Granite Reef Open - Results

Granite Reef Open Surf Comp Results; Junior - 1st - Jamie Bain, 2nd - Greg Millar, 3rd - Andrew Robertson. Novice - 1st - Phil Lealey, 2nd - Andy Forbes, 3rd - Erlend Inkster, 4th - Warren Bain. Longboard - 1st - Iain Masson, 2nd - Graham Bagnall, 3rd - Mark Boyd, 4th - Robert McKay. Ladies - 1st - Jill Noble, 2nd - Sophie Pigot, 3rd - Sarah Dickson, 4th - Angie Fraser. Open - 1st Chris Noble, 2nd - Russel Cruickshank, 3rd - Allyn Harper, 4th - Lester Cruickshank.

Thanks to Granite Reef for kindly contributing proceeds from the event to the Scottish Surfing Federation

Granite Reef Open - Aberdeen Surf Comp

Through the Whisky Barrel Premiere Night

The Scottish Premiere of "Through The Whisky Barrel" by Scottish film maker, Allyn Harper was held at The Belmont Cinema in Aberdeen on Saturday 29th October. The red carpet event was a sell out success and surfers from all over Scotland were in attendance in their kilts and other finery. Live music was provided by Evera, Davy Shanks and Ross Aitkenhead at the after party.

The event sponsors, O'Neill, Staunch, Granite Reef, Oggy Wax, Sutsu and Quiver put forward raffle prizes, which helped raise over £700 for The Scottish Surfing Federation. This boost will help get more youngsters involved in the sport and into the Scottish waters.

The film has been much anticipated in Scotland for some time and is the first Scottish surfing film to hit the big screen. The film has helped to put Scottish surfers back on the map. 

"I've had a passion for film making for some time but when I started surfing 7 years ago, the passion was fuelled and the dream of making a surf film about surfing in Scotland was ignited. My aim for the film was to tell the Scottish surfer's story and I wanted the film to bring the surfing community in Scotland together and raise funds for the Scottish Surfing Federation. The premiere was a huge success and I am really pleased." Allyn Harper

"A fantastically put together film by Allyn Harper showing a great insight into Scottish surfing" - Mark Boyd (Thurso local surfer)

The film is due out on DVD in December. For more information visit www.throughthewhiskybarrel.com or the Facebook page.




 

JOXY SURF DEVELOPMENT RESIDENTIAL

Joxy Surf is hosting a non-profit womens surfing development weekend myself and some friends are organising on the 11th - 13th Nov. It's for female Scottish surfers to try to get the more intermediate level surfers together for a laugh and to improve our technical aspects of the sport. We are a rare breed up here especially those surfing reefs and through the winter in snow and icy conditions! A maximum 20 women have signed up for the weekend.
We are gonna do a skating lesson at the local indoor skate park as well as a yoga session. During the surf sessions we will be filmed by Staunch's Janeanne Gilchrist so we can go through coaching points later in the day! We will also be improving fitness with beach lifeguard training and looking into conservation aspects of the surfing environment.

We will be mixing it up a bit with a music workshop and surf fashion design workshops so it should be good! Most of the girls have surfed for between 5-15 years so we're looking at improvements at intermediate level. 3 of us are Level 2 surf instructors and some of us have ranked in Scottish competitions.
Cooler magazine and Scotsman paper is also covering the weekend to help promote women's surfing in Scotland and raise it to the next level.

As you can imagine surfing in Scotland is radically different from the experience you read about in the magazines so we formed the spoof group 'Joxy' surf to demonstrate our experience of surfing. Check out the facebook pages! http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Joxy-Girls/84810788541

Sally