Check out the offical Ground Swell Facebook page right here you can upload photos, stay in touch with other members, well you know what we are talking about as you’ve probably been using Facebook for ages now!
Hey folks. I’m looking for people who are interested in contributing to the ongoing success of A1Surf.com. We’re a big website, but only a small team working on it (despite being part of a large new media company). I’m therefore looking for people to help in the following areas:
* Design promotional online adverts (banners, buttons etc)
* Write articles, news, guides etc
* Upload content to our site and help promote it online
There is no money available for payment unfortunately, but what we can offer is the opportunity to be able to have some of your work on the UK’s leading surf website – a great thing for your CVs -plus you’ll get references if required. And I’m sure we can sort you out with some freebies too 
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If you have any skills in the above areas then please email david@a1surf.com, outlining what areas you are interested in.
…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 14th 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.
Now into its third week, three of the students share with us the ups and downs they have had on the course. Naomi explains “The course is wicked, I am learning new skills ever week. It is very hard and challenging but I am getting a buzz out of it,a nd am constantly improving my physical fitness and surfing level, not too mention my coaching and communication skills.”
Josh Wallis from Penzance goes on “The course so far is going great for me. I am really enjoying the surf coaching side of things. Since the group is nice and small I am finding it easy to pick up all the information I need, because a lot of the time it is almost private tuition. I would recommend this course to anyone who loves the sea. The instructors are really laid back and easy to geta long with. The course is held in a great location literally 30 seconds from town, and the beach.”
Tom Jarman is next to add his comments on how the course is going for him “I am getting to train in a industry that I would love to have a job in soon. I can’t imagine a more constructive way to spend six weeks in the summer! Travel costs are paid for, which really helps me get to Newquay to do the course.”
Last week we launched our first Cross Step course run in association with The Real Ideas Organisation. The students from Newquay, Penzance and Falmouth completed a number of lifeguard training skills, both in and out of the water. This six week course is designed to enable people who are not in training, education and employment. The students will finish the course having completed their NARS beach lifeguard award, BSA surf coach award and mutliple skills in presentation, media, coaching, CV building and much more.
Thanks to Keeley, Nicole, Maizie, Jess and Jazz for making the surf trip to Spain so much fun. Kerry, Josh and me all had a great time and hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Hope you can get over to Fistral at the weekend to help out with A1 promotion stuff. Bring any photos you got from Spain and we will get them up on the site. Let us know what you thought of it and congratulations for passing your level one awards. level two next? CU soon
A1Surf.com has become one of the founding partners of Groundswell, a new not-for-profit organisation for young surfers in the UK.
Groundswell was set up with the aims of inspiring and educating young surfers aged 13 -21 in Britain.
With surfing as the backbone of the foundation, Groundswell will provide education in many areas such as marketing, business management, entrepreneurship, video editing, beach life guarding, surf coaching and PR to name a few.
Using short workshops and on-going projects with well placed work placements in the surf industry Groundswell will set out to bridge the gap between young people and employment in or around the surfing and tourism industry.
Groundswell will also make professional surf coaching accessible for young up and coming surfers, who may miss out on more mainstream opportunities due to lack of finance.
A1Surf.com will help promote Groundswell to its large community of surfers, as well as aim to offer more hands-on experiences.
David Somerville from A1Surf.com said: “Groundswell is an organisation with some great aims and intentions.
“We will help to spread its message to our online surfing community and also offer some practical and educational experiences for young surfers.
“We are really proud to be on-board supporting Groundswell, especially if it can help inspire more young surfers to progress within the industry and competitively too.”
Chris Thomson, one of the team behind Groundswell, said: “The Groundswell team are very happy to have A1Surf.com onboard as a business sponsor, offering up more opportunities for our groms via work placement and coverage for the surfers hoping to build a better CV be it for employment or a professional career in surfing.”
