Tips & Info

The Level 1 ASI surf coach course that we ran this weekend has to go down as an unqualified success.  All seven of the candidates were successful and achieved their Level 1 qualification and will be released on an unsuspecting public this summer.

We had a great mix on the course – everyone from ageing hellmen like big wave surfer Dan Joel to local 16 year old ripper Paddy Daniel, lifeguards Richie Platt and Josh Daniel and resting Brazilian actor (he’s in between projects at the moment) Fabrizio Postiglione.
Dan Joel is starting up his own surf school over at Poldhu on the Lizard peninsula this summer and we wish him every success – well, maybe not every success but, y’know, a bit.
If you are coming for a surfing lesson this summer then no doubt you will be meeting one or more of them as they embark on what is hopefully a life of surf coaching.

Half term is over and the whole place has calmed down again. Its eerily quiet in the village at the moment, hardly any cars driving through and all is generally very restrained.
Still doing a few lessons but the surf isn’t really cooperating at present. It’s small and windy which is fine for beginner lessons but not so great if you want to venture beyond the whitewater. At least it’s a lot hotter now and if you can get out of the wind (the surf school is in a windless sun trap so its always boiling there) its toasty warm.

We are getting some mad weather too – June really is the best time to be in Cornwall I reckon. Peaceful, relaxed and empty.
And finally, I’ve just cobbled together a video of the flat that I was renovating this winter. Check it out.

Some absolutely colossal waves coming through at Godrevy today. It wasn’t a great day for surfing, just far too windy and way too much swell for Gwithian to be anything other than a mass of bubbling, foaming mayhem. A good day to catch up with paper work and sneak off to Praa Sands for a quick high tide surf though.

Its looking like there will be a fair bit of mayhem on land this weekend with the ‘We are One’ Festival taking place at the Sandsifter this weekend. The big marquees are up and it should be a busy one.
Meanwhile in Peru Paddy Daniel has been dealing with some hefty waves too. Sadly he has been knocked out of the comp now but he took a few scalps while making his way to the fourth round. By my reckoning this makes him about 40th in the world for Under 16 surfers and that ain’t bad. A few Brits are still left in the comp with Jobe Harris in action later this evening. Keep your fingers crossed for him and the rest of the British Team. A 10th place or higher finish, and therefore better seeding, would make things a lot easier for next years team.