Lewis Clinton In So-Cal

Welcome to the first installment of Lewis Clinton's mini-blog for Northcore. Our mens National team rider has been enjoying a Western Hemisphere surf trip in So-Cal (pic to right is Lower Trestles) and he'll be leaving for the Hawaiian testing grounds of Oahu's North shore tomorrow:

"Ive been in Southern cali for the last 11 days surfing all up and down the coast. The trip started when we arrived in L.A's international airport and a friend of my parents from years ago picked us up. We drove to orange country which is about a half hour drive from Huntington beach and about a 5 minute walk from the legendary Disneyland, as anyone would i took advantage of that to the full haha! After a few days in Orange County we moved south towards the famous Blacks beach and Trestles, it was great to surf so many famous breaks i had heard about. Today we are moving back up north except this time past L.A and to the well known Californian point break Malibu I cant wait should be so sick. Overall surf wise our trip has been sick so far, but as far as weather goes who ever wrote 'It never rains in southern California' seriously got his facts wrong haha we have had so much rain, the worst in years apparently. We fly to the north shore of Oahu tomorrow evening and i cant wait!!!!"

Picture: Copyright Les Clinton

Lewis Clinton joins the Team

Northcore Europe are pleased to introduce Lewis Clinton to their riders team for 2008. Lewis is a talented British Junior Team member based in Newquay, Cornwall and although he is only 16 he's bringing a lot of experience and skill with him.This year Lewis will be travelling to the testing grounds of California and Hawaii for 6 weeks during February and March both to get away from the UK cold and to surf some more challenging waves whilst watching and learning from some of the best surfers in the world.

During the summer Lewis will be seen travelling along the Atlantic coastlines of France, Spain and Portugal following the pro junior circuit maintaining his goal to compete in as many events as possible to improve upon his previous years ranking, and also to keep his seeding in the events.

Lewis's successes have included top 3 placings during 2007 in The English Nationals, The Rip Curl Grom Search and a first in the Gul Newquay Open. Northcore spokesman said “We are really pleased that Lewis has joined our team, he has a drive to succeed in surfing, a professional attitude and a clear goal to join the WQS tour and eventually to even compete amongst the WCT elite. We're looking forward to working with Lewis and supporting him in his developing career”

Photo copyright Geoff Tydman