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White Air can now reveal one of its eagerly anticipated headliners. This year will see the mighty Biffy Clyro rock the beach front at Brighton. In addition to the Scottish Rock Gods, the south coast will see The Cribs, White Lies, British Sea Power, Natty, The Boxer Rebellion and more who will take to the stage at the last festival of the summer... |
HUNDREDS OF SURFERS TURN OUT TO SUPPORT SAS’S POW ACTION. Surfers Against Sewage’s (SAS) new campaign, Protect Our Waves (POW) had it’s first action today, The Gathering, a mass paddle out, in association with local campaign group Access BroadBench Association (ABBA). Over 350 surfers from across the nation joined SAS and ABBA and paddled out at Kimmeridge Bay on International Surfing Day... |
Alan Stokes wins the Gul Night Surf. The hard work is over and the Gul night surf ticked all the right boxes. The weather was fantastic, the quality of waves and performances from British surfers, was amongst the best we have seen at a UK surf event and thousands of people turned up at Fistral beach, Newquay... |
The Relentless Boardmasters in association with Vans 2009, 5-9th August, is the most complete event for lovers of music, surf and action sports. With 3 sites across Newquay offering surf, skate, bmx, daily live music acts and a music festival for 12,500 people the Relentless Boardmasters in association with Vans 2009 will be the highlight of the UK summer. Acts have now confirmed for
Relentless Stage and Vans Off the Wall Stage... |
The countdown has now started for the 2009 White Air Extreme Sports & Music Festival, which takes place from September 18th – 20th in Brighton. After 12 successful years, this action packed festival heads to Brighton and will be held on Madeira Drive along the beach stretching east from Brighton Pier. And now with Music acts confirmed such as White Lies and The Cribs ...
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Disco dancing, kid’s yoga and more family fun at Paddle Round The Pier This year’s Paddle Round The Pier, sponsored by Feelfit, will feature a bigger and better Children’s Entertainment area, made possible with the help of Baby Loves Disco – the afternoon dance party for parents and children... |
The Surfing Museum moves a step closer to finding a permanent home in Devon... |
THURSO, Scotland (Tuesday, May 5, 2009) - Adam Melling (Queensland, AUS) clinched the ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS) 6-Star Prime O'Neill Cold Water Classic Scotland by Swatch today finishing on top of another 23-heat marathon-day after defeating fellow Queenslander and finalist Luke Munro (AUS) in solid five to six foot (1.5 to 2 meter) waves at the world class venue of Thurso East... |
SAS is urging its supporters and the wider public to sign the petition
calling for the implementation of a National Marine Litter Strategy, which
will help protect the UK's coastline, oceans and waves for generations to
come... |
Surf races, groms and surfing dogs at this year’s Paddle Round The Pier. This year’s Paddle Round The Pier, sponsored by Feelfit, sees two great surf races for those who really want to push themselves and raise money for three great charities, plus two very different surf comps... |
BELLS BEACH, Victoria – Joel Parkinson (AUS), 27, has claimed the 2009 Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach presented by Snickers, defeating fellow Finalist Adam Robertson (AUS), 26, trials winner and event wildcard, in pumping six-foot (2 metre) conditions at Bells Beach... |
TAPIA DE CASARIEGO, Spain - The first and crucial event of the ASP European Longboard Tour came to an end today (Apr 11), British surfers Ben Skinner (GBR) and Candice O'Donnell (GBR) dominating the LQS 1-Star Goanna Pro Tapia in consistent wind-blown five foot waves. Both event winners and runner-ups have secured their Oxbow World Longboard Tour (WLT) tickets and will represent Europe on the elite longboard tour... |
The next Brighton surfers' night out..."The Present" is Thomas Campbell’s eagerly-awaited follow up to Sprout and The Seedling. The film will be screened on at a number of different venues across the south west and south of the country. The tour heads to Brighton on Saturday 25th April, with the “A1Surf.com Screening"... |
BREAKING NEWS --- The planning application for the Eastern Arm of Brighton Marina has been withdrawn by the developers.
We expect this was because they had probably been told by the Council that it was going to be recommended for refusal for a number of reasons including the damage to the surf break there.
This is fantastic news and a tribute to everyone who has campaigned against it, written letters, signed petitions and got the support of the British Surfing Association, Sport England, the Environment Agency, local residents, councilors, candidate MPs and others. Extra special thanks to Mat Hammond and Ben Farwagi for all their hard work in coordinating the campain.....Well Done Everyone!
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If you are heading to East Wittering for a surf, check out the new Drift-In Cafe attached to Wittering Surf Shop on Shore Road. Nick Cheshire, owner of Wittering Surf Shop which recently was voted 'Best New Business By The Sea' by readers of Coast Magazine says, 'we are serving hot and cold drinks all day, including juices and smoothies from fresh local produce, and we've been told that we make the best coffee in town. Well worth a look!'... |
Meadowlands Festival will be held at Glynde Place, East Sussex, on 22 - 24th May 2009.
The event will be powered by solar energy and bio fuels... |
A1Surf.com, the original website for the UK and Irish surfing community, has announced it has become a media partner with the UK Pro Surf tour for the 2009 season.
The partnership will see A1Surf.com keep its users up-to-date with results, news and more from the tour, plus help strengthen the reputation of the UK Pro Surf Tour amongst the UK and Irish surfing community and further afield... |
5 days, 4 counties and 3 men and their bikes are cycling from Brighton pier to Newquay, all in aid of Help A Local Child. This extraordianry cycle ride will be organised by Paul Crabtree with his side kicks , Mark Chivers and Paul Mcilhatton from his company Waste Pater Solutions in Mayfield Sussex. Paul hopes to raise £30,000 for our favourite charity... |
BELLS BEACH, Australia – The 2009 Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach presented by Snickers will bring the ASP Top 45 back to the iconic Bells Beach in Victoria, Australia from April 7 – 18, 2009, and this year’s event will provide the surfers and spectators will a dynamic new format, heightening the drama and enhancing the performances of the world’s best surfers in the world’s best waves... |
Brighton Beach paddle session every Wednesday starting 18th March. The18th March predicted to be flat and a lovely sunset. Meet at Brighton Watersports, between the piers on Brighton Beach. SUP/kayak/long board..bring your own kit to paddle or £5 for rental of SUP or kayak (prebook rental kit as this will be popular). Meet at 6pm for a 630 start on the water (your views on start time are appreciated, but lets aim for 6ish for now)..beer after on the beach or at The Globe, Ship st... |
Top Pro Surfer supports Australian Bushfire victims Jeremy Flores donates his Quiksilver Pro prize winnings to the Victorian
Appeal Fund Rated 9th in the world, Jeremy donated his
contest earnings from the first ASP World Tour event of 2009, the Quiksilver
Gold Coast Pro, to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal Fund... |
If you want to escape your first step is to tuck into “Chasing Dreams”, a novel by Aaron Jennings. Follow Mat on his travels as he backpacks through Thailand and Australia... |
KIRRA, Australia (Wednesday, March 11, 2009) – Joel Parkinson (AUS), 27, has won the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast presented by LG Mobile, defeating fellow finalist Adriano de Souza (BRA), 22, in solid six-to-eight foot (3 metre) surf at Kirra.After a 12-year hiatus, today’s action brought the ASP World Tour back to Kirra for the Finals of the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast. Whilst it was not classic Kirra, the challenging conditions at the historic pointbreak offered churning barrels with massive scoring potential... |
UK Pro Surf Tour has produced a new website: www.ukprosurf.com . The site will be a corner stone in this years tour and provide a fantastic resourse for anyone interested in finding information about UK Pro Surf Tour, UK Pro Surf Association, its members, the locations the events visit and what is happening in British surfing... |
World’s Best Assemble on Gold Coast for ASP World Champions’ Crowning.
COOLANGATTA, Australia. The ASP World Champions’ Crowning is set to commence this Thursday, February 26, 2009 at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre... |
Shannon Burke, a freelance writer and freelance regular surfer that has a quiver of short boards, longboards, body boards and a paddleboard jets off for another trip to California. Read the story of his recent trip on the Safari page... |
The British Surfing Museum's 2009 exhibition 'An art history of Britsh surfing' will be at Thurso, one of the most beautiful - and wave rich - parts of Britain. It coincides with the start of the Cold Water Classic 6-star World Qualifying Series surf...
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Mr B Productions (who brought you Substance, Driven & Performing Monkeys) brings the best surfing from the UK to an international audience with a series of ‘Webisodes’ for Surfline.com... |
New regulations that prevent sewage pollution from ships came into force yesterday in the UK. The regulations will help the UK control a shipping industry, which the Government believes could be responsible for 5% of all coastal sewage pollution incidents.... |
The BSA have issued a statement opposing the Marina developement which threatens one of Brighton's best wave... |
Chris Zinon took the ferry to Santander, Northern Spain for a surf trip in Cantabria. Check out how he got on... |
Cliff Cox is lucky to be alive after being airlifted to safety from Kimeridge Bay after one of the best surf sessions the South Coast has had for a very long time. Sunday 14th December saw a wave period of 15 seconds, Cliff said, 'it was one of the heaviest sessions of all time, waves were double overhead and the point was looking like Nias!' ... |
A1Surf.com recently held its first surf movie and party night in Brighton, with over 250 local surfers flocking to watch NOTCALIFORNIA return to the big screen after six years. Held in association with WAVEDREAMER.co.uk and surf movie maker and Richard Gregory, the night saw the DVD launch of NOTCALIFORNIA, a film first made by Richard in Brighton six years ago... |
Surfing at the Marina is under threat from a proposed building on top of and overhanging the eastern breakwater that would result in 186 piles (concrete columns) being sunk into the beach and seabed next to the Marina wall.
To help stop this happening read this and ACT NOW... |
The Animal Newquay Open crowned the 2008 UK Pro Surf Tour champions at Fistral today. The Semis saw the progression of Alan Stokes and Rueben Pearce into the final, favourites to take the tour title, and joining them the brothers from Bude, Joss Ash and Rueben Ash... |
FUTURE WATER QUALITY RESULTS THREATENED BY CLIMATE CHANGE, SAY SURFERS. Almost a 1/3rd (32.3%) of designated beaches in England and Wales have failed to meet the UK’s guideline standard for water quality during the 2008 bathing season including Brighton (Kemp Town), Hove, Southwick, Eastbourne, Hastings... |
SAS TV goes live with a whole host of new Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) films available on the SAS website. These films are another great example of SAS delivering their serious campaigns message in their uniquely interesting, humorous and exciting style whilst ensuring the campaign message is easily digestible and memorable... |
Surf Safari to Cantabria, North Spain. Breaking away from the usual surf trip to the west country, last weekend we made the 2 hour flight to northern Spain and stayed at La hosteria with Fat Face Team Rider and 2007 UKPS longboard Champion Chris Thomson. La Hosteria is one of the many surf holidays available through Errant Surf Holidays and quicker to get to than London to Newquay!... |
Sunshine and superheroes make A1Surf and Wittering Surf Shop Retro Board Challenge a huge success. Hundreds of spectators watched the likes of Spiderman, King Neptune and a bridesmaid surf on some classic retro boards to try and progress through to the final. The fleet of retro boards were put forward by Nick Cheshire of Wittering Surf Shop... |
The perfect wave and renowned Dorset secret spot at risk. It's one of Britain's greatest ride – and best-kept secret. Now the MoD is restricting public access to the beach where it breaks. Sign the petion now... |
Kelly Slater, 36, has won a record ninth ASP World Title after advancing out of Round 3 of the Billabong Pro Mundaka – the ninth event of 11 on the 2008 ASP World Tour. Slater came into the event needing an equal ninth finish to clinch the title, he secured that by beating local wildcard Eneko Acero (EUK) in four foot waves at Mundaka...
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Cornish shapers show off their green fingers to create surfboards art for SAS. There’s only a month to go now until the unique SAS surfboard art collection Drawing Boards goes under the hammer at Bonhams...
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The dismal 2008 summer weather conditions did little to dampen the spirits of the Paddle4Relief Team and their supporters. Although many that had registered to take part did not actually venture into the sea, there were still around 50 paddlers willing to brave the elements. Between them, they have managed to raise more than £2500 on the day, with more sponsorship money to follow... |
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) campaigners are calling for volunteers to help continue the successful streak in SAS’s marine litter campaign this year. SAS need as many hands as possible to help out at their annual beach clean at Porthtowan this Saturday the 20th of September from 10:30am to 2:30pm as part of the annual Marine Conservation Society's (MCS) Beach Watch survey. Everyone welcome!.. |
GIANTS DUEL IN THE FINAL – MAC DONALD WINS AT ERICEIRA
Buondi Billabong Pro Portugal – WQS 6*. The duel between the finalists was very intense but the winner was the Australian Phillip McDonald, who said: “the technique must always be with the
surfer, despite the waves size. Along one must be focused and lucky to find the best waves. And so I did!
Climbing up heat by heat has been the best this contest has provided me, and I am really thrilled to win!”... |
Friday the 8th of August at the Rip Curl Boardmasters, Europe’s biggest surf, skate and music festival, Relentless brought us a surf contest with a difference – The UK’s first ever tow-at surf contest – ‘The Relentless Aerial Assault’... |
Surfer Nominated For Major Art Award. Nicholas Charles Williams (Nick to his friends) is a regular in the line up at Fistral, Newquay where he lives and works. In between surf sessions Nick has developed a career as a painter and this month has been shortlisted for a major art award, the Threadneedle Figurative Art Prize. The award offers two significant prizes with the chance to win a total of £35,000... |
Crane Kalman Brighton is proud to announce the first UK exhibition of photographer Jeff Divine's iconic surfing images - Surfing's Golden Age: The Seventies Kodachromes. After recent first showings in Los Angeles and New York, the exhibition will open at Crane Kalman Brighton on 23rd July until 31st August... |
Chris Thomson,
2007 UKPS Longboard Champion and founder of Errant Surf Holidays talks exclusively to Sharkbait about his pick of Europe’s Best Longboard Waves... |
Eight-time world champion KELLY SLATER (Coco Beach, USA) has trumped Australian MICK FANNING (Coolangatta, AUS) to win the Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay for the fourth time.
The 36-year-old Floridian was on fire as the J-Bay Supertubes break turned on mind blowing 2.5m waves in early heats before deteriorating rapidly throughout the afternoon... |
The UK’s largest free watersports festival raises £20K despite the weather!.. |
An unforgettable event comes to an end. Occy’s high-speed trip marathon in Italy with
the Billabong Bus was an absolute success with people coming from all over the
country all ready to meet and party with Occy... |
The world famous Billabong rider, Donavon Frankenreiter visited Redwood Surf Shop, Croyde Bay on Saturday 21st June. Donavon's visit to the store was planned to be a small scale shop signing to promote his new album which he would be playing as the headline act that evening at the Gold Coast Ocean Festival. The small shop signing soon became a very large signing with over 400 attendants that wanted all manner of articles signing. Some people took albums and postcards to be signed, others took surf and skate boards, Guitars and.... Camper vans….!? Even though the local traffic was virtually stopped for 1&1/2 hours every one had fun, including Donavon "It's so cool to see all these kids stoked on my surfing and music". |
The Dark Art Of Surf Travel..! This dark art is the ability to chase waves, but with a non-surfing partner and/or child in tow. Most of us have experienced it and if you haven't you will. Chris Thomson,
2007 UKPS Longboard Champion has found the solution to this fine art with La Hosteria... |
Olaus Mcleod, Chairman of the British Stand Up Paddle Association, says "the formation of a national sporting body is fundamental to the establishment and growth of any new sport. To that end, BSUPA has been set up to serve the interests of every Stand-up paddler in Britain and the Channel Isles. Join now, via our website - www.bsupa.org - and help us to build this fantastic sport!"... |
Teahupoo Weighs In For Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards
Surfers Ride Monster Swell Of The Year. Dare devil surfers from around the globe have converged on the small Pacific island of Tahiti to ride the swell of the year at the famed Teahupoo (Cheo-poo) reef break... |
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“No Butts on the Beach!” campaign...
British Airways ban on the carriage of surfboards...
British Aquaskipping sprint record falls in Hove ...
Surfboard quiver lost in fire...
Oxbow sponsors the British Surfing Museum...
Ken “Skindog” Collins rode a monstrous, seemingly impossible tube...
Ben Skinner's silver medal...
Reubyn Ash from Bude, 2006 European Junior Champ...
Twister off the coast of Brighton...
The biggest
wave ever to be surfed?..
Wave
energy causes surfers rift...
8ft swell at Newquay's Fistral beach...
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