Crest Surfcast

Crest Surfcast

por Tom Anderson
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Crest Podcast Ep55 - Welsh Nationals 2023

It's here! Season 4 is go, and it's kicking off with Rob and Tom's analysis of the 2023 Welsh. Held over the Mayday weekend, it turned into a real showcase of the state of Wales' surfing, and our presenters should know, having watched just about every heat as our team helped run the webcast with Camera Anchor (a.k.a. Craig Nicol). This full breakdown includes a comprehensive list of results, scores, anecdotes and interviews with Josie Hawke, Emily Williams, Patrick Langdon-Dark, Tom Fisher and Mark Vaughan. Produced by James Dodd Music Copyright James Dodd 2022
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Crest Podcast Ep54 - Christmas Special

The latest on Llewelyn 'Sponge' Williams' win at the World Games - a first in Welsh Surfing. Then we have a run-through with Producer Dodd and Tom of some of the last two seasons' guests' favourite memories of Christmas surfs. Plus, will there be a wave on Christmas Day? Or is it too early to tell... Produced by James Dodd Artwork by GS Design Co Music Copyright James Dodd 2020

Crest Podcast Ep53 - John Purton of JP Surfboards & goodbye Rhino!

The Season Three finale sees us chat to a very special person in Welsh and British surfing. John Purton has been shaping surfboards seriously for some half a century, and in that time has met, known and worked with some of the top athletes these shores have known. Involved from the first moments of the UK surf industry, we hear about the various labels JP has shaped under, and the characters and capers that have come along through a lifetime of surfing and shaping. As Rhino is moving to New Zealand, this episode doubles up as a special send-off for him - JP is one of the figures he has most wanted to sit down with for a podcast. To mark the special occasion, Camera Anchor Craig Nicol has worked with us to come up with a video edition if you're using YouTube. Thanks to all our 2022 listeners and see you again in Spring 2023! Video Produced and Directed by Camera Anchor Audio Episode Produced by James Dodd Music Copyright James Dodd 2022

Crest Podcast Ep52 - Hugo Tagholm

With more heat than ever on governments' approaches to clean oceans, sewage discharge, sustainability and plastic reduction, we catch up with one of the shining lights of surfing's ecological movements. Hugo Tagholm has decades of experience trying to hold power to account on behalf of the environment. Right as the SAS Safer Seas and Rivers app was in most headline bulletins for exposing the extent to which water companies actually use loopholes to pollute, Hugo spoke extenisvely with Rob and Tom (who'd also been asked to speak to the BBC the day before about the same story). Listen as Hugo reminisces about the history of the iconic organisation that is Surfers Against Sewage, his life in campaigning and what surfers can do to contribute to the crucial causes on which our oceans survival may depend. And, the question on every Welsh surfer's lips... when is the legendary Toxic Trophy contest making a comeback to Langland Bay? Produced by James Dodd. Artwork by GS Design Co. Music Copyright James Dodd 2022.

Crest Podcast Ep51 - Boardmasters Part Two: Groms & QS Update

In the second of Rob and Tom's dispatches while on WSL duty in Newquay, this is a celebration of a range of voices from the UK junior scene. During the Havianas Junior Open, beach marshall Tim Pitt let Crest run a pop-up interview station during Rounds One and Two of the boys' event, through which they managed to get the thoughts of a range of the competitors, including the eventual boys winner Jay Phipps and his father, shaper Mark Phipps. (The Havianas Junior Girls Open was won for the second year running by Gower's Alys Barton, who was interviewed as part of the live broadcast released last week.) Full list of interviewees are tagged in the Instagram post to accompany release. This episode also includes a studio-based update on how the Brits are standing in the European QS rankings after the 3000 event in Anglet, with the help of Logan Nicol, as well as a quick preview of his and others' upcoming trip to the Worlds in Huntington Beach later this month. Produced by James Dodd & Tom Anderson Artwork by GS Design Co Music Copyright James Dodd 2022 Episode recorded with thanks to Tim Pitt, Pauly Jefferey and the rest of the Boardmasters directing team.

Crest Podcast Ep50 - Boardmasters Part One: Live from the Booth

Having annoyed ears around Wales for decades, Rob and Tom were both fortunate to finally make their debuts as WSL rent-a-gobs last week at this year‘s Newquay Boardmasters Surfing Festival, after the event was given QS status again. A fitting fiftieth episode has emerged; a special Crest live which Rob did on Saturday afternoon, with the help of Callum Thomas, while the juniors were on hold for a few hours. This is a series of quickfire interviews which went out to the beach crowd, with a huge range of characters who were on hand in the competitors' area. We have simply uploaded the whole broadcast here, but if you want to pick out specific guests they are time-stamped in the show notes below. There will be another Boardmasters special to follow for September's First Tuesday's episode, featuring a huge list of UK juniors and a round-up of where the British Isles' surfers are sitting after the big three summer QS events. In the meantime, enjoy these candid chats with the following guests, for whose time we are eternally grateful: Gearoid McDaid - 2:22 Sam Hearn - 8:45 Alys Barton - 16:29 Joel Gray - 22:24 Ben Skinner - 29:36 Lauren Sandland - 40:17 Mark Boyd - 45:41 Phil Williams - 52:27 PLD & Logan Nicol - 1,03:00 Kerry Powell - 1,16:18 Gabe Llewellyn - 1,23:28 Eva Blackford & Lila Skinner - 1,29:24 Tegan Blackford - 1,34:07 David Nankivell - 1,36:22 Produced by Tom Anderson & James Dodd Artwork by GS Design Co Music copyright James Dodd 2022

Crest Podcast Ep49 - CELEBRATING SCHOF 1963-2022

In the summer of 2020 we had the pleasure of talking to Mark Schofield for a whole evening, covering his surfing life and his views on just about everything else we could think of. In March of this year, we sadly lost this colossus of the Welsh surfing community. This is a re-cut of the conversation we had with Schof back then, and a chance for us all to both enjoy his voice, and to feel the pain of losing this exceptional figure. There will be a paddle-out when those closest are ready, and Crest will of course share the info once we know. In the meantime, here is the man revisited, with love and gratitude to the Schofield family, forever in the hearts and minds of all the surfers who knew the legend that was Mark.

Crest First Tuesdays - Nick Hounsfield

It has to be the coolest moniker in surfing – Wavemaker. Nick Hounsfield is best known for being the person who brought surf stoke to the inland flats of northern Bristol. In one of The Wave's fabulous glamping pods, Tom and Emily caught up with the man who took the place from inception to conception. What made Nick one day wake up and decide he wanted to undertake such an ambitious project? What was it like showing these plans to the planning inspector who didn't surf? And how does he feel when that blue, almond-shaped barrel reels off with a stoked customer sitting on its foamball? Besides this, we also hear about Nick's surfing values and journey, as well as a general celebration of a place that has become one of England's outstanding surf zones. Produced by James Dodd Artwork by GS Design Co Music Copyright James Dodd 2022

Crest First Tuesdays - Patrick Langdon-Dark

An exciting adjustment to the promised schedule for this month, as for the first time since Carwyn Williams (we believe, at least) Wales is home to Britain's top ranked pro surfer. In case you didn't know, Pat Langdon-Dark is a young Gower goofyfoot who finished the year 13th on the WSL Europe leaderboard. It seems the prospect of a British, and indeed Welsh, surfer making it to some of the biggest events in the sport are very much alive. While popping into Porthcawl to watch the BLU contest, Pat sat down with Tom and Rhino to talk about his approaches, his plans and his response to the narrowest of narrow misses for a Challenger Series berth (so narrow that even the WSL posted he'd made it at one point!). Whether shredding Europe's beachbreaks, touring the motherland for new spots or charging the frigid slabs of the northern nations, Pat loves it all. Stand by for an extraordinary chat of stoke, technique and mindset. Produced by James Dodd & Tom Anderson Artwork by GS Design Co Music Copyright James Dodd 2022

Crest Podcast Ep46 - Jamie Bateman

Besides being one of the best surfers this land has known, Jamie Bateman has recently become Surfline's chief forecaster for the UK and Ireland. He's long been one of the most interesting guys you could sit down with for a chat about the ocean and its ways, but now he's officially employed in that capacity. In another video edition episode (thanks to Craig at Camera Anchor if you head to our YouTube page), Tom and Vaughanie catch up with Bateman to find out about his unique surfer's journey. Besides the mishaps and the accolades that make Jamie the legend he is, there's also a chance to find out how a Surfline forecaster goes about their business - well, the stuff they can tell us at least. Lots of lesser known facts about one of our favourite style masters, but will he answer Vaughanie's most important question of all: what's the surf like in...? Produced by James Dodd, Mark Vaughan & Tom Anderson Video edition directed and edited by Craig Nicol Music copyright James Dodd 2022
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