Nikita Robb into Last Eight
Rookie South African surfing pro Nikita Robb stayed on track for her best result of the year, by advancing to the last eight at the 5 Star R175 000 Rip Curl Boardmasters women’s event at Fistral Beach in Newquay, England, on Friday.
Girls Go Ballistic in Great Surf
The day after the Women’s Day public holiday in South Africa, the country’s top 20-and-under female surf stars celebrated with an awesome display of high performance surfing as Victoria Bay continued to produce great surf for the Billabong Junior Series.
Vic Bay Welcomes SA’s Best
The boys event’s in the fourth of five events in the R220 000 Billabong Junior Series got advance experience in ideal conditions on Thursday at Victoria Bay in the Southern Cape, in one metre (3 foot) waves that reeled down the long right-hand point fanned by a brisk offshore wind.
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.
Nikita Robs the Rest Again
South African Under 18 Champion Nikita Robb (East London) won the Girl’s titles at the 2007 Mr Price Pro Junior in Durban on Saturday, after competing in 2-3 foot surf at Durban’s New Pier in one part of the Durban Beach Festival.
Border Win President’s Cup
A combined Border team posted a huge 48,554 team score, the highest score in 15 years to blow their provincial opponents away and win the 35 year old President’s Cup, for only the third time in the 41 year history of the event.
Ideal Surf for SA Champs
Good four-foot off-shore surf continued at the world-famous Nahoon Reef for Day Two of the 2007 South African Surfing Championships to the delight organisers, as the second round continues in East London.
Inaugural Mozambique Invitational
Ten of the best female surfers in South Africa are currently in Mozambique, preparing for the start of the inaugural Roxy Invitational which is set to take place at one of the perfect right-hand point-breaks in the area.
Rosy Rocks Durban Roxy Surf Jam
The sun burned down, the waves poured through, the girls ripped them all and the wind forgot to blow on the second day of the Roxy Surf Jam presented by Virgin Mobile In Association With Resolution Health.
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.
SA 3 Still in Junior Surf Champs
Contest Director Marcos Bukao called an early halt to Day Five proceedings at the Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championships on Thursday, when the surf dropped to just one foot, and the weather changed from hot to cold at Praia Mata, Costa Da Caparica, Portugal.
Tarryn and Nikita Lead SA Girls
There was better surf with some bad luck on Day Four of the 2007 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championships, as the South Africans saw two of their number eliminated in the blazing heat at Mata Beach, Costa Da Caparica, Portugal on Wednesday.