Presidents Rant - 16/01/12

Happy new year to all you hotdoggers out there from the clubs committee. Just a little piece to bring you up to date with whats going on out there in the surf world and the club for 2012.....

Firstly I would like to oppologise for the lack of newsletters through out 2011, my work commitments made it very difficult for me to allocate the time to get them sorted but this year we are getting the web site up and running 100% and regular updates every week will keep you informed of the clubs activitives. We will need input and photos to keep it looking good and interesting so please help us out with this !!!! The clubs AGM went smoothly and alot of positve feed back will be put into action , below are this years committee and i would like to welcome VIKKI LEWIS as the clubs new chair women. BOB FRESHWATER , STEVE HART , ERIC DAVIS , ASHLEY BRAUNTON , ANDRE GREEN , GREG ROBINSON , PHIL HILL and NORMAN WRIGHT as club president.

MEMBERSHIPS are now due and forms can be downloaded from the website or can be picked up from the beach cafe, if you need me to post one please text me 07787 906525 and i will pop one in the post. At the moment SGB the present replacement for the BSA are not engaged in acting as a governing body for british surfing and are not an option on our membership form, we have tried to contact sgb many times by all means and received no reply and untill we know what is going on we will abstain. I will keep you informed of any developments as and when they happen. The British Longboard Union is still powering on and as always we will be supporting the organisation 100% and hope to see a few more new faces at the contests this year, if you need any info give me a ring.

NEWSLETTERS will be a thing of the past, hopefully with more of the committee being involved the site will be updated at least once a week if not more. All the committee members contact details will be on the site so if you need help in a certain area you can call them direct and help you out. Everyone will get membership cards and club stickers near the end of febuary so please hep the club by sending your memberships in asap....

Contest dates for the club and blu will be on here shortly..., We will be providing some hot food for competitors after the contests on the beach by the leg-end chef ronnie biggs on the saturday so please come along. There will be four league events this year and it will be your best three results that count, we will be also combining the underdogs to run with-in the league so the contests will run over TWO days......

The 60`s stylemasters will go ahead in may this year over one day and the following day will be a junior training session with THE BEN HAWORTH. The juniors had two training sessions in 2011 and were coached by the top two longboarders in england, BEN HAWORTH and BEN SKINNER........ so hopefully they will put that experiance to good use, we have quite a few very talented juniors in the club and we will keep pushing them in the right direction.

BRITISH LONGBOARD CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011..... A massive result for the club at last years event with all top four slots being dominated by our own teams, big thanks to everyone who surfed and helped out at the event which was followed in the evening by our usual `END OF SEASON BASH` at cook island. Special thanks to all the staff at cook island , dj matt , dene valley coaches and all the sponsers who donated all the prizes for all the league divisions and the raffle. ANIMAL , NORTHCORE , SECOND SKIN , SURFED OUT , O`NEIL , VW , DUDLEYS , INDO BOARDS , TIKI , MONSTER .

If i have forgotten anyone please believe me when i say we appreciate you all for supporting the hotdoggers. This years BLCC might be hosted by the RN/RM WAVERIDERS down at gwithian and will keep you posted as and when, also a big thanks to all the other clubs who took part, scarborough,bristol,shore surf.

RESULTS BLCC 2011.
1ST = HOTDOGGERS - A TEAM
2ND = HOTDOGGERS - MASTERS
3RD = HOTDOGGERS - JUNIORS
4TH = HOTDOGGERS - B TEAM

HOTDOGGERS CHRISTMAS RAFFLE WINNERS .... 2011

SIMON MITCHEL = OXBOW TEESHIRT ,
JOHNY HENTLY = ANIMAL SWEATSHIRT
ALAN REED = MONSTER BEANIE / TEESHIRT ,
STEVE TIDEY = OAKLEY SWEATSHIRT
GREG ROBINSON = HOODED VILLIAN SHIRT ,
ANDY WEBB = EDDIE WOULD GO /BOOK
DANIEL SAILSBURY = GUL HAT/NORTHCORE BAG ,
SHAWN MARLOW = OXBOW SCARF
ED WOOLNER = SALOMON DAY SACK ,
MARTN SCRACE = ROOF RACK PADS
PAUL VOWLES = ANIMAL HOODY ,
VIKKI BURLEIGH = ANIMAL WATCH
MARK CROWSLEY = MONSTER BEANIE ,
AKIKO IWASA = MONSTER TEESHIRT

SURFSURFSURF....... Steve and sarah Day have come on board to support the club and have put a discount scheme together for club members on there online surf shop. They used to be called chaos surf shop and are from minehead and have had several shops in the past so they know what they are talking about and have the experiance to match. You will get 10% discount on anything you buy online and if you pick it up you will get a total of 15% discount, they are only at high bickington and easy to find. There is a code so if you text me i will give you the code to use when paying, they are in the process of organising the shop so in the future you can go and have a look around. www.surfsurfsurf.co.uk

2012 Hotdoggers Membership

Click here for a printable membership form (PDF).

Click here for a printable membership form (WORD DOC).

MOROCCAN SURF ADVENTURES

Have stepped in alongside `SECOND SKIN` as sponsors of our contest league for 2012. They have offered a weeks surf camp, fully inclusive (excluding flights) for the top two in the open division for 2012. This has been written in stone and i will underwrite it myself. Big thanks to both of these sponsors for supporting the hotdoggers....

Denny and Nigel from moroccan surf are based in the village of `TAMRAGHT` which is 2kms south of tagahzoute just up above banana point. Denny is from the bantham area and nigel is from croyde and both are very experianced surfers, nigel cross also worked in second skin which is where most of us know him from.

I have done two trips with denny a few years back and i am looking forward to re-visiting,i will be organising a pre-christmas trip and a late winter excursion if your interested..... Both trips will be a week long and fully inclusive with a hotdoggers discount scheme in place, a week plan for the group targeting the waves best for mals with some new spots right down south in the desert on the cards. The food is always good and the beer ice cold so a new venue for next years surf trips.

Providing your a member of the hotdoggers you can go any time you like and the club discount will count. check out the website www.morocsurf.com or call norm 07787 906525

SAT 5TH NOVEMBER 2011. BRITISH LONGBOARD CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS. This years event was run at saunton sands as opposed to scarborough where it was due to be held. The scarborough malibu club had a few problems so the hotdoggers took it on and the contest was called on. We had twelve teams from the five clubs that took part, scarborough , bristol , shore surf , rn/rm , hotdoggers, with the hotdoggers on home turf fielding no less than six teams we had a team from each of the league divisions from our contests.... open , masters , juniors , ladies, plus a `B` and `C` team. The bristol and scarborough teams had two teams and shore and royal navy/marines one each, with the surf forcast looking ok the battle was on.

The contest is in its 11th year now and still going strong and the biggest gathering of longboard clubs at any one time, the most important part of this contest is having a laugh and enjoying the vibe. Surf conditions were 3-4ft and quite heavy and the rip was running fast making it easy to get out back,all the teams had their superstars in and some big scores were had with ashley braunton just edging ahead by 0.1 ahead of ben haworth. It was an early start with the first heat in the water at 08.30am with 25 minute heats and 18 heats to get through to be finnished before dark.

Our very own hotdogger, battlefield trained chef ronnie biggs turned up at lunch time and provided everyone with a lovely hot curry which warmed everyone up no end. With Annie davies on tabulating,nigel muir as beach marshal, bob freshwater as head judge,greg robinson as contest director and norman wright as contest organiser everything went as planned. 72 contestants and not one missed their heat, the surf got smaller as the day went on the wind eased so a pleasant and dry day. Big thanks to northcore who made sure everyone got a free airfreshner and o`neil for the use of their gazebo and flags. It was the hotdoggers who took all four top slots with scarborough,shore and the rn/rm doing all the chasing.

RESULTS:
1ST - HOTDOGGERS - A = 85.6 POINTS
2ND - HOTDOGGERS MASTERS = 58.9 POINTS
3RD - HOTDOGGERS JUNIORS = 57.4 POINTS
4TH - HOTDOGGERS - B = 57 POINTS
5TH - SCARBOROUGH - A = 56.3 POINTS
6TH - SHORE SURF = 45.5 POINTS
7TH - RN/RM = 44.9 POINTS
8TH - HOTDOGGERS LADIES = 37.1 POINTS
9TH - HOTDOGGERS - C = 32.9 POINTS
10TH - BRISTOL - A = 31 POINTS
11TH - SCARBOROUGH - B = 27.5 POINTS
12TH - BRISTOL - B = 25.6 POINTS

Big thanks to all the teams and everyone who helped put it all together, the RN/RM`S have expressed an interest in hosting next years event.

Final League Placings 2011

The final 2011 Hotdoggers league placings are released.

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