Valuable ASP Points for Baum at Pro Season Start
Sarah Baum kicked off her 2013 pro season in fifth place after reaching the ASP Star-rated Breaka Burleigh Pro Women’s quarter-finals, in Australia on Saturday
Bianca Touches Perfection Down Under
Sarah Baum (ZAF) was the talk of the town on Day 2 of the Billabong ASP World Junior Surfing Championships at Burleigh Heads in Australia as the teenager from Athlone Park south of Durban made full use of her powerful backhand attack to post a heat total of 18.53 out of a possible 20, the highest of the entire event thus far.
Seeded Surfers Pull Rank
14 year-old Heidi Palmboom (Bluff, Durban) shows the form that gave her victory in the first round of the Pro Junior (U20) girls division at the fifth and final Billabong Junior Series event in Jeffreys Bay on Saturday. Photo: Dave Allan / Billabong Consistent one metre waves and offshore winds on Saturday provided ideal conditions, […]
Girls to Get Back into the Surf
South Africa’s mid-year international contest season is now in the history books and attention shifts to the domestic scene as the race for the country’s most prestigious junior surfing titles resumes at Victoria Bay in the Southern Cape next weekend.
Surfers Look to Bloubergstrand
Big Bay at Bloubergstrand will be the venue for South Africa’s most prestigious junior surfing series, when the third stop on the five-event R220 000 Billabong Junior Series is staged there next week.
Tarryn Wins Durban Pro Junior
Tarryn Chudleigh has secured another event win in the Pro Junior U20 Division of the Billabong Junior Series, at the second of five events held at the Bay of Plenty in Durban, which finished on Sunday.
Youth Over Experience in Juniors
South Africa’s emerging crop of future world-beating surf stars claimed the honours on the third day of the Billabong Junior Series event in Durban on Saturday with a pair of 13 year-olds reaching the U20 girls final.
Seeds Tops at Billabong Juniors
Excellent one to 1.5 metre (3-5 foot) waves with occasional two metre sets provided the canvas for country’s best 20 year-old and younger surfers to showcase their talent on the second day of the Billabong Junior Series event at Bay of Plenty in Durban.
Scottburg Pro All Systems Go
The 2A rated O’Neill Scottburgh Pro has been given the green light status by event organizers and representatives from Surfing South Africa (SSA); the event will continue as planned this weekend on March 24 and 25 at Scottburgh Beach.
Bay of Plenty for Billabong Juniors
The Bay of Plenty on Durban’s famed Golden Mile beachfront will be awash with a couple of hundred of the country’s top junior surfers next weekend, when the second event on the 2007 Billabong Junior Series will be held in the famed waves.
Final Scottburgh Pro Entries Call
Entries are flowing in at a rate of knots for the upcoming inaugural O’Neill Scottburgh Pro which takes place on March 24 and 25 at Scottburgh beach.
Tarryn Scoops U20 Roxy Surf Jam
The Cape Argus Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Tour forced Surfing South Africa and hosts WP Surfing to run the early heats of the Roxy Surf Jam on Friday afternoon, and complete the event on Saturday March 10, instead of Sunday.