Sometimes in the fight to save the oceans it feels like it is environmentalists, oceanographers and surfers against the world. But check this, arguably the biggest football team in the world just wore full kit made from recycling plastic bottles pulled from the Indian Ocean.
Kit sponsor Adidas have teamed up with the Parley for the Oceans campaign to deliver the one-off strip.Each shirt is made from 28 plastic bottles and 308 bottles have been taken out of the sea to make the kit for the Galacticos’.
Not many bottles it is true, but the ramifications could be huge. The Galacticos sold 2.8 million shirts in 2015-16. Imagine if they were all recycled bottles….In 2015 Adidas turned over $18.5 billion from sportswear…
The 2016 UKPSA Champions were crowned and awards handed out last night at the Carn Marth in Newquay. As well as the division winner special awards were hand out by SurfGirl to Bude’s Ellie Turner to recognise her achievements in International Competition. Carve gave an award to Luke Dillon for his quest the world qualifying series. Luke also won “Surfers choice” Tour award, voted by his peers on the UKPST and for “Services of surfing’.
UK PST Under 12 Open Champion 2016
Winner: Sam Hearn
UK PST Under 14 Girls Champion 2016
Winner: Ffion Hughes
UK PST Under 14 Boys Champion 2016
Winner: Stanley Norman
UK PST Under 16 Girls Champion 2016
Winner: Ellie Turner
UK PST Adams Surfboards Under 16 Boys Champion 2016
Winner: Patrick Langdon-Dark
UKPST Under 18 Girls Champion 2016
Winner Ellie Turner
UKPST Fistral Beach Under 18 Boys 2016
Winner: Harry de Roth
UKPST Women’s Champion 2016
Winner: Ellie Turner
UK PST Open Champion 2016
Winner: Jobe Harriss
Rookie of the Year 2016
Winner: Cieran Hughes
Most Improved Surfer 2016
Winner: Kit Innes
Liteworx AV LTD Surfers Choice Award 2016
Winner: Luke Dillon
SurfGirl Best UK Female International Competitor
Winner: Ellie Turner
CARVE Surfing Magazine Best UK Male International Competitor
Winner: Luke Dillon
UKPSA Services to the Sport of Surfing 2016
Winner: Luke Dillon
Photo Credit: Jason Feast Photography
Supported by:
Korev Lager The Surfing Sumo Adams Surfboards & Fistral Beach Surf School & Surf Hire
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The pursuit of the first ever backside 540 in surfing by Albee Layer. Follow Albee as he wraps his head and body around trying a brand new air in surfing. He battles a few minor injuries and is delayed by a winter that provides better hair raising big waves than conditions conducive to try this move.
Filmed by // Dan Norkunas & Marc Chambers
Sound by // Cody Carter
Graphics by // Dan Darling
The best Rip Curl International Juniors get together to discover a new culture and share some rad sessions.
MEMBRES DU HELL TEAM RIP CURL 2016 :
• Luke Gordon 17 ans, South Carolina USA
• Crosby Colapinto 15 ans, California USA
• Mickey Mcdonagh 15 ans, Lennox Head Australie
•Xavier Huxtable 14 YO, Bells beach Australie
• Ketut Agus 15 ans, Bali Indonesie
• Taina Izquierdo 14 ans, Bali Indonesie
• Diego suarez 15 ans,Tenerife Espagne
• Sean gunning 14 ans, Los Locos Espagne
• Kyllian Guerin 13 ans, Hossegor France
Pegleg Rik Bennett was born without an ankle and had his lower leg amputated when he was 13 months old. However, he hasn’t let this stop him from doing what he loves most – surfing. In fact he charges harder than most and his short “Call me Pegleg” won LSFF Shortie of the year 2016
Any money left over will go to The Wave Project https://www.waveproject.co.uk/
Llywelyn Williams from North Wales is going to represent Wales. He’s the first surfer from Wales to compete at the Adaptive Worlds. In September 2011 Llywelyn was skateboarding home from a friend’s house when he was hit by a car. The injuries were devastating and his parents had been told to prepare for the worst. Llywelyn pulled through a head injury, broken femur, both hips dislocated, shattered pelvis, punctured lung, perforated bowel, split liver and a lower back injury. After a long fight he is back doing what he loves.
Reef team Mitch Crews, Kai Otton, Rob Machado, Taylor Knox, Evan Geiselman, Mike Lay and Victoria Vergara sink their teeth into the fine delicacies served up by the best sandbar bistros in Biarritz, Hossegor and Capbreton.
