The weekend took a harsh toll on me. I am sitting in front of my laptop trying to be creative and, at the same time, trying not to face plant it out of shear exhaustion. You see, this past weekend was spent in a town, 4 hours from the Mother City, doing nothing more than bodyboarding. Now that I think about it, the long distance drive, the lack of sleep, the random sunburn and the festering red eyes was all worth the time at the Southern Cape Bodyboarding Champs in Mossel Bay. No regrets!
The contest was held at Mossel Bays most notable wave, Outerpool. Outerpool is a right hand reef break that produces some amazing waves when the winds are blowing in a South Westerly direction, the tide is low and the swell is a South Easterly swell in the range of 2.5m to 3m. These are roughly the conditions we got during the contest which made for a spectacle of big moves.
The riders that stood out in the contest consisted of a group of locals such as Adam Morley who made got one of the highest heat scores of the event, Bjorn Coetzee who clenched biggest move of the contest with an insane backflip he boosted and Johan Nortjie who won the mens division respectively.One kid that set the bar for the standard of riding was, super grom, Tristan Roberts who performed so well in the contest that he ended up taking titles in 2 divisions being the boys division, because he is young enough to compete in this event, and the Pro division because he is just that super! The junior division was won by Plett local, Niklas Martin, ladies was taken by Nikki Gerrike, who is also from Plett, and the dropknee division was won by Matt Webster.
The contest that Southern Cape Bodyboarding Association hosted was a truly good comeback since they left the South African Bodyboarding scene in 2007. Many thanks go out to the organizers and the sponsors and especially to all the buddies that made the long drive to Mossel Bay for the epic time we had!
The next provincial championship will be the weekend of the 1st and 2nd September where Boland will have its chance at hosting an insane comp. For more information go to the Boland
website
Now for some eye candy from SCBA Champs...Feast!
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| The face of the Boy that took Pros, Tristan Roberts |
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| Deep in the pocket- Douw Steyn chooses to seek the tube |
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| Tristan Roberts demonstrates his mechanical flips |
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| Doing something behind a mighty bush- Mafoos Lombard |
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| Outerpool local, Joe Boogie, going crazy on a section in the Drop knee semi-finals |
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| A free surf at Innerpool caused Mafoos Lombard to get vertical. |
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| Juniors winner, Niklas Martin, boosting a clean roll in his semi-finals |
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| The reason why he won pros is because of massive moves like this flip- Tristan Roberts |
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| Boost of the contest winner, Bjorn Coetzee with this massive Back Flip |
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