At the New Zealand Surfing Awards
Northland's John Diamond was awarded the title of 2000 bodyboarder of the
yer for his success overseas in the Aussie GOB and winning the New Zealand
tour for the under 18's division. Other nominees included Sam Wells, Aaron
Lock and John Blackwoood.
John Diamond is now living
in Auckland with Kevin McAlister and is working for Broady at the Morey
factory.
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Port
Waikato X Factor Comp Results
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The X Factor contest was held
at Port Waikato on Sunday the third of December in contestable three
foot swell with lightish onshores. The final event of the BBNz tour attracted
a small number of bodyboarders from as far away as Hamilton and as close
as Port Waikato.
Despite the limited numbers
the event was stacked with some of NZ's top riders including John Diamond,
Cameron Hirst, Ben MacKinnon and Hemi Holden.
At the end of the day Cameron
Hirst narrowly took out the Open by less than a point over Ben MacKinnon
while Hemi Holden took out the U18's and some kook caused a major upset
in the Dropknee division to take out the win a head of John Diamond and
Hemi Holden .
We would like to thank
the sponsors Ski Trading Post, MoreyMez, Rip Curl, Bodyline wetsuits, Wet
Dreams and sticky bumps wax for supporting the comp dspite the fact that
a number of the prizes went mysteriously missing and were not handed out,
were they taxed by a 4ft Christmas elf known as Grimp who has a degree
and is going to Japan?
Open Mens
1st Cameron Hirst
2nd Ben Mackinnon
3rd John Diamond
4th Hemi Holden
U18's
1st Hemi Holden
2nd John Diamond
Dropknee
1st Chris Hubbard
2nd Hemi Holden
3rd John Diamond
4th Ben MacKinnon
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Maori
Surfing Nationals -Bodyboard Results.
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By Gary Numbs.
Results
1st Reuban Quirk (GIS)
2nd Ahipene Newby (GIS)
3rd Tom Kitson (Can)
4th ??????????????????
The final was surfed in clean
1.5m metre waves. Tom kitson got off to a good start by popping nice
air in the shorey. Reuban's first wave was more impressive : popping a
sick back flip. Ahipene surfed consistently through the final with spin
to roll combo's. Kitson and Newby both took advantage of the punchy shorey:
not a good idea as Quirkewas scoring all the set waves.
The best move was a close
call between Kitson's ARS and Quirks backflip....in my opinion the backflip
was the best.. As a spectator the comp was run very well.Newby is someone
to watch as he is only 14years old...
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2000
Morey Bodyboarding Championships
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Written by: Kevin McAlister
Ph: 021 131 5898
The Morey 2000 Bodyboarding
Championships was held on Saturday the 18th of November at South Piha in
2 metre onshore conditions.
Over 40 competitors from
as far a field as Christchurch were on hand for the event, which boasted
a prize pool of over $7000 from Morey and Rip Curl.
Morey professional rider
Damian King and Michael Crawley of Australia were on hand for the event,
both being eliminated in the semi finals of the Open Mens competition.
They were impressed by the quality of the New Zealand competitors and King
summed it up well in a speech following the finals, “Although there aren’t
that many bodyboarders in New Zealand there are some good riders and there
is a really mellow vibe amongst everyone”
Eventual Open Mens winner
John Diamond of Whangerei has continued a run of great performances after
finishing in the top 32 on the Australasian GOB tour. Cameron Hirst
of Auckland finished in second place ahead of Ben Mckinnon of Wanganui
and Aaron lock of Christchurch.
Diamond was the standout
of the day surfing over 10 heats and winning the Open Mens and the Under
18 divisions respectively.
The Morey 2000 Bodyboarding
championships was the penultimate event of the 2000 Bodyboard Surfing New
Zealand championships with a 2A rated event at Port Waikato in early December.
Contest Director Kevin McAlister
was happy with the turnout and impressed by the level of competition.
“It is really good to see the competitive level rising every contest and
is great to see competitors travelling from as far a field as the South
Island and Australia.”
Final Results
Open Mens
1st John Diamond, Whangerei
2nd Cameron Hirst, Auckland
3rd Ben McKinnon, Wanganui
4th Aaron Lock, Christchurch
Drop Knee
1st Damian King, NSW, Australia
2nd Michael Crwaley, Queensland,
Australia
3rd Sam Peters, Wellington
4th Ben Rees, Christchurch
Under 18
1st John Diamond, Whangerei
2nd Hemi Holden, Raglan
3rd Sam Wells, Christchurch
4th Joey Carrol, Whangerei
5th Daniel Charles,
Wellington
Under 16
1st Joey Carrol, Whangerei
2nd Rio Cartman, Muriwai
3rd Danny Waugh, Wellington
4th Campbell Hodge, Muriwai
For contest enquiries or
any information related to Bodyboard Surfing New Zealand please contact
Kevin McAlister on 021 131 5898 or [email protected].
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