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 August 17th 2008 will see the fourth Paddle4Relief Saunton to Croyde and back charity paddle! Everyone is invited to help raise money for the ‘Forgotten Victims’ of the 2004 Asian Tsunami. After the paddle there will be live music and a BBQ on the beach through into the evening. The past year has seen a dramatic change in Paddle4Reliefs fortunes. We are now gaining more and more media coverage due to our impressive project success and fun filled and musically entertaining money raising events. Through our hard work over the past year we managed to raise over £5000.00... |
 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... |
 Surfstock is back for its 5th Birthday party this summer at a new, bigger location in St Agnes, perched above the North Cornish coast. Surfing has always had a soundtrack. This year’s stellar line-up of world class artists will bring the sound of summer to this unrivalled location for those amongst us who believe that going to a festival should not just be a bit like a holiday, it should really be a holiday. Beautiful beaches, suntanned surfers and magnificent music – it’s a winning combination...
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 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!..
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 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". |
 'An art history of British surfing' opens at the Fishing Heritage Centre in Grimsby on June 28 and runs through until September 7, 2008.
On display is a wonderful collection of surfboards and memorabilia featuring some spectacular art spanning more than a century.. |
SURFERS’ COVERT FILM EXPOSES PLASTIC PELLETS’ ROUTE FROM FACTORY TO BEACH LITTER...It’s World Environment Day and Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) investigators have released a film that exposes poor industry practice from ‘plastic injection moulding factories’, which is leading to a pollution epidemic of the nation’s waterways and coastline... |
 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!"... |
 SurfAid International Founder and CEO, Dr Dave Jenkins, with Junaidi in the village of Katiet in the Mentawai Islands, off Indonesia's West Sumatran coast. Junaidi's health was in serious decline until SurfAid intervened. SurfAid has just received the World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations 2007 Humanitarian Award at the World Congress of NGOs awards ceremony in Toronto... |
 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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Other
stories:
“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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