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Big wave surfing video at the Cribbar Newquay

December 3, 2011

Share The Cribbar breaks rarely…perhaps a few times a year… if you’re lucky. Unless you live close to Newquay and keep a keen eye on the surf reports the chances are, you could miss it. The reason it breaks so rarely isn’t (as far as I’m aware) about voodoo or spells, it is just that [...]

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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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What the fu*k should we do with stand up paddle boarders?

May 11, 2011

Share There has been a real surge in the popularity of stand up paddle boarding in the last few years. The sport has become more and more popular in Cornwall and perhaps nowhere more so than in Newquay. With some talented local SUP-ers and shapers based in the town, the sport has gone from strength [...]

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What surfboard to do you ride in the UK?

May 9, 2011

Share Each country has its own variable conditions with different coastlines…with the changing seasons thrown into the mix having the right type of surfboard can make the difference, between having a fun surf and a frustrating one. Can you really have a one-board quiver in the UK and surf 90% of the time? Now I [...]

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‘The Hunks’ TV Show: 10 more vain ‘kooks’ holiday in Newquay?

May 3, 2011

Share Love em or hate em reality TV shows are everywhere these days, so its come as no big surprise a new one has been made in Newquay, and its called ‘The Hunks’. The show features 10 single guys (Andy, Dom, Florian, Idris, Jamie, Marc, Sam, Samy, Sean and Vaughan) aged from 18-30 who were [...]

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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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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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Photos of Surfing at Fistral Beach on the 2/9/2010

September 3, 2010

Share On Wednesday the 2nd of Sept 2010 some of the longest wave periods predicted all year arrived on the Cornish coast. This was then combined with 2 other things:- an offshore breeze and warm summer sunshine! A rare sight in the UK – but for a while Fistral beach in Newquay and many othr [...]

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Video of Greenaway Pro 2010 Surf event, St Ives – Sam Lamiroy, Ben Skinner, Johnny Fryer & more

August 22, 2010

Greenaway Pro Video and blog post

Share Newquay Surfer video footage of the non-profit Greenaway Pro surf event held this year at Porthmeor beach in St Ives on the 19th – 21st of August. The annual event is held to commemorate the life of Tom Greenaway – a lifeguard and bodyboarder from St Ives (1985 – 2007). Watch a short video [...]

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Gul 2010 Night Surf Competition at Fistral Beach Newquay – Video

June 20, 2010

Watch Gul night surf Video

Share Surfing at night in Newquay! NewquaySurfer.org coverage of the Gul sponsored Night Surf competition at Fistral Beach, Newquay, Cornwall. This is one of the only night time surf competitions. The video footage was filmed on Saturday the 19th June 2010 and contains clips of a number of UK professional surfers including: Reubyn Ash, Russell [...]

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