This Saturday sees the start of the IOW Surf Club Frost Bite Series!
Oct 19, 2010 | Categories: Surf Blogs | Tags: beach, comp, compton, Compton bay, contest, frost bite, groms, iow, IOW Surf Club, isle-of-wight, ladies, longboard, open, shortboard, surf, surfboards, surfer, surfers, surfing, swell, UK, wave, waves, wight | Leave A Comment »
Wight Surf History. Surf Movie Poster., originally uploaded by s0ulsurfing. Tonight (Saturday October 9th 2010 at 7.30pm) there is a ‘Surf Movie Night’ at Sandpipers Hotel, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight. (entrance is free, but we will ask for donations to the freshwater lifeboat fund.) The wight surf history project, aims to document and celebrate [...]
Oct 09, 2010 | Categories: Online | Tags: design, designs, event, history, ideas, iow, isle-of-wight, jason swain, poster, surf, surf movie, surfers, surfing, UK, waves, wight, wightsurfhistory | Leave A Comment »
Wight Surf History. Surf Movie Night, originally uploaded by s0ulsurfing. This evening (7.30pm Saturday October 9th 2010.) we are holding a ‘Surf Movie Night’ at Sandpipers Hotel, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight. (It’s not a commercial venture, entry is free, although we will be asking for donations to the freshwater lifeboat fund.) The Wight Surf [...]
Oct 09, 2010 | Categories: Online | Tags: design, designs, event, history, ideas, iow, isle-of-wight, jason swain, poster, surf, surf movie, surfers, surfing, UK, waves, wight, wightsurfhistory | Leave A Comment »
Johnny Fryer was crowned the 2010 Quiksilver British National Surfing Champion on August Bank Holiday weekend.
Sep 16, 2010 | Categories: Surf Blogs | Tags: 2010 Quiksilver British National Surfing Champion, action, Annemarie Hughes, bay, beach, blog, Britain, british, British Champion, British Championships, British National Surfing Championships, British Surfing Championships, coast, cornwall, england, english, Fistral Beach, goofy-footer, holiday, Image, iow, IOW Surf Club, isle-of-wight, Johnny Fryer, Newquay, NewquaySurfer, photo, photographs, photography, Picture, Quiksilver British National Surfing Champion, Quiksilver British National Surfing Championships, Roxy, sea, stoked, surf, surfers, surfing, waves, wight | Leave A Comment »
Surfing backlit waves at Compton Bay on a late summers evening.
Sep 16, 2010 | Categories: Online | Tags: action, back-lit, bay, beach, Britain, british, coast, compton, england, english, holiday, Image, iow, isle-of-wight, jason swain, photo, photography, Picture, sea, silhouette, speed, summer, surf, surfers, surfing, tourist, UK, vacation, waves, wight | Leave A Comment »
what do you think of the various designs i’ve come up with for the ‘wight surf history’ project t-shirt ?
Sep 15, 2010 | Categories: Online | Tags: design, designs, history, ideas, iow, isle-of-wight, jason swain, surf, surfers, surfing, t-shirt, UK, vote, waves, wight, wightsurfhistory | Leave A Comment »
Last weekends swell seems a lifetime away already, there’s been no decent waves since then, and there’s none on the horizon, we’re definitely having a boom-bust cycle with surf this year!
Sep 11, 2010 | Categories: Online | Tags: action, back-lit, bay, beach, Britain, british, coast, compton, england, english, holiday, Image, iow, isle-of-wight, jason swain, photo, photography, Picture, sea, silhouette, speed, summer, surf, surfers, surfing, tourist, UK, vacation, waves, wight | Leave A Comment »
That’s it now, the last batch of surf photos from the last big day, maybe we’ll get another good swell now that they are all gone.
Jun 11, 2010 | Categories: Surf Blogs | Tags: big-wave, blog, canon, england, freshwater-bay, groundswell, isle-of-wight, jason swain, photography, photos, prints, report, soulsurfing, surf, surfboards, surfers, surfing, UK, wave, waves, wetsuits, wight | Leave A Comment »
Part Five of the ‘you should have been here yesterday’ photo blog from February 6th at Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight.
May 28, 2010 | Categories: Surf Blogs | Tags: big-wave, blog, canon, england, freshwater-bay, groundswell, isle-of-wight, jason swain, photography, photos, prints, report, soulsurfing, Stand Up Paddle Board Surfing, SUP, SUP Surfing, surf, surfboards, surfers, surfing, UK, wave, waves, wetsuits, wight | Leave A Comment »
iphone blog taken during yesterdays 2010 Walk the Wight, in aid of the Earl Mountbatten Hospice.
May 17, 2010 | Categories: Surf Blogs | Tags: blog, Earl Mountbatten Hospice, hipstamatic, iphone, jason swain, moblog, photography, photos, walk, Walk the Wight, wight | Leave A Comment »
Of course, miracles might happen and either the erosion will stop where it is, and one lane of the military road will remain open
Mar 20, 2010 | Categories: Surf Blogs | Tags: blog, blogged, brook, closure, compton, debate, erosion, Isle of Wight Council, isle-of-wight, jason swain, Jill Wareham, military road, photography, report, road, surfers, wight | Leave A Comment »
my photos are in this years official 2010 ISLE OF WIGHT accommodation guide.
Feb 25, 2010 | Categories: In print | Tags: 2010, Aaron Rudd, accommodation, ad, advert, advertisement, andrew swinton, blog, brochure, debate, design, encouraged, england, english, February, flickr, GB, gowight.com, great britain, green, guide, Image, In print, interactive, island, isle, Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce, Isle of Wight Tourism, isle-of-wight, IWCC, jason swain, longboard, longboarder, longboarding, news, photography, praise, promotion, published, s0ulsurfing, social network, surfer, surfing, The official 2010 ISLE OF WIGHT accommodation guide, tourism, tourist, UK, united kingdom, vectis, ventnorblog, wave, wight | 1 Comment »
It was the swell that kept on coming for days
Feb 17, 2010 | Categories: Surf Blogs | Tags: B&W, big-wave, blog, canon, england, freshwater-bay, groundswell, isle-of-wight, jason swain, photography, report, soulsurfing, surf, surfboards, surfer, surfers, surfing, swell, wave, waves, wetsuits, wight | Leave A Comment »
the offshore winds created plenty of critical sections
Feb 13, 2010 | Categories: Surf Blogs | Tags: big-wave, blog, canon, england, freshwater-bay, groundswell, isle-of-wight, jason swain, photography, soulsurfing, surf, surfer, surfers, surfing, swell, wave, waves, wight, wipeout | Leave A Comment »
Another random selection from the swell on Saturday 6th Feb
Feb 10, 2010 | Categories: Surf Blogs | Tags: B&W, big-wave, blog, canon, england, freshwater-bay, groundswell, isle-of-wight, jason swain, mono, photography, report, soulsurfing, surf, surfboards, surfer, surfers, swell, wave, waves, wight, wipeout | Leave A Comment »
a random selection of shots from the hundreds i took on Saturday
Feb 08, 2010 | Categories: Surf Blogs | Tags: big-wave, blog, canon, freshwater-bay, groundswell, isle-of-wight, jason swain, photography, report, soulsurfing, surf, surfboards, surfer, surfers, surfing, swell, wave, waves, wight | 10 Comments »
More from the day when it was ‘just right’
Feb 02, 2010 | Categories: Surf Blogs | Tags: blog, canon, freshwater-bay, groundswell, isle-of-wight, jason swain, paul blackley, photography, report, soulsurfing, surf, surfboards, surfer, surfers, surfing, swell, wave, waves, wight | Leave A Comment »
new www.wightsurfhistory.co.uk website launched on the 28th January 2010
Jan 29, 2010 | Categories: Online | Tags: history, isle-of-wight, photography, screengrab, screenshot, surf, web, website, wight, wight surf history | 2 Comments »
Was it just good luck or good karma, or was huey (the god of surf) in a good mood because we were paying homage to all the surfers who came before us?
Jan 20, 2010 | Categories: Surf Blogs | Tags: blog, exhibition, freshwater-bay, isle-of-wight, mono, photography, report, soulsurfing, surf, surfboards, surfer, surfers, surfing, swell, wave, waves, wight, wight surf history | 1 Comment »
the best adrenaline rush was to had flying down the islands hills
Jan 11, 2010 | Categories: Surf Blogs | Tags: blog, bodyboarding, landscape, snow, snowing, soulsurfing, vee-dub, vw, wave, waves, wight | Leave A Comment »
Still finding photos from the good swell of a few weeks ago
Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Surf Blogs | Tags: blog, canon, england, freshwater-bay, groundswell, isle-of-wight, report, soulsurfing, surf, surfboards, surfer, surfers, surfing, swell, wave, waves, wight | Leave A Comment »
The big swell continued through thursday and the sun came out too
Dec 11, 2009 | Categories: Surf Blogs | Tags: blog, canon, freshwater-bay, groundswell, isle-of-wight, report, surf, surfer, surfers, surfing, swell, wave, waves, wight | Leave A Comment »
double overhead sets at Freshwater Bay can seem pretty intimidating when you come face to face with them
Dec 10, 2009 | Categories: Surf Blogs | Tags: "big wednesday", big-wave, blog, canon, england, groundswell, isle-of-wight, report, surf, surfer, surfing, swell, wave, waves, wight | 1 Comment »
The Power of Flickr – liz earle newsletter. This shot of Lee Webster surfing at Freshwater Bay in March 2007 was used to promote the ‘Naturally Active skincare’ range for the Liz Earle website, newsletter and printed brochure
Jan 08, 2009 | Categories: In print, Online | Tags: advert, freshwater-bay, isle-of-wight, liz-earle, surfer, surfing, wave, waves, wight | Leave A Comment »