East Coast Surf Club, Ireland

Happy New Year to you all!! Here's to a great 2023! 🍾🍻🥂

Happy New Year!

Epic holiday number from Alan Grundy on the 6 string 🎅🤶🧑‍🎄

Santa's coming to Town Happy uplifting Christmas song - a real favorite.

Nice Christmas present idea from Enniscrone Photos 🤙🤙

beautiful sunset this eve !
ps .. Perfect XMAS GIFT !! if u would like this or any pic from our page to hang on your wall, just make a donation of your choice to North West Hospice and we will send you the full resolution image to print off Free of Charge !
https://northwesthospice.ie/donations/

Big ups to our friends over in Mauka Lodge - Paddle Surf Retreat 🤙🤙🤙. Anyone looking to progress in surfing on a Stand Up Paddle board get in touch with Tiago!! 🏓🏄

Ready For An Adventure?

Our 2023 SUP Surf Retreat dates to Portugal 🇵🇹 are now available on our website and spots are starting to fill up already!

We work with small groups (up to 5 Sup Surfers) in order to provide the best learning experience with loads of on and off-water feedback, thorough post session video analysis and on-water coaching.

More details about it at www.maukalodge.com

Few waves to be had in Sicily!! 😃 Molto bene!! 👌👌

Some stoked souls in Sicily

Photo Credit: Bruno Gaeta

Blame it on the boogie 😀😟🙏🙃😄

I loved been back in the Canaries but I couldn't miss the first Mully swell of the season. It was a beautiful early season swell and there were an epic crew of surfers on hand to share the waves. When surfing big waves you can often go an hour or more without catching a wave. So it is a good idea to keep moving and catching waves to stay in rhythm with the swell.

I took this wave based on that philosophy. It wasn't the wave I was looking for but it looked makeable and I went just to keep the blood flowing and the wave count up. I was firmly focused on making it to the channel and I had no idea of the chaos going on behind me. Thankfully waterwoman extraordinaire was in the right spot to capture a wonderful image of this wave.

Megan was very kind to share this image with me so I can share it with you.

Stay salty.

Some great work from our friends over at Glide Surfboards and surfboard repairs 🤙🤙

Cool little fish in the works atm with v cool inlay material!

Belated Happy Halloween 🍫🍬🍭🦇🦇🧙‍♀️🧙‍♂️

Happy Halloween 🎃

Have an awesome day!

We’re delighted to be joined by our friend for our coaching sessions this weekend. We’ve made a few extra spots available for Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning sessions. Get in touch if you’d like to book, an amazing opportunity to get tips from Irelands best.

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Some beautiful shots from Battle for the lake Achill Island Mayo Mayhem !!

Great new event for the groms !! 🤙🤙

Great stuff Jack!! We have to organise that group improvers session for some of the club members soon!! Good to hear alls going well, and good to see you are getting in Brian Parle for some sessions 😀 👍

Guns n Roses 🤙🤙🤙

Some of the roses surfing & having the craic down on Curracloe Beach this afternoon 🤙

Huge Congrats to Paul Byrne from Irishsup who's just been appointed Global CEO of the ASI!!

Competition Time 🎉🎉

10 Euro prize to the first ECSC club member who posts a photo of themselves here and tags the ECSC page!!

What a great piece of functional art!! 🤙 Rossnowlagh Beach

A new happy spot is born for generations to come.

... wowza 😲😮😲😮😶😀

Zoom 🧐🤳
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📹 swimming the maddest angles 🥇







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A bit of surf history!!

[Culture surf] Le Jersey Surf Club a été créé en 1923 par Nigel Oxenden après avoir découvert le surf à Hawaii. À l'époque, le surf n'est pas encore arrivé en Europe. Nigel et ses copains rament et surfent allongés sur de longues planches en bois. Pour eux « Se tenir debout sur la planche comme le font les surfeurs hawaïens est impossible ici »...
En 1958, l'île de Jersey embauche une bande de potes, des sauveteurs en mer, pour surveiller la plage de St Ouen. Ils sont les premiers à surfer debout, sur des planches de stand up surf en bois construites avec du parquet !

📸 Roger Mansfield

Rising Star of SUP! Great achievements so far Caoimhe, with no doubt many more to follow!! 🙏👊🤙

An interesting lineup for the new series of podcasts from The Surfer's Journal. Worth a listen! https://srfrsj.nl/TSJAudio

Happy new surfing year!!!

You can now renew your membership on our web site at the following link https://www.eastcoastsurfclub.com/membership/annual-membership

The club AGM will take place remotely the 28th January on Zoom.

We are looking for volunteers to join our committee! For any questions feel free to send me an email, [email protected]

Have a wonderful surfing year!!!

Annual Membership (Jan - Dec) — ECSC Please note, in order to process your subscription you must fill out the below form along with your subscription payment. For a successful subscription: Fill out the form below Then process your subscription payment This subscription will run from January through to December.

Please support this new skate park project, only 15 mins from Dublin on the M4, at Maynooth Skate, Board & Bike Park Campaign

We need your support please to get our skatepark. Please make a positive submission to help us provide this great amenity for our community. Please note that multiple submissions can be made from each household, as long as they’re over 16 years of age, and must be submitted before 4:30pm next Tuesday!!!
There’s a few steps involved. Click the Make a Submission button on this link and register an account.
https://consult.kildarecoco.ie/en/consultation/p8202106-proposed-redevelopment-harbour-field-maynooth
Once logged in, go to the Consultations tab and click the Proposed Redevelopment of The Harbour Field link.
Submission title can be Supporting Maynooth Skate, Board and Bike Park Campaign and maybe copy and paste either our detailed or shorter version into the body of the form.

Version 1 (short)

Supporting Maynooth Skate, Board and Bike Park Campaign;
A skatepark is a super idea in addition to the existing playground, however not in it’s place. There’s plenty of room for it elsewhere in The Harbour Field.
The existing slide structure should be saved and integrated into the new playground design.
I’d like to see a bike pumptrack similar to Shannon, without reducing the skatepark size. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij8KBs6pov0
We definitely need at least 1 if not 2 basketball courts.

Version 2 (long)

Supporting Maynooth Skate, Board and Bike Park Campaign, it’s great to have a skatepark/pumptrack included however we do not want it disrupting the existing playground. Leave the playground where it is, especially the slide structure. It cost a fortune and the kids love it. We don’t want the skatepark getting the blame for it’s removal.
There’s plenty of room for the skatepark, without reducing it’s proposed size, below the bus stop, or over near the shipping containers beside the harbour. The pump track section should even be bigger, similar to the one in Shannon, and would be much better value for money than the large green areas that will go unused for most of the year, as they do at the moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij8KBs6pov0
Secondly, there’s plenty of room for at least 1, if not 2 basketball courts. They’re hugely popular and removing them would be a tragedy.
The inclusion of gym equipment is a great idea. Maybe it could be positioned to provide passive supervision for the skatepark?
Anyone spending time in the area knows that the green areas are rarely used so there’s plenty of room for all the new amenities, keeping the best of the old and adding new ones, creating a vibrant area for all ages and abilities in our beautiful town.
Here’s hoping we can encourage a more resourceful and renewable design, recycled and reimagined for the enjoyment of our community, young and old.

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Scroll to the bottom of the page and Save. Then just click Submit.
Many thanks for your time and effort and we look forward to having the craic when we get built.

Your week end surf report from Surf Improvers

If I can't see you, you can't see me 🙈

Kai Lenny in a sticky situation at Sunset Beach 💀

New Irish surf film about the early days of surfing set against the backdrop of the Troubles. Kevin Cavey, Roger Steadman, Bo Vance feature as you'd expect. Kev Smith doing the cinematography. It's being premiered at the Belfast Film Festival. Looks great. Some Irish surfing gold over on their FB page. Trailer below.

https://www.facebook.com/100338132019857/posts/269162155137453/?sfnsn=mo

Keep It A Secret The story of the dawn of surfing in Ireland.

https://www.todayfm.com/podcasts/maireadronan/meet-the-donegal-man-nominated-for-ride-of-the-year?fbclid=IwAR2b18HCUF40X3Jg6usfdyAoeRn4F3siSzv-peJgPlYE1hi4_7mxrgMYa8w

Meet The Donegal Man Nominated For Ride Of The Year What makes a person want to paddle out into the Atlantic Ocean in the dead of winter and attempt to ride a 60 foot wall of water coming at you with the force...