Boardmasters Announces More Acts

Boardmasters Announces More Acts

BOARDMASTERS ANNOUNCES A FURTHER 60+ ACTS FOR 2022
INCLUDING PALE WAVES, MAE MULLER, REMI WOLF, CHARLIE SLOTH, ARIELLE FREE & MORE

PLUS, A WHOLE HOST OF CORNISH TALENT JOINS THE LINE-UP AS ST. PIRANS DAY APPROACHES, INCLUDING
THE VELVET HANDS | THE EYELIDS | SHAGRAT | CHARLIE BOWDERY | CHARLIE SCOBLE | MAISY GRACE | SAM RICHARDSON & THE RENEGADES | JACK FERRY | EASYLIFE SOUND ASSOCIATION | EZMAY GRACE | DJ OLLIE STRATTON | THE BREAKS | SPEEDBOAT | HEDLUV & PASSMAN

Today, a further 60+ acts have joined the line-up for Boardmasters 2022. Pale Waves, Mae Muller, Remi Wolf, Charlie Sloth and Arielle Free are among the world-class acts set to take to the stage at Watergate Bay from 10-14 August 2022. Cornwall’s own surf and music festival will be headlined this year by George Ezra, Disclosure and Kings of Leon across two stunning sites on the Cornish coast. Day tickets are on sale now and selling fast, (Wednesday and Thursday Entry Camping, VIP Camping, and 3 Day No Camping tickets have all sold out in record time), as fans are encouraged to get their tickets now at www.boardmasters.com to avoid missing out – we’ll see you at the beach. Check out the line-up so far here.

Plus, with St. Pirans Day, the national day of Cornwall, just around the corner, Boardmasters has today revealed a raft of emerging Cornish talent for this summer’s festival. Artists including The Velvet Hands, The Eyelids, Sam Richardson & The Renegades, Maisy Grace, Charlie Scoble and more, will be at Boardmasters, providing fans with some of the very best music coming out of the county right now. With visitors from across the UK and even further afield heading to Boardmasters for the ultimate surf and music festival experience, there’s no better place to showcase the most exciting homegrown talent.

Following Boardmasters 2021, NME wrote that Boardmasters 2021 “oozes togetherness and inspires a genuine camaraderie amongst the legions of music fans who walk in as strangers, but leave as friends”. Earmilk described it as “ the UK’s blissful beach haven for music”, and Vocal Girls Club enjoyed “arguably the best weekend of 2021”. Cornwall Live added it was “the perfect salvation” following a tough few years for young people. Check out the Boardmasters 2021 photo gallery here.

As part of Boardmasters’ ongoing commitment to the environment and sustainability, Big Green Coach is back once again as Official Travel Partner to Boardmasters 2022, with all of its 2022 coach services to the festival operating as carbon neutral. On sale now for arrivals on Wednesday and Thursday, returning on Monday, or new for 2022, day return coaches will be running on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Final Tier Day Tickets for Boardmasters 2022 are on sale now via boardmasters.com. Check out the Boardmasters 2022 Festival Trailer HERE

Huge Swell Hits Hossegor

Huge Swell Hits Hossegor

From Nazaré to the Basque Country and of course Les Landes, everywhere was pumping. Each spot delivered, especially in Hossegor at La Nord, last Friday all time conditions were witnessed. Building throughout the session until all the elements aligned (size, offshore wind, and swell period) to produce monster pits ridden by a handful of locals and hot duo, Sancho and Marc Lacomare, an incredible week of conditions and surfing topped off by Kyllian Guerin (Tuesday March 1st) with this insane drop which he claims was the best wave of his life.

ISA Confirms Sporting Exclusions for Russia

ISA Confirms Sporting Exclusions for Russia

Full statement from The International Surfing Association below.

At an extraordinary meeting on February 28th, the ISA Executive Committee decided to impose strict sporting exclusions on athletes and officials from Russia. These measures are the result of the ISA’s strong condemnation of the Russian government’s invasion of Ukraine and the terrible and unprovoked military assault on the Ukrainian people.

In line with the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) recommendations, the ISA’s sanctions mean no athletes and officials from Russia will be invited to participate or attend ISA events until further notice.
This action follows an earlier confirmation that the ISA will not consider staging any ISA events in Russia for the foreseeable future.

The global surfing community is shocked and appalled by the awful act of aggression by Russia and Belarus’ role to facilitate their invasion of Ukraine. We are unequivocal in our views on this crisis and we stand in full solidarity with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. This is a human tragedy that requires us all to take a strong stance and send a message that such violence will not tolerated nor forgotten.

The ISA’s decisions serve to ensure the safety of the public, athletes and officials, and protect the integrity of our competitions. We remain in contact with the Ukrainian Surfing Federation to offer support to the Ukrainian surf community and we hope peace is restored as quickly as possible.

If you wish to help the Ukrainians then donate to some of the organisations who are providing assistance. Cash is the fastest way to help people in dire need but be careful you dontate to a reputable organisation. Here’s are some of the organisations who have set up appeals;

UN Refugee Agency

Red Cross Ukraine Appeal

Oxfam Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal

Huge swell at Nazare

Huge swell at Nazare

“2021 and 2022 has been a huge season for Nazaré, Massive swell after Massive Swell.’ Says Von Froth

“Injuries after injuries most of the tow teams have been swiped out including myself.. I was supposed to be out for the season due to a rib injury, but after seeing the Huge swell approaching Nazaré at 23ft at 21sec with perfect offshore winds, I knew it was a swell I couldn’t miss out on, ribs were hurting, yet I felt like I needed to ignore that and just face the beast.

“So I called up Chumbo, he flew in from Hawaii and we made it happen…”

Winners crowned at Rip Curl Europe Grom Search

Winners crowned at Rip Curl Europe Grom Search

The Rip curl European Grom Search finals took place in Praia do Molhe Leste in epic four foot conditions. The spot delivered some sick wedgy right-handers. It was sunny and offshore all day and all the groms could express their full potential : Air, barrel and turns.

Congratulations to all the competitors who came from across Europe and especially for the winners.

Unfortunately, with the Covid situation the international Grom search finals has already been cancelled but stay tuned as we will announce son the 2022 Rip curl Grom Search series schedule.

A big thanks to the Portuguese Surfing Federation, Peniche Surf Club, Citroën, Fatboy, FCS, Smith, HydroFlask, Ocean 52, Greenbush for supporting the 2021 European Grom Search series and finals.

Full results below.

Under 16 Boys
1- Kai Odriozola (Spain)
2- Paco Alonzo (France)

Under 16 Girls
1- Enera Palacios (Spain)
2-Sarah Leiceaga (France)

Under 14 Boys
1- Matias Canhoto (Portugal)
2 – Lukas Skinner ( Uk)

Under 14 Girls
1- Constancia Simoes (Portugal)
2- Nuria Maganinho (Spain)

Under 12 Boy
1- Oinatz Ortega (Spain)
2- Tiago Guerra (Portugal)

Under 12 Girl
1- Adriana Hidalgo (Spain)
2- Lee Anne Boudine (France)

heats

Under 16 boy

1-Kai Odriozola (spain)
2-Santiago Graça (portugal)
3-Paco Alonzo (france)
4-Tom Hook (uk)
5-Laars Peters (belgium)

Under 16 girl

1-Enara Palacios (spain)
2-Erica Maximo (portugal)
3-Sarah Leiceaga (france)
4-Belle Betteridge (uk)

Under 14 boy

1-Hans Odriozola (spain)
2-Joaquim Trindade (portugal)
3-Lukas Skinner (uk)
4-Matias Canhoto (portugal)

Under 14 girl

1-Luna Carrera (Spain)
2-Constancia Simoes (portugal)
3- Sofia Matos (portugal)
4-Nuria Manganinho (portugal)

Under 12 boy

1-Oinatz Ortega (Spain)
2-Tiago Guerra (Portugal)
3-Amaury Guibert (France)
4-Harvey Water (UK)
5-Tristan Stratz (Germany)

Under 12 girl

1-Adriana Hidalgo (Spain)
2-Mel Canhoto (Portugal)
3-Lee-Ann Boudine (France)
4-Lila Skinner (UK)

Alex Lopez

Alex Lopez

Another Case Study where we take a deeper dive into the lives of the shapers we work with here at Daydream Surf Shop. In this episode, we get a sneak peek into the life and shaping career of Alex Lopez, one of the most down to earth and humble shapers we’ve ever had the pleasure of getting to know.

You might’ve noticed Alex’s last name, Lopez, and yes he’s the son of Mr. Pipeline himself, one of Daydream’s favourite surfers, and surf history’s most stylish, zen charger: Gerry Lopez. Alex is the last person that would bring up this relationship, it’s as if he’d rather people not know that so that he can earn his own stripes as a surfer and shaper. Needless to say, Alex has carved out his own unique path in a way that’s pretty unique.

Although he grew up on Maui, Alex moved to Oregon when was young and became infatuated with snowboarding. Snowboarding was (and still is) an outlet for enjoying nature; although Alex picked up a couple snowboarding sponsors and worked a little for Volcom along the way. He had always dabbled with surfing but it wasn’t until he met his girlfriend, Leah Dawson that his surfing and shaping career really began to take off. Leah has her own incredible story as a professional surfer, activist, and entrepreneur… needless to say, she definitely deserves an entire Case Study episode of her own. Alex has been shaping her boards for over five years and during this time he’s been able to hone in on specific models that she’s helped refine to allow her to surf with the freedom that reflects her individualistic style. This constant conversation and empirical analysis revolving around refining his surfboard designs is what has accelerated his career into the projection that it’s seeing today. Having a “team rider” that’s also your partner is great but it really kicks it up a notch when that person shreds every board under the sun from big wave single fins on the North Shore of Oahu to logging micro waves here in Southern California and everything in between.

Alex and Leah now live in Oceanside, CA where Alex is surfing and shaping on a daily basis. You’ll catch him with a pretty rad crowd of open minded and talented shredder-shapers such as Ryan Burch who’s surfing Rocky Point on one of Alex’s boards in the open part of this Case Study. Again, Alex is the last person to drop names like this as he flies under the radar with his ultra chill attitude. One thing that he can’t hide is his ability to shape some incredible boards and we are so jazzed to be working with him.