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Oct 19 2018
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Night Surf

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Here’s the video from GSC Night surf to raise money for charity (Mind Guernsey) and for the GSC. A special thanks to IAG for sponsoring the entire event by covering all costs and for doubling the donation for charity and the club. Cams Hire – supplying the lights. Event Services – supplying speakers. Geomarine – supplying the generator.

Thanks to Pierre Bisson For the photos https://www.gsyphoto.com/


© Pierre Bisson https://www.gsyphoto.com/

© Pierre Bisson https://www.gsyphoto.com/

© Pierre Bisson https://www.gsyphoto.com/

© Pierre Bisson https://www.gsyphoto.com/

© Pierre Bisson https://www.gsyphoto.com/

Oct 16 2018
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‘Tom Hook’ travelling to the the World Junior Surfing Championships as part of the CISF team.

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13-year-old Guernsey surfer, Tom Hook, is heading off to California next week to represent the Channel Islands in the ISA World Junior Surfing Championships. The competition is being held at the renowned break of Huntington Beach. Tom, who will be competing in the Under 16s age category, will be joined by four Jersey boys to surf against the world’s best. This is the second time Hook has represented the Channel Islands at world level, having surfed at the World Juniors in Hyuga, Japan last year, earning his ranking of 81st in the world.

The schedule for the event will be as follows*:

October 27 – Opening Ceremony at 10am, Main St. and Pier Plaza
October 27 – Competition to commence at 3pm, Huntington Beach Pier south side
October 28 – November 4 – Competition at Huntington Beach Pier south side, 7:30am – 5pm
November 4 – Closing Ceremony after competition
*Schedule subject to changes. All times in Pacific Standard Time.
To see the full schedule of activities, click here.

The event will be streamed live on www.isasurf.org October 27 – November 4.

Click here to visit the official event page.

Oct 11 2018
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Night Surf

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Saturday 13th the GSC will be running a Night Surf Centres @ 8pm

The night surf open to GSC Members Only and £5 Entry fee on the night, money raised from this event will be split 50/50 between a charity and the GSC club funds.

If your not currently a paid up member renew now at guernseysurfclub.com.

A big thanks to IAG (international administration group (Guernsey) limited), are paying for the lights and are supplying the high vis jackets and a big chunk of glow sticks.

Please arrive by 8pm for safety briefing ready to get in the water at 8.30pm, the event will run to 11.30ish depending on the tide.

This will be a great fun evening for surfers and spectators – see you all there 🙂

Jun 11 2018
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Junior Series – Surf Session 2

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The second of this summers Junior Series events was a great fun morning. The small waves on offer enabled us to work with the juniors on their wave catching and pop-ups. It was great to see all the groms having fun and getting some waves in this session 🙂 thanks to everyone who came down to help out.

This summer we are running the Junior Series as a series of surf sessions along with some competitions, if you would like to get involved you can find out more and sign up here. https://www.guernseysurfclub.com/junior-series-2018-sign-up/ 

Our next event is 24th June – Charity Vazon Bay Alcove Classic. More details on this to follow soon.

Jun 05 2018
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Life Saving Training Course with the Guernsey Surf School

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Last week the Guernsey Surf School ran a bespoke Surf Lifesaving courses for the GSC. This was a great fun course aimed at ensuring that we have lifeguarding cover for GSC events especially this summers junior series. the course was run over two evenings and was possible thanks to support from Investec Community Donations, EFG Private Bank (Channel Islands) Limited and Sea Change Recruitment. A big thanks to the surf school, our sponsors and to everyone that took part 

Apr 30 2018
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The Grom Search is coming to Jersey.

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Rip Curl Grom Search | Jersey – 2nd & 3rd June

For those juniors wishing to enter stop no.1 of the Rip Curl Grom Search in Jersey then entry just opened at https://cisurf.org/entry-forms/rip-curl-grom-search/

As a reminder, a surfers top two results are taken from the three events (St.Ouens, Jersey – Croyde, Devon – Porthmeor, Cornwall) to identify the Grom Search Champions, all info on the series can be found here: https://www.surfingengland.org/the-2018-rip-curl-gromsearc…/

 

Feb 15 2018
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2018 Cold Water Classic

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COLD WATER CLASSIC | Held On: 24 March 2018.

Congratulations to Johnny Wallbridge who place 1st in today’s Cold Water Classic held pumping surf at Perelle closely followed by Jake in 2nd, Tom Colley 3rd and Andy who took 4th. It was great watching with an excellent standard of surfing in epic Perelle comp conditions. Good to see juniors Tom & Ethan pushing themselves and both holding their own with some excellent waves and young Tom making the finals. Thanks to everyone the took part and big thanks to Kev W, Chris and Martin for help judging.

COLD WATER CLASSIC | New Date 24 March 2018.

Entrants must be Guernsey Surf Club members, more details and times to follow nearer the date.

Points from this competition will go towards selection of the CI squad with the plan to hold a CI Champs this May. The current plan is to hold the seniors CI’s in Guernsey and the Juniors over in Jersey later in the year. More details to follow soon.

For updates keep an eye out on here, and on our Facebook page.

Oct 15 2017
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Junior Series Event 2

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The 2nd Junior Series Event was held at Vazon check out photos below from the days competitions. Great to see such a good turn out and so many juniors getting involved. A big thanks to everyone that helped out running the comps today 🙂

 

There’s a lot of photos in the gallery so it may take a few seconds to load!

Oct 10 2017
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European Surfing Championships CISF team head to Bore Beach, Norway

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As the Channel Islands Junior team return from Japan the CISF Senior Team head off for the Senior European Surfing Championships to be held at Bore Beach, Norway from 7th Oct-16th Oct.

The team itself has a blend of experience and youth with all surfers having competed at European, British National and International level.

This is a new location for the Europeans but the team are excited and ready to face whatever is put in front of them. With the increased activity of the Northern Atlantic over the last week the team should expect some decent surf.

For all information please visit the European Surfing Federation Website http://www.eurosurfing.org and follow on facebook Channel Islands Surf Page

CISF TEAM

Men’s Open
From Guernsey – Will De Garis and Jake Warr
From Jersey – Gus Brewer

Ladies Open
From Jersey – Laurie McGregor and Charlotte Bayliss

Men’s Longboard
From Jersey – Matt Tweedie

Men’s Bodyboard
From Jersey – Dave Speller

Ladies Bodyboard
From Jersey – Gabs Taylor

Manager
Colin Crowther

Assistant Manager
Clint (Radius) Loake

Logistics
John Harvey

CI Judge
George Solh

The team would like to thank the Jersey Surfboard Club and the Jersey Longboard Riders Association for the financial support they have provided the team, Breda, Madhatter Surf Shop and a special shout out for Jake Powell for supporting the team with funds from the RumbleTree white collar boxing event held at the Watersplash in August