May 16 2010
Surf at Last!!
Not Brilliant by any standards but at least yesterday showed a small surfable wave at Godrevy and everyone went out and enjoyed a few long awaited waves.
It was a glorious summers afternoon, I say that with intrepidation but its my belief that the season’s have swung round slightly and that we now see the best weather conditions from March to June so for all intents and purposes and an anticipation of another crappy summer come July and August, I’m taking this as summer.. SO it was a glorious summers afternoon, albeit the wind was as usual whipping the face with its serpents tongue.
One thing I’ve come to know over the last few years of shooting surf (and others have actually said this about ME!) is that if you arrive somewhere and you see Tom Harper getting ready to go in for a surf then you’ve found the best spot around.
And here he was at Godrevy with us this afternoon so we knew we weren’t missing anything better in our locality.
Tom hit the waves with his usual stylish manouvers making it a joy to shoot.. unfortunately the tides are never right with the surf these days so I was low down on the beach and having a struggle to get over the white water and reforms to get the shots I wanted.
Tom Harper snapping the top off the wave
Its always nice to see how some of our ex-young team riders have gone on to show massive improvements in their surfing, we don’t forget about them and still feel a sense of pride when we’re able to shoot them out there making a splash with the best, and Justin Lapskas is no exception. His surfing has improved so much over the winter that I found it hard to recognise him from his style at first.. Well done Justin!! Here he is making a nice cutback and throwing up the spray.
Ex Team Rider Justin Lapskas Slicing the wave
It was nice to see an Old friend and fellow Photographer Mike Newman (Tup) out there enjoying the waves..Don’t often see my old locals from the Sennen days up here, more’s the pity cos we really get some class days of surf and it would be nice to see more of them.
Mike Newman on the other side of the Lens for a change
Always good to see familiar faces and there’s those faces that are familiar but names evade me so my apologies for that, especially when they surf like this chap making it a pleasure to follow him with the lens.. some amazing manouvers and I’m sure he must have got out feeling like he’d had a great surf.
Classy manouvers from a Local surfer
But from the very best to the absolute beginner, the main aspect of surfing is to enjoy the surf…
One of our new inclusions (always striving to make Splashography better) has been to capture a few sessions from the Surf schools this year and I managed to catch Tyson’s instructors out again yesterday with a new brood of upcoming surfers..
One thing that impressed me is how well they worked with the students.. I’d have been hard pushed to say that anyone actually got out of their 2 hour session without at least standing up on the board, and quite a few were actually surfing by the end of the Lesson so thats a damned good achivement for GAS (Gwithian Academy of Surfing) so well done Guys!!
On his Feet - the thrill of the first ride
and of course if it all gets too much then you can always just get out and watch for a while.. probably best if its not right in front of a photographer though otherwise you may just get snapped from this angle! but No!! your bums look perfectly fine in that 
Nice view
Of course there are those for who’m the water is still just too damned cold!! this poor young chap was beaten and retired to the beach to watch Dad go out and catch a few more.. Have to say he has great taste in wetsuits though!! (please visit our sponsors GUL ) (By the way its almost getting to T Shirt/Hoody weather Jake )
Very Stylish Young Surfer who despite the BEST in Wetsuits felt it a bit cold
Well that about wraps up the Blog for today, but I couldn’t leave without at least throwing in one Boogieboarder just to prove we’re not biasséd, there was a distinct lack of the bodyboarder element out there yesterday.. but here’s one enjoying the high tide shorebreak..
Enjoying the Shorebreak
and so that finally does wrap up todays Blog and I’ll leave you with a final reminder of the guys and girls who do so much to keep our beaches safe, and don’t leave buckets out for us to fall over our very own Godrevy/Gwithian Lifeguards.. Thanks for all your good work Guys.. (Oh and Girls)
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