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Lucy Simpson Wins Award In Spain

On a recent surf trip to Loredo, Northern Spain, Amy Simpson won the award for "Most Waves Caught" in the end of week surf contest held in great surf at Loredo beach, Cantabria.

Rip Curl Board Masters Hit Newquay

Newquay -- The Rip Curl Boardmasters, an Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 5-Star event, will start tomorrow Tuesday, August 5 at Fistral Beach, one of Great Britain's most renowned beaches, launching the Surf and Music Festival where thousands of people are expected.

The world's best qualifying campaigners will attend the event to battle for the prestigious crown during one week of top surfing action and grab the valuable 2000 ratings' points going to the winner. Ben Bourgeois (North Carolina, USA), defending champion now among the ASP Top 45, will not defend his crown and leaves an open door to a new champion this year.

Among those in contention will be current ASP WQS ratings' No. 2 David Wear (ZAF), a former champion at Newquay and former ASP World Tour member, who has been on a good roll this year with a win on his home lands of Durban in the ASP WQS 6-Star Prime event in April and an equal 3rd in Scotland's ASP WQS 6-Star Prime. With two major results already secured, Weare will be confident and going for a second crown in the British waters of Fistral Beach.

The Rip Curl Boardmasters is the first of a series of six major ASP WQS event that will take place across Europe, from England to Portugal including France and Spain, until September 14.

A1Surf.com sponsors ‘Surfer of the Year Award’ from inaugural H3O British Isles Surf Awards

A1Surf.com, the UK’s website for the surfing community, is sponsoring the ‘Surfer of the Year Award’ category, part of the inaugural ‘H30 British Isles Surf Awards’.
The awards, which are in association with Carve Magazine, are organised by the Surfstock Festival, which takes place in St Agnes on 29-30 August.
They will be presented to the winners during the two-day festival in a huge 42-foot yurt, which has been provided by the Driftwood Gallery.
The ‘A1Surf Surfer of the Year Award’ will be won by the surfer who has done the most for British surfing this year, as decided by votes from the public.
Nominations for this category include Rik ‘Peg Leg’ Bennett, Ben Skinner, Ben Granata, Easkey Britton, Chris Hines and Alex Wade.
The awards celebrate the achievements of surfers across the UK and Ireland, offering prizes in eight categories to be decided by a panel of elite judges and the surfing public.
For more information about the awards, the nominees and to vote visit www.surfstock.co.uk and click on the ‘Surf Awards’ link. You can also get information about Surfstock itself on this website.
A1Surf.com has been serving the UK surf community since 2001, with its surf reports and forecasts, news, forum, classified ads and online surf shop.
The website receives over 1 million hits every month and has over 10,000 registered members.