Going from Fuerteventura 25º to Manchester snow ain’t fun fun fun. So this week has been a struggle. In these moments it’s good to get some Jim Phillips art in your world. One of the worst things ever is artists who paint surf waves wrong. Yeah St Ives gallery right back at you. Alas no problem for Mr Phillips.
After an ace week back in Cornwall at the folks I have fallen back into my lazy trap that happens everytime I return to Manchester when talking with northerners.
Northerner: Do your folks live in Newquay
Piran: Erm Yeah
Northerner: Did you go surfing
Piran: Yeah kinda
Due to my lack of love for un-needed detail, what I should say is “No they live 20mins down from Newquay on the A39″ and “No I go bodyboarding”. It has dawned on me that I’m doing a disservice to my bodyboarding brothers. Caught up in the generation that gravitated to the ocean from the world of skateboarding at Mount Hawk skatepark it was the technical spins, airs, drop knees and progression that made us opt for bodyboarding. Still not really in the mainstream, bodyboarding is where snowboarding was say 10 years ago, kinda.
Here’s the trailer from Brushed Aside BodyBoard DVD that was shot in Cornwall. My fave local is Damian Prisk as he still holds my record for the biggest air I’ve seen busted out at Porthtowan.
My fave move is the ARS, which stands for Air – Roll – Spin, Which goes alittle like this
Outside Cornwall in the big wide world bodyboardings equivalent of Tony Hawk is Mike Stewart and the current world champ is Uri Valadao (Brazil). Anyways here’s the big guns going for it in the Launch DVD …
Check http://www.kernowbodyboarding.co.uk if you’re into it.
