South Devon's Creamiest Longboarder

The first round of the British Longboard Tour kicked off to a flying start with head high offshore waves at Perranporth last weekend.  After travelling down on the friday and having a rather shakey free surf, with a near board snappage I was hoping the waves would improve for the saturday, and sure enough they did.  The first rounds were run in head high clean waves with a strong offshore on them.  The sun was shining, the water was warmish - well enough to use an infinity comp 3/2 in so getting there!  Team Skindog all made it through the first day winning their respective heats.  The sunday saw shoulder high waves with the same strong offshore on them, but on the low tide bank a few good waves to be had.  The quarter finals were all stacked!  In quarter 1 myself and Ben Haworth chose to sit on the right, while Lumux and Greg Norman opted for the normally consistent lefts.  It paid off for Haworth and I, duelling it for first and second.  Haworth had first from one judge, I had first from another, so it came down to the last judges scores.  Howey 15 - Haworth 15.2! Close but no cigar!  The finals were run on the high tide bank off the island in rather muschi conditions.  Haworth picked off the waves of the heat, clinching the win.

Photo thanks to Sugar Photography

Final Results

Ben Haworth

Ben Skinner

Joe Davies

Me

Although the final didn't go to plan for me its a good start.  For the contest write up with pictures check out the link below:

http://www.surftalk.co.uk/forums/images/presentations/bluperran2011/index.html

Bring on round two at Saunton on the cave - fingers crossed for waves!!  Then its off to Bali for me to hopefully score some waves, so keep checking!

The video from Headhigh Productions is still a working progress, just waiting for some waves of consequence!

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