South Devon's Creamiest Longboarder

Wel its been a bloody long old drag off a summer with a serious wave drought on the south coast.  Lots of trips up north were needed!  I landed back from France last night, back to dismal rainy Bristol.  Waves were as good as ever, although one massive swell hit leaving only a few places to surf without a jetski! The trip started as it meant to continue with Skinner being late for the ferry from Plmouth port, where he met myself, Ben Haworth and Angus Murray in Haworths pimped Totally T4 van.  Then we were faced with the 9 hour drive down through France, which is never nice, so we had a few stops to pick up magazines and supplies to keep us alert!  When  we finally reached Hossegor we surfed every day, with many drive around checking every spot at 6.30AM before surfing the first place we checked!  The first round of the European Longboard Tour was held on the following weekend, with fun waves, ranging from shoulder high and difficult waves at high tide, to fun over head heavy waves at low.  The low tide bank claimed a few boards, but non of mine lukily!  I surfed through my heats with a close call in an early round where i hadn't had a wave 12 minutes into the heat, but just finding one in the last minute and getting the score.  I came up in a tought semi final against Eduarde Delpero (world no 9), Alexi Daniel and Nico Kerruzac.  I managed to find two ok waves in amongst the close out and beatings and secured my place in the final.  The final was fun with Ben Skinner taking the title, Remi second, Alexi third and myself in fourth.  I couldn't seem to find waves that linked up in the final, but was stoked to be there seeing as there were six world tour surfers in the event!  Big Congratulations to Skindog who also snaped his best baord in the final!

Next stop of the ETL is at Watergate Bay, then Portugal in December, so im super keen for it and this first evernt has left me in good running for a solid placing on the European tour.

Have been working on footage for the HeadHigh Productions Vid, which has been made difficult with the summers waves, but we are nearly there!keep checking back!  Its lookin pretty good so far I recon!