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A great day of  Good surf, Good Light and Good surfers at Gwithian today.. have it on good authority that it was equally as good (but maybe a little smaller) on the South coast (Perranuthnoe)
Unfortunately the light isn’t as kind at Perranuthnoe and it gets very difficult to shoot later in the day..so Here I was at Gwithian.. High tide with double overheads still breaking right out..

I started off shooting on the cliff tops  just past the lifeguard hut… it was a long way off  Godrevy but I knew I wouldn’t see anything from the beach as the reform was too big so this seemed my best option..

Paddy daniels on a screamer

Paddy again cropped on the cut back

Lots of the waves  unfortunately caught many surfers on the inside and the frantic scramble to get up and over the face was on so many times..

A classic example of the days waves

Tyson Greenaway desperately paddling for the takeoff

Then I realised I’d left the radio in the van and Leanne was going to shout me when Team Rider Ash Lawton arrived, so I figured I’d best head back up to the van and see what was happening…

I went down onto the cliffs in front of the car park once I’d picked up the radio as it was looking pretty good straight out and I’d get some closer shots than shooting right over to godrevy.. Chris Ryan was getting a few nice rides while i was setting up, but got out before i could catch him..
Ash had arrived and was heading out and I’d promised to do a shoot with him so it was good to see a few nice waves rolling in..

Mind you he nearly had a disastrous start off…

Surfer takes off into what looks like a closeout

Ash Duckdives his log to save his ass

Thankfully all incidents were avoided and I’m not even sure if Ash knew how close he was to an extra Bum Crack…

Well the next set was his, a smooth take off on head and a half at least off the bottom and whack the lip cutback up to the lip and floater so nicely executed..

Take off	cut back
Off the lip	Back to the lip

and safely floated down

Classic bit of styling…

Well the afternoon was stacked with some amazing surfing and big sets.. I eventually moved down onto the rocks in front of the lifeguard hut where I had a vantage point of shooting in both directions so I was able to catch the Gwithian and the Godrevy surfers..

Off the lip longboard action

From the Off the lip action and nose rides of the Longboarders on well overhead to double overhead set waves.. to the epic Barrels down the line at Godrevy

Barreled at Godrevy

All in all it was a great sesh albeit cold.. One Lady did impress me very much.. I watched her struggling to get out against relentless overhead waves and thundering whitewater and remember saying to myself  ’she hasn’t got a hope’  Well she did.. she persevered and pushed on and eventually reach the back to score an epic wave and ride it with true skill and mastery.. wel done you!!! makes me proud to support Girls in surf..

a perfectly executed take off	A great ride
One well pleased Lady Surfer..

A Brilliant afternoon

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Later all

Mel^

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