The Collective Blog

There hasn't been a post here for ages, sorry about that, been busy and stuff...

Anyways, the collective will be going on hold for the time being,

we had a few submissions which are really worth watching, and I've got them all logged and safe for when this idea gets back on the go, in the meantime there will be a DVD or two coming out from the UK to look forward to,

anyone who would like to submit any more footage for this can contact me at garthwembury@hotmail.com and I'll let you know what's happening.

Cheers for now.

Ben

Coming soon:

A new idea

Well there was plenty of options for South coasters on Saturday, myself, James Diffey and Ben Poole hit a reef with the water shooting duties being shared amongst us and Bens brother Jason shooting from the land too, so there's a few waves to add to the bin.

Also looks like there were waves from all along the coast, so If anyone has footage of, or a story about Saturday the 22nd of Jan It would be cool to do a sort of "Day in the life of the South Coast" from a spongers point of view, I know that a little bit of footage was shot in Dorset, we've got some good stuff from Devon,

was there any waves in Brighton?

Did anyone film in Cornwall?

get in touch via a comment or e-mail to: garthwembury@hotmail.com

There's a few frames from last weekend up on the RSK site here: rskonline.co.uk/action.html
As you'll see it's from Cornwall, some Leven and some Porthtowan stuff, should fit in nicely with the other kernow footage we have.

I'm debating whether to do a South Kernow Vs North Kernow section, or just put it all in together, any suggestions much appreciated.

Other recent developments include the possibility of doing a company profile thing with Undaground clothing (undagroundbodyboarding.com), which would be cool, maybe cover their next photo-shoot day from a couple of angles and do a little bio of the company and riders,

If anyone else is interested in telling the story of their company/scene leave a comment or e-mail me at: garthwembury@hotmail.com

It could be a nice feature.

More updates soon I hope as tomorrow and the weekend look promising for a few places.

This post will be getting bigger too, as more footage is shot/sent in, I'll add as good a picture as possible of the unkown rider, and any extra details I have like Date/Location/board/fins etc.

If it's you leave a comment on this post and I'll add you to the list of riders.

1:
Location: West Wales
Date: 1st October 05, I'm pretty sure anyway

2:
Location: Porthtowan
Date: 19th November 05






3:
Name: Matty Allen
Location: Porthtowan
Date: 19th November 05





4:
Location: Porthtowan
Date: 19th November 05
Info: White board, was surfing with number 5





5:
Location: Porthtowan
Date: 19th November 05
Info: Number 4 above was on this wave before this point, I've probably got a better pic of this person.




6:
Location: Porthleven
Date: 13th November 05
Info: I think this is Matthew Davies, but I have some other footage from this day which I'll look over, a regular-foot DKer, and someone with longer hair and a red board I think, I'll post them up if there usable



7:
Location: Portreath
Date: 11th December 05
Info: this is Shep's mate from the Basque country I think.





8:
Name: Paul Eddelstone (spelling?)
Location: Portreath
Date: 11th December 05





9:
Name: Tim ?
Location: Portreath
Date: 11th December 05





10:
Location: Porthtowan
Date: 19th November 05
Info: He was surfing with numbers 4 and 5.





11:
Location: Sennen
Date: 19th November 05
This is a bit of a long shot, in all ways... There was a few spongers out, I got a couple of other waves, not sure if they were all this guy or not.




12:
Location: Porthtowan
Date: 19th November 05
Performing a flip off the back at this point





13:
Location: South Coast
Date: 13th November 05
Surfing with number 14





14:
Location: South Coast Kernow
Date: 13th November 05
Died blonde hair, doing a lot of DK.





15:
Location: Porthleven
Date: 13th November 05
Might be Nick Whitehead, anyone know?





16:
Name: Evans
Location: Spot M
Date: 7th November 05
Is this Evans?? Yes it is.




17:
Location: Spot M
Date: 7th November 05
Surfing without a leash





18:
Location: Spot M
Date: 7th November 05






19:
Name: "Side"
Location: Spot M
Date: Ages Ago
This one's from Matts old footage, so no idea about date.




20:
Name: Chris Vehar
Location: Porthleven Pier
Date: 13th November 05
Phil Houghtons mate, I think I asked you about the surf when you'd got out.





So there's 20 to be going on with, but this post will be updated, and the identities will be put here and in the riders post too.

As you can see A few people have been partially or wholly identified by Chris Levi, I've coloured their details orange so you can tell at a glance who's now known.

The permanent links to the posts can be found directly beneath them, there's a "#" symbol which links to the post, and also in the "Previous" section of the sidebar on the left.

This post will have a list of all the riders that are going to be on the DVD, that I know, it'll be updated as new footage is accumulated, and I'll put up an "Unkown" gallery soon, so people I don't know can be identified.

I'll do it in alphabetical order based on surname, if I don't know someones name I'll just use what I know, apologies for spelling and other mistakes, feel free to correct me if you notice one.

here goes:

1. Alex Allen
2. Matt Allen
   
3. Steve Brown
   
4. Ali Daniels
5. Sean Daniels
6. James Diffey
   
7. Aaron Dinham
8. Damien Dinham
9. Paul Eddistone (spelling?)
   
10. Evans
11. Chris Fletcher
    
12. Dan Goddard
    
13. Matt Hawken
    
14. George Heron
15. Hilly (Cornwall)
    
16. Mitch Holmes
17. Phil Houghton
18. Keith (W Wales)
    
19. Chris Levi
20. Laurie McCall
    
21. Chris Milford
22. Ben Pascoe
23. Sam Perry
24. Ryan Phelps
    
25. Ben Poole
26. James Preselo
27. Damien Prisk
28. Matthew Pritchard
29. Ryan Sheppard
30. Mark Side
    
31. Lewi Skinner
32. James Sutton
33. Rich Tebbs
    
34. Stu Thomas
35. Tim (Portreath)
    
36. Danny Wall
37. Franky Whitwell

So look out for the unkowns gallery soon, I've probably forgotten some, so check back or give me a hint as a comment.

About time for another post, Merry Christmas everyone,

I'd have liked to say I was too busy surfing, but I haven't, dealing with knackered cars and christmas meals etc. instead.

Managed to get one decent surf in over the christmas period though, evidence of which is on the rsk site here: http://rskonline.co.uk/action.html

We got a few waves from two angles, so I'm thinking of doing this session as a one-off short section, maybe with some electro sounds.

Talking of sounds, any recomendations for music for the collective?

currently I've got these artists picked out:

Michael Jackson
Annie Lennox
Max Tundra
Beastie Boys (a mash-up mix of intergalactic)
Wizo
The Ramones
Mount Sims
Frank Black
Basement Jaxx

and possibly:

Panic! at the disco
Gravy Train
Stevie Wonder

so any suggestions along those lines, or completely different?

The Collective is a Bodyboarding DVD, which aims to show off bodyboarding from all over the UK, so if you're reading this you're probably interested in the subject, so This post will eventually become a definitive list of UK bodyboarding websites, I'll start with the ones I know, and if you want yours added, or you know one that I haven't put up here yet, leave a comment on this post and it'll be added ASAP:

(In No particular order)

• kernowbodyboarding.co.uk - Good forum, regular updates, online-store, photo's and vid's from mostly cornwall but also the UK and world.
• rskonline.co.uk - my site, buy the RSK DVD, pictures, a couple of vid's and build your own housing details.
• jointhecollective.co.uk - find out about the collective project.
  
• pronebodyboarding.com - a few pic's, and mail-order details for Prone clothing, not updated for about a year though
• 360mag.co.uk - ThreeSixtys site is pretty good actually, but not updated very often, and when it is it's just info on the latest issue. Best part is the Orcashop:
• orcasurf.co.uk - takes you to the same page as the above URL, link to the shop, probably the best UK truely online surf/bodyboard shop. Good deals and a pretty good selection, getting better too.
• v-vid.com - Brighton based Bodyboarding site, updated fairly often, some nice pictures, some profiles, and the other usual stuff, the clothing range is growing all the time.
• mainlyboogie.co.uk - Flash based site, centred around Bournemouth, lot's of pic's from Cornwall and France, videos. Really nice design, not too frequently updated though. Don't bother if you're on dial-up.
  
• eastdevonbodyboarding.co.uk - a few pic's from the OPC comp, a forum and other stuff, growing...
• bodyboardhq.co.uk - a good site, lots of info, a good guestbook, a forum, some galleries and a vid or two I think, the shop bit is updated quite a lot, but the pic's and stuff aren't really.
• pbase.com/prisk/action - not updated for quite a while, good to see the rest of the photo's from sessions that didn't get into ThreeSicty, and often to see the pic's before the mag' comes out.
• k-town.co.uk - some pics of the Devon coast, go to the surf galleries and video pages for the bodyboarding pic's, nice design, but the forum doesn't seem to work for me.
  
• bteambodyboarding.co.uk - don't really know anything about this one apart from it's based in Newquay, some nice pic's and vid's featuring almost exclusively wedges, so can't be bad. Don't know if it's regularly updated or not?
• groups.msn.com/BODYBOARD-HQ/homepage - the BBHQ MSN group thing, there's a chat room, but you have to be a member, and each time I've logged in I've been the only one...
• www.yeahyou.com - some bodyboarding pic's a few of them are on the Kirstin Prisk Pbase page, haven't really had a proper look, just a gallery really, not maintained anymore I think.
• robbarber.com - learn to bodyboard
• jerseybodyboarding.com - frequently updated, nice layout, I haven;t looked at it before, but it's good.
• undagroundbodyboarding.com - a clothing label, site's OK, graphical interface can grind a bit if you're on dial-up, only just come online so can't tell if the updates are frequent.
• redefynd.co.uk - I hate the name!!! why oh why oh why spell it all crap!! I can never remember it, not that it matters at the mo' as it hasn't been updated forever, there's an ABC trailer, but everyone would have seen the whole thing by now anyway.
• Can't find the scottish one that was around the other day, bodyboardscotland isn't there anymore apparently.
  

Know of a site that's not here? leave a comment about it and I'll put it up.

I hope someone reads this some time, I'm going to post links to it on a few message boards soon. I'd like peoples views on this idea:

I made a version of RSK (called RSK Turbo*), which I could
carry around with me wherever I went, in my Wallet. Here it is:

It's an 8cm DVD-R that you use in those crap DVD video cameras, the capacity is 1.46GB, compared to a standard DVD-R's 4.7GB, so I had to take off the extra features like 2nd audio and commentary tracks and the slide shows, but it's got the whole video on there, with fully functional menu's.

So the question is... who'd buy a pocket version of "The Collective", or any other sponge vid?

just think, you're at a party and you're chatting to some female:

You: "yeah, I bodyboard"

Her: "OH, I've done that! it's fun, do you think you'll ever do real surfing?"

You: "Have a look at this DVD"

Her: "wow, that's loads better than stand-up, you're cool"

You: "shyu, wanna hit it?"

Could also use a light-weight plastic clam-shell type holder/protector for it and make it a key-ring or something. Sell them for about 1/2 the normal price, or as part of a special package.

Anyone who wants a custom mini-DVD of RSK or their fave vid get in touch, reasonable price: garthwembury@hotmail.com

and leave a comment about this, good idea? or lame?

* little known fact: the only other reference to this is on George Herons Bodyboarder.com page.