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Become a Beach Break Rep!
Are you the 'Go To' guy on campus? Do you know everyone? Like to make a buck and have fun?
Then you need to be a Beach Break Live! Rep...!
To find out more, hit this link: http://www.beachbreaklive.com/en-uk/content/view/175
If you are a Club President or Team Captain, email this guy
Then you need to be a Beach Break Live! Rep...!
To find out more, hit this link: http://www.beachbreaklive.com/en-uk/content/view/175
If you are a Club President or Team Captain, email this guy
BBL REP
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BBL PROMOTER
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PROMOTIONS MANAGER
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The rep role is for people wanting to bring a group of mates
Anyone can be a BBL rep – Just fill in the form, don't worry about the long winded questions, just:
....if you are smashing it as a REP you can always chat to us about upgrading to become a promoter at a later stage.
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Promoters make up a core team in each city
There are a limited number of positions in each city. The position may require an interview – apply as soon as possible and we will talk through all the details. Paid positions are only available in selected universities, but we'll let you know when we call.
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Aka “the Grand Fromage” – there is only one PM in a University
As a PM your role is to make Beach Break HUGE(r) in your city. Recruit & manage your own team & deliver a bad ass campaign each term.
PMs are paid termly (in our core universities), earn commission on each ticket sold in their uni & earn bonuses for hitting targets each term.
Very limited positions available – emailbenoit@beachbreaklive.com for applications & sign up as a promoter in the mean time. We'll be hosting interviews post freshers.
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* If you are a committee member of a society select “society” as your rep type on your application. We will call you and talk through a bespoke society package for you and your members
The first batch of Early Bird tickets have sold out. The next ticket release will be on January 15th
We've planned your summer!
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Caravan for sale
We're going to be selling our mobile events HQ this summer, it's fully road legal and everything works.
(we have nowhere to store it and staff all going abroad from July onwards)
Anyone fancy it or know anyone that might?
It's perfect for use as a mobile office for a surf school or events company, the oven/sink has been removed and replaced with a working/desk area and the shower/toilet is now a surfboard rack. 2 x double beds which fold down from ample seating areas, and there's a whole bunch of built in storage. It has 2 brand new tyres and the spare is in great condition.
It's a 1993 caravan in sound condition, the graphics have been wrapped professionally by Perran Signs.
Offers around £1500 for the caravan
(the car is for sale as well, 2005 Mondeo Estate with tow hitch, 2.2TDCi in the highest spec including cruise control, privacy glass, full leather, 124k, full service history... Averages 48mpg but have seen 66mpg, will still return 36mpg when towing the caravan and is faster up hills WITH the caravan on the back than a Hyundai i20 with 2 people in it, as we discovered during the convoy to Croyde)
All enquries to joe@studentsurftour.co.uk
We're all about to get soaked
North Korea is the naughty little kid who's holding a waterbomb over the head of the younger brother who's asleep on a deck chair (South Korea), whilst the parents (Rest of the world) watch from down the garden giving them a look that says 'if you do it, you are in BIG trouble', knowing full well they can't reach the child to confiscate the waterbomb and if they try to use the hose it'll happen anyway...
Best thing in UK Surfing?
It's all banter and jokes when we get drunk and claim to be the best thing in UK surfing, but it's a bit different when someone else says it.
Pretty uplifting article to read after a long Easter Sunday, we at SST were pretty stoked to see this nugget in our Facebook news feed
(note - this genuinely isnt written by SST staff!):
http://groundswelluk.wix.com/gsuk#!all-that-is-right-about-the-sst/c1h1m
"The SST keeps me connected with regular updates interspersed with genuinely amusing anecdotes and the regular-ish photo of Alana Blanchard…"
Great to hear our social media marketing strategy is working...!
Pretty uplifting article to read after a long Easter Sunday, we at SST were pretty stoked to see this nugget in our Facebook news feed
(note - this genuinely isnt written by SST staff!):
http://groundswelluk.wix.com/gsuk#!all-that-is-right-about-the-sst/c1h1m
"The SST keeps me connected with regular updates interspersed with genuinely amusing anecdotes and the regular-ish photo of Alana Blanchard…"
Great to hear our social media marketing strategy is working...!
Don't click Like
What is Facebook coming to...?
Pretty sure within a year or so Facebook will just be a clutter of businesses using 3rd party apps to post and chat to each other, judging by the amount of companies in our news feed offering 'automated facebook posting services'...
Hopefully these automated businesses can sit and chat to each other on facebook all day long and those of us that are still real, genuine, warm, feeling, living, breathing human beans will have shut down our FB accounts and be on beaches drinking coconut juice and going surfing whilst those human beans that are cold and numb and brain dead will continue to click Like on automated facebook posts, sharing pointless images to win stock that doesn't exist whilst selling mobile phones or car insurance or working in banks or in PR.
Until then, why not take a look at our France trip?
It's going to be wickedbad fun and you won't be able to get on Facebook so you'll be forced to actually live life and have real fun (not just Facebook fun such as clicking like and share) because everyone knows Facebook friends aren't real friends and Facebook fun doesn't count.
You won't want to click Like or Share because you'll be in a pine forest in Southern France with real friends and real sunshine and real beers and having real fun, that you can like and share in real life with real people.
There is nothing automated about any of our posts, they're always from the heart, and if we say you're going to win a free T Shirt, you probably will... Except Kieran, because we still haven't got around to posting it yet and have run out of Large T Shirts, sorry buddy, we will make it up to you somehow...!
Big love kids, big love.
https://www.facebook.com/events/100648266785868/?fref=ts
Pretty sure within a year or so Facebook will just be a clutter of businesses using 3rd party apps to post and chat to each other, judging by the amount of companies in our news feed offering 'automated facebook posting services'...
Hopefully these automated businesses can sit and chat to each other on facebook all day long and those of us that are still real, genuine, warm, feeling, living, breathing human beans will have shut down our FB accounts and be on beaches drinking coconut juice and going surfing whilst those human beans that are cold and numb and brain dead will continue to click Like on automated facebook posts, sharing pointless images to win stock that doesn't exist whilst selling mobile phones or car insurance or working in banks or in PR.
Until then, why not take a look at our France trip?
It's going to be wickedbad fun and you won't be able to get on Facebook so you'll be forced to actually live life and have real fun (not just Facebook fun such as clicking like and share) because everyone knows Facebook friends aren't real friends and Facebook fun doesn't count.
You won't want to click Like or Share because you'll be in a pine forest in Southern France with real friends and real sunshine and real beers and having real fun, that you can like and share in real life with real people.
There is nothing automated about any of our posts, they're always from the heart, and if we say you're going to win a free T Shirt, you probably will... Except Kieran, because we still haven't got around to posting it yet and have run out of Large T Shirts, sorry buddy, we will make it up to you somehow...!
Big love kids, big love.
https://www.facebook.com/events/100648266785868/?fref=ts
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| Someone has real fun whilst Tim Borrow has fun capturing the fun on Camera so it can go on Facebook and be turned into fake fun for everyone to Like and Share and pretend they were there, but really only Tim and the surfer were there, and only the surfer was in the barrel... this could be you. |
SST Croyde - Photos
The following are all shot by Matt H-B of AUCB:
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| Joaquin Munoz (Plymouth) We know that because we recognise the board... |
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| Alex Johnston, maybe? And possible Matt Renshaw? |
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| Matt Renshaw? Anyone know? |
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| The surfer in Orange is winning in the 'get closest to the shore' battle. Sadly the judges don't use this criteria anymore |
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| Joaquin Munoz (Plymouth) |
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| Who's this? Can you get a bright spray on your board for the next event please? |
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| Joaquin 'I've got a bright orange board' Munoz AKA Pigeon (Plymouth) |
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| Josh Cleaver (Plymouth), who also has a bright surfboard |
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| Grab rail barrel much?! Who's this? Blue rash vest, Semi Final? |
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| Slotted |
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| Josh Cleaver (Plymouth) |
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| Pigeon... Again |
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| Matt Renshaw (Swansea) dropping in and... |
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| Getting pitted, so pitted |
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| BOSH! |
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| First ever surfing competition! Disqualified for having the rash vest inside out... Only joking, our sponsors pulled out becuase they're broke, so we don't mind! |
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| AUCB Surf |
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| Who's that, Pigeon again..? Cleaver? We reckon it's Pigeon |
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| Looks like Alex Johnson, and Matt Renshaw, and someone else... |
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| AUCB Surf |
This one time, at Croyde...
This is a Student Surf Tour Guest Contribution:
This one time, at Croyde…
The Croyde SST trip of 2013 will almost definitely go down
in history at Swansea Uni Surf Club. By the standards of the whole weekend we
started out pretty well; standard meet at carpark and off we go. Only problem
was, there’s always the one awkward bastard who wants to bring his longboard,
and by awkward bastard I mean me. After an hours delay the board doesn’t make
it and we set off with Captain Joe giving the mini bus praise for its cruise
control, the only praise it ever got believe me!
The moment we arrived in Croyde things started
to go wrong. After a pretty crappy surf at last light up at Putsborough we all
jumped in the bus to head down to Ruda to find that the mini bus wouldn’t start
with the battery being miraculously flat. After almost an hour of standing
around the car park in torrential raining failing to jump start the car we gave
up and phoned the RAC to come and rescue us.
It was definitely one of those
nights you see in horror films with the rain hammering against a window and the
wind moving the van back and forth and imaginations running wild, so it was a
big relief after 2 hours of expecting to be murdered when the RAC turned up and
sent us on our way. Caravan beds have never seemed so comfy.
The next day didn’t start well with the mini bus getting
stuck in the mud which resulted in very messy clothes and a pretty turned up
patch of turf (sorry Park Dean).
Sunday was when shit really hit the fan
though. It started off pretty innocuously, albeit with everyone nursing some
brutal hangovers most managed to get 2 or 3 surfs and another group decided to
go up to Woolacombe to check out a possible secret wedge.
Time was creeping on
and at 7.30pm those of us left at the caravan got a phone call from a random
number to break the terrible news that the mini bus keys had been lost to
Poseidon and that 4 of the group were stuck outside the mini bus, jogging
around in their wetties to try and ward off hypothermia.
Luckily we still had
one driver and a car left so they were sent out to pick them up, while the rest
of us set about panicking due to essay deadlines and in one person’s case, a
flight to America to catch….
The AA were phoned, and did square root of f*ck all as they
kept us on hold for about an hour and couldn’t break into the mini bus. At 12am
things still weren’t sorted and tensions were running high with the risk of new
job inductions being missed due to car keys being locked in the bus and the
small matter of the plane to America leaving in roughly 12 hours’ time.
It’s at
times like this that our mothers really do come in handy, with Matt Renshaw’s
mother coming to his rescue and driving up from Cornwall to get him home in
time for his job induction.
After just over 1 hour sleep though, running about
on a beach doing sprints and swimming out back in 4ft surf doesn’t seem like my
cuppa tea. The French contingent to our trip also rescued us with the guy who
needed to catch a plane getting a lift back to Swansea with them. That still
left about 9 of us left in Devon with no way of getting home and stress levels
through the roof.
The next morning was pretty hectic with several phone calls
to the Uni Sport Office and Days Rental and the AA. Once again the AA proved
their worth by doing nothing apart from offering to tow ONLY the minibus to
Taunton to a Ford dealership that could then have a key reprogrammed for a huge
price. That left us the small problem of getting 9 people plus surfboards from
Croyde to Taunton with no transport...
In the end it was decided to get a courier
to bring a spare key down from Swansea, again for a pretty hefty sum of money
and a long wait on the beach. It wasn’t all bad though; we saw Lyndon Wake
boosting some pretty impressive 360 air reverses that day and sampled the
wonderful pasties that Croyde has to offer and we did eventually get home by
1am on Tuesday.
If anyone does find a Ford key registered to CV62 VBK though
please send it to Swansea University, we could do with some luck.
Apart from everything going wrong though the
weekend was pretty sick, especially Saturday night which got pretty messy
thanks to Globe’s Show up and Blow up and big thanks to The Thatch too.
I would
say hope for the same again next year but a return to Croyde may be unlikely at
this stage, and to hope for another lost key would be idiotic.
Nice on SST, see you at Gwithian.
PS. The lost Mr Blobby suit has now been found, at least
that’s one less thing to worry about…
(Written by Harri Rogers)
Spot the Difference
Can you spot the difference? (Here's a clue - It isn't that the roof racks have been taken off the tow car)
Huge thanks to Perran Signs who are a right talented bunch and could wrap an image to pretty much anything!
SST Croyde - Winners!
Mens:
- 1. Joaquin ' Pigeon' Munoz (Plymouth)
- 2. Matt Renshaw (Swansea)
- 3. Josh Cleaver (Plymouth)
- 4. Alex Johnston (AUCB)
- 1. Sophie Hellyer (Plymouth)
- 2. Gabi Rowe (Falmouth)
- 3. Ellen Raymond (Bath)
- 4. Ioan Kathryn-Evans (Swansea)
- 1. Andy 'strip down' Pennock
- 2. Elliot 'old man' Withers
Full report, analysis and competition breakdown coming soon, league tables to be updated very soon, thanks everyone for coming, what a great weekend!!
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| SST Joaquin Munoz (Plymouth) and Sophie Hellyer (Plymouth) |
Men's Final - Barrel Fest
Men's Final, Matt Renshaw (Swansea) low tide croyde. Photo Matt H-B
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