Top Surfers Impress in SA Women’s Pro
The top three surfers in the country Tanika Hoffman, Bianca Buitendag and Sarah Baum showed their pedigrees at the Cape Town, Jeffreys Bay and Durban editions of the Surfing South Africa Pro winning six titles between them.
Masters of the Waves Battle Begins
Five-times Cup champions Border have assembled a formidable team to defend their 2012 SA Masters Surfing Champs crown in Durban, but Women’s Division defending champ Heather Clark aims to have a say on that
Tarryn Takes Billabong Series Title
Tarryn Chudleigh (Kommetjie) has clinched the season’s Billabong Pro Junior Girls series title in Jeffreys Bay on Monday. Picture courtesy Billabong. Despite finishing second to current WQS No. 15 Nikita Robb in the fifth- and final event of the 2007 Billabong Junior Series in Jeffreys Bay, Tarryn Chudleigh clinched the Pro Junior Girls’ Series Title […]
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.
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.
Giant Surf for Ticket to Ride
The participants on the inaugural Ticket to Ride gap year surfing adventure experienced the biggest swell and tides on the KwaZulu-Natal coast in living memory, when they reached Durban after their 1 600 Km surfari along the coastline of South Africa.
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.