Scottish National Surfing Championships 2012 - Results

OPEN

1. Mark Cameron (Fraserburgh)
2. Chris Noble (Thurso)
3. Mark Boyd (Thurso)

LADIES

1. Shoana Blackadder (Thurso)
2. Sarah Dickson (Aberdeen)
3. Jill Noble (Fraserburgh)

LONGBOARDS

1. Mark Boyd (Thurso)
2. Iain Masson (Fraserburgh)
3. Robbie McKay (Macduff)

JUNIORS

1. Jamie Bain (Fraserburgh)
2. Greg Millar (Banff)
3. Andrew Robertson (St Andrews)

SENIORS

1. Chris Noble (Thurso)
2. George Noble (Fraserburgh)
3. Mark Cameron (Fraserburgh)

The prize for highest scoring wave of the day went to Mark Boyd from Thurso.

Scottish National Surfing Championships 2012 IS ON!!

Contest has been called on for this weekend.  See you at 8am, Thurso-East car park (be sharp).  SSF AGM in Caithness Horizons 7pm on Saturday

Scottish National Surfing Championships 2012

Wave North 2012

http://wavenorth.wordpress.com/

Please follow the link above for details on this years wave north festival...The SSF and Wave North are working together and SSF fundraising will take place during the festival which runs from the weekend of the Scottish National Surfing Championships until the following weekend, which is also the backup weekend for the Nationals should conditions not permit us to run on the first weekend.

Scottish National Surfing Championships 2012

The Scottish Nationals will take place in Thurso on the weekend of the 31st of March 2012.  Should conditions not be good enough for the contest to run the following weekend will be used as the backup date.  As per usual keep your eye on www.scottishsurfingfederation.com for updates and the call which is usually made on the Wednesday before the contest

Through the Whisky Barrel - Thurso Premiere Fri 27th January

Thurso Premiere of the film 'Through the Whisky Barrel' a film about Scottish Surfing. Much of the footage is from the waves around Thurso and our local surfers are featured. Come and join us for a night to celebrate the film and enjoy an alternative Burn's Night with Hag...gis, Neeps and Tatties and even a wee nip!

Tickets are charged at £8.00 and available from Caithness Horizons, Thurso

More information can be found at http://www.throughthewhiskybarrel.com/ and on the SSF facebook site

After Party to follow the Film in Y-Not Bar and Grill

SSF 2012 Calendar NOW AVAILABLE in stores and online!!

The much anticipated Scottish Surfing Federation calendar is now on sale!!

 Click on images to see full size

The calendar features photographs from Scotland featuring many of Scotland's top surfers as well as surfers from abroad taken by a range of great photographers.  The photos featured in the calendar were voted on by SSF members and the public on the facebook page.

The calendar costs £10 and is a great Christmas gift idea.  All proceeds will be going towards the SSF.

The calendar is available to buy from most surf shops and other outlets around Scotland including; Granite Reef in Aberdeen, E.S.P in Elgin, C2C Surf School in Belhaven, Caithness Horizons in Thurso, Tempest Cafe in Thurso and more...

If you are interested in stocking the calendar please contact allynharper@live.com

The calendar can now be purchased online, just follow the link:
http://www.throughthewhiskybarrel.com/Through_The_Whisky_Barrel/Buy_The_SSF_2012_Calendar.html

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

Through the Whisky Barrel

Scottish Premiere this weekend in Aberdeen

So....Get yir kilt on!!

www.throughthewhiskybarrel.com ... for details

Gathering of the Clans Results

Junior
1st Jack Buchan (Shire and City)
2nd Daniel Mowat (Broch)
3rd Callum Stanger (Shire and City)
4th Louie Chadwick (E.S.P North of Scotland)

Seniors
1st Micah Lester (E.S.P North of Scotland )
2nd George Noble (Broch)
3rd Matt Whitt (Aberdeen)
4th Andy Bain (E.S.P North of Scotland)

Open
1st Yudi Andika (E.S.P North of Scotland )
2nd Lester Cruickshank (Broch)
3rd Mark Cameron (Broch)
4th Mark Boyd (E.S.P North of Scotland)

Ladies
1st Jill Noble (Broch)
2nd Dee Ripoll (Aberdeen)
3rd Katie Watson (Broch)
4th Alex Mills (Aberdeen)

Longboards
1st Iain Masson (Broch)
2nd Mark Boyd (E.S.P North of Scotland )
3rd Robbie Mackay (E.S.P North of Scotland)
4th William Watson (Broch)

Clans total points
1st Broch 700 points
2nd E.S.P North of Scotland 600 points
3rd Aberdeen 400 points
4th Grampian team (Shire and city) 345 points

Winning broch team consisted of –
Mark Cameron, Russell Cruickshank, Lester Cruickshank, George Noble, Iain Masson, William Watson, Jamie Bain, Daniel Mowat, Jill Noble and Katie Watson.


Big thanks to all the sponsors - Granite Reef, Brewdog, O’neill, Rhino and Lunar Surf.

We're On!

Well folks,

Thats it, we're on for the clans this weekend, we have a fine looking north swell and good winds.

Check in at Fraserburgh beach, 8:00 am.

See you there.
Chris

Poor Forecast...And change of date

Due to the poor forcast for this weekend we've decided to call it off and postpone the Gathering until next weekend

The new dates will be the 8th and 9th of October in Fraserburgh

As always check the site on the Wednesday before for confirmation.

Hope to see you there and please spread the word

Gathering of the Clans 2011

Scottish Lowland Longboard and Junior Contest

Scottish Lowland Longboard and Junior contest – 17th/18th Sep.

The Scottish Lowland Longboard and Junior competition took place last Saturday in lovely waist to shoulder high surf at Belhaven.
The Longboarding had a great entry, the biggest of any Scottish Longboard competition this year, with very competitive heats, semi finals and final and I have attached photos and results below and you can check out the video of the final – thanks Adam! Josh took the honours taking home the Longboard wooden trophy hand made by Angus MacDonald.
Final Longboarding
1st Josh
2nd Sam
3rd Angus
4th Joe

The Juniors was well attended with some great surfing by all that took part. Both winners of each division really made the most of the conditions and where worthy winners!
Junior U18
1st Max
2nd Abbie
3rd Jacob
Junior U14
1st Andrew
2nd Adam
3rd Leigh
4th Flynn

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SSF Autumn Contest Calendar

Well the surf season is nearing and everyone is getting excited about getting some real waves again, its been nice to have the gloves off but you get scunnered of summer surf at some point...so bring on the swell!!

The Scottish Lowlands Longboard and Grom Search has been postponed due to a poor forecast and will now take place on the 10th & 11th of September.  Contact Sam on 07971990361 for more info and for the call the week of the comp.

The Gathering of the Clans will take place in Fraserburgh on the weekend of the 1st and 2nd of October - so start thinking about getting your team organised.  Details and poster for 'the Clans' will follow.  For information about team structure and rules check the link about the comp on the right hand side.

Scottish Lowland Longboard Contest and Grom Search Surf Comp

Come along and join the fun at the Scottish Lowland Longboard Contest and Grom Search Surf Comp in Belhaven Beach near Edinburgh.  This will be a Scottish Surfing Federation fundraiser - all surfing abilities welcome to participate.  Find Sam@ C2Cs contact details on the poster below for more info:

Through The Whisky Barrel - A Film About Surfing in Scotland

Please have a look at the website for Allyn Harper's upcoming film 'Through The Whisky Barrel'