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BILLABONG XXL BIG WAVE WEBSITE

Twiggy Baker and Greg Long the standouts as Billabong launches 2008/9 XXL Global Big Wave website

Awe inspiring images and video footage of South Africa’s Grant ‘Twiggy’ Baker and Californian Greg Long riding enormous waves off the Cape Peninsula are the amongst the highlights on the recently launched 2008/9 website for the ninth annual Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards presented by Monster Energy.

With the Northern Hemisphere winter just beginning and the weather systems starting to produce giant surf, most of the early contenders for the Ride of the Year, Biggest Wave, Monster Paddle-in and Monster Tube awards are from the big wave playgrounds of the Southern Hemisphere, including South Africa, Western Australia, Tasmania and Tahiti.

VOLCOM ELEPHANTFISH RESULTS

Shaun Payne Takes Volcom Elephantfish VQS Event Win In Port Alfred

Excellent surf running down the Port Alfred sandbanks greeted the Totally Crustaceous Tour competitors gathered for the Volcom Elephantfish event. With some unfavourable weather looming on the forecast, the contest organisers had no hesitation in sending out the surfers in dawn's early light on the first day of competition, in order to get through the majority of surfing before the weather turned.

BILT SURFBOARDS UPDATE

Bilt Surfers Score Some Great Results

Durban - Team Bilt South Africa have been on a roll lately, clocking up some good results and getting ready to compete in the international arena. Beyrick De Vries and Sarah Baum were two Bilt surfers who achieved great victories when they both won their respective boys and girls' titles in the premier U16-and-under division of the South African finals of the 2008 Rip Curl Gromsearch series.

JASON CLAIMS LONGBOARD TITLE

Jason Ribbink claims longboard title in perfect conditions on final day of South Coast Surf Carnival

The 2008 edition of the South Coast Surf Carnival, presented by Jeep Apparel and the Independent on Saturday, was blessed with perfect conditions over both days, with Durban’s Jason Ribbink taking full advantage to snatch the SALSA (South African Longboard Surfing Association) sanctioned Premier open division. In the race to capture the first ever stand up paddleboard (SUP) title in South Africa, Dylan McCleod (Eastern Cape) was clearly the most consistent performer and rightly claimed the prestigious title and the main prize of a BILT SUP valued at R12 500.

Boardriders TV Times

Slater’s Victory and Gateway Skate Event Feature On Boardriders TV # 21 presented by Virgin Mobile In Association With Resolution

This year has been an inspiring year for all Kelly Slater fans, with Slater decimating his World Tour opponents across the planet en route to his amazing ninth world title. We go on a journey with him through the year so far, witnessing his surfing performances and his victories at various World Tour events.

Honours go to Durban High School at SA Schools Championships

2008 Reef Wetsuits South African Schools Championships
Surfing South Africa's annual Interschools event
Muizenberg Pavilion, Cape Peninsula
Saturday and Sunday, October 25 & 26

Honours go to Durban High School and Sun Valley Primary School in the 2008 Reef Wetsuits SA Schools Championships

Muizenberg Pavilion provided perfect conditions for the annual Reef Wetsuits SA Schools Championships at the weekend (October 25/26) as 16 schools from all parts of the country participated in one of the longest running events on the Surfing South Africa calendar.
Perfect weather and contestable 3 foot surf were ideal conditions for the team format used in this event as once again Durban High School showed their class and dominated the Main final, successfully defending the title they won at the same venue in 2007.
The powerful DHS side, comprising an all star lineup of Chad du Toit, Scott le Fevre, Jason Pender, Kane Bennewith, David van Zyl and Roger Allison posted a massive score of 132.7 to the 107.4 of second placed Fellowship College of Melkbosstrand.

QUIK ECO CONTEST REUNION

QUIK ECO CONTEST REUNION

SARAH BAUM, SCOTT LEFEVRE AND HEIDIE PALMBOOM GET GREAT RESULTS IN REUNION!

GO TO GALLERY TO SEE PICS OF THE TRIP:

A few of our SA Surfers flew over to Reunion recently and took part in the Quiksilver Eco Challenge. The surfers all had an incredible time and came back with many stories about how outstanding the waves are there. (mainly a left)

Surfers that went were Scott lefevre, Beyrick de Vries, Devin Lane, Heidi Palmboom, Tanika Hoffman and Sarah Baum.

All surfers have said they would love to go back there and that the hospitality from Fabrice and all the members of the St-Leu-Surf Club was amazing.

Go to the picture gallery to see pics of Reunion.

The plan is for Reunion team to come over to SA next year, and then we go back to Reunion in 2010 with a fully organized team of u12 to u20 surfers!

Sarah Baum won her u14 girls division and Heidi came 4^th in the u16 girls division. This is a great result for the girls as the standard of girl surfing in Reunion is very high.

Scott Lefevre got a 2^nd in the u16 boys which is excellent as he beat world class surfers such as Maxine Hugonot who recently won the King of the Groms in France.

Results of surfers from SA:

Boys - 16, Kieran Bulard, Scott Lefevre, Maxime Huscenot, Olivier Foucque

Girls - 14, Sarah Baum, Jessie Albert, Zoé Glasenap

Girls -16, Johanne Defay, Canelle Bulard, Tanika Hoffman, Heidi Palmboom

Girls -18 , Johanne Defay, Canelle Bulard, Johanne Panzini, Tanika Hoffman

NORTHSWELL COMP POSTPONED

NORTH SWELL CONTEST UPDATES:

Unfortunately the North Swell Club Contest was postponed from Sunday 26 October due to dreadful conditions. The NE was howling and the general consensus was to cancel as the surf was blown out.

The next contest will be on SUNDAY 23 NOVEMBER. This is the weekend of the Lizzard Tag Team on the North KZN Coast. But the Tag team is only for u16 surfers so all u20 and open men and women can do the North Swell. We encourage all u16 surfers to surf in the tag team event.

Lizzard often have their Tag Team on the Saturday, and if this is the case surfers can surf in both events. The Lizzard on the Saturday and the North Swell on the Sunday.

CHEMSPEC SURF SERIES EVENT 2 RESULTS

Greetings! Half the pics are up in the gallery – other half to come later! A very big congratulations to all surfers who took part in the Chemspec Fun Surf Series event 2 on the weekend!
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Moir takes second gold medal; Lee and Tag Team get copper at ISA World Surfing Games

SA World Surfing Games
Costa de Caparica, Portugal
October 11-19, 2008

Moir takes second gold medal; Lee and Tag Team get copper at ISA World Surfing Games

Matthew Moir was the toast of Team South Africa when he successfully defended his ISA World Longboard title on the final day of the 2008 ISA World Surfing Games at Costa de Caparica in Portugal on Sunday.

The Capetonian was joined on the podium by fellow South African Dave Lee (Uvongo) who earned the copper medal for fourth place in the Men’s Bodyboarding and the SA tag team who also captured the copper medal in the Aloha Cup.

ISA WORLD SURFING NEWS

South Africa off to a perfect start at the ISA World Surfing Games in Portugal The South African surfing team got off to perfect start at the 2008 ISA World Surfing Games in Portugal on Sunday when all four competitors on Day 1 of the event won their opening heats.
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VOLCOM RHINOFISH GREAT SUCCESS

Great Waves and Big Moves For Volcom Totally Crustaceous Tour Event It's been a while since The Dairy Bowl has shown form recently, but she came to life this weekend for the Volcom Rhinofish VQS event, that went off in super fun surf all weekend.
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REEF SA JUNIOR CHAMPS

PICS LOADED ON GALLERY

Chemspec Fun Series Results

Here are the results of the first of the 3 Chemspec Fun Series.

Sorry for the delay. Please contact us if there are any errors. Many thanks :)

Click on title below:

Girls Results:

Boys Results:

TO THE KZN JUNIOR TEAM.

TO THE KZN JUNIOR TEAM.

On behalf of Southern Kwa Zulu Natal Surfing Association we would like to congratulate

KZN for winning The President's Cup, as well as all your individual winners. We hope

you all had a good time at St.Mikes.

SOUTHERN KWA ZULU NATAL COMMITTEE

SA Junior Champs 2008 Results

Click Here to download the Final Results (MS Excel)
Click Here to download the Team Points (MS Excel)

A BIG THANKS

The KZN committee would like to say a big thank you to all our surfers for all their hard work and dedication leading up to the SA Junior Champs. Well done guys, you really deserve it.

Also a big thanks to all the parents for your part in making all this possible!!

KZN Committee

KZN win Freedom Cup at 2008 Reef Wetsuits SA National Junior Surfing Championships

SURFING MEDIA RELEASE
Sunday October 5, 2008

Reef Wetsuits SA National Junior Surfing Championships presented by Ocean & Earth SA.
Surfing South Africa's premier national junior tournament.
St Michaels on Sea, KwaZulu-Natal South Coast.
Wednesday October 1 to Sunday October 5.

FINAL DAY

KZN win Freedom Cup at 2008 Reef Wetsuits SA National Junior Surfing Championships presented by Ocean & Earth SA

KwaZulu-Natal claimed provincial honours and the Freedom Cup on the final day of the 2008 Reef Wetsuits SA National Junior Championships presented by Ocean & Earth SA at St Michaels on Sea on the KZN South Coast today (Sunday October 5) when they beat defending champions and arch rivals Western Province by 1254 points.

Although Western Province surfers won three titles to KZN's two the Durban team’s depth and number of finalists saw them win back the trophy that they last held in 2005. KZN deservedly won the Best Team Trophy for their solid war cry, wholehearted team spirit and support of each other throughout the championships.

The Freedom Cup victory was the main goal of the KZN side and a solid performance by a whole host of finalists is the reason why the trophy is on its way back to Surf City.

YAHOO!! KZN JNRS WIN CUP!

KZN win Freedom Cup at 2008 Reef SA National Junior Surfing Championships presented by Ocean & Earth SA

KZN claimed provincial honours and the Freedom Cup on the final day of the 2008 Reef SA National Junior Championships at St Michaels on Sea on the KZN South Coast today (Sunday October 5) when they beat defending champions and arch rivals Western Province by 1254 points.

Although Western Province surfers won three titles to KZN's two the Durban teams depth and number of finalists saw them win back the trophy that they last held in 2005.
KZN deservedly won the Best Team Trophy for their solid war cry, wholehearted team spirit and support of each other throughout the championships.

Fun Series Results

Apologies with the delay in putting up the Fun Series Results - the committee are very busy with the Jnr SA Champs at St Mikes - will have them up on the web asap.

The Photos and results will be sent to the papers on around 10 October just before the next contest on 19 October.

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