“PUMPED’ is a 13 minute insight into the Surf Lakes R&D facility near Yeppoon in Queensland, Australia.
After making waves for a couple of year and the constant process of testing and refining them, In August 2020 we gathered a slew of Australia’s best surfers (in a Covid safe manner of course!) to ride the new set up and share their honest and unbridled opinions and feedback.
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COMMUNITY
In many ways this issue is all about our surfing communities. I just love the way we are all interconnected by various degrees and bound by the challenges, shared disappointments of hoax swells and joys when we all score, no matter which coast you surf in Britain and Ireland. This month’s tales from the surf community include a few stories we have been waiting for, for quite a while. There’s the dedication of the Norfolk crew, which has much better surf than you probably imagined. Gary Knights profiles south coast legend Cliff Cox, who has helped inspire and mentor many surfers in Brighton and beyond. The ever stoked Greg Owen takes us behind the scenes in Porthcawl, a town that has produced many Welsh and British surfing champions. Another Welsh legend, Mark Vaughan, chats to Lukas Skinner who just won the boys under 12 division of Barton Lynchs global video challenge. North Cornwall’s Kit Hartop shows us his beautiful recycled wooden surfboards. The legend that is Alex Williams tells us why Bantham and its surfing community is so special. And we have the amazing story of Chris Burkard, who started photography at 19, took his first foreign surf trip at 21 and is now the worlds best surf/lifestyle photographer (and super nice guy). We also have an inspirational insight into how some of our top surfers have pivoted their lifestyles and sought to improve their lives in COVID times and amazing shots from our talented home-grown photographers in what has been a very active autumn, and much more. Hopefully all the above will fire you up as we surf into the sunset of an extraordinary year, into what could be a bright dawn in 2021.
Steve
Editor
This time was a success, with the boys Miguel Blanco, Antonio Silva, João Guedes and Pedro Levi getting some sick rides and most importantly no one getting hurt.
– Nic Von Rupp
SurfLifesaving GB have announced a series of ‘open to all’ Lifesaving Master Classes.
Surfers are often the first to spot people in danger and intervene saving many lives every year.
Whether you are just starting out on your journey in Lifesaving or have been there, done it, got the T-shirt, these sessions will bring a new dimension of awareness to your Lifesaving capability and keeping others safe where and when there is danger to life. Our first Master
Class topic will address:
“Making Effective Hazard Detection the Cornerstone of Your Lifesaving Strategy”
Why is this important?
Surveillance is the foundation of lifeguarding; it is the activity that lifeguards do most of the time and has the highest impact on outcomes. Despite the importance of hazard detection and surveillance, they are relatively under-researched, and constitute a small amount of training time or space in training manuals.
Understanding what contributes to effective hazard detection and applying that knowledge is a critical factor in determining a successful incident outcome whether you are a Lifeguard or want to be a Lifesaver.
This topic will be covered in a one hour session held on Zoom on Monday 7th December starting at 6.20pm and includes the opportunity for the Presenters to respond to audience questions raised by email during the session.
Hosted by Prof Mike Tipton MBE, FTPS,PhD, MSc
Led by Dr Jenny Smith C.Psycol, BASES, fHEA
Dr Jenny Smith is based at the University of Chichester. Over the past 10 years, she has specialised in various aspects of drowning prevention and has recently conducted and published studies involving the identification of cognitive factors that underpin hazard detection by lifeguards, decision-making processes employed by lifeguards, and observation strategies used by lifeguards.
She is an active researcher in the Institute of Sports’ Occupational Performance Research Group and has been principal investigator on several industry-funded scientific experiments relating to cognitive load, fatigue, surveillance, and eye movements.
Prof Mike Tipton is Professor of Human & Applied Physiology, Extreme Environments Laboratory, School of Sport Health & Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth. He has spent over 35 years researching and advising the military, industry and elite sports people in the areas of drowning and thermoregulation, environmental and occupational physiology and survival in the sea. He has published over 650 scientific papers, reports, chapters in these areas as well as the books, “The Essentials of Sea Survival” (Golden & Tipton, 2002) and “The Science of Beach Lifeguarding” (Tipton & Wooler, 2016).
All his research is rigorously directed to fully understand what happens when things go badly wrong and to finding practical solutions to save lives. His knowledge in functional rescue capability from fitness to response methods and procedures has set the benchmark in aquatic lifesaving. The outcome of his ground breaking work on the impact of cold water shock is an essential and ongoing guide to understanding and responding to the drowning process and on its own has saved many lives.
United by blood and sea. The brothers Nacho and Paolo establish a powerful vital bond that is expressed in their passion for surfing. Everything that these riders are for each other finds its place on the board: pioneer and follower, mentor and student, order and temperament. Adult and kid.
Blood Brothers shows us the strength of the fraternal bond at the point where Paolo begins to make his own direction, style and decisions. Bound by an “invention” in which both are the other’s emotional lifeline.
Directed by Diego Borges, and shot by Arturo Loustau in Tenerife, Spain, “Blood Brothers” documents the special bond between two brothers, their love for surf and the island they call home.
Born and raised in Playa las Americas, young surfer and junior champion of Spain, Paolo Giorgi and his half-brother and trainer Nacho Sebastia detail their complex relationship and their shared passion for the sport in this visually stunning short film.
“Blood Brothers” premiered at the 2020 Canarias Surf Film Festival, received an honorary mention for “best surfing” at the 2020 Swiss Surf Festival, and offers an intimate view of some of the best local surfing Tenerife has to offer.
