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21 steps to (nearly) every surf movie out there

November 18, 2011

Share With the exception of a handful of films, most surf films in the last 20-30 years seem to be very similar. Perhaps even more these days, they are riddled with cliches. Maybe its the challenge of making something routine look fresh. Or maybe its just a safe bet to follow formula, to sell stuff, but quite [...]

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Russell Winter wins Nike 6.0 night surf

July 10, 2011

Share The Nike 6.0 night surf attracted a huge crowd tonight on Fistral beach for the finals. The big news was Russell Winter’s victory and Ben Skinner – who managed to land a fantastic air on a longboard during the finals! The organisation and planning of the event by Nike was pretty impressive. A large [...]

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Newquay Surfer’s photos from Nike 6.0 cash for tricks

July 9, 2011

Share This year’s night surf event was sponsored by Nike 6.0 and held at Fistral beach, Newqauay on the 8-9th of July. As part of the event a ‘Cash for tricks’ competition was run – this format encourages surfers to try out radical manoeuvres, with their best 3 moves counted as the surfers overall score. [...]

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57½ reasons why people surf

May 22, 2011

Share The American philosopher Jim Rohn once said that ‘reasons come first…answers come second’ and this idea lead me to a big question…why do we surf? Is it for the adrenalin rush surfing gives you, or a pursuit for inner peace? Is it escape from the daily grind or the fact that you can enter [...]

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Surfing News Weekly Round Up – 3/5/2011

May 2, 2011

Share English Nationals Surf Competition Postponed Well the bad news this weekend in Newquay was that the English Nationals at Watergate Bay was cancelled due to poor surf. It would be fair to say that the surf picked up a bit towards Saturday afternoon but the morning conditions from Friday through to Monday were pretty [...]

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Sunset & Surf – Fistral Beach, Newquay 17/4/2011

April 17, 2011

Share With some nice clean waves, offshore wind and sunshine…there’s some pretty nice light at the end of the days too. Here are some pictures from this evening taken at Fistral beach. The first one was one of those ‘happy accidents’ when sunset, low angle shot and the surfer sort of aligned – haha. In [...]

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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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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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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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Quiksilver British Surf Championships 2010 – Surfers Photo Stills

August 30, 2010
Still images from the 2010 Quiksilver British Championship

Share Below are a selection of stills rendered from film footage shot at the British Championship this year. The images include Newquay’s Oli Adams,  Sarah Beardmore, Nicole Morgan, Johnny Fryer, Jayce Robinson , Toby Donachie and more. Hey if you have a blog or surf news site and your stuck for a pic for a [...]

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Marc Lacomare V Jay Quinn – 2010 Boardmasters WQS Surfing Final

August 9, 2010
Watch WQS Mens Surfing Final video footage

Share Newquaysurfer.org video coverage of the WQS mens Relentless 2010 Boardmasters surfing final between Marc Lacomare of France and Jay Quinn of New Zealand. It was a really close final between the two surfers who managed to get as much as they could out of every wave – however small! Watch the footage of the [...]

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