Northcore East coast drift surf comp 2008

There are a number of local surf clubs taking advantage of North Sea swells and this Easter four of them will get together for the Northcore East Coast Drift. This year will be the first Northcore East Coast Drift surf event to host an Inter-clubs competition between, Tynemouth, Saltburn, Scarborough and Lincolnshire surf clubs. We're holding this years event on the 23^rd March at Scarborough's South Bay and we're really pleased to be getting involved by supporting the competition with a few prizes. Surfing in the NE area is no where near as main stream as it is in Devon and Cornwall, the scene here is much more at a grass roots level with less corporate involvement. The conditions in the North East are harsher with colder water and air temperatures being common and the infrastructure isn't as well developed, but the waves can be as good as anywhere in the South West and the year round surfers here are amongst the most dedicated and hardcore in the country.

Check out the attached flyer for more info.

Lewis Clinton's Hawaiian Diary

Lewis, our national team rider is presently on the Northshore of Oahu...the global epicentre of surfing (lucky man) and he's written a diary piece for us below. The picture is of lewis surfing Haleiwa a few days ago:

"I got to hawaii in the evening on the 26th of febuary and woke up the next day to the north shore pumping, i'm staying about a 2 minute walk away from sunset so i could hear the waves all night. The surf has been so good, last week pipeline was as the locals were saying 'As good as it gets'.

The weather has been great too havn't had a drop of rain which from what i heard from people before i came is pretty strange. The day before last i paddled out at pipe on a smallish day, was soo cool just to be out there i managed to nab a little backhand keg aswell so i'm well stoked! yesterday the swell picked back up and there is meant to be a real big swell coming tomorrow so it should be wicked to watch pipe work again.

On monday there was a kinda medium sized swell and it was clean so i took the opportunity to paddle out at sunset to get a closer veiw of such a sick wave, i used a old brown 7'2 i found in the house where i'm staying. When i got out there it was bigger than expected haha i took off on one got to the bottom and stacked it, then decided that was enough for me and just sat in the channel and watched for abit. Overall so far i've had a bloody sick time and have some sick surf just stocked i've got 3 weeks left of it".

Lincolnshire beach clean

I was pleased to help out with a beach clean this weekend, which saw national organisations and locals join together to clean an area of Lincolnshire beach close to the mouth of the Humber. The particular beach area is a black spot for rubbish and is located at an area called Donna Nook which the US military also use as a live bombing range (so anything looking like bombs weren't touched!!

The Marine conservation society were involved and helped out with surveying the crap that was collected (which included tyres, plastic bottles, shoes, tarpaulins etc) and supplying equipment. The local coastgaurds and RSPB were also involved, collecting and helping haul stuff away. The event was also filmed by a Corporate finance company who provided collection bags. It was also great to see local kids involved, enjoying themselves despite chilling Northerly winds!.

Check out the links above for more info about the organisations involved.

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

Northcore: proud to be associated with the British Junior surf team

Happy New year

Heres a great big HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008 to our customers from all the team at Northcore. Thanks for your support in 2007 and heres looking forward to more growth and loads of exiting new developments in the coming year, which include: awesome essential new hardware products, a new line of apparel, establishing a team of sponsored riders and further expansion of the brand. So watch this space for updates