Northcore Team rider Lewis Clinton wins 2009 UK Oakley Pro Junior

After a close battle during the three Events, Northcore Team rider, Lewis Clinton secured the overall win of the Pro Junior series of surf comps 2009. The awards ceremony was held on the 15^th November at Fistral Blu Bar in Newquay, where Clinton picked up his trophy.

Northcore spokesman said “We're stoked for Lewis securing this prestigious win. He's a great surfing talent and the award is well deserved”

Lewis Clinton has been on the Northcore team since 2008. He is a talented British Junior Team member based in Newquay, Cornwall and although he is only in his teens he has a wealth of experience and skill. Lewis has already travelled extensively to the testing grounds of Hawaii and to locations like Ecuador, Barbados and California. Here he's surfed more challenging waves whilst watching and learning from some of the best surfers in the world.

The Pro-Junior Events took place this year at the Saltrock Pro Croyde, The XPY Fistral, and the Animal Pro at Fistral. These events work in association with UK Pro Surf Tour which was established a decade ago to raise the profile of British Surfing across the UK by highlighting the quality of surf conditions and locations across the country, providing a platform for surfers and sponsors to raise their profile in the surfing industry and to help raise the performance level of British Surfers

For more information visit:

www.northcore-europe.com

http://www.ukprosurf.com/

Northcore website was down for 24 hours

Apologies to all of our customers, as our website was down for approx 24 hours this week after being attacked by spammers (b**tards), which subsequently left Google flagging the site until we fixed the code. Which is now all done and we're back and running as normal :)

Arrival of brand new 2010 leashes

The ALL NEW Northcore "Pit" leash arrived at the warehouse last week and is now available on the shelves. The leass is a high spec piece of kit designed for use in waves up to the 6ft+ range. It has a 7mm urethane cord, with double swivel steel bearings. Its the top of the range,
available in 6, 7, 8, 9ft lengths

Double swivel

Superior strength 7mm cord

Easy release padded cuff. Super strong velcro fastening

Clear cord with coloured core. Colours vary (red, white, black or white)

Key pocket and detachable railsaver

Lewis Clinton takes second at XPY Pro-Junior

Lewis takes a second in the finals of the Pro-Junior Final:

This weekend, The Oakley XPY Pro Junior exploded onto North Fistral beach with competitors and spectators alike greeted with sunshine and head high fun waves!

All surfers & spectators stunned by the debut of the new digital clock system, an automatic countdown timer for surfers in their heats. Also, on the horizon, a large Oakley Buoy, to mark out the contest area & to the give the event an ASP world tour feel!

The climax of the afternoon's was the Pro Junior Final. The surfing was at an exceptional level, with Jayce Robinson taking the win, with Lewis Clinton taking second place, third place Alex Baker from Croyde & forth place young Harry Timson from Newquay.

Waveriders wins 2009 Surfer Poll Best Documentary

Waveriders featuring Northcores Ambassador Richie Fitzgerald won the 2009 Surfer Poll award for Best Documentary at last nights awards in California.



The judges verdict was "While each of the documentaries offered a window into gripping stories from within the world of surf, Waveriders' take on surf culture from an Irish perspective may have been the most gripping and artful story of the bunch."

Well done guys

Richie Fitzgerald nominated for "Surfer Poll" Award

SURFER Magazine has announced the Video Award nominees fo the 37th annual SURFER Poll and Video Awards presented by American Suzuki and Ultimate Wave Tahiti. For the first time ever, five of the top Video Awards winners will be selected by a jury of surf film experts including major surf filmmakers, World Champion surfers, members of the SURFER Magazine editorial staff, and additional respected industry leaders.



The awards will take place in California on Tues 15th Sept and Northcore Ambassador Richie Fitzgerald has been nominated under the "Heavy Water" Category. We've not seen the other movies nominated but theres no way they can compared with the final sequence in Waveriders with Richie and tow partner Gabe Davies, tackling a massive Irish swell which defined heavy! (the footage above was from a smaller day!) Good luck guys

Heavy Water Nominees

• Todd Morcom (Storm Surf)
• Nathan Fletcher (Lavese Las Manos)
• Richard Fitzgerald, Gabe Davies, Alstair Mennie, Duncan Scott (Waveriders)
• Dylan Longbottom (Still Filthy)

Dirt Flirt Girly Camp

This years Dirt Flirt Mountain boarding girly camp hosted by Boardology.co.uk was held in Cheshire and Northcore we're pleased to help out with a few prizes for the end ceremony.

The camp set up by Alli Carter of Boardology was established to introduce girls to mountainboarding, from novices through to advance riders improving their technique.

Sounds like it was a great event!