Cornwall Surfer Girls update

Cornwall Surfer Girls now has a website and Facebook group and a meeting scheduled for FRIDAY 18 JULY at Perranporth - come and meet us around 7pm at the Freeride Surf School premises (by Seiners Arms) for a BBQ, surf and camp, weather permitting. It's £15 to join (£10 under 18); come along and see if it's for you!

Cornwall Surfer Girls

A new, BSA affiliated club for surfer girls of all ages and abilities, with the aim of supporting and promoting progession in girls' surfing and creating a network and community of girl surfers in Cornwall.

The first General Meeting for 'Cornwall Surfer Girls' will take place on Monday 16th at the BSA Head Office on Fistral Beach at 7:00pm.

The meeting will be to elect the club's committee and decide on the club's constitution and direction.

To get involved, please come along and bring anyone you think would be interested in joining. Joining fee will be £15 for adults and £10 for juniors (under 18). All fees will go towards the club and BSA affiliation.

Check out the Facebook page

Get in a Chopes barrel

http://www.immersivemedia.com/

Click on the barrel on the right hand side, you can control the camera with your mouse, about one minute into the Teahupoo vid you get barrelled and can control the cam!

Surfstock

Tickets are now on sale for Surfstock, 29-30 August at St Agnes. The lineup includes The Gossip, Supergrass, the Go! Team and The Likes with 60+ acts on four stages. There’s also the Cult Energy Drink Tag Team Surf Challenge and Tow-At Challenge with a £10,000 prize purse (the largest in the UK). This year’s festival also includes the first annual Surfstock H30 British Big Wave Awards in association with CARVE magazine, with six categories and £3500 prize money. Surfstock ticket holders will vote for the Surfer Of The Year and Photo Of The Year. Tickets and more info available from www.surfstock.co.uk at £80 (including two nights camping). Kids under 14 go free! To enter the Tag Team Challenge, register your team of four as soon as possible: crewchallenge@surfstock.co.uk.

Cool article on Surfer's Village

ASP Women's Top 17 talk about Billabong Girls Pro Rio

Beth Mason on Swansea Leisure Centre waverider

Doesn't look much fun to me…or to Gwen Spurlock, who suffered a nasty head injury there. More info in the next issue!

longest surfboard in the world

Is it me or does this seem a bit pointless? Anyway, they don't actually surf this weird thing until 2.28 so skip the waffle.

SurfStock - It Ain't Over Til The Fat Lady Sings

SurfStock were granted their license yesterday and we hear rumours of a 'cracker of a theme' and headliners to include a band fronted by a larger lady…

The boys have been celebrating their lawyer's awesomness all night, so if you see a couple of boys drinking rose in Truro today, give them a yell. And yep, those are girls' jeans he's wearing…he had a little accident in his own. Bless.

Maya Gaberia wins Billabong XXL

Brazilian Maya Gabeira has won the Billabong Girls XXL award for monster waveriding, netting a $5,000 prize. If the website was a bit more user friendly I'd give you more info…here's what the press release on Surfer's Village says:

‘Maya Gabeira, 21, took back-to-back titles in the Billabong Girls Best Performance Award after notching up a collection of giant rides in Tahiti, California, Hawaii and Mexico over the past twelve months. Gabeira proved without doubt that she is the world's premiere female big wave surfer.

“It is such and honor to be here again, two years in a row,” said Gabeira. “All my friends are here and my mom flew out from Brazil. To see those waves on the big screen here and listen to everyone scream is such a good feeling.”’

Maya features in this issue of SurfGirl, riding one of the Teahupoo bombs that won her this accolade.

Check out the webcast of the awards ceremony here – hotties Shane Dorian and Greg Long feature!

Issue 17 of SurfGirl is out now!

It's out! SurfGirl's goes solo. We've got Steph Gilmore the rookie World Champ, Easkey in the Carolines, how to surf forecast, all the trends for this season, how to be a surf writer, SurfGirl in Morocco and a bumper summer wetsuit guide. Everything you need to get you stoked up for a surf-filled summer.

Plus if you subscribe you can get four issue and a pair of Skullcandy headphones for just £16.99.

Ommmmm

OM Surf International exists for the purpose of funding world changing projects. Project OM is the main beneficiary of 10% of the profits from OM International products.

Project OM serves disadvantaged teens. The program teaches history, anthropology, ecology and environmental awareness. Participants visit different locales around the world and participate in the process of learning and teaching different cultures, human awareness and love for all of humanity. Teens learn language, cooking, resourcefulness, teamwork, and global awareness. In return the teens participate in community service projects at the locales visited.

Sounds good to us! They have a range of cool tshirts as well and we hope they'll expand to the UK in the future.

Rough Guides on the iPod

I'm surprised it's not been done before: Podscrolls are free travel guides for your iPod (one of the fancy colour/picture ones) from the people at Rough Guides. Nothing surf-useful just yet, but keep your eyes peeled, I'm sure there's more to come. Would you lot like The Surf Directory to be available like this? (Er, do I love making more work for myself?)

Under the Sun

Under the Sun

The Gold Coast vs Byron Bay as two faces of modern surfing's commercialisation and exponential growth. A nice few minutes of waves and opinions from luminaries. Hopefully it's available over here, and hopefully SurfGirl will get a review copy!

Rochelle Ballard interview

It sucks when your favourite pros retire from the Tour and disappear off the radar, so it's great to see Surfermag doing an interview with legend Rochelle Ballard. She's still as stoked as ever!

National Trust gets cool

The National Trust own half the coastline (or so it seems!) and Porthleven surf girl Robyn Davies has just got a job with them to promote surfing and the National Trust together. If that sounds a bit confusing, well, we're confused too, but rest assured we're going to get to the bottom of it! We hope to get some more info out of Robyn and will let you know all about it in the next SurfGirl.

The next issue is due out in the middle of April and we're slaving away on it now. It's going to be amazing!

Work in Indo

How miserable has it been? How much are you wishing you could be in Bali? Check this out:


Surf Guide Wanted
The surf travel company Kima wants to expand their team of surf guides and is looking for a surfer with some experience of teaching and working in a surf camp. If you are free for 3 months, have been in Indonesia before and maybe speak a bit of Indonesian, send us a picture and some information about your surfing experience. Email info@kimasurf.com.



Doesn't it look a million miles away?! It is!

Studentsville

The students are arriving for the BUSA competition this weekend. Fistral was a zoo at 8am! It's about 2ft and pretty weak, but looks quite fun anyway. Good luck to all of you girls surfing this weekend, it's amazing to see so many girls in the water here at this time of year!

Explorer Girls

Check this out - looks like a great way to make some travel friends. There are already loads of Aussies and Americans on there, so jump on to get free VIP membership. Ideal for travelling SurfGirls!

'Explorergirls.com Connects Women World-Wide Travelling For Adventure and Sport

Free VIP Membership - Explorer Media is giving away 1000 free VIP memberships to their newest website, ExplorerGirls.com, an online community for women traveling for adventure and sport.

ExplorerGirls.com is a social networking site combining both travel and sport. It connects like-minded women for friendship and travel. Members get the opportunity to create a personal page with their own profile, travel blogs and interactive world map, while VIP members can upload unlimited photos, chat online and arrange house-swapping!'

Dominican Republic over!

It's all over! We flew back yesterday from palm trees and sunshine to coldness and…well, there is sunshine at least. And good clean waves!

A beautiful place, good waves, warm water and such friendly people. We'd all agree that it's not a classic surfing destination because the waves aren't consistent enough to surf, surf, surf all day every day, but if you want to sunbathe, explore, kitesurf and enjoy a cheap sunny destination, it's ideal. That's the roundup, if you want more you'll have to check out SurfGirl.

Thanks to Hooked Cabarete, a perfect place to stay next to the beach at Encuentro - check them out.

Dominican Republic Day 13

Phew it's a hot one today!!

Pictured is El Barco, my favourite wave here. It's down the coast from Encuentro (about and hour and a half over more potholes than you can count) which is a pain, but it's surfing heaven. Barco means boat - there's a shipwreck just outside of the peak. There are two peaks with lefts and right breaking over pretty shallow reef in the clearest blue water. The water's as warm as the air, I'm not sure what temp it is but it's perfect. We surfed here a few days ago. It rained and the local boys spooked the girls with shark tales (well, seven surfer girls crowding your slice of paradise, can't blame them) and they got out. Then we had to climb back up the muddy ravine and jungle path, and some spongers nicked the girls' flipflops! So it wasn't all good, but it was worth it. 2-3ft waves but so much fun.

Lots of other waves and fun, I'm off to get ready to go out to a traditional Dominican restaurant tonight. Only one full day left!