Clip – Joseph Morris
Joseph Morris drops a summer edit
Joseph Morris drops a summer edit
My name is Toby pearce and I am 13 years old, I live in Mousehole, Cornwall, and have been surfing for 3 years.
I started surfing when I was 10 due to my dad who is a very experienced surfer. He bought me a little foamy and pushed me into little runners on the shore and then I loved it ever since!
I am a contest surfer and a free surfer I enjoy them both the same, I have been doing loads of comps in the past year which has grown my confidence towards surfing! in the next 12 months I am looking to go all over the world and compete and improving my surfing! I came third in the treviglas Cornish schools and got to the
Semies in the British nationals:)
Olly Fawcett films Liam Murray Strout.
“I’ve known Liam for a few years now, with his local spot (Polzeath) also being mine. Its been around 6 months since I first said to him that we should make a video, and the busy life of a 14-year-old pro surfer has prevented us from actually getting on with it. Luckily, when we did come round to making a video, although the film doesn’t really show it, the waves were seriously good. Liam and Harvey reckon these were the best waves they have ever surfed in the UK. A big claim but probably accurate; when I managed to get in for an hour afterwards it was pretty amazing.
So, here’s what Liam did in an hour of surfing good waves. Look forward to future edits featuring Liam. Thankyou for watching.”
So my names Olly Fawcett, I’ve been around for 16 years now and have lived all over the UK. I was born in London and lived in Chelsea for my first few years, then moved out to the country where I lived in Oxfordshire until I was 10. It was in 2007 that my mum met her soon-to-be boyfriend, Photograher Steven Winter. He showed me the ropes and taught me the basics of photography. I started out with a £50 olympus camera, and developed my eye for photography in the British countryside.
I then moved down to Cornwall and lived in Launceston for a year. It was during this year that my mother was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. I dropped photography completely during this time. She is an artist, and with a serious illness and generally being fed up of being so far from the beach, I moved to Rock where I currently live. Luckily, and down to hard health work, my mum made it through the cancer and carried on pushing me to be an active photographer. Being in Rock and being so close to Polzeath Beach, a load of lesser known spots around here, and Constantine/Harlyn etc, I began to surf more regularly and became mates with a lot of the local boys who had grown up around here. They showed me some of the sick secret spots where most of my videos have been filmed.
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I am in Truro School Year 11 at the moment and have almost finished my GCSE’s. Balancing schoolwork with film-making/editing/photography and surfing has not been easy, and as a result my schoolwork deteriorated fast. But I haven’t ever been worried because the way I look at it, a passion is far more than a career and I am very confident that I can shape my life around being behind the lens In September I will start at Truro College and I hope to become a professional extreme-sports film-maker and/or photographer. Most of my short films have featured either Sam Gill or Harvey Tregidgo, or both. Harvey has surfed since he could walk and competed heavily as a teenager, he now works for a sustainable energy company and is in his early 20’s. Sam is a local schoolteacher in his 30’s and is part of the slightly older generation of surfers around here, but he absolutely rips and I always love filming them both. In the future I plan to produce some content with young surfer Liam Murray-Strout. Throughout the winter I surf almost every day and film as often as I can, weather and unpredictable surfers permitting. Through the summer, i work in TJ’s Surf Shop on Polzeath Beach. I am a social media addict and spend a lot of time gaining ideas from professional filmmakers around the world, my favourites being Jason Blanchard, main filmer for Dane Reynolds, and Kai Neville, with his incomprehensible talent for finding new ideas.
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I’m from Jersey, Channel Islands . I’m 15 and I go to Les Quennevais School My ambitions are to have some kind of job in sport, but I’d also like to keep free surfing and competing for as long as I can.My favourite surfer from Jersey is Renny Gould and my favourite surfer abroad is Dane Reynolds or Taj Burrow. Here’s a few pics from competing at home last weekend
Competition results from this year so far:
• 2nd in the U18 Elusive/Soundwave Surfabout,
• 2nd in the U16 Laneez Surf Series 1
• 2nd in the U18 Madhatter Longboard round 1
• 1st in the U18 Laneez Longboard round 2
(I am also competing in many contests away so I will keep you posted)
My local breaks are North Fistral, Watergate Bay and Towan left in the winter. I enjoy surfing different beaches both in Cornwall and Devon as well as France and Portugal.
I often surf with a crew of local groms and we hold fake comps each choosing to be our favourite international surfer. My local inspirations would have to be Harry Timson and Tom Butler. My international inspirations are Gabriel Medina, John John Florence and Mick Fanning for their clean turns and powerful airs.
My ambitions are to travel the world and work in the surf industry, my dream would be to take part in the ASP.
Photos curtousey of Joel Gray of Surf Solutions, Helen Zervas, Sarah of Checkered photography