Newquay film trip

Over the past few days we've left the North Sea coast HQ to visit Newquay to meet up with Grishka Roberts, Lewis Clinton and Kathleen Spears to film a short Northcore promo video. The weather wasn't exactly ideal, the waves were marginal but these surfers and their passion for our sport more than compensated for conditions. All of these guys are amazing surfers and stand out as role models for British surfing. To hear and see what Grishka, Lewis and Kath had to say, watch this space for our new video.

Lewis Clinton's latest training trip

After recently winning the English U18's title and being the highest finisher in the British team at the World Junior Surfing Games in France, Northcore team rider, Lewis Clinton, decided to head back down to SW France on a training trip to score a few more Atlantic waves. The following is an taster of his trip in his own words:

"Yesterday I got back from another sick trip down to Hossegors incredible French beach breaks. The first couple of days things were abit slow on the swell front but there was still some fun waves to be had if you were prepared to search for them.

By the end of the week the surf had picked up along with the weather and we were getting some great waves and sunburn, we stayed just outside of Capbreton in a place called Lebenn'e. Even though i have been down to this part of France countless times i had never stayed here before so it was exciting.

After just over a week in Hossegor we decided to move down to Canterbria in northern Spain, when we arrived at the camp site near Santander (this is where we were catching the ferry back to Plymouth in a couple of days time) it was sat right on the beach but there was one problem, no waves.

After a couple of days there were still no waves until my friend decided to walk over the headland to look at a little cove round the corner, when he got there he was shocked to find a perfect 3 foot hollow wedge. I think GUTTED has to be the word i'm going to use when i thought of the hours i sat bored out of my skull thinking there were no waves. It was seriously localised and when we paddled out lets say we didn't get a warm welcoming but they soon got used to us being there."