I can’t believe my first year on the WQS is
over. It’s gone so quickly! It’s been a good year for me. I’ve been all over
the world following my dream of making the WCT. It’s been incredible, crazy,
wild, different, new, and through everything that I have experienced I am
growing as a person and it’s an amazing feeling!
It’s been a
crazy ride with a lot of ups and downs but all in all it’s been a great year. I
finished 19th in the world. Wow that’s pretty crazy for my first year.
Although I
would have loved to have done a lot better, but at the same time I am stoked
cause without it, I wouldn’t have been able to learn all the things I have this
year and develop it into what I am going to do next year, which is following my
heart and doing what I love and improve on what I achieved this year
competitively and personally.
My first winter season in Hawaii…
It’s been amazing, I have loved everything about it, and my main aim in going
there was to find my feet and explore a new place. But to understand what the
environment and atmosphere is like here you have to understand what Hawaii is all about for
a SURFER.
It’s the
Holy Grail, it’s where every surfer is put to the test and made to push him or
her beyond any limit, just because the waves are a lot bigger and more powerful
than any other place in the world
And besides
all of that, which you have to focus on, during the winter season (which is
late October through to Dec.) it is where the whole surfing industry goes. So
anyone who is anyone is there and everyone is trying to make it, so there is
the largest amount of incredible surfers all pushing it to the next level
trying to be a stand out…
To compare
it to anything it’s like how every actor, making it big or just trying to break
onto the scene all go to Hollywood!
It’s the only way I can explain it to a non-surfer.
So for my first season in Hawaii, it’s been
about just finding my feet in this incredible, intense, beautiful stretch of
land called the North
Shore!
I’m off to Australia
in a couple of days to compete in the World Junior Championships in Narrabeen! I’m
super excited to go to the Gold Coast first, that is why I am leaving this
early because I have never been there before, even though I have been to Australia
about 8 times.
I will be
surfing Snapper Rocks (famous break) and hang out with the other up and coming
Saffa Girls. After Worlds I’m heading further North, Byron Bay
and Ballina to meet up and surf with some of the girls doing the WQS.
My first WQS of 2008 is in Phillip
Island, Down South, where
I will be competing in the Roxy Pro at the end of January hoping to start my
2008 WQS year with a Bang!
Wishing all a wonderful New Year full of love, peace, and great waves…
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