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BBC<\/p>\nAlex GreenSouth West and<\/p>\n
Tamsin Melvillein Newquay<\/p>\n
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Professional skateboarder Tony Alva is visiting Cornwall for the first time for the expo<\/p>\n
Internationally-renowned skateboarders and surfers are attending a surf skate expo in Newquay, Cornwall this weekend.<\/p>\n
The UK Surf and Skate Expo is expected to attract more than 10,000 visitors over three days, organisers say.<\/p>\n
Tony Alva, from Santa Monica, California, a pioneer of vertical skateboarding, is attending the event.<\/p>\n
He said: “We’re bringing some information and the history, but we’re also talking about how surfing and skating affect each other technologically as well as like the ethos of surfing and skating – so that’s mainly our concept is something that’s solution-oriented.”<\/p>\n
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The UK Surf and Skate Expo is happening in Newquay over three days<\/p>\n
Mr Alva, along with Jay Adams and Stacy Peralta, joined the legendary Z-Boys skateboard team in 1972.<\/p>\n
In 2002, he featured in the award-winning documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, and in 2005 was an authenticity consultant and stunt coordinator on the feature film Lords of Dogtown, based on his life with the Z-Boys, according to the Skateboarding Hall of Fame and Museum.<\/p>\n
The three-day event includes a skate competition being hosted at Concrete Waves skate park in Newquay, a surfing event at Great Western Beach and more than 35 speakers.<\/p>\n
Jason Lock, from DYSUJO – which is organising the expo, said surfing brought “hundreds of millions” of pounds to the UK economy.<\/p>\n
Mr Alva said skateboarding was a multibillion-dollar business.<\/p>\n
Visiting Cornwall for the first time, Mr Alva said he was hoping for “some decent weather” during his stay so he could “do some fun stuff” as well as work.<\/p>\n
He said he was waiting to “see if Mother Nature co-operates” to allow him to surf at Fistral Beach – which he said was “stormy” and “crazy-looking” on Friday.<\/p>\n
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Stefani Nurding was the first British woman to compete at the US Skateboarding Open<\/p>\n
CEO and professional skateboarder Stefani Nurding, originally from Plymouth, said the expo was “a really positive thing”. <\/p>\n
“It’s a chance for everyone in the community to come together, and such a lovely community, and I feel really cared about by the community, so it’s great to see everyone here and it’s great to bring everyone together and appreciate it.”<\/p>\n
Ms Nurding, who is now a mum, said she was competing again after a hiatus.<\/p>\n
“Just coming from Prime Skatepark in Plymouth and skating the mini ramp, and putting a lot of dedication into it, I’ve travelled all over the world.”<\/p>\n
‘Bringing people together’<\/p>\n
Mr Lock said the event was about “bringing people together” and promoting skateboarding and surfing, adding there were more than 65 businesses in the expo village at the event.<\/p>\n
He said: “We wanted to bring the UK surf and skate culture together… the whole idea is since Covid it feels like everyone’s been kind of siloed and stuck behind screens.<\/p>\n
“We want to take people away from that and bring everyone together, have a nice time.”<\/p>\n
Mr Lock said speakers at the three-day event included British Olympian skateboarder Lola Tambling and world-renowned Big Wave surfer Andrew Cotton.<\/p>\n
He said there had been a surge in the number of people surfing in recent years.<\/p>\n
“Since Covid, there’s been a real boom with surfers, not just in the UK, but all across the globe, it brings hundreds of millions to the UK economy every year,” he added.<\/p>\n
“Skating is probably a little bit less, but it’s growing and growing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex GreenSouth West and Tamsin Melvillein Newquay BBC Professional skateboarder Tony Alva is visiting Cornwall for the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-421535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115197987199581153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}