Lightning Bolt Down Jacket :: Contest

Aloha Friday!

Get your chance to win a Lightning Bolt Down Jacket just by JOINING OUR NEWSLETTER herehttps://shop.lightningbolt.eu.com/en/newsletter/index.php

PLUS: If you also SIGN IN at the lightning Bolt European Online Shop u’ll get 20% OFF your first order!

The draw will be at random and informed at the Lightning Bolt Facebook page on the 10th of March (https://www.facebook.com/Lightningbolteurope)
Contest running from 28th Feb till 9th of March only applicable for the European Lightning Bolt Online Store.

BOLT 4 FREE – BE A BOLT DESIGNER

We want to have a garment or a fashion accessory in the new Lightning Bolt Spring|Summer 2011 Collection signed by you!!!
And, besides, we want it to be the item that all surfers will want to have.
If you want to be the author of the next Lightning Bolt’s best seller item, send us the design for a piece of clothing or fashion accessory or only the print/design/illustration for standard article (t-shirt, long sleeve, sweatshirt, backpack, boardshort, rash vest). You just have to be sure that any surfer will want to buy it!
There’s no limit for your creativity, except the fact that your proposal will have to be attractive and inspiring for as many surfers as possible in the shops.
The best idea will be part of our production next year and sold in all European countries where Lightning Bolt is selling is collection.
To be our newest invited fashion designer, you have to show us, and to our fans, why do you deserve it.
How to participate?
It’s easy:
1 – Visit our Facebook pages
www.facebook.com/lightningbolteurope or www.facebook.com/lightningboltportugal
2 – Add the following title on each post: BOLT4FREE – Surfer’s Must-Have / BE AN OFFICIAL BOLT DESIGNER/ILLUSTRATOR and attach your piece of clothing or design, graphic, print, illustration. On this post you can also add some text you find convenient or other links.
Obs: On Facebook you’ll have to send jpg or png formats. If you wish to send us files in other formats (AI, Freehand, Photoshop, etc) afterwards, send them to:
info@lightningbolt.eu.com.
Who wins?
Choosing the winner will depend on the number of fans of your idea and, also, on our opinion. The decision will be taken upon:
The fans’ votes on each idea: the one who gathers more “I Like this” and positive comments – 50%
The Lightning Bolt’s crew opinion – 50%
If you have any doubts, please contact us to info@lightningbolt.eu.com.
You may participate until the 15^th of August, 2010.

BOLT4FREE – Winners and Results

 
The second edition of BOLT4FREE is now over.
For this giveaway we challenged our fans to help us breaking a Guinness Record, and lots of ideas emerged.
And our Facebook fans were in charge to choose the winners, so we didn’t have any interference on the decision. The winners were the ideas that had more “I like this” and positive comments.
The struggle for the first place was really tough as the winner got ahead the second place for only one vote more.

Now we leave you with the three prizewinning participants and their ideas.

First Place - Francisco Guerra Lourenço

“Fulfill the invisible borders that define the countries in the world with the biggest number of volunteers. Wearing Lightning Bolt clothes and holding the new surfboards, we will show what best defines Lightning Bolt (dedication, union, comfort, adrenaline and inner peace). Create a tribe spirit and promote the sport development and so the Lightning Bolt awareness”
Francisco takes home a Lightning Bolt longboard

Second Place - Suel Marley
“All the surfers and all those that have Lightning Bolt surfboards, all together, make a surfboard line along all the Portuguese coast. With that, all Portuguese beaches would have a surfboard barrier, and so Portugal would be limited (west and south) by surfboards and by Spain (east and north)“
Suel Marley wins a Lightning Bolt shortboard

Third Place - Tiko Fé
“My idea would be to get the biggest number of surfers on the same wave riding a barrel”
Tiko wins a High Voltage Kit Sony/Lightning Bolt: Sony mp3/mp4 walkman + exclusive silicon cover + backpack with walkman pocket.

The winners will be contacted in two weeks (maximum).

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all participants, as we had many good ideas of all kinds: social responsibility, environmental, pure party, associations with Usain Bolt and even using surfers parachutists.

Soon we will launch the third edition of this giveaway.

Fancy Dressed surfers at the Retro Board Challenge

Last weekend saw yet another hugely successful charity Retro Board Challenge take place in East Wittering, with 50 fancy dressed surfers competing and hundreds of spectators watching on the beach.
The A1Surf.com Retro Board Challenge in association with Wittering Surf Shop was held in small waves and sunshine, with a record turn-out of competitors. Despite the small conditions, the surfers literally threw themselves into the spirit of the event, taking to the water on 9ft swell boards which allowed some new school moves you won’t even see on the ASP Dream Tour, including the ‘Ninja Chop’ , ‘the Cartwheel’ and the ‘Gun Show’.

A weird and wonderful collection of fancy dress costumes were on display during the day, including Bart Simpson, a scarecrow, Pamela Anderson, James Bond and even Laird Hamilton.

The final was hotly competed on the rising tide, with some of the best waves of the day being ridden right to the beach in front of the huge crowd of spectators. The finalists were the Silver Surfer (Olly Smith), the Ninja (Cliff Cox), Elton John (Peter Engelfield) and a Soldier (Matt Reed). In the end it was the Silver Surfer who was triumphant, with the Ninja in second place, Elton John in third and the Soldier taking the fourth spot. A groms comp was also run, with local groms from the Witterings and Brighton competing in fancy dress also, which was won by Kieran Munroe.
The event raised hundreds of pounds which is donated to the RNLI Selsey Lifeboat Station and Surfers Against Sewage.
And this year saw the day rounded off with a ‘retro party’, held at the nearby Shore Inn in a huge marquee. Brighton band Cover Note played an awesome three hour set and a Hawaiian Buffet kept everyone in the party mood. David Somerville from A1Surf.com said: “We were so pleased with this year’s event and stoked to have raised this money for the charities. “Although the surf was small, the guys proved that surf competitions can be a lot of fun. “I would like to thanks everyone who made it such a special day, in particular our sponsors – Lightning Bolt, Xcel Wetsuits, Ocean & Earth, Chilled Turtle, Santa Cruz – and also Shore Surf Club for their fantastic judges, beach marshals and tabulators.” Nick Cheshire from Wittering Surf Shop said: “Each year people are starting to realise that this event isn’t about the waves, but about getting the surfing community together, having fun and having a party.

“This year a lot of the original Witterings surf crew entered the comp and it was the first time they had surfed together since the 70’s.”
For more information about A1Surf.com please contact David Somerville on 01273 837733 or email david@a1surf.com.

The Buntabout contest, powered by Lightning Bolt

When it comes to the purest roots of what surfing is all about, nothing sums it up better than an event that has been held for the last 30 years in St Agnes on Cornwall's west coast. Organised by local board manufacturer Best Ever's Steve Bunt and daughter Nicola, The Buntabout brings together the local surfing community across generations with boys and girls as young as eight up to the grand veterans in their fifties.

This year's event was once again blessed with a beautiful sunny day and highly contestable surf at Chapel Porth for the Ladies, Longboard, Masters and Open divisions. The junior divisions had competed the weekend before at Trevaunance Cove, but Contest Director Minnow Green had made the right call in holding off the Seniors in hope of better conditions. Standouts of the day were under 18 winner Morgan Elston that went on to take 3rd place in the Open with a convincing display of powerful moves, and Paul 'Gib' Dye proved that he's lost none of his flair in winning the Masters. In the Open final European Longboard Champion Ben Skinner went down a few board sizes and showed his versatility with a repertoire of fast fluid surfing, but it was not quite good enough and the judges decision went with last year's winner Robin Kent, surfing the wave he knows inside out.Open Winner Robin Kent
Dritwood Spars Barstaff with their new tees
On Sunday evening the Driftwood Spars Hotel was packed full for the prize giving celebrations, concluding what was once again a most memorable occassion. Not only was it a great event, but once again money was raised for the Precious Lives Appeal.Lightning Bolt is proud to be associated with The Buntabout and supported them in supplying the prizes for the Masters Division. Watch out for Gibby (right side) in his new Polar Fleece Jacket.

Team Riders are blasting at Eurosurf 2009

The first two days of competition were just perfect for all Lightning Bolt team riders running Eurosurf 2009.

Despite the tough conditions with small waves, Alexandre Ferreira and Miguel Ximenez (surf open contest) already advanced two rounds and probably they are today running the third round.

Also in the surf senior contest, David Raimundo made the best score of the first round heats, as he got a 15,67 leaving behind John McCarthy and Erwin Duin.
In the surf ladies contest, our youngest team rider there, made it to the second round also with the first place in the first round.
Stay tuned at http://www.eurosurfing.org/eurosurf/Alexandre "Xaninho" Ferreira placed first both in round 1 and round 2 heats
photo: David Ferguson

Justin Dellane and José Ferreira run the Islas Canarias Pro Junior

From September 2nd to 6th, the Canary Islands in the town of Los Realejos will host the 3 stars ASP European Pro Junior event and the final ProJunior of the year, with some of the world's best Under 21 surfers attending the 3 Star rated event. Settling in the North of the island of Tenerife at the beach of El Socorro, city of Los Realejos, the black sand beach surrounded by abrupt cliffs will once again witness some of the hottest surfing action.

Lightning Bolt is represented by portuguese team rider José Ferreira and the newest french surfer Justin “Bridou” Dellane.
José Ferreira starts in the round 2 of 64 and he’s scheduled to run the heat 1 with the tour leader Marc Lacomare, the local Natxo Agirre and one more athlete not yet known.
Justin “Bridou” Dellane started today with a second place in the first round leaving behind the local David Machin. Tomorrow he’ll know his opponents in the second round.

Check out the event’s website for live results, news, photos and videos

Zé Ferreira at his local garden, Guincho in Portugal. photo: Daniel Moreira

Azores Islands Pro – Miguel Ximenez in action

After the last 6 stars in Lacanau, the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) caravan is on its way for the first ever ASP sanctioned event to run in the Azores archipelago, three hours off the Portuguese coast in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, on Sao Miguel Island. A beautiful island completely surrounded by unexplored green fields.
This ASP WQS 6-Star rated event is starting today and running till Sunday, August 30, 2009. The show brings also some of the WCT stars like Tiago Pires or Aritz Aranburu.
Being the seventh of eleven events counting for this year's ASP WQS European Series, the Azores Islands Pro will host an international field of competitors, with 144 athletes answering the call for the premiere. As the year keeps going and the international ratings' race is heating up, the ASP WQS Top 15 will be looking for valuable points counting for their ASP World Tour qualifying campaign.
Miguel Ximenez, our Portuguese team rider, will be running the round of 144 in the heat#20 and he’ll face Erice Rebiere (Fra), Nat Young (USA) and Robertson Gonçalves (Prt).
Current regional No. 1 and international No. 10 Joan Duru (Ondres, FRA), will be much awaited for his start in the event that could give the 19-year-old surfer another precious result for his ASP Top 45 dream to come tru. Duru, who has had an excellent year, leads the European contingent on the international stage at this stage and is in good position to join fellow European stars on next year's ASP Dream Tour.

Stay tuned at http://www.aspeurope.com/live/azores09

Miguel Ximenez on Relentless Boardmasters

The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 5-Star Relentless Boardmasters in association with Vans will kick-off today at Newquay in England, one of the United Kingdom’s most renowned surf cities, for another edition of the prestigious contest that has seen some of the world’s best surfers raise its coveted trophy for over twenty years now.

Scheduled at the start of the month of August and opening a series of five consecutive events that will run through mid-september, the Relentless Boardmasters promises to showcase surfing’s finest World Qualifying Series (WQS) athletes with current ASP WQS ratings’ leader Daniel Ross (AUS) leading the assault.

Our team rider Miguel Ximenez from Portugal will start in the heat 17 of the first round (round of 96). In his heat, it’s only confirmed till now João Guedes (PRT).

Check out http://www.relentlessboardmasters.com/ to watch it live and see all the news, photos and videos.

Loews surf DOG competition

From USA we are already used to hear the most surprising and creative stories. And they are not stopping.
Last Month, in Coronado (San Diego), the Loews Coronado bay resort organized the Loews surf DOG competition.
And like the most professional sports, for example boxing, this contest had categories based on the dog’s weight.
There were 3 categories:
Category One: Small Surf Dogs (40 pounds and under)
Category Two: Large Surf Dogs (41 pounds and over)
Category Three: Tandem Surfing for Surf Dogs & Humans
It’s worth watching the video

Check out the event's blog for pictures and more info.

Miguel Ximenez and Alexandre Ferreira run Cordoama Pro WQS

Between 9 and 12 July, the 18th WQS event (4th European) will take place in Cordoama beach in Algarve, Portugal.
Miguel Ximenez and Alexandre Ferreira are the team riders in charge to carry Lightning Bolt to a good result.
We hope that they can show their real surf level and can improve their last results.

Click in the promo image to visit the event’s official website

Portuguese Surf Tour - Bolt team riders results

The first event of the portuguese surf open tour was during the last weekend in Edífício Transparente, a surf spot in Porto, a northern region in Portugal.

The Bolt team riders achieved a great overall performance both in mens and girls events.

In the Mens event, two riders were in the podium. Alexandre Ferreira got the second place and José Ferreira, who is only 17 years old got the fourth place, his firt podium in the surf open.

In the Girls event, our junior star, Maria Abecasis, got a third place and was only 1 point away from the victory.

We highlight too, Miguel Blanco, the youngest Bolt team rider that was awarded for being the youngest competitor in the tour.