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BLU Up To Date Rankings

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1
Ashley Braunton
1660

2
Ben Haworth
1630

3
Chris Webb
1350

4
Ben Howey
1150

5
Angus Murray
1140

5
Matt Thomas
1140

7
Colin Bright
1040

8
Brendan Muir
1030

8
Phil Hill
1030

8
Trevelyan Garland
1030

11
Ben Skinner
1000

12
Ashley Lawton
980

12
Greg Norman
980

14
James Parry
900

15
Tristan Mather
885

16
Sam Bleakley
810

17
Zak Lawton
730

18
Matt Travis
660

18
Mike Lay
660

20
Adam Griffiths
600

21
Josh Le Marquand
540

22
Oscar Maddocks
490

23
Ian Allison
440

23
Martin Davies
440

25
Andy Cummins
395

25
Chris Milford
395


BLU 2

Saunton Sands
Held in the best conditions for a very long time the event set the standard for the year’s competition with some great performances in the peeling conditions
Saunton’s well known single bank finally showed what it can produce with the open quarter finals on Saturday afternoon being held in flawless A-frame right-handers with no wind [...]


BLU Event 1

The Bathsheba Wateringhole Classic
The first BLU ranking event of the year ran over the weekend of the 8th and 9th of May at Perranporth in Cornwall.  Having previously been cancelled due to a poor forecast the surfers were amped to get the season on a roll with competitors from all over the UK turning out [...]


Hotdoggers Surf Club League Event No.2

 
After the cancellation of the opening BLU event of the year the club took the opportunity of a clear weekend to run the second league event of the season.
With the beginning of a swell forecast to show through the day the decision to start at low tide paid off as the early morning 6 inch [...]


Hotdoggers Kick off the year in style!

Below is the write-up of the first Hotdoggers event of the season at Saunton, I will update with some photos as sonn as they some through….
The gloves were off quite literally for the first event of the UK longboarding calendar at Saunton on the 27th March. With 50 competitors turning out to compete in what is [...]


Summers coming time to log it up…

Well here comes the summer then, the weather pattern seems pretty set so more good weather this month leading us to be hopeful for the summer to come.  Chances are we will be seeing more strong onshores and colder conditions than we all like to remember, it was only a few years ago that I [...]


Dingdevils ding repairs

Getting your beloved boards back to new is a real art, i spent a few years working on repairs, its quite a rewarding and theraputic challenge.  The problem with doing them is firstly learning the skills required which can take years to get right, then once you can fix the board you need to learn [...]


Full Quiver for the 2010 Season

Check out this little collection of beauties for the upcoming season, will update with some reviews etc as soon as we get some waves!!!


Fantasy Surfer back online…..

Finally Fantasy Surfer is back in action after a revamping of the site during the off season.  The site isn’t quite complete but is looking much slicker and more professional.  For anyone who has never used it before you should, it takes 5 minutes before each WCT event sat down picking a team and thats [...]


Another pumping winter….

Yet again we have had some solid clean swell to enjoy, it looks like the whole of the south-western UK, Wales and Ireland have been getting some stunning conditions.  I will update with some links to some great photos from the last week, so far i haven’t tracked down any good ones of myself yet [...]