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7 simple tips to help you learn to surf better

September 28, 2011

Share Lots of people try out surfing and usually they get the bug and want to get better…perhaps hoping one day they might rip like Newquay’s Alan Stokes (pic above) However not everyone lives by the beach, and not everyone can surf regularly. So a common question is ‘How can I improve?’ I believe surfing [...]

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Uk Surf competitons: Dates for 2011

August 28, 2011

Share SurfingGB have put together a handy PDF with all the UK & Ireland surf comps for 2011 listed. There are quite a few surf competitions coming up in September through to November in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The next event after the King of the Groms, at Fistral beach in Newquay is the [...]

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Why the hell isn’t there more random drug testing in surfing?

June 10, 2011

Share Chances are that unless you’ve had your head in the sand, or live in the Isles of Scilly, you’ll be aware of the untimely death of surfing legend Andy Irons in November last year. This week a toxicology report was released showing that there were various class A drugs in his system when he [...]

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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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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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VIDEO of English Nationals Surfing Competition Watergate Bay 2010

May 2, 2010
Watch Video fo English Surf Nationals at Watergate Bay

Share Jayce Robinson from St Ives took the mens title this afternoon after beating off stiff competition from Tom Earl, Stu Campbell and Lyndon Wake to win the mens final in the Protest English National Surfing Championships held at Watergate Bay, Cornwall. Low tide combined with heavy onshore wind made surfing (and filming) pretty tricky [...]

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Kelly Slater – The greatest living surfer

November 25, 2009
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Share Kelly Slater – Profile This American pro surfer is known for his dynamic and explosive surfing style and his record of championships.  Kelly Slater was born in Cocoa Beach, Florida, in 1972, with one older and one younger brother, both of whom also surf. His ancestry is Syrian and Chinese, and he was known [...]

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This Week’s Pick – What’s hot in the news

November 4, 2009
Whats hot surf news Tuesday

Share 1. Stormy Newquay – Stormy seas and high winds roll into Newquay. Most of the local surf spots being blown out and totally unsurfable. We recorded wind gusts in excess of 45mph. However this didn’t seem to put off the local groms who on tuesday waited until high tide to try and bodyboard the [...]

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