Last week, after a long time in lockdown, the Surfing England Adaptive (Para) Surf crew got together on Monday the 20th July in Porthtowan for a long-needed team catch up and surf!

Blessed with great weather and easy conditions, a lot of the core team made it for the day with some new surfers joining as well. We also had the great surprise of Bruno Hansen, Danish prone surfing world champion turning up to say hi!

It provided a great opportunity to look at equipment, technical aspects of surfing, and renewing and developing the relationships between the group as a whole.

The day was arranged by Andy Joyce, Surfing England’s Para Surf Team Manager and Melissa Reid, Britain’s first woman’s World Champion surfer (VI) at her home break of Porthtowan. We were grateful for the amazing support by the following companies and people:

-The Wave Project for organisational assistance and the use of their beach wheelchair.

-Spike Kane and The Wave for the use of the prone board for Tash.

–Snugg and Swell for the use of their boards and wetsuits.

–Caroline Kearsley Photography (ckearsleyphotography@gmail.com) for the amazing shots of the group featured here. For more of her work, click here

The team are looking at having another training session in September, stay tuned for more of the action!

If you are interested in finding out more and/or supporting the Para Surf team in any way, please do not hesitate to contact Andy ( +44 7941508531 or andy@surfsteps.co.uk)