MAY 29
DUNEDIN SURF REPORT
by Hayden Parsosns
What a week for surfing. For
over a week now the wind has been offshore and the swell is refusing to
die.
St Clair Point was breaking
at a solid 4ft for days and the beach wasn't too bad either with long pealing
rights to shore. Just a tad crowded.
Some unmentionable beaches
on the peninsula have been all-time with perfect hollow peaks with just
me and a few mates.
The Taieri Mouth reefs,
points and beaches have all had small but quality waves which I've been
scoring alone.
Blackhead is also starting
to show some form at last with a fresh north swell wrapping around
the point it provided some insane barrels over a
shallow sand bank at 3-4ft
and rising.
With the winds swinging
around to onshore later in the week the northern beaches will be sick if
the swell sticks around.
May 27th
JON BLACKWOOD
Check out Jon Blackwood at the following
site:
Go to this page and click on the; Jon Blackwood
link. Its pretty sick that the above web site supports New Zealanders,
and in this instance New Zealand Bodyboarders
NEW
NMD WEBSITE
Nick "Mez" Mesrits has
completed a website for his custom boards company NMD. The site has heaps
of info about board design and the presentation of the site is sick - makes
my site look like crap. If your sick of stock boards which don't quite
perform how you want than get a custom board made to your own dimensions.
Affordable prices too. Check it out at...
CLASSIC
RAGLAN
Raglan's point breaks have been pumping constantly
for the last two weeks with continued swells reaching up to 6-7ft and barely
being below 3-4ft. Tuesday to Friday of the past week has produced some
epic sesion at the points with 4-5ft swell and light offshore winds creating
perfect glassy conditions - sick. Bodyboarders such as Hemi holden, Craig
"soundz", Dale Sattler, Glen Mossong, Simon Thompson, the Whale Bay Boyz
and myself have been scoring it big time. The highlight of the swell was
scoring solid and clean 5ft Indies peeling right through into the Valley
on Tuesday afternoon for 5 hours with only 4 other surfers out. It looks
like another big swell is to hit again next week, I can't wait.
May 7th
South Island Champs
St Clair, Dunedin
21-23 April.
By Hayden Parsons
Day 1 and the waves were
looking not too bad at 2ft and very clean, but as luck would have it the
organizers chose not to hold the Bodyboarding on this day and with the
forecast telling us that the conditions would be getting worse over the
next few days, it proved to be a bad move. This did enable a lot of competitors
to free surf at other waves along the coastline.
Day 2 and the Bodyboarding
heats were underway in clean 1-2ft waves. No one really stood out in the
heats and semis due to the gutless waves.
Finals day. Constant rain
and 1-2ft side shore surf made this some of the worst conditions for the
South Island Champs in living memory.
First up was the U18 final
which saw all of the competitors sitting on a small but long pealing righthander.
Craig Latimer and Andrew Lowe had trouble finding the decent waves with
Craig dropkneeing most of the final.
The race for 1st was between
Sam Wells and Kris Martin. Sam struggled at the start of the final but
posted some solid scores near the end with three waves that he was able
to link some spins and some nice rolls. It was however Kris Martin who
stole the show by catching the maximum of 15 waves and somehow busted an
ARS in the tiny conditions.
The Open final was similar
to the juniors – a grovel fest between Aaron Lock, Aiden Dickson, Sam Wells
and Adam McLean. Adam couldn’t find the decent waves to link his maneuvers
and looked as though he had given up half way through the heat. Aaron Lock
found the small conditions very difficult to surf but managed to pull off
some of his unusual, trademark combos. This however was not enough and
finished in 3rd place. Aiden Dickson was really struggling at the start
of the final by not landing his moves in the mediocre conditions but in
the last 10-15mins he gained some solid scores with some nice rolls and
secured 2nd place. After already coming 2nd in the U18 final, Sam Wells
showed his talent by taking an early lead in the Opens with an 8pt ride.
He was able to pick off the longest rides of any competitor and bust out
more than a couple of rolls on each ride.
Overall it was a pretty
sick comp, it was run smoothly but Huey let us down when it mattered.
Cheers to South Coast Board
Riders, The Edge and R & R Sport for sponsoring the booger section
of the event.
U18 Final.
1st Kris Martin
(Greymouth)
2nd Sam Wells (Christchurch)
3rd Craig
Latimer (Dunedin)
4th
Andrew Lowe (Westport)
Open Final.
1st Sam Wells
(Christchurch)
2nd Aiden Dickson
(Dunedin)
3rd Aaron Lock
(Christchurch)
4th Adam
McLean (Greymouth)
Fiji
Explorers Wanted
Hayden
Parsons is looking for someone to travel to Fiji with for a couple of weeks
at the start of July 2000. Come on fellas I know you want to escape the
NZ winter and score some perfect waves. E-mail him for the details on [email protected]
BBNZ
LOGO WINNER
Brendan
Lincoln of Auckland has won the 'BBSNZ Logo Competition' . Brendan
will be recieving the following prizes from DC BODYBOARD WORLD:
CARTEL
Standard Bodyboard, BSD Wrist Leash, BSD Laces & a Koop T-Shirt.
We
congratulate everyone who sent in their art work and concepts on what they
thought should be representing Bodyboarding in New Zealand. -Des Taurima
(BBSNZ Vice-president).
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