Surfing

It was a fine, fine day for a surfing contest down in JBay. The sun was shining down, the wind was puffing from the right direction, and the waves were stacked up to the horizon. Coming in at a solid three-feet, the conditions were perfect for the best junior surfers competing in the Hurley SA Junior Champs. Spectators flocked down ...

Day 4 of the Hurley SA Junior Champs was all about the girls. The U13 girls didn’t surf yesterday as he waves were deemed a bit big for them, so they were sent out in the somewhat smaller, onshore conditions. Olivia Izzard, Gabi Lailvaux, Kai Woolf, Julia Ploughman, Finn Musson and Amy Launder were the standouts, and made it through ...

A perfect day of surf dawned for the competitors on day 3 of the Hurley SA Junior Champs at Lower Point in Jeffreys Bay. Perfect four-foot waves, light winds and a little bit of drizzle that soon dried up. The repecharge rounds came to an end and it became sudden death for all spectators with the top two surfers advancing ...

Another action packed day of surfing at the Lower Point in JBay for the second day of the Hurley SA Junior Champs. Small but ever so clean two to three-feet waves poured down the point from first light, and the competition kicked off at 7:30 sharp. While there were many highlights throughout the day, two early morning performances worth noting ...

The 2014 Hurley SA Junior Surfing Champs is underway at Lower Point in Jeffreys Bay and will run until the 12th October showcasing SA’s top surfers aged 17 and younger. Entrants will compete for both individual and team national titles, lucrative awars and national team blazers. The contest will feature the top surfers who have qualifies for their provincial team ...