As big wave season well and truly kicks off in the Atlantic come behind the scenes with Cotty and crew and find out what it really takes to surf huge Mullaghmore mid winter.
“So much preparation goes into riding a wave that might be six seconds long. You spend all year preparing for something that may or may not happen. But when it comes together it’s all worth it. It’s the best feeling in the world and it’s what every surfer is searching for… that wave.”
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All pics Rob Tibbles SGB
Luke Dillon takes Open title. Peony Knight wins Womens and under 18 girls pipping Emily Currie into second in both divisions. Great to see the girls ripping.
Mens Open
1st Luke Dillon 2nd Jayce Robinson 3rd Reubyn Ash 4th Miles Lee Hargreaves
Womens Open
1st Peony Knight 2nd Emily Currie 3rd Lucy Campbell 3rd Ellie Turner
U18 Boys
1st Angus Scotney 2nd Will Bailey 3rd Max Payne 4th Rhys Barfield
U18 Girls
1st Peony Knight 2nd Emily Currie 3rd Flora Lawton 4th Georgia Timson
U12 Girls
1st Bonita Whitelock 2nd Eve Sharp 3rd Jem Cogger
U12 Boys
1st Kade Penny 2nd Luke Barfield 3rd Thoma Reeves 4th Sam Taylor
Girls U14
1st Ellie Turner 2nd Lily Mandeville 3rd Ffion Hughes 4th Nyah Whittinghm
U14 Boys
1st Seth Morris 2nd Will Masterman 3rd Noah Capps 4th Barnaby Cox
U16 Girls
1st Kitty Brewer 2nd Mischa Maguire 3rd Ruby Breadon 4th Amy Dyer
U16 Boys
1st Liam Murray Strout 2nd Kit Innes 3rd Logan Nicol 4th Cieran Hughes
Seniors
1st Johnnyy Wallbridge 2nd Alex Chisholm 3rd Benjamin Chapman 4th Steve Ley
Veteran Division
1st Drustan Ward 2nd Dave Renauud 3rd Anthony Kilday 4th Darren Burrett
The 5th annual London Surf / Film Festival presented by Reef went down in a blaze of stoke. Hosted across the capital, across two weekends the festival brought to the UK the very best surf films from across the globe for a celebration of the cream of international surf culture. Bringing together waveriders from all four corners of the UK, the festival really has become a must attend for anyone with even a passing interest in surf culture.
2015 saw packed out screenings at iconic cinematic venues, an intimate gathering at east London’s 71a Gallery, the world’s best sausage sizzle and surf session hosted by Allpress Espresso, a gallery show of works from the UK’s leading artists presented by POW as well as talks from some of the planet’s most inspiring waveriders and filmmakers.
After 6 nights of screenings in the heart of the capital including 3 World Premieres, 3 European Premieres, 7 UK Premieres, 2 XXL winning big wave riders in the house – Chris Bertish and Paige Alms, our favourite adventure traveller Kepa Acero, surf photographer extraordinaire Tim Nunn, a special intro from Ben Weiland, a host of filmmaker Q+A’s, musicians, artisans, writers and the very best in art and culture lubricated by hundreds of pints of Sharp’s award winning ales, the results are in and the winners are:
LS/FF 2015 Best Film presented by REEF: Uncharted Waters Dir. Craig Griffin
LS/FF 2015 Best Documentary presented by POW: Uncharted Waters Dir. Craig Griffin
LS/FF 2015 Best Cinematography presented by Allpress: The Search For Freedom Dir. Jon Long
LS/FF 2015 Best British Film Presented by Carve: Freezing Dir. Rob Lockyear + Jeremy Joyce
LS/FF 2015 Yeeeeew Factor Presented by Sharp’s: Attractive Distractions Dir. Dan Norkunas
LS/FF 2015 Spirit of the Festival Presented by Approaching Lines: Fish Dir. Joseph Ryan
LS/FF 2015 Viewers Choice Presented by Xcel Wetsuits: Freezing Dir. Rob Lockyear + Jeremy Joyce
Best International Short Presented by Magicseaweed: El Chino Dir. Max Esposito
LS/FF 2015 Shortie of the Year Presented by REEF: Winter Glow Dir. Kev L Smith
LS/FF 2015 Shorties Emerging Talent: Party at Yours Dir. Jimmy Pinfield
LS/FF 2015 Panel’s Honourable Mention: Sean Collins – The Ripple Effect Dir. Peter Hamblin. “A unique and quality way of documenting a story of a brilliant pioneer. An informative, fascinating insight into something we all take for-granted and into a man who was clearly very respected. Fast-paced and factual, a very emotive ending. Fresh for the genre.” Lauren Davies
For a taster of what went down on the first weekend:
Film: Lucy Lu // Music: Colin Macleod
Supertubos awakens on Day 4 of the event’s waiting period.
Image: WSL / Poullenot
SUPERTUBOS, Peniche/Portugal (Friday, October 23, 2015): Stop No.10 of 11 on the 2015 Samsung Galaxy World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT), the Moche Rip Curl Pro Portugal has been called ON this morning.
Round 1 has kicked off in building three-to-four foot surf at the iconic beach break of Supertubos.
“Waves have improved substantially since this morning, so we’re underway with round 1,” said WSL Deputy Commissioner, Travis Logie. “Round 2 is definitely on Standby, we’re going to monitor the conditions throughout the day, the winds should be light and variable so hopefully it holds and we can get round 2 underway too.”
Filipe Toledo of Brasil winning his Round 1 heat to advance into Round 3 of the Moche Ripcurl Pro Portugal. IMAGE: WSL / Poullenot
Gabriel Medina of Brasil winning his Round 1 heat to advance into Round 3 of the Moche Ripcurl Pro Portugal. IMAGE: WSL / Poullenot
Surfline, official forecaster for the WSL, are calling for:
Strong low pressure that moved into the North Atlantic earlier in the week sets up WNW swell for Friday that eases some on Saturday. A developing storm over the North Atlantic today and tomorrow will set up a reinforcing pulse of WNW swell Sunday and into Monday. Solid swell expected for Tuesday and Wednesday of next week but onshore winds look likely. NW/WNW swell continues for the back half of next week and into next Saturday but local winds remain dicey.
The Moche Rip Curl Pro Portugal will be webcast LIVE on worldsurfleague.com and via the WSL app.
Moche Rip Curl Pro Portugal Round 1 Match-Ups:
Heat 1: Filipe Toledo (BRA), Jadson Andre (BRA), Tomas Hermes (BRA)
Heat 2: Gabriel Medina (BRA), Miguel Pupo (BRA), Mason Ho (HAW)
Heat 3: Julian Wilson (AUS), Keanu Asing (HAW), Caio Ibelli (BRA)
Heat 4: Owen Wright (AUS), Michel Bourez (PYF), Vasco Ribeiro (PRT)
Heat 5: Adriano de Souza (BRA), Kolohe Andino (USA), Frederico Morais (PRT)
Heat 6: Mick Fanning (AUS), Sebastian Zietz (HAW), Tiago Pires (PRT)
Heat 7: Kelly Slater (USA), Adrian Buchan (AUS), Aritz Aranburu (ESP)
Heat 8: Italo Ferreira (BRA), Joel Parkinson (AUS), Brett Simpson (USA)
Heat 9: Jeremy Flores (FRA), Matt Wilkinson (AUS), Ricardo Christie (NZL)
Heat 10: Nat Young (USA), Kai Otton (AUS), Glenn Hall (IRL)
Heat 11: Bede Durbidge (AUS), John John Florence (HAW), C.J. Hobgood (USA)
Heat 12: Josh Kerr (AUS), Wiggolly Dantas (BRA), Adam Melling (AUS)
Keanu Asing of Hawaii winning his Round 1 heat to advance into Round 3 of the Moche Ripcurl Pro Portugal. IMAGE: WSL / Poullenot
No Breakfast – A surf clip by a snowboarder Bryan Fox. Featuring Dane Reynolds, Mikey Wright, Steph Gilmore, Koa Rothman and Michael Dunphy. Editor Bryan Fox explains: “This is a movie I made for Quiksilver. They flew me to France for the Quiksilver Pro and while I was there I asked them if I could edit a couple clips together from the week. They obliged and here it is. It’s titled “No Breakfast” because, with all due respect, the French suck at making breakfast. They are like the soup nazi in that Seinfeld episode…”No breakfast for you!”
Bryan, you should have gone to the Deli at Estagnots. That’s all I’m saying…
Hurricanes have had names for ages. The US change their list each year and we’re lumbered with it. Now for this winter our Met Office and Ireland’s Met Eireann have teamed up to agree on naming winter storms that aren’t from the tropical storm nurseries (they’ll still be ex-hurricane Whatever). So we finally get our own go. Following the NOAA tradition the names alternate from boy to girl.
It’s been brewing since the vicious winter of two years back when storms picked up names like Bawbag, Hercules and the St Judes storm (see proof of how we benefit from these megastorms below) and the media ran with them. Social media has made planning and alerting people to severe weather events that much easier. So it makes a bunch of sense. The list has been voted on by the public and here they are. We all know a stormy Abigail. And we’ve got high hopes for the Steve storm.
The full list of names for 2015-16:
• Abigail
• Barney
• Clodagh
• Desmond
• Eva
• Frank
• Gertrude
• Henry
• Imogen
• Jake
• Katie
• Lawrence
• Mary
• Nigel
• Orla
• Phil
• Rhonda
• Steve
• Tegan
• Vera
• Wendy
St Jude’s storm swell…
Hercules in Cornwall…
The Met Office release:
Last month, the Met Office together with Met Eireann announced a pilot project to name wind storms that have the potential to affect the UK and/or Ireland. We received thousands of responses by email, through the Met Office Facebook pages and @metoffice on Twitter and can now announce the list of storm names chosen by you for autumn and winter 2015/16. The names will be used by both the Met Office and Met Éireann.
To ensure we are in line with the US National Hurricane Centre naming convention, we are not going to include names which begin with the letters Q, U, X, Y and Z. This will maintain consistency for official storm naming in the North Atlantic.
As the UK and Ireland’s National Met Services, the Met Office and Met Éireann operate to maintain public safety through severe weather warnings and forecasts. Working together, it is hoped that naming storms will help raise awareness of severe weather and ensure greater safety of the public.
The Met Office and Met Éireann will continue to issue weather warnings in the normal way using the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service and Met Éireann Weather Warnings. A storm will then be named when it is deemed to have the potential to cause substantial impacts in the UK and/or Ireland.
To avoid any confusion over naming, if a storm is the remnants of a tropical storm or hurricane that has moved across the Atlantic, the already established method of referring to it as, e.g. ‘Ex-hurricane X’ will continue.
