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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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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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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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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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Video of Surfing on Fistral Beach, Newquay – Sept 2010

September 13, 2010
Image thumbnail link to Video of surfing in Newquay featuring Mike Young, Grishka Roberts and more

Share Another video produced during a week of surf that saw some nice off-shore winds combine with sunshine and waves. Filmed primarily on two mornings at Fistral beach in Newquay I managed to capture a couple of the ‘older’ crowd showing everyone how its done. Watch Grishka Roberts and Spencer Hargraves tear up Fistral beach [...]

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Fistral Beach full of barells – Surfing in Newquay Video

September 10, 2010
Fistral Beach Surfing Barrels Video

Share On the evening of Wednesday Sept 1st Newquay saw the first of 4-days of epic surfing conditions which saw overhead waves and offshore winds combine with plenty of sunshine, that made Newquay’s surf spots look more like Hawaii’s North shore than a UK seaside town. On Friday evening on the 3/9/10 the tide dropped, [...]

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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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Video of Ben Skinner Longboarding at the Greenaway Pro 2010 at Porthmeor Beach, St Ives

August 21, 2010
Ben Skinner Video and profile

Share Newquay Surfer video of local surfer and longboarder Ben Skinner. You could also add… shortboarder, retro fish rider, big wave charger and surfboard shaper to the mix cos Ben Skinner is a talented one to say the least, but for this video he’s longboarding on mellow little waves. Includes slow motion footage of Ben [...]

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Tom Curren Surfer Profile

August 15, 2010
Tom Curren Surfer Profile

Share Tom Curren’s father was Pat Curren, once a well-known big wave rider in his own right—and a legendary surfboard shaper. Maybe that was why he learned to surf at such an early age. Curren was born in 1964 in Santa Barbara, California. He had a sister, Anna, and a brother, Joe, who became a [...]

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Surfer Johnny Fryer surfs in rain, onshore wind & mist at the Newquay Boardmasters 2010

August 11, 2010
Thumbnail linking to video of Johnny Fryer at Boardmasters in 2010

Share Newquay Surfer video footage of a 2010 Boardmasters surf comp heat at Fistral beach Newquay which includes slow motion video of Johnny Fryer surfing some small waves. There was wind, driving rain and mist during some of the qualifying heats but the sun came out for the final between France’s Marc Lacomare & Jay [...]

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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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