On Wednesday Polkerris Beach were hit by a huge freak swell which came out of no where and as there were no prior warnings all hell broke lose as we desperately tried to rescue all the boats in the cove from complete devastation! Check it out:
So After a long old time here comes another update! Polkerris is now open for its 5th Anniversary year! WOOP WOOP and we’ve had amazing weather to start so make sure you come down to say hellooo!
If you haven’t seen it already here’s my video from my week’s trip to Tenerife (a huge micky take of myself!)
And here is Adam Lewis ripping it up this winter, unfortunately for us mere mortals this is him ‘taking it easy’ as he has been recovering from a serious knee injury this winter! I’ll let you make up you mind about that one…
Sooo….I had an AWESOME week out in the OTC, Tenerife!! Was so good to get some windsurfing in and catch up with all the boys including good friend Adam Lewis, who has a pretty epic video just about to be unleashed on society so keep your eyes peeled!!
I too have a epic (…..ish) video that I’m about to unleash on the world but unfortunately my software which will remain unnamed (microsoft) cant seem to publish it!!! BRILLIANT! But I should sort it soon hopefully!
Pic courtesy of BJ Productions
However we did get this clip which wasn’t exactly my most extreme windsurfing moment to show off pure power/style and skill if I’m honest and could just be the worlds lowest and lowest backie of all time….
Since when can you sail at the very beginning of March and be WAY to hot and wishing you had left all your (GUL) neoprene accessories in the car and splashing your face to stay cool! It was an AWESOME day down here in Cornwall and Daymer was going off! So much fun! Went out on my 4.7 EDGE and 82 Quad and just loved every second of the summer time-esque jumpathon!!
Off to the OTC, Tenerife on Tuesday to meet up with Adam Lewis for a full on week of ACTION to get it out of my system before the season starts once again down here at Polkerris Beach!! Plus I am the proud owner of a shiny new Go Pro HD which means I’m going to have movies coming out of my ears before too long!! WOOP WOOP!
Sooo…it wasn’t exactly a perfect forcast for Gwithians today but it turned out to be a right laugh – epic Infact! Cross – onshore winds with head high waves which then grew throughout the session to head and a half – WOOP! I was on my 5.2 Rock and 82 Quad although in the gusts I could have happily been on my 4.2!! Here are some shots from Splashography (http://splashography.com/) – legends!!
Well then…..
There hasn’t been exactly much in the way of wind recently but we have been having some unbelievable, insanely good surf - it’s been EPIC! It’s just been offshore winds, super clean surf and warm for over a week now and it just keeps pumping!! It has been awesome to have all the boys down surfing everyday and whats more it’s been flipping hot for February (unlike the snow in London??)! Check out muzza’s vid of just one of the days here:
Plus for New Years I went out to Mottaret/Meribel for a bit of skiing action! Here is the video, check it out for a bit of a laugh…
For those of you who don’t yet know, I need all the votes as I can get as me and Muzza have gone into a whole new kind of personal battle to win Flow watersports ‘Hunk of the Month’! Help stop Muzza’s jammy/lucky streak by voting at: http://www.flowindsurfing.com/node/1433
It’s been a windy and WARM couple of days recently down here in Cornwall and I hope where ever you are you’ve made the most of the conditions as it’s a pretty rare thing not to have to wear boots, gloves hats and all….Infact you can rest easy in the fact that the guys in Cape Town are hitting the water with the same amount of neoprene! OOHHH YEHHHHH!!
Plus for a bit of a laugh; for all you gnarly, rad, extreme rude boys out there have a quick read of the following and you might not be so cool afterall:
FOR ALL OF U THAT THINK IS NICE TO WALK WITH UR PANTS BELOW UR BUTT, READ THE FOLLOWING EXPLANATION: THIS TREND WAS BORN IN THE UNITED STATES’ JAILS, WHERE PRISONERS WHO WERE WILLING TO HAVE SEX WITH OTHER PRISONERS NEEDED TO INVENT A SIGNAL THAT WOULD GO UNNOTICED BY THE GUARDS SO THEY WOULDN’T SUFFER CONSEQUENCES, SO BY PARTIALLY SHOWING THEIR BUTTS, THEY SHOWED THAT THEY WERE ‘AVAILABLE’. JOIN THE CAUSE FOR A BETTER DRESSED AND A MORE EDUCATED WORLD!
…..AND A HAPPY NEW YEEEEEAAAAARRRRRR!!!!
It’s been an incredibly mild winter so far, with plenty of wind and waves around which has been EPIC! Shortly before Christmas me and muz did a shoot with JC off the beaches of Devon/Cornwall and well it was extremely hardcore conditions and flippin stormy but hopefully that will all be shown in the next issue of WINDSURF so get your subscriptions ready and keep your eyes peeled! I also had an awesome SUP with one of my house mates right on our doorstep at Polkerris! It was one of the biggest ground swells I have ever seen down at the beach and the waves started to break half a km up the headland before peeling into the bay, it was just awesome!
On to Xmas prezzies and if you didn’t get ‘Minds Wide Open’ in your stocking this year, then I can say nothing else than; YOU HAVE TO GET IT! It’s truly awesome footage with a really good sound track, plus they do the same trip that the Tushingham team did in Egypt to Ras Abu Galum. Even copied us by putting a hot girl on the end of a spit as they sail past; some would say we did better though as we had 3 hot girls!!!! hahaha! check out the trailer:
Off skiing for New Years Eve any day now for a bit of something different, can’t wait! What ever you are doing have an awesome New Year, see you in 2012! WOOOO……..
After finally closing everything up for the season, me and hols took a well deserved break to Berlin; a very cool city (and I’m totally allergic to cities, towns or anything built up!) so it’s well worth taking a trip there if you want some down time and fancy some Christmas cheer plus I can highly recommend staying at the Amano Hotel as it is Awesome!!!
On our return we headed east (as oppose to south west) to meet up with Muzza, Ed Sinclair, Ellie (x2) and Emma to do the Hellrunner Down South. Basically its a pretty hardcore, 11 mile, cross country race through waist-chest high bogs and super steep hills so it’s full of army/ion man types who love a bit of bog running! Cutting a long story short I came 44th out of nearly 2000 people with absolutely no training whatsoever which I’m stoked about as I was only 10min behind the winner, maybe I’m in the wrong sport! Check out the vid:
Finally, today saw some INCREDIBLE conditions in Cornwall with a peak wind speed of 65.2 knots recorded near Fowey!!! Unfortunately I headed to Daymer Bay for the incoming tide as I knew it could cope with the varying wind directions, however it was just sooo flipping gusty that it wasn’t much good for anything as one minute I was chest deep and sinking the next I was fully stacked on my 4.2 Rock and 74 quad!! fingers crossed for tomorrow….
WOOOO…….We won Silver for ‘Best Tourism Activity, Sport & Experience Of The Year’ at the Cornwall Tourism Awards!!! We won it last year too but it’s epic to have won again as we were in the top three with St. Mellion International resort (with its two world cup standard golf courses and three spas!!) and the Minack Theatre (a worldwide attraction!) so for a little cove like us to be mingling with those big shots is pretty amazing! Massive pat on the back for the whole team…WOOP WOOP! Checkout the official press release at: http://boards.mpora.com/news/polkerris-scoop-cornish-silver.html
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