Archive for April, 2010
Paddle4Relief continue to promote the surfing talent of Sri Lanka. In particular P4R provide support, advice and sponsorship to the Arugam Bay Surf Club and it’s talented members. 2009 saw young surfer, Milan, show off his potential during the UK Pro Surf Tour Champion of Champions competition. Milan initially showed off his natural talent as a junior in 2005/2006.
Here we can see Milan trying out the 5′10″ Rusty Aido given to him by P4R Founder, Tim Tanton.
Milan still has a little way to go before he can overcome the super talented Asanka - Sri Lanka’s No.1 surfer.
Arugam Bay’s other top surfers Sril and Pranith complete the villages top four, but keep an eye out for the up and coming talent of Atha. These young surfers will be putting their skills to the test during the WQS Sri Lanka Trials Event to be held on 16th/17th June 2010, ahead of the WQS 6 Star Main Event that starts on 18th June. The trials event will determine the top 8 surfers from Sri Lanka, who will go thro to compete on Day 1 of the main WQS event to establish Sri Lanka’s 2 Wild card entries.
April 30th, 2010
would like u 2 take a minute 2 watch this video as what we take for granted, is something that many others can’t!! http://vimeo.com/10756110
April 30th, 2010
would like to thank chris @ Errantsurf for their huge support - http://blog.errantsurf.com/2010/04/19/wax-on-wax-off/
April 21st, 2010
In one of the brief moments I was actually awake from Columbo to Arugam Bay, we encountered a typical Sri Lankan RTA. As we atempted to weave through the carnage of buses and trucks we were met with the scream of an injured girl. Her mother cradleing her in her arms, we stopped transferred the girl quickly into our van and the driver accelerated away with more urgency than ever to get the girl to hospital. We were fortunate that the hospital was only about 15 mins away. In this time we were able to establish that the girls leg or knee was broken and that she had been hit by a lowloader on her way to school. Any attempt to calm the situation was met by panic. The poor girls screams continued drowning out any other noise and her leg continued to be thrown about. Unfortunately this kind of panic where people have accidents and are just picked up and thrown about unitl they reach a hospital, most likely a great distance away, is far too common. We were helpless in trying to improve the situation through our lack of fluent Sinhalese in a situation with this much panic.
Once we arrived at the hospital we were met by even more confusion and panic with the staff running around looking confused and dazed whilst mothers with their sick children came out to watch. Once the girl was safely inside the hospital we left to continue our trip wondering what the outcome would be for this poor girl.
April 14th, 2010
After spending some time chasing monkeys away from the garden and watching Tim play with his catapult, I think thats what he likes best about the monkey chasing! The main monkey decided to get his own back. Running and attacking three times giving Tim a very good look at his gnashers. Tim only had one shot left as he stood beneath a tree with a monkey coming ever closer continuing to snarl, and still he wanted to play Indiana Jones!! With me thinking that maybe a trip to a dodgy hospital might be on the cards, I was far too slow with the camera. But imagine the scene a monkey in the tree snarling not giving up and a not too disimilar monkey on the ground in a very nail biting stand off. But with encouragement from Gayani, Tim took his last shot and proudly hit the monkey right in the solarplexus (his word!).
April 13th, 2010
look Jules look! check out the p4r homepage and links to see jules and stuart http://www.thesidewalkanthem.com/home.html
April 3rd, 2010
