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Russell Winter Wins the 2015 Night Surf Championships

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Russell Winter proved he’s still got what it takes to compete at the top level, with a convincing win at the Nightsurf contest at Fistral Beach in Newquay at the end of May.

The 39-year-old former world tour surfer from Newquay took his third Nightsurf title in foggy and very challenging conditions, watched and supported crowds of surf fans at the iconic surfing beach.

Great e-mail from a stoked Ollie

2012-07-13T13:15:00.001+01:00

Surfed the board today for 4 hours couldn't get enough of it!
It's absolute madness, even in the 1 to 2 foot waves today, it just kept going..!
I am super stoked about it, just like Pascal and some other locals that wanted a go on it.
I surfed it quad set up (thanks for the fins!), got any tips on what kind of fins I have to try to get some variations?
Ps: thank the artist for the awesome paintjob!!!!!

Tom Good With his new Super Model

2012-04-20T15:26:00.001+01:00

This is Toms new board that we have been working on for a while with him. He is down in France putting it through is paces check here for more news and the release of the new SUPER MODEL.

Holly Having fun in Morocco this winter.

2012-04-19T16:02:00.001+01:00

Tom Good “Grommethood”

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The video captures many cheeky moments of Tom's Grom years!

Plus a pumping edit from the Mentawais filmed by Timmy Boydell.

Finished off with a fine measure of French beachbreak barrels.

Hope you enjoy TG

Think this says it all really.

2012-03-02T14:17:00.001+00:00

Andy cant keep these Bullets in the shop.

2012-01-27T15:00:00.001+00:00

Troggs.com

Michael has just popped into the store and invested in a 5'8 Russell Winter 'Bullet Model" shaped by the legendary Nigel Semmens. Michael called Nigel from the shop yesterday for advice and then managed to get a sneaky couple of waves at whiterocks yesterday on the board that Ross just bought. I myself Im riding one of Nigels flying machine bullet models and Im stoked on it. We have more leaving Nigels factory today. We will have some demo models soon for customers to try, and we can offer a custom service through the shop for any of Nigels boards waiting period approx 2-3 weeks.

— with Michael Johnson

The Bullet boards flying in Ireland.

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Troggs.com

Delighted Ross came into the shop and bought a new Bullet NS model today, gave him a spin on my board last week and he loved it, so he's stoked and I'm stoked, he's gonna hit whiterocks now

New Magic Carpet for Rosco

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This is the new Magic Carpet for Rosco 7'6'' x 22'' x 3'' hope you enjoy mate and have lots of fun.

Tassy on her winter training in South Africa.

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Tom Winter Training in Portugal

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TOM GOOD 2011 Well done mate.

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Hi Nigel, Tom is currently training down in Portugal, scoring some real good waves including a great day at Coxos early this week. Tom plans for this season are to compete on the ASP Pro-Junior tour, where he was the 5th highest placed Brit last season. Prior to that he has Qualified for the Volcom European finals, taking place in Anglet early Spring 2012.

Above is a shot from a French photo shoot (riding N/S 5'9" F-16) & an article is scheduled to appear in Wavelength this Spring

Below is a round up of a very successful 2011 season, thanks for continued support!

Results 2011 Aged 17

British junior team Peru WJSC

1st place Volcom sidfish UK junior

1st place British college championships

1st place Harlyn Classic Open

1st place Harlyn classic junior

2nd place Quiksilver Welsh nationals junior

2nd place Red Bull take 5 team challenge

2nd place Etnies Spike memorial

4th place British nationals junior

5th place Volcom European finals

5th place Quiksilver Welsh nationals open

5th highest ranked Brit junior ASP pro-junior Europe

Sam Harwood 2011 great little grom.

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Custom Art Work

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Nice looking Mal

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Nice high performance Mal on the way to Salt City Exeter.

Semiseco boards ready for Germany.

2011-12-05T17:03:00.001+00:00

Here are some nice little 5'4'' and 5'7'' boards all ready for one luck guy called finn from Germany hope you like the boards.

Thomas Evans on his new Apachie 6’2’’

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Thomas on his new board he brought today from Troggs surf shop. NS boards are stoked to be working with Andy and Troggs again

http://www.troggs.com/News.aspx?NewsID=14

— with Thomas Evans.

Tassy Swallow looking all stoked.

2011-11-16T13:10:00.001+00:00

This is Tassy with her new board it is 5’11’’ x 19 1/2’’ x 2 3/8’’ We would like to say well done Tassy on your recent Win at the UKPSA tour event at Fistral. Nice one NS Boards first on the podium again.

Russ takes the lot and looking very smart.

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The 8th annual UK Surf Awards in association with UK Pro Surf Tour took place last Sunday (13th November), at Esplanade Hotel, in Newquay. These awards celebrated British surfing in 2011, the winners following categories were:

1. Rookie of the Year 2011 – Winner Taz Knight (Croyde) NS Boards Team

2. Wavelength Most Promising Junior 2011 – Winner Luis Eyre (Manchester)

3. Carve Aerialist 2010 Winner – Winner Reubyn Ash (Bude)

4. Surf Girl Most Up and Coming Female Surfer 2010 – Winner Lucy Campbell (Woolacombe)

5. Most Improved Surfer 2011 – Winner Stuart Campbell (Woolacombe)

6. Manoeuvre of the Year 2011 – Winner Micah Lester (Aus / Newquay)

7. English Surfing Federation Best Grommet Award: Winner Angus Scotney (Newquay)

8. Best UK Prospect Award 2011 – Winner Liam Murray Strout (Port Issac)

9. Skinners Surfers Choice Award 2011 – Winner Russell Winter (Newquay) NS Boards Team

10.UKPSA Services to the Sport of Surfing 2011 – Winner Matt Knight (Croyde)

11.Ignite UKPSA Best Surf Judge 2011 – Winner Mike Durkin (Newquay)

12.Christian Surfers Sportsman Award 2011 – Winner Micah Lester (Aus)

13.Most Inspirational Surfer 2011 – Winner Russell Winter (Newquay) NS Boards Team

14.British Championships Ambassador Award: Winner Ben Skinner (St Agnes)

15.Tiger 24 Brand Award – Winner (Commercial Brand supported surfing in the UK) Winner Relentless

UKPSA Trophies:

UK PST Under 12 Open Champion 2011 – Winner: Liam Murray Strout (Port Issac)

UK PST Marley Mellow Mood Trophy for Under 16 Girls Champion 2011 – Winner: Lucy Campbell (Woolacombe)

UK PST Marley Mellow Mood Trophy for Under 16 Boys Champion 2011 – Winner: Will Davey (Lanza)

UKPST Groundswell Trophy for Pro Junior Champion 2011 – Winner: Luis Eyre (Manchester)

UKPST Nalu Beads Trophy for Women’s Champion 2011– Winner: Hannah Harding (South Devon)

Relentless Super Series Champion 2011: Winner: Russell Winter (Newquay) NS Boards Team
UK PST Open Champion 2011- Winner: Russell Winter (Newquay) NS Boards Team

The event was a great success and rewarded surfers from across the UK for their achievements in 2011. It included images and videos highlighting the highs and lows of the year and culminated in the Marley Mellow Mood After Party.

Russell Winter stole the honours receiving four of the awards on the night including the prestigious UK Pro Surf Tour Open Title.

Many thanks also need to go to Nalu Beads who supported the final Women’s event on the tour and the Women’s Tour Champion

Tribute To Russ. Some great words by Ester Spears.

2011-11-13T19:17:00.001+00:00

Tribute to Russ

Posted on November 11, 2011 by estpix

Congratulations to Russel Winter who won three titles yesturday in one epic day of surfing at a thumping Fistral Beach, which was a strength-sapping and grinding 4 – 8 feet and classic conditions for the season deciding final event on the UK Pro Surf Tour. Russ won the final Relentless Energy Drink Super Series contest to clinch the UKProTour title for the second time by beating the main contender, Gordon Fontaine, and united the championship title with the 3 event Super Series title by besting Micah Lester by three clear final places.

Russ was a teenage sensation (he won the British Cadet, U-16,title at the tender age of 12!) and by the time the very first issue of Carve was smacking down on the pavement outside of British newsagents in 1994 he was helping himself – still only 18 – to Grishka Roberts’ European Professional crown. The king of Europe then set about the established Pacific nation’s surfers in true bulldog style, from a launch pad of 186^th on the WQS he qualified for the CT three years later with the help of a mainly British group of sponsors.

Those three pioneering years on the grueling QS tour defined the man. It was a steep learning curve but the boy from Newquay toughed it out through thick and thin and clinched his CT place with a characteristic committed performances but his first year on the Dream tour was hampered by a knee injury suffered at Margaret River. The following year he re-qualified with single minded vehemence sealing his place with a massive second place finish in a six star event in Rio against all Brazilian opposition on their home turf. Frustratingly he was sidelined again with a serious illness after being wounded at Teahupoo but earned the ASP injury wildcard for the following season. The year was 2001 and was probably the pinnacle of Russ’s competitive climb to the top; he was looking every bit the top 16 surfer he aspired to be, with memorable wins over Occy at J-Bay and Taylor Knox in big Sunset. Unfortunately it was also the year that Al Queda decided to attack the twin towers and Russell’s home events, the European leg of the Dream tour, were cancelled.

Russell’s gung-ho spirit surfing has seen him dogged by injuries in the later part of his career on the CT but when things come together he still rates with the best in the world, his victory at the six star Highland Open in 2006 proved that. He is a natural competitor and still competes on the WQS ‘home’ events but he now has other priorities being a family man and embarking on a coaching career. For the past two years he has competed on the #UKProSurf Tour and has shown the grommets the step up needed to compete on the world stage. Whenever he competes he draws a crowd and you can often see them wince when he smashes his blazing top turn, “pound for pound he is the most powerful surfer in three foot” as Slater once said, and that is certainly still true today for British surfers as it once was for world tour surfers – and his recent blistering display at Tynemouth proved that.

As for comparisons with Slater, who is still on top of his game well into his thirty’s, well Russ certainly is by far the most difficult surfer to beat in the UK, you really do have to have a good day to get anywhere near him, and his tactical nous and confidence are second to none, (which is very slateresque). Russell has been on top of his game for twenty years and shows no sign of letting up, the man is a living legend and quite simply THE best UK surfer ever.

Pictures from the Relentless SS Fistral event taken on Canon 5D w/ 70-200mm f2.8 IS

Click on the image to make it bigger

Nice little 6'6'' for winter.

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Check Russ out in the Finalls at Lynmouth

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What a great final British surfing should be proud.

5'8'' x 18 3/4'' x 2 1\4'' Tonny Hooftman.

2011-11-06T11:50:00.001+00:00

Tony's new board hope you like it mate this should keep you worm for the winter you will be going that fast.

Russ Winter gets a second at Lynmouth.

2011-11-02T22:58:00.001+00:00

Russ got a great second at lynmouth on what was the highest scoring final ever. Takes him one place closer to winning the 2011 tour NS Boards and Russ flighying on his Bullet Model.

Visions of a life time.

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