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The Opening Ceremony

Well our most enthusiastic readers! Today was the opening ceremony of the World Masters Surfing Competition. And boy! what an event it was!
The day started at a leisurely pace with an early morning (YES for ONCE the team were awake and raring to go! The BAT JUICE is now on a side burner as they […]

Written by Kevin on January 21st, 2007 with 4 comments.
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Day 4 The swell hits Puerto Rico

WOW!
At last after all the hanging around sitting on our elbows (some of us dont know our ar5es from our elbows) doing nothing but sipping Bacardi and lounging around the beach it has arrived. We left at 6:30 expecting the usual wind swell. As we neared Domes where the comp is to be held we […]

Written by Kevin on January 20th, 2007 with 6 comments.
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Relaxing Day 3 Puerto Rico

Another quiet day in the surf, flat as you like, not much at all happened. So I got the camera out and left the video behind.
So it was a relaxing day of sitting around, sunning ourselves on the beach, snorkelling eating and of course rounding off the day with drinking and a fine bar-b-que. Which […]

Written by Kevin on January 19th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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Puerto Rico, Day 2

Day 2
Surf has gone off, nothing but wind swell and pretty choppy. Lads are still a bit tired from the journey. Weather is hot and sunny, wind is on shore so pretty much a crap day of surfing.
Not much to report on today, but we have been told there is a swell moving in for […]

Written by Kevin on January 18th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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Day 1 Surfing

So far our stay has been remarkably good, I cannot stress how friendly the local people we have met so far have been. The language barrier does not exist. Lesley speaks a smattering of Spanish, the rest of us speak none, but most people speak English, and when they realise we are NOT American, but […]

Written by Kevin on January 17th, 2007 with 9 comments.
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Incompetent Continental Airlines try to Block the British Surf Team

We arrived at Gatwick with hours to spare, whisked through the terminal at lightening speed, thanks to the British Airport staff who were more than helpful
We were thinking this was going to be a breeze, but we hadn’t banked on the social and technical ineptitude of the Continental Airline Staff.
The process of arranging the competition […]

Written by Kevin on January 17th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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Puerto Rico Here we come!

Well the British Masters Surfing Team is all ready, primed like a loaded gun, ready to pitch their Surfing skills against the rest of the world, in the World Masters Surfing Competiton (as if you didn’t know), And are we proud? YES!
These Surfers have given up a lot to concentrate on bringing home some of […]

Written by Kevin on January 13th, 2007 with 4 comments.
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World Masters Surfing Update January 10th

Good morning readers. Things are getting busy now as we near the departure time for the World Masters Surfing Competition. The Team are in good spirits, and looking forward to representing Great Britain.
The BBC and ITV will be filming interviews of the Team today, I cant be there, I have to work
The weather […]

Written by Kevin on January 10th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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“Muscle Man” Mends Mangled Membrane

Hello to all our avid readers!
After the recent injury scare for the British Masters Surf Team, Jed Stone visited the well known “Muscle Man” Sean Clement Bsc (Hons) MSCP, or Sean as he is known to his mates. He has over 11 years experiance in saving sick surfers.
After a lot of technical leg stuff, the […]

Written by Kevin on January 9th, 2007 with 3 comments.
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Meet the Whole Team (Well most of it anyway)

Well viewers I drove down to Cornwall to meet with the British Surf Team and film a short video clip of each of them. We couldn’t unfortunately get Gary Rogers there for the filming, the weather and distance wouldn’t allow for that. So I will do a special when we meet in Puerto Rico for […]

Written by Kevin on January 4th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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