Cold Water Classic Returns
The opportunity to compete in the best and most challenging surf that the Cape Peninsula has to offer, and the chance to win a share of the R25000 on offer has attracted the maximum field 16 Women into this year’s O’Neill Cold Water Classic, taking place between Thursday August 23 and Sunday August […]
Storm Surf Postpones Surf Series
The first event in the Lizzard Tag Series, which was scheduled to take place at the Strand in the Western Cape this Saturday and Sunday (July 28& 29), has been called off due to the wild weather and storm surf, which has hit the Cape Peninsula this week.
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.
Heidi on Fire in St Mikes
Testing conditions were the order of the weekend while the country’s best groms took to the water at St Michael’s on Sea, on the KZN South Coast on 2 and 3 June, for the first of three Surfing South Africa-sanctioned Rip Curl Grom Search events.
Tarryn Takes Her Third Pro Junior
Tarryn Chudleigh overcame the wet and wild conditions at Big Bay, Bloubergstrand on Sunday to grab her third consecutive victory in the Pro Junior girls, at the third of five events in the R220 000 Billabong Junior Series, the premier national circuit of events for surfers aged 20 and younger.
Seeds Excel in Bloubergstrand
Tarryn Chudleigh (Kommetjie) and Chantelle Rautenbach dominated the girls U20 Pro Junior set on the second day of Billabong Junior Series event, in absolutely ideal conditions at Big Bay, Bloubergstrand.
Big Waves for Blouberg Surf Series
The men’s events of the third of R220 000 Billabong Junior Series got underway in excellent one to 1.6 metre (3-5 foot) waves at the Big Bay, Bloubergstrand on Thursday, with light variable winds producing conditions described as the best this year for the country’s top 20 year-old and younger surf stars.
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.
World Junior Surf Champs
The 2007 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championships got off to a colourful and noisy start in the city of Almada outside Lisbon in sunny Portugal on Saturday, as surfers and officials representing 28 nations took part in the traditional Parade of Nations and Sands of the World ceremony.
Gale-Force Wind for Surf Open
Gale force winds made conditions difficult for contestants on the second day of competition at the O’Neill SA Open of Surfing but there was still some excellent surfing in the 4- 6 foot which pushed through Nahoon Reef in East London throughout the day.
Big Surf Predicted for SA Open
A family of frontal systems will march into the Eastern Cape this weekend bringing with it snow on the mountains, rain, gale force westerly winds and 10-12 foot surf to Nahoon Reef in East London, where the fourth edition of the O’Neill SA Open of Surfing is scheduled to get under way on Friday April, […]