"I was on a live feed with a Stephanie Gilmore Roxy advert shown just before me!' @markusbrownphoto Wowweee, I think this has been the highlight of my journey so far - let's take a step back and I'll explain! A few weeks ago (depending when you are reading this) I had one of those notifications on my Facebook that I just couldn't get rid of, you know the ones that just get lost somewhere in the universe. Digging a little deeper, it was in fact a message from the team at UK Pro Surf Tour who had sent me a lovely message asking for a surf forecast for their Night Surf competition. Ekk...Not only that but they offered me the opportunity to go behind the scenes at the competition at Fistral Beach and even go live on the evening feed with the amazing commentators - Lee and Sam. I decided to make the most of this amazing opportunity and booked myself an Air bnb on Friday night to meet the team and see what I was getting involved ...
"Your vlog has a relaxed format and is an example of the innumerable possibilities of how the presentation of the surf forecast can be seen, at a time when the modality is on the rise." Now this one needed a good old google translate and my FBI hat on. Checking my view stat's on YouTube, I noticed an influx of views on an oldish video all coming from an external site 'Surftotal.com'. Going onto the website, it was all in Portuguese but if you go to the UK translate then half the links are gone... so it was time to be detective Kat and find out what drove the viewers to my channel! Facebook did me proud once again where I had spotted my name with a link attached to an article. Using google translate, the article was titled English surfer creates surf forecasting channel on YouTube. If you have a Portuguese friend to translate the article that would be handy; or lit you're like me, copy and paste into Google Translate to have a read! https://surft...
"The girls are quick to joke about the cheesiness of the Wave Project bringing them together, but the firm friendship that they have cemented through volunteering together is evident." Any opportunity to promote the Wave Project and I'm there! Katie, our South Devon co-ordinator, asked my best friend, Issy and I to sit and chat with Grow Exeter magazine, to chat on our experience being a volunteer. We opted straight for the sunny sits in Puerto Lounge, along Exeter Quay where we met Sofy, the author for the article. We were free to talk about both our experiences, reminding each other of some amazing times over the past year and quite frankly I'm amazed at how Sofy kept track of what we were rambling about! What a beautifully written article and I hope it spreads to the rest of Exeter to see some new volunteers join us soon! Come have a read here: https://grow-media.co.uk/top-stories/south-devon-wave-project-highs-lows-wipeouts-volunteering/...