AQUASPORT INTERNATIONAL is based in Newquay, Cornwall UK.

We began business in 2009 and have been servicing the Lifesaving, Surfing and Lifeguard industries throughout Europe ever since.

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Our success is built on customer service and we specialise in high quality, high performance labels.

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Australian founder, Scott Wood (Woody) has been a member of surf lifesaving since the age of five (Manly LSC, NSW, Australia) and has competed and raced around the world for the past 45 years.

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In surf lifesaving, Woody has been part of Sydney & NSW championship teams in single ski relay competition and was a member of the Southport SLSC (Qld) Taplin Relay team that won Gold Coast, Queensland and Australian Taplin relay championships in the 1980s. He was also a member of the Southport team that won the World Interclub surf lifesaving championship in Hawaii.

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Following a genuine love for endurance sports, Woody has competed in:

Four Coolangatta Golds; 

fifteen Ironman triathlons, including four Hawaii Ironmans and has an Ironman PB of 8:47; 

completed twenty-five marathons and ten ultra-marathons including: 

70 mile Ultra-Race of the Templars trail run in south-east France; 

40 mile UK trail running championship; 

44 mile Land’s End ultra in Cornwall.

 

Woody moved to the UK in 2009 and has coached GBR Lifesaving teams at three world championships (Adelaide 2012, France 2014, Netherlands 2016) and also three youth / senior European championships (Italy, Wales, Spain, Netherlands) and has continued racing, winning multiple GBR, French and European masters championships in board, ski, surf race and Ironman competition.

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At the 2022 ILS World Lifesaving Championships in Riccione, Italy in the 60-64 years Woody won the ski race, surf race and Ironman competitions.

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Moving his focus to Masters Ocean ski racing Woody recorded results as follows:

2021 Lanzarote, Spain: ICF Ocean Racing World Championship 55-59 years, 3rd place

2022 Viana do Castelo, Portugal: ICF Ocean Racing World Championship 60-64 years, 3rd place

2023 Perth, Western Australia: ICF Ocean Racing World Championship 60-64 years, 3rd place

2024 Madeira Island, Portugal: ICF Ocean Racing World Championship 60-64 years, 1st place

2025 Durban, South Africa: ICF Ocean Racing World Championship 60-64 years, 3rd place

 

At the world’s premier ocean ski racing series, WA race week in Western Australia, Woody has been series champion 60+ in 2023 and 2025 and he considers his victory in ‘The Doctor’ (60+) in 2023 as perhaps his greatest ever performance ‘it was the week before worlds and everyone was there, it was zero wind and 40 degrees, a full battle of attrition and to win that was just incredible really’.