FFWD Exclusive: Boardmasters Photo Feature By Ross Penny

Once again, Ross Penny has come through with some sweet pictures and a write up on the Relentless Boardmasters, you’ve seen the videos, so now take the time to read up and check out some awesome photos from a super fun weekend..

‘BOARDMASTERS 2010

Well, Boardmasters was a treat. It was a mixture of feeling dutty,
checking out mega cow, shouting random words, drinking, some crazy kiddies
bike riding, brilliant views, sun, rain, more drinking and no sleep. So it
was pretty much all round awesome.

Starting off the week with the horrible 4 hour drive down to Newquay on
the Wednesday in the boiling hot, to get there and straight away see the
Essex lot, which was handy so we knew where to camp/park. Then heading
down to Fistral Beach to hook up with James Rodd and get my Media pass,
straight up props to him for hooking me up so I could spend the weekend in
style with everyone in the Athelete’s Lounge, having a great view and with
free Muller Rice, Pot Noodles, Fruit, Sandwhiches, Water and Relentless,
which is pretty much what we all lived on for the next 5 days. As usual
the night came along, and there was alcohol, this was the plan for every
night, this was also the night of “****** fucked your mum” game, where it
was basically think of the worst person possible and put ‘fucked your mum’
on the end, some of my favourites were “Meg Griffin fucked your mum” and
“Eisa Bakos fingerbanged your mum”. The rest of the night was a bit of a
haze.

Second Day, waking up in a car and seeing the attack of the Albatross in
our campsite and one of them staring me out through the window, but other
than that freaky start, this day pretty much was just chilling in the
Athelete’s Lounge, then heading to Wooden Waves, I honestly can’t say we
did much more, purely because everyone was hungover and it was a very nice
day. That night was an even bigger haze. With the Nuts Party going on and
watching the Bikini Contest and skanking the night away to some dirty,
dirty dubstep.

Third Day started much like all the rest, hungover and lazy. Unfortunately
it was raining this morning so we stayed within the campsite for a while,
just waiting for the floor to dry and the annoying sprinkling rain to
finish, but we did see Mega Cow, which was just amazing, to say the least.
Then we could go to the beach, and after seeing everyone ride off to go
have a swim in the sea, and us waiting about 4 hours for Abi to get ready,
we finally got to the beach, again this was a lazy day, with a bit of
riding, on and off, but just the practice, so there wasnt much due to the
occasional showers. But again, the night came and there was much drinking
again. This time with less dubstep, more cheesy songs, a camera and an
encounter with Plan B. This night was also brought to an end by an
Ambulance after a mis-understanding, and a complete idiot deciding he
should start on Bruza, plus a Pile-Driver by Billy, a punch thrown by me
after I got clocked in the Jaw and the pavement showing a kid how to get
an instant broken jaw. But enough of the usual drunk shenaningans, it was
time for bed.

Fourth day came along, with the slight rememberences of the night before
when I woke up with a sore face and a head ache. Today was very hot
indeed, which I admit probably didnt do much for the hangovers of the
camp. But after we finally parked up in the usual 40 minute hunt for a
parking spot at the beach, we saw the Qualifiers which were quality as
expected, putting Alex Coleborn, Ben Hennon and Tobias Wicke into the Top
3, and a nice surprise of Mikey (FFWD’s very own main man) into 9th place,
so props to you for that mate. After the qualifiers we took an
exploration, chilling, taking some snaps and seeing Sean come up with some
sweet ‘Face Down’ game spots, and sacraficing his iPhone, all in the name
of the game. Winding up on the beach again and experiencing a tense
towel-whipping game and watching people trying to ride their bikes on the
sand, we eventually headed back to the camp, but didnt stay there for long
as me, Sam and Ollie went back down to the beach, made the most of my
All-Day parking ticket and taking some shots on the beach as the sun was
setting, which was (in a totally non-gay way) amazing. The night was less
hectic, with no fights, but still just as much alcohol induced and some
people not coming back.

Lastly, the fifth day was upon us, the day of the miniramp finals and
highest air. This day was scorching hot, and was basically the reason for
all my sunburn. After packing up all the tents and headin to the beach,
this day we were actually on time and managed to watch everything, thank
god for the free water, thats all I can say. With some extrodinary riding
and some nuts height, Alex Colburn found himself in 1st and Tobias and
Hennon found themselves in joint 2nd. Highest Air results were Hennon in
1st, Miller in 2nd and Zack Williams finding 3rd. This result was great,
as Hennon made a deal with Ginge, that if he won highest air, he had to
drink the whole 24 crate of Desperados that he would win. So with all the
events done, and Ginge left very drunk, the only thing to do now was to
take the very long, tiring drive home to a decent shower, toilet and bed.

So to sum up Boardmasters 2010, there was drinking, feeling dutty,
catchphrases like “DA FUCK MAN”, “HARRY” and “MARV”, the sighting of mega
cow, ‘Alejandro’ playing way too much, more drinking, a bit of bikes,
beach, sea, sunset, free stuff, a bad diet, manflesh, face down, broken
iphones, lotr geeks and probably do much more, I just cant remember
because of the fact I probably drunk my weight in alcohol and got so spent
more hours driving to and from Newquay than I did sleeping over the whole
5 days.’

Ross Penny

www.rosspenny.co.uk