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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 ...

SA’s best junior surfers went for broke in small and onshore waves at the final stop of the 2014 Billabong Junior Series. The unfavourable conditions didn’t stop the exciting surfing action that went down at Seal Point, Cape St Francis over the weekend. York van Jaarsvelt took the win from Tide Lee Ireland in the U12 Boys division, while Kirsty ...

32 countries competed in the VISSLA ISA World Junior Surfing Championships held in Ecuador over the weekend. The South African surfing team finished in a respectable 8th place overall with the Hawaiian team claiming the championship trophy and team gold medal. Last hopes were left with Joshe Faulkner in the U16 boys division to qualify for the final to maintain ...

This past weekend saw the 2013 Women’s Surfing Challenge take place in cloudy and smallish surf conditions at Dairy Beach in KZN and in perfect 4 foot surt at Long Beach in Kommetjie. Over 40 surfers participated in the events exclusively for women. Sarah Baum dominated in KZN winning both the Under 20 and Open division titles while Tanika Hoffman ...