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Quiksilver Surf Showdown - August Bank Holiday weekend
The Quiksilver Surf Showdown at Fistral Beach, Newquay will take place over the August bank holiday weekend; the 29th and 30th of August.
It’s an innovative idea that sees 2 staff from each of the chosen UK & Ireland’s surf shops paired with 2 surfers from the UK’s finest 16 pro’s. These 8 teams will then [...]
Local weather condtions
Today’s blog will consider local weather conditions and their affect on groundswell at your local beach.
As groundswell approaches your local beach the quality of the surf will be will largely be dependant on local weather conditions including wind direction and strength.
Lets use the Newquay area of the North coast of Cornwall as an example.
Imagine we [...]
Surf’s up
There have been some really great days of surf recently. Dan went out the night before last and had some clean head-high waves at Watergate Bay for a couple of hours before sunset. The water’s not too cold and on a sunny evening it was just perfect springtime weather. The sunsets have been pretty special too, as [...]
