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World Bellyboarding Championships

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Sep 11 2012

Hundreds of competitors from around the globe made the pilgrimage to the small cove of Chapel Porth, near St. Agnes, on the north coast of Cornwall on the 2nd Sept, for the annual World Bellyboarding Championships. Free to enter, the contest is organised and hosted by the National Trust and takes place on the 1st Sunday in September each year. For the first time in it’s 10 year history (2012 was it’s 10th anniversary) the organisers had to cap the number of entrants at 360 as the event, and indeed the sport has grown in popularity. All you need to […]

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The vast majority of posts in this blog are about quirky & eccentric competitions & festivals. I started it in 2006 in France with a competition I’ll never forget. Where contestants battle it out to become the World Champion Pig Squeeler, or ‘Cri du Cochon’. I had little knowledge back then of quite how far my pursuit of these kind of events would lead me. I’ve travelled all over Britain (and occasionally further afield) to capture our curiosities and quirks. There’s nothing uniquely eccentric about the British, you’ll find people all over the world up to all sorts of weird and wonderful activities, but we do have a remarkable capacity to embrace the madness. ‘A Brit Different’ is the book that was born from it, my labour of love! So what next? There’s always something interesting going on, so watch this space, only time will tell!

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