The contest location is LYALL BAY, WELLINGTON. Contestants meet at the corner carpark at 8.30am for registrations and a start soon after. Travel safe!!
The Learn to Surf clinic is ON from 11am – 2pm at Lyall Bay (airport corner).
To those registered and/or keen for the learn to surf clinic, simply come to the eastern end of Lyall Bay and find us by spotting our BANNER. We’ll be close by. See you there.
The Club Skins Contest is OFF [cancelled] due to un-contestable surf.
Saturday March 6th is the kick-off day for our first ‘two’ events this year.
SKINS SURFING CONTEST – 9am
***win $10 per heat won*** Check out the photos from our last Skins event.
Mobile location (posted on our website at 7am on the morning of the contest and a text alert sent out to all pre-registered entrants)
Saturday 6 March 2010 (no postponement date)
Rego’s 8.30am – Entry fee: $10 members, $15 non-members.
First heat 9am
[payment in cash on morning of contest at the beach]
WIN $10 CASH per heat won – heat placement drawn out of a hat a random.
Register here for the Skins Contest.
LEARN TO SURF CLINIC – 11am – 2pm
Register here for the Learn to Surf Clinic.
Come and learn how to stand up and surf! The best thrill money can’t buy… SURFING! Look forward to seeing you there. Members and non-members all welcome. Free for members, Koha accepted from non-members.
*If you sign up as a member on the day the Learn to Surf Clinic will be FREE. Or you can join up right now here.
Coming up: Regional Scholastics Surf Champs – 20 March. Entry form.
Those grommets interested in training sessions before-hand email us. Experienced judges and/or volunteers please feel free to make contact if you’d like to help us with this regional event: Email: wellington.boardriders@gmail.com
We’re looking forward to having a great year in 2010. With loads on the horizon, here’s a peak:
- Scholastics beach training.
- 20-21 March – Wellington Regional Scholastics Surfing Champs (more info soon).
- Family learn to surf day.
- Club point-score contests.
- Continued conversation with Council re. ‘lights at the corner’ initiative.
- Boardriders customised apparel
Feel free to make contact via email and/or become a member (if you’re not already).
Remember, members get rider-deals with their membership card.
Kids/Juniors Beach Day – 10:30am, Monday 21 December 2009 - Lyall Bay, Wellington
- Kids – come and have a blast at the beach!
- Grommets – begin your training for the scholastics!
- Families – come and enjoy the start of summer!
Look for the Caravan somewhere on Lyall Bay Parade.
We’re celebrating summer and the school holidays by holding a day for kids/juniors. We will be running a series of fun activities throughout the day, ranging from sandcastle comps to beach races and surfing. We’ll have a few boards available but if your child has their own they should bring it along with them. All kids are welcome but we’d appreciate it if children aged 8yrs or younger were accompanied by an adult. It’s open to non-members too, so if your child would like to bring a mate, that’s sweet as.
What to bring: Standard beach gear (drink and food for lunch, wetsuit, sun block, sensible clothes, hat, board etc)
RSVP: We want to make sure we have enough adults on board to help out so it would be great if you could email us back by Sunday night if your grommets are coming: wellington.boardriders@gmail.com
In other news: CONTEST POINTS TALLY 2009
- Lawn Bowls
- Barbeque (BYO Meat)
- Surf footage on the big screen + DJ
- Club trophy presentations to division winners
Mark Gee’s photos from the double pointscore contest:
http://www.markg.com.au/wellingtonboardriders/lyallCompOct09/
RacoonProject’s Open Mens final video:
Clean head high waves greeted the 48 strong competitive field for the final Wellington Boardriders Club surfing contest of 2009 on Saturday.
The morning started out a little onshore and chunky, but by mid-morning the waves had cleaned up and the contest arena was buzzing in anticipation of a great day’s competitive surfing ahead.
This contest was a double point score which will be added to the current points tally to determine division winners for the 2009/10 season. Our annual prize-giving (at Lyall Bay Bowling Club) on Sunday 29th November will see trophies being awarded to each division winner.
A highlight of the day was a wave caught in the final by open mens runner up Brandon Kingi of Titahi Bay. On a solid overhead set wave he came square of the bottom and performed a radical vertical snap, putting it on the line and coming so very close to taking out the final.
In the end however, the two high scoring waves from Charlie Denniston of Riversdale were what was needed to see him claim victory in the Open Mens division and take top spot on the Wellington Boardriders Club points tally for 2009 (tally updated this week). A series of smooth manouevres and super-fast surfing in general by Denniston was another highlight of the event.
Results for all divisions were as follows (1st place getters):
Open Mens – Charlie Denniston
Open Womens – Donna Muir
Junior Mens – Charlie Denniston
Over 30 Mens – Kristin Savage
Over 40 Mens – Scott Brenton
Longboards – Scott Brenton
*Most Radical/Progressive Manoeuvre – Brandon Kingi
Congratulations to all those surfers who gained results and well done to all competitors for getting involved. Here are some photos from Racoon Projects.
We look forward to our Annual end-of-year prize-giving at the LBBC, Sunday 29th November* (NB: date change from that on poster) More information here.
Thank you to all our sponsors and supporters:
Rico Lane – Caravan of Love
Rob Hawley (audio-visual)
+ all the other volunteers throughout the day for judging, tabulating and/or beach marshalling.
All club information on our website. See you on the 29th in your bowling whites!
Our double point score surfing contest is ON at Lyall Bay tomorrow (Saturday 31st October).
Meet at the caravan at 8.30am for regos. First heat 9am.
See you there!
