Best Grommet Games Yet
The 2007 Reef Wetsuits SA Grommet Games, presented by Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism and supported by funding from Sport and Recreation South Africa, was completed at the Pipe, Pollock Beach in Port Elizabeth Sunday (April 8), and was by far the most successful in the sixteen year history of the tournament.
Friendly City Grommet Games
Pollock Beach in Port Elizabeth will play host to Surfing South Africa’s premier entry-level surf tournament, when the 2007 Reef Wetsuits SA Grommet Games takes place from April 5 to 8.
Kahuna comes to Kommetjie
Kommetjie, the epicentre of surfing on the Cape Peninsula, will be the venue for the third- and final event of the 2006 Kahuna Surf Series, where the top up-and-coming young guns of Western Province surfing will be crowned this weekend.
Scott Stars in Melkbosstrand
Sabrina Scott (Glencairn) produced an outstanding performance at the second event in the Kahuna Surf Series on the weekend, after racking up the highest scores in the Girls divisions in good one metre surf at Melkbosstrand.
Kahuna Surf Event Continues
Novice surfers Constance Haas (Plumstead, U12), Sabrina Scott (Glencairn, U14) and current U16 girl’s ratings leader Kirsten Kingma will be looking to push home their advantage as the second of three Kahuna Surf Series events kicks off at Melkbosstrand this weekend.
False Bay Surfers Rule Kahuna
False Bay surfers used their local knowledge to good effect by capturing five of the seven 2006-10-16titles in the first event of the 2006 Kahuna Surf Series for novices, when the final day of the event was completed in testing half-metre onshore waves at Muizenberg Corner on Saturday.
SA Surf Team for ISA World Games
The 2006 SA Surfing Team will leave Cape Town for the United States tomorrow (Tuesday October 10) to compete in the ISA World Surfing Games which gets under way in Huntington Beach California on Saturday October 14.
Kahuna Kicks Off
A Great White shark cruising close inshore interrupted the first day’s proceedings at the Kahuna Surf Series contest for novice surfers at Muizenberg Corner in Cape Town on Saturday, forcing the organisers to halt the event temporarily until the shark moved off.