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South Coast Surf Championships Announced
August 24th, 2011IOW Surf Club Paddle Race
July 29th, 2011Alan Reed wins the prone & Tobi Donbavand wins the SUP paddle race division at the first IOW Surf Club Paddle race held at WighWaters on the weekend. Report to follow.
Isle of Wight Surfcam Webcam
July 11th, 2011Rapanui are testing out a new Surf cam / web cam set up for the Isle of Wight, with the view to roll out cams for the Isle of Wight Surf Club across the Island in the next year. This one is live from Rapanui HQ in Sandown and kindly hosted by Esplanade beach shop, friends of the Surf club and home of sandown’s best ice cream.
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Paddle Race 24th July
June 19th, 2011
Isle of Wight Surf Club Fundraiser Paddle Race
24th July (time to be announced) at Wightwaters Adventure Watersports Centre, Dunroamin Beach, Lake
SUP / PRONE PADDLE & TEAM EVENTS – BOARDS TO RACE ON ARE SUPPLIED
£5 ENTRY
Johnny Wins Saltrock Open
June 6th, 2011The Saltrock Open 2011 went off in style this bank holiday weekend and ended with crowning a new champion our very own Johnny Fryer!
For full report please CLICK HERE
The Harwood gets Crowned 2010/11 Rapanui Frostbite Series Champion !!
May 11th, 2011May Bank Holiday Monday saw the fifth and final event of the 2010/11 series take place at Sandown. After a poor run of swell no contest took place in April but a fortuitous Easterly wind-swell arrive at the start of May.
With strong winds & currents it was going to be about stamina as much as it was about surfing talent. The Juniors were first in to face the testing conditions. In the Final Dominic Anorld took a superb wave at the start of heat to beat the rising talents of Jamie King and the very talented Henry Holmes.
Robyn Forrest emphatically took the overall Frostbite Junior Series, with Dylan Hamlet, Dom Arnold and Henry Holmes all tying for Joint second and Jamie King third. It could not have been closer! Well done to all the Juniors and it looks like we will have a very competitive series for next year.
In the Open we had a great turn out of 18 competitors all vying for points in the league and the chance to win the last event of the series.
The first semi-final saw a stacked field of talent including; Al Reed, Joe Truman & Josh Jupe, all three surfers vying for essential points to finish top three in the league. Unfortunately, it was Joe who lost out as he just could not find two waves that would let him show his skill.
In Semi-final 2 current ratings leader Matt Harwood had to contend with Chris Mannion and Phil Skelly. In a tight heat Matt managed to win through with Chris taking the second spot. Skelley was incredibly unlucky though and throughout the series he has continued to improve and will no doubt be pushing for final berths next year.
In the third Semi-final conditions had further deteriorated with the tide and all the competitors struggled to find any good waves. But it was Rapanui head-honcho Mart Drake-Knight who took the win and Kyle Abram taking second.
The six man final took to the water in hard, small and difficult conditions. Matt Harwood started like a man on a mission catching as many waves as he could, meanwhile the others played a more patient game; Josh Jupe on his frontside found some good speed, bagging a couple of reos & attempted airs, Chris Mannion found some nice waves showing some good backhand turns & Al Reed catching a superb lefthander and executing a good backhand carve and floater – the final was looking to be a very close call. However, in the last five minutes Matt Harwood killed off any challenge with two good lefts, putting in some solid progressive turns in the pocket all the way to the beach to claim the fifth event of the series – his third win in the series, and the overall 2011/12 Rapanui Frostbite title!
Rapa Nui Frostbite Event 5 Bank Holiday Monday!
April 30th, 2011Rapa Nui FrostBite Event 5 Gets Green Light for this Monday!
Looks like we are going to be having some easterly swell this Bank Holiday Monday so it seems only fitting we have the final event of the series since December and April didn’t happen due to lack of swell on weekends. Meet at the Sundial Cafe (near toilets an…d just up from Monument in Yaverland direction) for 10 am meet. Be prepared to shift to Shanklin if swell is not big enough at Sandown. This will be the final event of the Frost Bite series and we have some good prizes lined up.
See you there tigers!
Open/Women/Groms
£2.50 club members
£5 Guests
£10 to join club first event entry free. 
Parko rings the bell !
April 26th, 2011JOEL Parkinson ripped the bag out of it to claim a a third win in stonking conditions down at the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach.
Parko Rings The Bell from Magicseaweed World Tour TV on Vimeo.
Alan Reed Wins Masters Div. in the British Longboard Union Series. Comp 1
April 19th, 2011Alan Reed won the Masters Division in the first competition of the British Longboard Union Series !
By all accounts it was a great weekend of surf & sun down west, and the competition lucked out with clean 3-5ft waves at Perranporth.
