Hardscope – Budes Barnaby Cox

Barnaby Cox is 13 and lives in north Cornwall…

Where is your home break: Crackington Haven but I often end up going into Widemouth or Bude instead because the banks have been rubbish lately at cracky.

Who do you surf with: Whoever’s up for it most of the time, in winter a lot of my friends give up on surfing so with myself for a solo sesh is sometimes the only option when the waves are on!

Who do you look up to locally: Obviously around Bude there is so much upcoming talent so every time we surf together it’s pretty competitive and pushes me to get better. But guys like Reuben Ash show it’s possible to be English and take your surfing to a professional level.

What are your best competition results: I came 3rd in the schools event, and won a few small local ones in Bude and Crackington. So nothing amazing yet. Summer comps for me consisted of un-surfably small days and always scraping through annoyingly only to the semi finals. But this year I have improved my surfing loads and am now am in the older year of the under 14s. I really hope to win a couple this year!

What are your ambitions: This summer I want to get further bigger sponsors, win or get to the finals in some big competitions and therefor be really happy!

What did you like best about the Algarve: I had so much fun because despite scoring pumping waves I improved loads due to coaching and met some other stoked groms who were great to surf with.

Hardscope> The Gowers Patrick Langdon-Dark

A cool clip from 14 year old Patrick Langdon-Dark who lives the Gower in Wales filmed by his dad and edited by Patrick himself. Sick air grom! Don’t let those Langland by harass you too much!

My Cornish Adventure

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My name is Niklas Capelle. I´m a 15 years old grom from Germany and I love surfing.

Every time I think about surfing, the British surf is one of the most important things. I´ve got a Carve subscription, I love the friendly guys in Cornwall and the waves. I had learnt to surf in Sennen in Cornwall with Lew Smart, one of three brothers who run the Smart Surf School on my first trip ever to England.

In summer 2014 I was for the second time in Cornwall. I love the nature there. When you watch out of the window it differs a lot from Germany. It´s a healthy, colourful environment. In Northern Germany where I live, there are many wind tubines and the surf is sometimes o.k. but rarely good and summer is often totally flat ( Yes, you can surf in Germany) .

Everybody says that in summer it´s crowded in Cornwall, but in my opinion it was okay. When I was in Peniche in April 2014 it was damn too crowded. My favourite breaks in Cornwall in summer 2014 were Sennen and Porthmeor. Sennen looks like a Caribbean idyll with the soft white sand, the clean blue water and most important the waves are very consistent and most of the locals are very friendly like Lew Smart, Seb Smart, Bert Wright, Mike Lay or Sam Smart.

Seb is also for me one of Europeans best shortboarders. At Gwenver, I only surfed once, but it´s beautiful and uncrowded. Near Sennen is Treen, a very nice village. It´s small and quiet, but without surfing. ST. Ives is my favourite town, but the sea gulls are so aggressive and you can hardly sleep. Porthmeor there is pretty cool. I surfed there for four days, just 2 foot, and then for two days clean 4-5 foot lines and I had a session with a seal! That is the surf stoke that I wanna have. My favourite ST. Ives photo website is www.surfnseastives.com. The photographer is a very friendly dude. My favourite restaurant is the great take-away and restaurant directly at Porthmeor Beach. It´s damn good with healthy salads or good fish & chips. I love the British people and the waves and I will come back in summer 2015 and I wanna visit a school in Cornwall 2016 for around 6 weeks to see how it is to live in Cornwall. I also wanna visit Ireland in the next years. See you guys in the water.

Hardscope> Scamp did this

Tom “Scamp” Reeves is 10 years old and he’s from Newlyn, Cornwall. Not only does he star in his latest clip, but he edited it as well! Good work Scamp!