learning to surf and want to buy your first board. So what should you buy?… Some surf shop staff will give you objective advice, others will sell you a board that they want to sell that [...]

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Photos of Surfing at Fistral beach 27th Dec 2010

December 27, 2010

Share After over a month of pretty flat and very cold conditions Boxing day and the 27th of Dec 2010 saw a decent swell finally hit the North Cornwall coast combined with offshore winds. Inspite of the icy cold water and solid head high + conditions plenty of surfers were out braving the cold waves. [...]

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Photos of Snow in Newquay, Cornwall – Snow on Fistral beach

November 27, 2010

Share The temperatures have dropped a fair bit in Newquay, Cornwall this week. On Saturday morning even those of us living on the coast woke up to a blanket of snow. By mid morning a fair few surfers were in the water as some fairly clean waist – chest high waves rolled in at Fistral. [...]

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Photo Gallery – Fistral Beach, Newquay – Winter Sunset Pics

November 23, 2010

Share In spring and late early winter time the light can get very dramatic here in North Cornwall and tonight was no exception.  It’s a pity the surf has been flat… because having some bigger waves and surfers to photograph in this light could have been pretty sick – but nevertheless this Winter sunset still [...]

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Animal Open 2010 Womens Surf Competition at Fistral Beach

November 20, 2010

Share Video footage of the women’s 2010 Animal surf competition held at Fistral beach, Newquay. The video includes surfers Tassy Swallow (1st( who won the competition  – as well as Joanne Dennison (2nd), Beth Mason (3rd) and Nicole Morgan (4th place). It also features Gabi Rowe receiving her award for highest scored wave as well [...]

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Animal Open 2010 Surf Competition – Fistral Beach, Newquay

November 15, 2010

Share Images from the 2010 animal open surf competition at Fistral beach, Newquay. Includes pics of Mark ‘Egor’ Harris, Gwen Spurlock, Laura Crane, Nicole Morgan, Jo Dennison, Beth Mason, Micah Lester, Jayce Robinson, Reubin Ash, Toby Donachie and 2010 womens winner Tassy Swallow & mens open winner – Reubin Pearce…

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RIP Andy Irons

November 3, 2010

Share The surfing community is in mourning by the sudden death of 3x world champion Andy Irons. On Tuesday the 2nd of November 2010 the world began to hear the tragic and very sad news that legendary pro surfer and world surfing champion Andy Irons had suddenly died. Watch a photographic tribute to Andy Irons [...]

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Rip Curl 360 Degree Matrix Style Video!

October 10, 2010

Share Don’t usually post 3rd party video here – but this is quite cool. If you haven’t seen the Mirage Boardshort Video by Rip Curl (which has some sick 360 degree shots of surfers in it) you can check it out below. How is this done? People seem to be fascinated by how you create [...]

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Photos: High Tide North Fistral & its offshore!!! Photo gallery

October 9, 2010

Share We’ve been quite lucky this past few weeks with waves…nature decided, again…to bless Newquay with another day of offshore wind and decent swell , making for some nice waves on the whole – albeit a little strong on the wind front (blind take offs are fun to a point – but hey, you can’t [...]

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Surfing & Bodyboarding -Towan Backwash – Video & Gallery

October 5, 2010

Share With double to triple overhead waves smashing into Fistral beach and against the Cribbar rocks in Newquay on Tuesday the 5th of October – it was certainly no day for Captain Calamity to be at sea With a pretty unfavourable wind making surfing at Fistral beach or at the Cribbar pretty impossible, the surfing [...]

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Surfing at Fistral Beach – Alan Stokes, Adam Griffiths, Mitch Corbett 29/9/10 – Photo Gallery

October 1, 2010
Mitch Corbett - link to surfing photos

Share After last week’s boat carnage it was back to a level of calm at Fistral beach, Newquay. Have been quite busy on the surf filming front,  so expect to see some more video action soon! In the meantime here are a some pics of local surfers in action at North Fistral in the merry [...]

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Extreme Sailor ‘Captain Calamity’ capsizes his boat Mischief for the final time

September 22, 2010
Link to full blog post about captain calamity from Newquay

Share 30/9/2010 UPDATE: A week on and the boat incident has hit the national and local news. With full page spreads in the Neqwquay Voice and Cornish Guardian, Glenn’s story hasn’t stopped there because its also made it into the The Daily Mail, The Telegraph and The Mirror! I even saw it mentioned on Derren [...]

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