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Crest Surfcast

All things surf from in and out of Wales, hosted by Tom Anderson, Rob Blythe, James "Rhino" Thomas and others. Interviews with local, national and international legends, topical discussion and general stoke! (Producer: James Dodd; Artwork: GS Design Co; Music copyright James Dodd )

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Crest Podcast Ep63 - Autumn Roundup with PLD & Sindia...

Crest Surfcast ·

2025/10/20

With the European QS season wrapped up, and the ISA Worlds behind us too, Wales' top pro surfer PLD joins Tom and Sindia. A year of two halves, PLD gives us a frank assessment of his competitive goals, as well as a look at who else is worth a watch from the UK and Euro roster. Where did everyone surf during the named storms we've had so far? Clue - PLDs story links to the previous topic, and that crazy event in Pantin. There's also a bit more on fins, and a debate about where the ideal winter surf

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29:48

Crest Podcast Ep63 - Autumn Roundup with PLD & Sindia...

Crest Surfcast ·

2025/10/20

With the European QS season wrapped up, and the ISA Worlds behind us too, Wales' top pro surfer PLD joins Tom and Sindia. A year of two halves, PLD gives us a frank assessment of his competitive goals, as well as a look at who else is worth a watch from the UK and Euro roster. Where did everyone surf during the named storms we've had so far? Clue - PLDs story links to the previous topic, and that crazy event in Pantin. There's also a bit more on fins, and a debate about where the ideal winter surf

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29:48

Crest Podcast Ep62 - The Welsh Champions Interviewed;...

Crest Surfcast ·

2025/06/25

The newly crowned open men's and open women's Welsh champions, Eli Perrins-Davies and Emily Williams, sit down with Tom for a run-through of the event, and of what the wins mean for their surfing careers. Also featuring Sindia Sosdian's perspective on the tight finish from the women's open final, and a full run-down of the rest of the results.Produced by James DoddArtwork by GS Design CoMusic Copyright James Dodd 2025

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43:12

Crest Podcast Ep61 - Spring '25: Fins, Wilky Sword,...

Crest Surfcast ·

2025/04/14

Plenty to talk over, whatever the waves have been doing! Logan Nicol joins Tom for an update on the Wilkinson Sword, held in Fresh West last month, as well as mulling over the upcoming final event of the European QS tour, the Caparica Pro, and Patrick Langdon-Dark's chances there. Besides that, of course, is a little update on the surf diaries so far, and then some advice on fin setups - a topic we've been asked to cover many times, and are promising to revisit in more detail soon. We just need some

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74:10

Crest Podcast Ep60 - 2024 Welsh Nationals & Josie...

Crest Surfcast ·

2024/12/09

We had to drop at least once before 2024 was done, didn't we? Our excuse is we kept waiting for the Welsh to run... but then it did, so here we are. We've got the exclusive first interviews from both Mens and Womens winners Logan and Josie, as well as a 'best bits' file of Greg Owen's commentary. Tom debates with studio guests Sindia Sosdian and Logan whether summer or winter is the better proposition for a Welsh surfer, and since all three keep surf diaries we've also got a bit of discussion on

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64:39

Crest Podcast Ep59 - Christmas Special featuring RHINO

Crest Surfcast ·

2023/12/05

Who in Wales doesn't miss the Rhines? Of course, it was only a matter of time before Crest and Welsh Surfing legend James Rhino Thomas appeared on our bandwidth again - and this time it's from New Zealand, his new place of abode. Following a late arrival, as Rob had to finish his Cricket Club's AGM first, he and Tom ask Rhines about all the important things; how is the surf, what's the weather like, was John-John Florence really that good in real life? This is a great tale of ongoing adventure, and

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89:37

Crest Podcast Ep58 - Welsh Surfing Federation 50-year...

Crest Surfcast ·

2023/11/07

We formed this podcast to chat with legends, and here they are! To celebrate the WSF turning 50 this year, Crest has pulled together quite a guest list. Mark Vaughan and James Jones have joined Tom and Rob on the couch, alongside none other than Linda Sharp and Herbi aka Huw John. These guys pretty much are the WSF over the past few decades, and once again, Linda's encyclopedic knowledge of Welsh, European and World surf culture is as expansive as it gets. Flanked by the storytelling of Herbi, it's

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60:33

Crest Podcast Ep57 - Llywelyn 'Sponge' Williams

Crest Surfcast ·

2023/10/03

For most of Wales' sixty-plus years of surf culture, the idea we could have a world champion was beyond improbable. Not any more. Last winter, at Pismo Beach, California, Llywelyn 'Sponge' Williams broke the best record of them all - the first ever Welsh world surfing champion. This is an incredible tale, from the beaches and points of the Llŷn Peninsula to touring the world, and could it even one-day lead to an appearance at the Paralympics for this tiny surfing nation? Hear Llywelyn tell all in

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38:04

Crest Podcast Ep56 - Yolanda Hopkins

Crest Surfcast ·

2023/09/05

Charger, style-master, Olympian and current European Number One... could there be a better start to our fourth season? On the morning of the final (Boardmasters), Tom and Millie Phillips sat down with the defending event champ, Portugal's rising star Yolanda Hopkins. Yolanda has been a popular figure on the QS in recent years, as well as qualifying for the Toyko Olympics in style. She has already more than made a mark against the biggest in the game - including beating Carissa Moore earlier this

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55:46

Crest Podcast Ep55 - Welsh Nationals 2023

Crest Surfcast ·

2023/05/22

It's here! Season 4 is go, and it's kicking off with Rob and Tom's analysis of the 2023 Welsh. Held over the Mayday weekend, it turned into a real showcase of the state of Wales' surfing, and our presenters should know, having watched just about every heat as our team helped run the webcast with Camera Anchor (a.k.a. Craig Nicol). This full breakdown includes a comprehensive list of results, scores, anecdotes and interviews with Josie Hawke, Emily Williams, Patrick Langdon-Dark, Tom Fisher and Mark

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Crest Podcast Ep54 - Christmas Special

Crest Surfcast ·

2022/12/19

The latest on Llewelyn 'Sponge' Williams' win at the World Games - a first in Welsh Surfing. Then we have a run-through with Producer Dodd and Tom of some of the last two seasons' guests' favourite memories of Christmas surfs. Plus, will there be a wave on Christmas Day? Or is it too early to tell...Produced by James DoddArtwork by GS Design CoMusic Copyright James Dodd 2020

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97:18

Crest Podcast Ep53 - John Purton of JP Surfboards &...

Crest Surfcast ·

2022/11/01

The Season Three finale sees us chat to a very special person in Welsh and British surfing. John Purton has been shaping surfboards seriously for some half a century, and in that time has met, known and worked with some of the top athletes these shores have known. Involved from the first moments of the UK surf industry, we hear about the various labels JP has shaped under, and the characters and capers that have come along through a lifetime of surfing and shaping. As Rhino is moving to New Zealand,

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75:47

Crest Podcast Ep52 - Hugo Tagholm

Crest Surfcast ·

2022/10/04

With more heat than ever on governments' approaches to clean oceans, sewage discharge, sustainability and plastic reduction, we catch up with one of the shining lights of surfing's ecological movements. Hugo Tagholm has decades of experience trying to hold power to account on behalf of the environment. Right as the SAS Safer Seas and Rivers app was in most headline bulletins for exposing the extent to which water companies actually use loopholes to pollute, Hugo spoke extenisvely with Rob and Tom

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44:25

Crest Podcast Ep51 - Boardmasters Part Two: Groms &...

Crest Surfcast ·

2022/09/06

In the second of Rob and Tom's dispatches while on WSL duty in Newquay, this is a celebration of a range of voices from the UK junior scene. During the Havianas Junior Open, beach marshall Tim Pitt let Crest run a pop-up interview station during Rounds One and Two of the boys' event, through which they managed to get the thoughts of a range of the competitors, including the eventual boys winner Jay Phipps and his father, shaper Mark Phipps. (The Havianas Junior Girls Open was won for the second year

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Crest Podcast Ep50 - Boardmasters Part One: Live from...

Crest Surfcast ·

2022/08/22

Having annoyed ears around Wales for decades, Rob and Tom were both fortunate to finally make their debuts as WSL rent-a-gobs last week at this year‘s Newquay Boardmasters Surfing Festival, after the event was given QS status again. A fitting fiftieth episode has emerged; a special Crest live which Rob did on Saturday afternoon, with the help of Callum Thomas, while the juniors were on hold for a few hours. This is a series of quickfire interviews which went out to the beach crowd, with a huge range

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127:35

Crest Podcast Ep49 - CELEBRATING SCHOF 1963-2022

Crest Surfcast ·

2022/08/02

In the summer of 2020 we had the pleasure of talking to Mark Schofield for a whole evening, covering his surfing life and his views on just about everything else we could think of. In March of this year, we sadly lost this colossus of the Welsh surfing community. This is a re-cut of the conversation we had with Schof back then, and a chance for us all to both enjoy his voice, and to feel the pain of losing this exceptional figure. There will be a paddle-out when those closest are ready, and Crest

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40:25

Crest First Tuesdays - Nick Hounsfield

Crest Surfcast ·

2022/07/05

It has to be the coolest moniker in surfing – Wavemaker. Nick Hounsfield is best known for being the person who brought surf stoke to the inland flats of northern Bristol. In one of The Wave's fabulous glamping pods, Tom and Emily caught up with the man who took the place from inception to conception. What made Nick one day wake up and decide he wanted to undertake such an ambitious project? What was it like showing these plans to the planning inspector who didn't surf? And how does he feel when

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74:38

Crest First Tuesdays - Patrick Langdon-Dark

Crest Surfcast ·

2022/06/07

An exciting adjustment to the promised schedule for this month, as for the first time since Carwyn Williams (we believe, at least) Wales is home to Britain's top ranked pro surfer. In case you didn't know, Pat Langdon-Dark is a young Gower goofyfoot who finished the year 13th on the WSL Europe leaderboard. It seems the prospect of a British, and indeed Welsh, surfer making it to some of the biggest events in the sport are very much alive. While popping into Porthcawl to watch the BLU contest, Pat

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91:17

Crest Podcast Ep46 - Jamie Bateman

Crest Surfcast ·

2022/05/03

Besides being one of the best surfers this land has known, Jamie Bateman has recently become Surfline's chief forecaster for the UK and Ireland. He's long been one of the most interesting guys you could sit down with for a chat about the ocean and its ways, but now he's officially employed in that capacity. In another video edition episode (thanks to Craig at Camera Anchor if you head to our YouTube page), Tom and Vaughanie catch up with Bateman to find out about his unique surfer's journey. Besides

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80:58

Crest Podcast Ep45 - Langland Board Riders (inc Wilky...

Crest Surfcast ·

2022/03/14

Founded off the back of a skate ramp made from stolen ply, the Langland Board Riders is now one of the most dominant forces in Welsh surfing. Having fostered some of our greatest past and present surfers, this is an organisation which taps into one of the land's best known surf communities. Joined by a panel of LBR stalwarts, we talk history, culture, localism, the Mun, iconic events like the Toxic Trophy, Derek Hynd's Red Bull tours and the Seeded Open - as well as how not to get into Cinderellas

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