Newquay ex-pat and multiple English, British and European champion Lee Ryan pinged us an e-mail yesterday from his new pad in New Zealand to let us know he has just finished the second volume of his “Shortcut to Longboarding“.

Luckily for us he also sent over some examples of the contents of the e-book, which has a mixture of video, photos and well written content about the art of longboarding.

Lee has produced a world class work on longboarding that equals anything yet written about learning to surf and especially … Continue Reading

Extremehorizon Distribution, are pleased to announce their collaboration with Newquay based, Errant Surf Travel & Instruction.

Errant are to work with the Extremehorizon distribution product and brand range hosting the first Cornish Test Centre for selected brands, including Northcore, Matunas wax, Slosh wetsuit shampoo, Raptor fins and Powerstroke Bungee cord surf trainer. The range of products will also be made available to Errant’s surf school clients not only to try for themselves but to purchase.

Errant was founded by Chris Thomson and is now Europe’s leading surf holiday company, offering surfing holidays in Bali, Barbados, Morocco, Spain, Newquay, Maldives … Continue Reading

Busy day today at our surf school in Newquay. We had the final lifeguard exam for our March “Cross Step” Course, 8 young people out of work and education have been trained to become British Surfing Association surf coaches and NARS Beach Lifeguards since the start of March, at no cost to them.

Today was the full exam NARS Beach Lifeguard Award, and everyone did extremely well in the surf and on land. Especially Megan Burns, who despite only training on the rescue boards since 1st March had one examiner commenting on her being … Continue Reading

The UK’s first ever Flow Rider* has finally been installed 10 miles outside of Newquay at the Retallack Resort. Last weekend Errant head surf coach Chris Thomson from the Newquay based Errant Surf School took time out of the ocean to train 12 students to coach clients who will be staying and surfing at the resort this summer.

Chris has spent plenty of time demoing the Flowrider on two Royal Caribbean cruise ships, where the Flowrider is … Continue Reading

Spring is in the air, this weekend we hit the beach with our Newquay based longboard coaching weekend. Both Saturday and Sunday we scored fun, small clean waves in the morning and honed our skills in the coaching room in the afternoon’s. Focusing on trim, cross stepping, generating speed and turning seven surfers left with a bag of tips for the coming summer season. Not to mention a bag full of Science in Sport products, a CD packed FULL of professional images shot by surf photographer Ben Jones and a DVD full of video clips.
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The second Real Ideas Organisation “Cross Step course” run by Errant Surf Holidays is in full swing today. The course which started on Monday will last four weeks, when 10 students will graduate with their NARS Beach Lifeguard Award and BSA surf coach award, and a better chance of employment for the coming year. Yesterday was a stunning afternoon in Newquay, Cornwall. Calm seas, and a warm (ish) winter sunshine. The guys hit the water for some tube rescues, board rescues and an introduction to spinal management.

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Coasteering is a fine mix of climbing, ocean swimming, rock jumping and finding your way across the coastline by any means possible.

Sounds like fun on a flat day! Well new for 2010 Newquay Coasteering open again ready for a new season.

If you fancy giving this exciting new adventure sport ago, then check out Newquay Coasteering.

Of course, that is if you’re not to sleepy from surfing in Newquay!

Coasteering in Newquay

If you are heading down to surf with us at our surf school in Newquay you can now view the location of each of our accommodation options in our interactive map. You will find a breif description of each accommodation option with a direct link to the main webpage about Newquay.

If you have any questions drop us a line. We look forward to surfing with you in Newquay.

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Learning to surf in Newquay is great fun, with mellow waves breaking on dozens of beaches. Newquay is the UK’s surf city, with non-stop surfing action all year round. … Continue Reading

Errant Surf School and lessons in Newquay is a 4 star approved British Surfing School offering surfing courses for all abilities from absolute beginner to advanced surfer. We provide all the surfing equipment that you require and can offer surf lessons at various surf locations including: Watergate Bay, Great Western and Fistral beach in Newquay, Cornwall.

Errant Surf Holidays has a surfing for everyone policy and over the last few years we have coached several young surfers to British surfing team standard, we have also arranged the logistics for their overseas training and events in Morocco and … Continue Reading

Ratings’ Leader Daniel Ross Dominates Day 3 of Relentless Boardmasters

Fistral Beach, Newquay — Competition entered its business end today at Newquay with excellent four to five foot (1.2 to 1.5 meter) waves greeting the event’s leaders as the first One-to-one battles got underway. While competition moved from the end of Round 2 through to Round 4 in high performance fashion, current ASP World Qualifying Series (WQS) ratings’ big names were able to deliver … Continue Reading