You don’t need to be a genius to know the howling 20 knot Southerly is causing havoc at the Cronulla beaches.
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The swell has arrived and its 6ft plus coming from the South-along with the wind, by this afternoon it will be 8ft and tomorrow 10ft.This would be good news if the wind had some West in it but alas it doesn’t seem promising for the rest of the week.
We surfed at the Alley this morning where it was hard work getting out and easy getting in-there was 3 guys out on the whole beach and about 6 guys out the Point, where I took todays pics. It had the extra bonus of being alive with sea creatures just to keep you on your toes, jumping Salmon, Dolphins and a big Seal mowing the fish just of the back of the bank…..lucky we don’t live on the Nth Coast!
All things being equal it looks like the Point is all the options available for the next couple of days.
Good luck for the 2015 Rip Curl GromSearch Series presented by POSCA which will make its debut at Maroubra this week with some of Australia’s most talented young surfers aiming to add a coveted GromSearch trophies to their mantelpiece.
The four-day event will kick off on the Eastern Sydney beach from Thursday 24th – Sunday 27th September and will see over 120 kids surfing across a range of divisions.
In the Azores, Stop No.6 of 7 in the European Qualifying Series, the QS10,000 SATA Azores Pro launched in wind-affected three-to-five foot surf at Santa Barbara. Tough conditions cleaned up towards the end of the day and allowed 22 heats of the opening round of competition.
Cronulla’s Connor O’Leary , 21, found the gems in a bumpy line-up to collect solid scores and obtain his ticket for Round 2. The Australian stood apart from the crowd in a four-man heat where his opponents were all within a point of each other.
“I was watching the heat before mine with Pedro Henrique and he got a good score on two turns on a right so I decided to stick to the rights,” O’Leary explained. “I think the rights are a bit better, especially on your backhand, maybe a bit steeper and easier to hit. It’s a pretty challenging wave cause it’s so peaky and has got a lot of punch to it, so you can get confused about what to do with it.”
Three-time World Surf League (WSL) Champion Mick Fanning (AUS) has claimed the 2015 WSL Jeep Leader Jersey after squaring off against then-ratings’ leader Adriano de Souza (BRA) in a hotly-contested Final at the Hurley Pro at Trestles. On the women’s side, two-time WSL Women’s Champion Carissa Moore (HAW) bested South African Bianca Buitendag (ZAF) to take the Swatch Women’s Pro at Trestles, her third Championship Tour victory of the season, and take the ratings’ lead heading into Europe.
With no rest for the wicked, the world’s best female surfers have arrived in Europe where its 2ft and a lay day ,for Stop No. 8 on the 2015 Samsung Galaxy WSL Championship Tour (CT), the Cascais Women’s Pro, to be held from September 22 - 28.
As the WSL Top 17 embark on the final three events of the season, two distinctive stories emerge: the battle for the undisputed world surfing crown and the race to requalify for next year’s elite tour.
Carissa Moore (HAW), two-time WSL Champion and current Jeep Rankings’ Leader, has re-lit her sensational competitive form in 2015, claiming back-to-back wins on the Gold Coast and at Bells Beach to start the season. Solid results through the middle of the year were punctuated by an emphatic win last week at the Swatch Women’s Pro Trestles and Moore enters Portugal as the current frontrunner.
In a sign for the future -ed Bull Unleashed goes off in Wales!
Hawaii’s Albee Layer is your 2015 Red Bull Unleashed champion after a string of spectacular displays carried him to victory at Surf Snowdonia in North Wales last week.
Hawaiian powerhouse Layer beat New Zealand’s Billy Stairmand 3-1 in the final battle in front of a raucous, two thousand-strong audience with Aussies Freestone and Crews taking the Bronze.
After a long hiatus from the surfing arena, wave pool technology is very much back in the game, and the last three days of high performance surfing had the assembled crew of superstar talent buzzing about not only the state of things to come, but the situation as it currently stands.
Not only was the pool a novel concept, the competition format was a refreshing break from the standard 30-minute-best-two-waves heat scheme. The competitors and capacity crowd revelled in the man-on-man duel concept, which saw pairs of surfers go head to head, wave for wave, with a coin toss determining who surfs first. After each surfer has ridden a wave, the best score takes the points. Best of five waves wins, and once a surfer hits three wins the bout is over and the next pair hits the water immediately.
Made for the Olympics! And if you really want to know where surfing is going-The International Surfing Association (ISA) has welcomed Norway as its newest Member Federation, further driving the global expansion of the sport.
Global development is a key element of the ISA’s strategy and the consistent growth and reach amongst young people is a driving force behind the ISA’s ambitions of making Surfing an Olympic sport.
With a rugged coastline and spectacular Fjords, Norway has many untouched Surf and StandUp Paddle spots that are drenched in natural beauty. Led by President Tore Kramer, the Norwegian Surfing Club is aiming to continue its development under the guidance of the ISA and boost the growth of Surfing amongst young people in the country.
I don’t think I can take any more but congrats to Sunshine Coast surfers Kai Hing and Isabella Nichols who have officially been announced as the 2015 WSL Australasia Junior Champions for 2015.
There must be something in the water up there-and I don’t mean Sharks!