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!
Last week’s swell was nice. Next weekend we have a contest with double point score.
Open members meeting – The lifeblood of the club, its members, have a forum to present thoughts, ideas and/or dreams for the club this Friday 30th October, 7pm at the Lyall Bay Bowling Club.
There’ll be time set aside for a brief discussion of any issues raised. Given the obvious time constraint, there will be a time limit placed on each person contributing.
The issues/ideas raised at the meeting will then be tabled at the next meeting of the committee of the Wellington Boardriders Club. To assist in the smooth running of the meeting, we invite you to pre-register your speaking spot by emailing us your name and topic at: wellington.boardriders@gmail.com.
Click this image to see what’s coming up before Christmas…
NEXT few events…
Open meeting for ALL members – 7.00pm, Friday 30 October 2009 – Location TBA.
More info here real soon!
then, the next day…
Surfing Contest – ‘double point score’ – Saturday 31st October
(postponement date Sat 7th Nov)
Contest Photos on our LOOK page. Thanks to Mark Gee and Marvel Media.
Summer arrived early at the Wellington Boardriders Club skins surfing contest at Lyall Bay on Saturday.
Super fun, clean, glassy, chest high waves and sunshine, greeted the 40 competitors at our inaugural surfing event.
The club caravan took us back to the 70’s and kept the officials toasty.
All in all the day was a great success.
First place results as follows:
- Open – Ilan Fisher
- Under 18- Ethan Burge
- Under 14 – Lewi Barr-Brown
- Open Womens – Hayley Rogers
- Under 18 Womens – Maia Whitaker
- Over 40 – Rico Lane
- Longboards – Alex Mulcahy
Thanks to the following people and organisations for their support:
- Christian Surfers Wellington – Judging and tabulating
- Rob Hawley – PA system
- Mark De Lew – Beach Marshall
- Real Surf – Prizes
- Wild Style – Prizes
- Mark Gee – Water and Land Photography
- Marvel Media – Photography
- Liam Ryan – Commentary
- Rico Lane – Caravan
Thanks to all those involved and to the competitors for being good sports.
Next event in October – keep informed here at our website.
[Photos of the event uploaded soon]
Skins surfing contest ON Saturday 5th September.
Win $10 CASH for every heat you win! Man-on-man heats, instant knockout.
Date: Saturday 5th September
Time: 9am-5pm
Location: Lyall Bay, Corner – 8.30am registrations
Divisions:
- Junior
- Open
- Over 40’s
- Longboard
- Womens
15 spots per division.
Entry fee:
- $10 members
- $20 non-members
PAYMENT – in cash on the morning of the event.
The surfer with the most skins at the end of the contest wins the skins event (for their division).
Points from heat scores and results will be allocated and posted on our points score table and used to determine our club division champions at the end of this year’s club contest season (Club Prizegiving early December).
Apart from the standard 5 divisions, the ‘Highest Placed’ in the following age categories will also be recorded and awarded prizes at the end of the season:
- U16
- U14
- Has been (over 28)
Any questions email us: wellington.boardriders@gmail.com or comment below!
Chur chur.
