All Entries in the "Surf" Category
GREENWAY PRO 2010 WINNERS LIST
Despite being greeted by small conditions, the 100 strong field of Men and women surfers were as keen as ever to get in the water and battle it out for the huge cash prizes on offer and the title as the 2010 Greenaway Pro champion. The small and bowly conditions offered contestants rides with enough [...]
SAS AUGUST BEACH CLEAN TOUR
This August, Surfers Against Sewage, in association with the Quiksilver Foundation & myGames (powered by v), will be hitting the road with the biggest beach clean tour in our history. Since 1994, the volume of marine litter on UK beaches has increased by 146%* and SAS is helping combat this tide line of trash through [...]
PRO JUNIOR SURF CONTEST COMING UP
The OAKLEY XPY PRO JUNIOR is currently the biggest junior surfing event in the UK, rated as a 3 star event on the UK Pro Surfing Circuit. This years event is being held on the 18-19 September at Fistral Beach, Newquay. The event is now running in its seventh year and has continually grown to [...]
GREENAWAY PRO 2010
This years Greenaway Pro, held annually in memory of Tom Greenaway takes place on 18 – 21 August at Porthmeor Beach, St Ives. A range of events including the infamous surf contest with a prize purse of £3,500, acoustic, film and after parties that all take place over the three days across St Ives. The [...]
FREE SURF LESSONS FOR GIRLS: RIP CURL TOUR HITS NEWQUAY AND BOURNEMOUTH
The Rip Curl & Hawaiian Tropic Girls Tour 2010 is ready to turn up the volume this weekend at Fistral Beach, Newquay before heading to Boscombe Beach, Bournemouth on the 13-14 July. The popular annual events are set to rip up 5 countries and 11 mythical spots across Europe for 2010, with Newquay being the [...]
CROYDE SURF OPEN
Supporting the up and coming surfers, the Newquay based Groundswell crew covered the recent Junior Surf Tour in May, held at Croyde, North Devon. Check out the video review of the event below and we’ll aim to bring you updates from each round as they happen, working in conjunction with www.hollaboxxtv.com
SURFERS AGAINST SEWAGE FILM
Surfers Against Sewage began in Cornwall back in 1990 campaigning against sewage pollution on the beaches of St Agnes, Chapel Porth and Porthtowan. From these humble beginnings, SAS has grown into a nationwide force fighting for clean and safe recreational waters across the UK. See more about their work and join the cause at www.sas.org.uk [...]
EDEN LAUNCH ECO SURFBOARD
In a world where being ‘green’ is on most people’s minds here in the UK it is good to see that British surfers can now take more of an active part in this movement right at the core of their sport. When being asked to review The Eden Project’s environmentally friendly surfboard my first thoughts [...]
DEVON SURFER SURVIVES SAMOAN TSUNAMI
Surfer Tom Gogola’s mother has told national newspaper The Times how he survived the recent tsunami that hit the South Pacific last week. Tom, who is from East Allington in Devon, was surfing off the south west coast of Samoa when an earthquake struck. Sea levels started to drop and he and his friends knew [...]
