Ground Swell

…After recently passing her Cross Step course in Newquay she has gone onto work with the Falmouth Surf School in Cornwall.

Want to make your mark?

Want to see your designs on surfboards across the county?

Want to show people what learning to be a surf lifeguard or surf instructor is all about?

Then step up and get involved in Cross Step Blanks.

Cross Step, the lifeguard and surf instruction programme from The Real Ideas Organisation, is looking for a brand new sticker to plaster on the boards of our Cross Steppers and we want you to design it.

The rules are simple. You need to use the Cross Step template or ‘blank’ to design your sticker and it has to include the supplied Cross Step initials somehow. Apart from that, anything goes.

So long as it gets across what Cross Step is all about and the initials are in there you can do whatever you want – redrawing, illustrating, adding to or changing in any way you like using any colours, materials, styles and methods you choose.

The winning design will be made into professional stickers and distributed around the county and the winner will receive a batch of stickers to impress their friends and a goody bag too.

To enter, e-mail chris@errantsurf.com for a copy of the blank and get designing.

Send your final design as a jpeg, pdf or eps to marc.chadburn@realideas.org or post a print out to:

Cross Step, The Real Ideas Organisation, 21b Pydar Street, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2AY

along with your email address and phone number by the 14^th September to be in with a chance of winning.

For inspiration, news, photos and more information about Cross Step, check out our blog [blog address?] or www.realideas.org/real/ideas/crossstep

Good Luck!

Well done to Naomi and Mitch who have just passed the Beach Lifeguard award element of the cross-step award, it is a killer course that will set them up for a career in surf coaching or beach lifeguarding. The Nars beach lifeguard award was held in Newquay, the surf was good, which made the ocean rescues that little bit more challenging.

On the 22nd September 2009 we will launch the new Cross Steppers at the Errant Surf School base in Newquay, come join us and check out some of the other projects being run at the moment.