SAVE THE DATE – 2024 Muscle Food English Para Surfing Open at The Wave, Bristol – ENTRY OPENS THURSDAY 23RD MAY
Competitor Registration will Open Thursday 23rd May at 17:00 for the highly anticipated 2024 Muscle Food English Para Surfing Open. The contest takes place Thursday 4th – Friday 5th July at The Wave, Bristol.
With a serious commitment to para surfing, we return to The Wave for the fourth time to run the English Para Surfing contest to be hosted at this epic wavepool. For 2024, we are elated to be running 9 ISA Para Surfing divisions, as well as 3 Open divisions. The open divisions are only for surfers who are UK based and do not have classification. The aim of these sessions is to offer an experience of competition to emerging para surfers.
CONTEST INFORMATION
Surfers from breaks across the World are welcome to travel and compete as we bring together the para surf community.
The contest heats of the 2024 English Para Surfing Open will take place on the Advanced setting, You can find out more about the advanced wave and watch a video on this here.
Competition will take place between 3pm – 6pm on Thursday, and 10am – 2pm on Friday, with presentations to follow shortly after.
ISA Para Surfing Divisions will cost £45 (any surfer Worldwide with an ISA classification)
Open Divisions will cost £35 (for surfers who do not have classification – UK based only)
Entry is via LiveHeats and you can enter HERE. We anticipate high demand for this event and recommend entering as soon as possible. Team England athletes will be prioritised for space. Ahead of entering, it is essential to read the full entry information and event format please CLICK HERE.
Aside from the contest we have a stop of our Para Surfing Roadshow, supported by Saltrock, taking place on Thursday 4th July at 18:00. This session will be for people with a physical disability or visual impairment to come and try surfing. Find out more here.
INTRODUCING OUR BRILLIANT HEADLINE SPONSORS
We are delighted to be working with Muscle Food for another epic event in 2024. Muscle Food are all about high protein, healthy eating, that is affordable. The brand has a range of pre-prepped meals, meats, high protein cookies, bars, and more. Check them out here.
VOLUNTEERING AT THE PARA CHAMPIONSHIPS
For Coaches/individuals interested in volunteering at this event, we will be looking to work with experienced people who have previously completed a Surfing England Adaptive training session or can demonstrate other relevant experience.
We will be looking for volunteers to support either one or both contest days, but please be aware priority may be given to volunteers who are able to help on both days if we are oversubscribed. This ensures consistency of volunteers for our surfers throughout the contest.
Volunteer Support Roles:
- General Water support – Support surfers when they wipe out (if required). Competencies in adaptive surf/lifesaving/surf coaching required.
- Land support – we are also looking for volunteers to support where required, i.e., informing surfers of their scores (from live heats), helping surfers with heat times, changing (if requested), and general support to the athletes.
- Water/Land – Assisting with transfers from land to water and back to land. Be stationed with one of our beach marshals to support this position and be prepared to get wet with the transfers to water. Lifting may be required.
- 1:1 Pushers – For prone assist surfers, pushing the surfer into waves from the advanced take off point. Volunteers will be pushing from out back. Swimming will be required throughout. This is a skilled, experienced role.
- Catchers – Mainly for prone assist surfers, as they come into the shallow water, to help them back onto boards if they wipe out, and help the transition to getting out back, locating the surfer’s allocated pushers. You must be a competent swimmer for this role.
- Visually Impaired surfer support – A guide to assist the surfers in the water, to verbally help with where to paddle, and when the wave is coming to take off. Assisting the surfer get into the correct take off position. Please let us know if you have experience in supporting visually impaired surfers and could support these athletes.
At all times, The Wave will have trained lifeguards on duty.
- To register your interest to volunteer, CLICK HERE to complete the Volunteer Registration Form. This must be completed by Monday 24th June at 10.00am. If you have any questions about volunteering or wish to discuss, please contact lauren@surfingengland.org
- Volunteers will be confirmed by Wednesday 26th June at 17:00, and we will be aiming to welcome as many of you as possible to join us! We always welcome people to come down and watch the contest too.
THE CAMP AT THE WAVE
Awesome safari style tents are available to stay in onsite at The Wave, for ease to and from the waves.
Tents hold up to 6-8 people and are made up of a double bed, 2 bunk beds and a double sofa bed, and all 25 safari tents are accessible, with 2 being specifically DDA compliant set up. Click here for more information and to book.
EVENT PARTNERS
A huge thank you to Muscle Food UK who are our headline sponsors of the event. A further thank you to The Wave who host us for 2024, and to our Event Partners; korev Lager, Caravan and Motorhome Club, dryrobe, Decathlon UK, Clarke Willmott, Vospers, The Wave Project, and Surfability UK CIC.
CONTACT US
For all event enquiries, please contact lauren@surfingengland.org
For more information on The Wave & to book a surf, visit: www.thewave.com
