The Outdoor Adventure Blog

Tronic Pro

robbird — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:39:34 +0000

If you’ve been to Outdoor Adventure you will remember Stell – lots of enthusiasm, Curly hair and a pretty mean surfer – well he has also been making and editing some pretty good videos over the past year under the name TRONIC PRO.

Whitelines Snowboard magazine have been running a competition to make a trailer for a new snowboard film released next year and Tronic Pro has been shortlisted in the top 5 so he needs your vote to win and every vote counts! Check out this page and give him your vote – heres his video below but make sure you head over to the whielines website to vote!

Instructor Trip

robbird — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:03:55 +0000

We had a rare quiet week and a few of the instructors headed off to Wales for a bit of Climbing, the new staff jackets are looking smart!

New Season Is Up an Running

A Christmas Song!

robbird — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:08:11 +0000

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

With most of the staff away for the winter either surfing or snowboarding there are just a handful of us left in the centre either in the office or decorating the building ready for the start of the season. Winter can drag without any guests to entertain us so we have to find ways to amuse ourselves, heres a little Christmas song from us!.

Inter Schools Surf Competition

robbird — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:04:15 +0000

On Friday 30th September for the 6th year we run our Inter Schools Surf Competition in association with ARENA who also organised a beach festival . Around 200 children from local schools were involved in a mixture of Surfing, Beach Volleyball, Beach football and a cyclocross competition.

You couldn’t get a better day for a surf competition with stunning sunshine and a perfect 3ft wave rolling in, when the children arrived at midday they couldn’t believe there eyes and were stoked to be spending the afternoon out of school and at the beach.

60 children were involved in two categories of the surf competition, an intermediate tag team event and an advanced surf comp. After a close fought tag team event Budehaven took the honours with Camelford coming second. Budehaven infact took top spots all round with Jobe Harris taking home the win in the boys event and Emily Currie the Girls.

Outdoor Adventure would like to thank the sponsors for all their prizes – Hi-Life Surf Shop, Circle One, No 9 and Volcom.

Our View

robbird — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:17:19 +0000

A short little time lapse video looking north from our centre over the beautiful Widemouth Bay – Filmed using a Go-Pro Camera.

Summer Holidays!

robbird — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:57:35 +0000

So the summer holidays are upon us and we have had the final School group leave us on Friday, we have had many superb schools visit us for their activity weeks and we cant wait for them to come back to us next year.

This time of year marks a change in the season for us at Outdoor Adventure as we welcomed the first families groups to arrive to us on Sunday.

We are also running surf lessons every day from Widemouth Bay – come down and see us we are opposite the Lifeguard hut in the middle of the beach – you can spot our trailer from a mile off!

We are also running Coasteering sessions every other day – give us a call to book in and take part in this exhilirating activity!

Bude Lifeboat Run 2011

robbird — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:17:29 +0000

On Wednesday 15th June Outdoor Adventure sponsored the RNLI Bude lifeboat run for the second year running.

RNLI Lifeboat startline

The event was a tremendous success with over 240 entries. 80 children completed the 1 mile junior course and 140 seniors completed the 6 mile course which took in local cycleways, canal towpath and off road footpaths.

One of Outdoor Adventures instructors, Tommy took part and came home very respectfully in the front half of the fleet, he could have done better if he hadn’t wasted all his energy on his photoshoot beforehand!

The event raised over £100 and has yet to include the runners sponser money. The money raised forom this event will help fund the RNLI’s work in saving lives at sea and on inland waterways and will be used where the RNLI feels needs are the greatest

Photos by Andrew Mckenzie

Abseiling At Outdoor Adventure

robbird — Fri, 20 May 2011 11:01:28 +0000

Another liitle video that we filmed last season, this showcases our amazing 80ft abseil down onto the beach – stunning views from the top. Instructor Andy makes sure you are tied in properly and talks you through the technique for abseiling, whilst controlling the safety line untill you are safely at the bottom.

Come and join us for a week or weekend this summer and battle your fear for heights!!

New Season Is Up an Running

robbird — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:30:32 +0000

So the new season has come round very quickly, we are not sure where the winter has gone – but the staff are back from their travels and we have had some great schools in already enjoying the freshly decorated building and activities – although it has been a bit frosty in the sea.

Over the past week spring feels like it has finally started to show itself, the water is slowly warming up, the shorts have appeared and the staffs tans are starting to darken.

It takes allsorts to come on an activity week or weekend and here is a picture of our latest arrivals who turned up yesterday afternoon!!!

Coasteering At Outdoor Adventure

robbird — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:00:22 +0000

A little video to show off our stunning coasteering site, join us this summer and lets jump off some rocks!!