My Pro Surfer

My Pro Surfer is a site that keeps track of media exposure for UK and Irish surfers, worth a look

My Pro Surfer

Fregal Smith is currently lying in 3rd place , the best placed of the Locals, with Tom Lowe, his injury prone friend sitting pretty on top spot. How many times can a someone dislocate their shoulder?

Step Up Step Up

Its been a bit quiet on the Blog front recently, wedding prepartions, stag parties, new babies and hip operations have been taking up all our time, but Rosy hasn’t stopped in the workshop.

He has refined his Step up board for 2009, not that we are likely to get any waves to test it out for wee while yet : )

For more information on the Step Up follow this Link

LINK!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are some photos of a Step Up Rosy shaped for Andrew Mennie recently:
 

Super Hi Def, Slow mo, Surfing Action

Mark P batched this out on Friday, interesting vorticies, worth sharing with the world:

Hi Def, Slow mo, Surfing Action, Wadda ya think?

O’Neil Cold Water Classic Results

The comp is over, dominated by Austrilians, 5 out of the 8 in the quarters were from the new country, the final was contested by Luke Munro and ADAM MELLING, with melling taking home the bacon. $20,000 is ok for a weeks work if you ask me. Check out all the results here

Sharpy has some nice photos of the event on his flicker stream, including one of melling yeilding the most leathal trophy in surfing“there can be only one!!!!”

Photo Copyright Sharpy, stolen from his flickr site and used without his permission.

Hope O’Neil fix their dodgy webcast for next year!

Surf Exposure Meter

Transworld surf publish a Surf exposure meter, a tally of all the print lines your fav surfers get, from ad campaigns to exposure in magazines. Sometimes numbers are cool, eh?

Seems Jordy is the man this year, follow this link, takes a while to load.

Check the amount of exposure your fav photogs are getting……Im just off the list at number 1 billion.

Heres one from the archives, shot in Film using a Zenit XP and 500mm manual focus Lens.  Them were the days!  

UK Pro Surf Tour

Its competition season
Started class with parko taking first two events, I think he will take the title this year, love watching him at the moment. I hear the NWSC comp went down a treat also, with meanbox taking the title, great to see such a high standard of surfing locally.

The O’neil coldwater classic starts this weekend and the forecast looks epic, will be worth watching Thurso in action, check it out (there is a link on the homepage).

The UKPSA has a full schedule of competitions lined up, if you can catch one they are worth the trip, Portrush at the end of summer has a great event. http://www.ukprosurf.com/events-c17.html

Enjoy the weekend, looks good. This time last year the atlantic was sleeping!!!!

NWSC Spring Classic Surf Competition

The NWSC are running a surf competition up at Fanad the weekend of the 28th March:

The clubs comps are always good, well run and chilled atmosphere. well worth a run up. More info here:

http://www.nwsurfclub.blogspot.com

Irish Nationals

The Irish National Surfing Championships are on this weekend up the port. Should be good if we get some waves, keep a look out for us. Some predictions for the top spots.

Kilcullen for the open pushed hard by a Smith, 2 Kilfeather’s and 2 Meanies:

McCurry for Longboard.

Morgan for womens.

Kelly for Bodyboard.

And last but not least Skullion for the Seniors!

This is a photo Dan Lavery sent us recently from last years comp surfing a Longboard Rosy Shaped for him.

Derek Hynd

Derek Hynd is my favourite pioneering opinionated finless board surfing madman. He makes me laugh every time I see him on film, he is always doing something different. Check the speed:

Customers

Some new photos of recent customers boards up on the website, check them out here:

http://www.rosysurfboards.com/page20.htm

I like these summer fishes:

Trad Longboard:

R100 performance shortboard: