Fynn Gillespie

GB Cup 2025 Highlights Video

Highlights from both days of the GB Cup held at Thurso.

Boardmasters Surf Open - Day 3 at Boardmasters 2025

The annual longboard masterclass began on Day 3 of Boardmasters, with the LQS surfers shredding through the rounds of 32 and 24. With Fistral's sandbanks offering great scoring potential, the highest heat totals went to Portugal's Francisco Freitas as well as France's Alice Lemoigne, Justine Dupont and Roland Lefeuvre. Cornwall's own Sam Bleakley's cruisey style saw him progress to meet the seeded surfers in tomorrow's quarters, where several compatriots including Adam Griffiths, Ben Skinner and Emily Currie will be ready to also take on the world's best for the 2025 titles.

The day rounded out with the Pro Junior quarter and semi finals in amphitheatre high-tide conditions, and some mind-blowing performances from Brits Sunny Ingram and Calle Cruickshank in the girls. Particularly exciting was the world-class display from previous winners Lukas Skinner and Frenchman Jay Phipps, whose highly-anticipated clash in the final will be just one of the many highlights to look forward to on an action-packed Sunday.

Boardmasters Surf Open - Day 1 at Boardmasters 2025

The opening day of Boardmasters Surf Competition 2025 started with sunny, 3-4 foot waves with very contestable waves. The comp kicked off with 96 surfers in Round 1 of the Men’s QS….However it was Naia Monte who had the highest combined heat total of the day - out of the men and women!

In the Men’s QS Jamie Veselko was a great young talent scoring high along with Gaspard Larsonneur, Noe Ledee and Uri Uziel who settled into the Cornish waves with the some of the top scoring heats.

In the women’s QS Clemence Schorsch and Charlotte Mulley flew into the next round with some great sporting camaraderie by the girls.

We closed out day one with the Juniors where local legend Lukas Skinner took the win in the first heat with the youngest surfer of the whole competition Cassius Woudberg taking second.

Roll on Day 2…..

Cornwall’s Best Day of the Year So Far

“I haven’t seen it look like this in years.” Videographer Sam Northover-Naylor is better known by his online pseudonym, The Atlantic Walrus – due to him looking exactly like that in the water: his words, not ours. He’s also spent a good portion of his life living over the road from this south coast chunk of rock – and knows all details of past sessions. And yesterday, as he says, was special.

This swell, from ex-hurricane Kirk, launched up the English Channel and beyond, setting off a whole bunch of spots along the way — including this magical reef in the Duchy of Cornwall. Full story, here:
https://www.surfline.com/surf-news/watch-good-epic-%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%A6nwalls-dream-day/210767

Filmers: Rob Blackett, Sam Northover-Naylor, Tom Vaughan, Ben Hartley

Edit: Tom Vaughan

Boardmasters Open 2024 | Day Five Highlights

Day five saw the FINALS of the Boardmasters Open and what a result it was. 🏆️⁠
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With great swell and waves all week, the level of talent on display was spectacular. Double podium winner Lukas Skinner made history, battling Patrick Langdon-Dark in an all British men’s final for the first time in history.👏⁠
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In the Wild West Jerky Longboard series Edouard Delpero and Alice Lemoigne retained their titles as winners in a closely matched heat against their fellow finalists.🏄‍♂️⁠
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A huge congratulations to all the athletes across the competition and to all the team and sponsors that helped to bring the competition to life. Once again, another action-packed week at the home of UK surfing. 🌊⁠

Boardmasters Open 2024 | Day Four Highlights

It was a busy day down at the Boardmasters Open on day 4 with strong performances from the competitors in the Longboard, QS and Junior heats.

In the Wild West Jerky Longboard series we saw very high standards across the day with Sunday's final promising to be one of the best yet. Finalists include Delpero, Coret, Dantas and Skinner for the mens, with Lemoigne, Caimi, Grospiron and Ah-Kouen for the womens.

In the BYD Pro Noah Klapp and Tya Zebrowski battled to win spots in the women's final, while Wales's Patrick Langdon-Dark fought with everything he had to make it to the final alongside local legend Lukas Skinner to lock in an all British men's final for the first time in history also meaning we will have a British winner for the first time since 2002.

We closed out the day with the Junior Semi Finals with another surfer from the Netherlands, Douwe Robroch with local boy Fynn Gillespie making it into the final. Lukas Skinner continued to dominate, giving him the double up of finals with the QS and Junior. He'll be joined by another Welshman in the form of Elliot Barton.

More information and results: https://boardmasters.com/surfing/

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Boardmasters Open 2024 | Day Three Highlights

Day three at Boardmasters provided us with some great action in the Wild West Jerky Longboard and BYD Pro series.

Chunky sets saw the female longboarders enter the water in the morning with great performances from Mali Harbour, Lola Bleakely, Emilie Currie and Beth Leighfield which saw them go through to the semi finals. Meanwhile, in the Mens Longboard, Arthur Randell progressed into the quarter finals with the seeded round for day four.

The women's QS saw amazing surfing from Annette Gonzalez Etxabarri and Tya Zebrowski (who is 14 and the current under 16 European Champion) seeing them through to the semi finals.

The Open Men's QS followed the women who both surfed twice today. The competition saw outstanding performances from Patrick Langdon-Dark which comfortably saw him progres through to the Quarter Finals. Arran Strong got pipped to the post leaving Lukas Skinner and Noah Capps in Heat 4 to fight for the final places in the Quarter finals. Lukas Skinner then put on an amazing performance in the final heat of the day in the Quarters seeing him through to the semis tomorrow.

Today promises more action-packed surfing as we head into the final heats of the Boardmasters Open 2024. See you at the beach.

More information and results: https://boardmasters.com/surfing/

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Highlights Day 1: Animal Pro at Boardmasters

The Animal Pro QS1,000 officially gets Boardmasters action underway at Fistral with opening rounds disputed in clean little waves.

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Boardmasters OPEN 11 - 15 August 2021 | Mystic Junior OPEN

Boardmasters OPEN 11 - 15 August, 2021 - Watch highlights from the Mystic Junior OPEN where winners Alys Barton & Stanley Norman @alysloxleybarton took to the podium to be crowned champion! 🏄‍♀👑🏄

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RIP CURL GROM SEARCH 2021

2021 Grom Search held at Fistral Beach 11th-12th June.
The UK’s best junior surfers descended on Fistral Beach in Newquay to battle it in the 2021 Rip Curl Grom Search, hosted by Surfing England.

Having been forced to postpone the event to the back-up weekend, competitors were greeted with beautiful sunshine and fun contestable surf throughout...