We are incredibly proud to celebrate a decade of partnership with the Caravan and Motorhome Club this year and are so excited to announce dates for the 2024 English National Surfing Championships.
The vital funding the Club provides to us has supercharged the development of surfing. The main focus is the advances we have been making around the English National Surfing Championships.
The Club proudly headline the most elite level event in England, which currently runs as 2 separate weekends. A true highlight of the year, we look forward to seeing phenomenal multi discipline surfing action, and crowning its Champions.
For 2024, we are growing our priority event as part of our commitment to increase priority opportunities for surfers, and the development of the judging team. The growth of this event will see an extra day of competitive surfing and including the U16s and U18s shortboard divisions. It is paramount for these young surfers who go on to compete for Team England on the World stage to gain more experience surfing under priority.
For those new to priority, it essentially means that once priority is established, the surfer with priority (displayed using a board with rash vest colours), has unconditional right of way to catch whatever wave they choose. Other surfers can paddle for the same wave, but if the surfer with priority chooses to take it and another surfer is in the way, then a priority interference may be called. You can read a lot more detail in the ISA rulebook here, or we recommend speaking with an experienced coach to learn more!
Another exciting update for 2024, is the addition of further divisions to our 3 day double peak other Nationals weekend. We will run longboard, SUP surf, and bodyboard, as part of a cross discipline celebration of surfing and our community.
2024 English National Surfing Championships
Event 1:
What: Caravan and Motorhome Club English National Surfing Championships – PRIORITY JUDGING
When: Friday 12th > Sunday 14th April, with a back up date of Friday 19th > Sunday 21st April.
Where: Fistral Beach, Cornwall
Divisions: Shortboard only – Men’s/Women’s Opens, U18 Boys/Girls, U16 Boys/Girls
Event 2:
What: Caravan and Motorhome Club English National Surfing Championships – All remaining divisions – no priority
When: Saturday 4th > Monday 6th May, with a back up of Friday 17th > Sunday 19th May.
Divisions:
Shortboard – U14 Boys/Girls, U12 Boys/Girls, Senior (28+), Master (35+), and Kahunas (45+)
Longboard – U18 Boys/Girls, Men’s/Women’s
SUP – U18 Boys/Girls, Men’s/Women’s
Bodyboard – U18 Boys/Girls, Men’s/Women’s
Competition entry will open approximately 6 weeks ahead of the event and all Surfing England member’s will be reminded on email. We expect both events to be in high demand so there will be event formats released ahead of entry opening, with policy information on the process we will take if oversubscribed.
Please note surfers are only permitted to enter one age-based division across the 2 weekends. E.g. Surfers are NOT permitted to surf in the U16s and U14s shortboard and compete at both weekends. We encourage surfers to compete in their respective age division. If you enter 2 age divisions you will be withdrawn from the event.
You can join Surfing England here, for £18-£25/year, and our membership includes personal accident and liability insurance for surfing worldwide. As a member of our community, you are directly supporting the development of wave riding in England. To compete at events, you must be a member, so if your not already, sign up now.
We would like to give a huge thank you to all our partners who support the events program. To Caravan and Motorhome Club for headlining the 2024 English National Surfing Championships. And to korev lager, dryrobe, The Wave, Olaian from Decathlon UK, and MuscleFood UK. We always welcome new partners to Surfing England who wish to help supercharge what we do! Please get in touch to join us on the ride.
For any general enquiries, please contact info@surfingengland.org
For any membership enquiries, please contact lenka@surfingengland.org
Contributed by Hannah Brand, Operations Manager
