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Alan Stokes to train up-and-coming Cornish pupils
by George Mojo
17/10/2007:// Top Cornish career-surf champion Alan Stokes will be training the top 12 up and coming Cornish school pupils in the tricks of his trade using the latest blue tooth head set technology at the Animal Surf Academy.
Following the Cornish Schools Surf Championships, in which over 150 school children from across the region took part, the twelve highest scoring pupils have won an exclusive top-level training day with the Newquay-based professional surfer at Fistral Beach.
The latest 'Headzone' equipment from Australia has been used to help refine communication between surfers and their coaches while they are surfing.
The headset allows the surfer to go surfing in larger waves, and the coach to watch them from the shore and give them tips more quickly and accurately whilst watching them surf.
The Academy is the first UK-based school to introduce this revolutionary technology and adapt it to the sport in the UK.
The twelve lucky school pupils will have the first chance to test out this new technology as a result of winning the recent Cornish Schools Surf Championships which involved over 150 school children from across the region competing against each other for the title.
Surfing enjoys huge popularity in the South of England with 66% of the 300,000 UK surf population based in the area - according to the British Surfing Association Survey 2007.
A number of up and coming young surfers now come from the South West and benefit from the healthy lifestyle and exercise involved in participating in the sport.
Animal pro surf team riders Alan Stokes, Mitch Corbett and Jack Butler, all former Tretherras School pupils themselves, are giving back to the next generation of surfers.
'Stokesy' has carved himself a career from surfing and now spends his time travelling the world competing and surf training. He has put together a range of exercise and training tips to test the new equipment for the lucky Tretherras pupils.
Stokes, a multiple British champion said: "This new technology is set to bring new meaning to surf coaching and help the next generation of competitive surfers improve more quickly. We have chosen to test it out for the first time with some of the top up-and-coming school kids."
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