Ground Swell

How would you like to be part of the management team for a national UK Junior Pro Surf Tour?

Groundswell, The UK Pro Surf Association and Chew TV are investigating the possibility of creating a dedicated Web TV Channel to promote junior surfing and will be helping to organise a competitive tour across the UK for junior surfers in 2010, which will be run by junior surfers. That means YOU!

You will be working with some of the hottest talent in the design industry, as well as surf industry professionals, to develop a brand new promotional campaign for emerging surf talent with young people producing all of the video, image and text content for the new Web TV Channel.

This basically means that young surfers at forthcoming UKPSA events will learn how to document themselves and their friends surfing, whilst gaining the skills needed to promote themselves online, showcasing their surfing and media talents to the industries worldwide! The films are intended to encourage more of the UK’s young surfers to work within media, and submit their own films of them surfing, putting the UK groms on the map!

Chew TV will also be running other workshops, so you can learn the skills needed to administer content online, building up your media literacy in an area that is becoming increasingly relevant within the surfing industry and is a viable backup career plan.

So if you fancy kick-starting a career in project/ event management, journalism, photography, filmmaking or of course surfing! Then get involved. We will be looking to recruit a team of twelve keeno’s aged 13-19 to be the management team that will pull it all together, with the help of trained professionals, that cover all of the above areas.

Please email Josh Hughes (joshhughes1@btinternet.com) if you’re up for it and we’re going to be meeting in Newquay on Thursday 10th December at 5pm, so put the date in your diary.

This week Ground Swell CIC will be launching our new credit scheme to keep track of dedicated members, and reward them with free overseas trips and other great opportunities.

In short, the more involvement you have with Ground Swell the more GS Credits you will receive. For example people enrolled on the six week (every Saturday) Surf Media Course will gain 800 credits. If the same people turn up each Tuesday to our GS hang outs (more details to follow at the weekend) then they will gain 50 GS credits each night.
Every couple of months, Ground Swell will be putting on free surf trips.

In the past these have been to Lanzarote, Spain and France. These trips will have a GS value of anything between 1,000 – 4,000 credits. You can exchange your GS credits for these trips.