by paul-wsh | May 29, 2012 | Surfer Profiles, The Noughties
Roger Cooper Roger Cooper started out as an apprentice with Dave Bulford working on Tractors and Combine Harvesters. Dave saw some magazine article about making a surfboard. Roger and Dave saw some postcards in Cornwall with surfboards on but didn’t see anyone surfing...
by paul-wsh | Apr 9, 2012 | Surf Blogs, Surfer Profiles, The Sixties
Before Rob Ward set off to Cactus I asked him about the ‘Elite Clique Surf Club’, Roger Mansfield and how his preperations were coming along. Elite Clique Surf Club – I can’t quite remember how it went but evidently we weren’t allowed to...
by paul-wsh | Apr 8, 2012 | Surfer Profiles, The Seventies
I suppose I have always considered myself a surfer. I was brought up in Joberg, South Africa, but holidays on the coast at Morgans Bay and Port St Johns near Durban always involved belly boarding on the wooden boards. It was in Port St Johns in 1970 that I spotted...
by paul-wsh | Mar 30, 2012 | Surfer Profiles, The Seventies
Rob has now made it down to Cactus but before he left I asked him how he was getting on with his preperations for the trip and about the early days of surfing cactus during the 1970’s and if he ever met Paul Witzig (Surf movie maker during the 70’s) who...
by paul-wsh | Mar 23, 2012 | Surfer Profiles, The Noughties
English Nationals “As for the Women it was Zoe Sheath aged only 15 who took both the Womens Open and Under 18 titles. Zoe pulled out big backhand snaps and floaters in the final to claim her prize as Headworx English Womens Champion. She explained “the standard has...
by paul-wsh | Mar 23, 2012 | Surfer Profiles, The Nineties
Chris Thomson grew up on the Isle of Wight, learning to surf at an early age with one dream, ‘surfing’. Chris left school at 16 and went to Newquay to live his dream, he became a surf coach and had a successful competition career with big name sponsors...
