South Devon's Creamiest Longboarder

I have just returned from an action packed trip to Lisbon, Portugal where i was competing in the final round of the ETL professional longboard tour.  The sunshine and warm water was very much needed!  The competition was the last round of 4 events with the best three results counting towards final positions on the tour. I had already a 4th from France and a semi final result from Watergate bay (Newquay). I couldnt go to Morocco due to work and no money!, so i had to get a good result to finish within the top ten. The contest was moved on the first day from San Pedro, Estoril to a beachie break called Guincho as the points were not working. Guincho is not know for its good surfing waves, but it was a last option to run the event, so the move was made.  The first rounds were run on the saturday which all ran smoothly, winning my heat. The next day started well apart from snapping my board and having to swim in during the quarter finals, but luckily i had some good scores under my belt and nobody could find the score so i went through to the semi finals. I came up against Ben Skinner, who had already secured the European title already from previous results and nobody being able to overtake him in the runnings.  The conditions were pretty horrible and it was all about picking the ones that didnt close out!  Unfortunetly i couldnt really find any!  I finished 3rd in the semi finals, so not going through to the finals, leaving me in 5th place.  This 5th gave me enough points to finish 6th overall on the tour.  As you can imagine - pretty stoked!  My aim for next year is to qualify for the world tour and find as many warm waves as possible!!  Big shout out to Xcel, Alpine stars, Skindog surfboards, Triocean surfshop and Plymouth Uni for supporting me.  The headhigh productions vid is ready to rock and roll aswell, just waiting for a few possible deals to be done and then all shall be revealed!

Happy Christmas!