South African surfing legend and South Africa’s only world surfing champion Shaun Tomson (Santa Barbara, California) returns to Ballito in July to attend the world’s longest running professional surfing event, the R 1.7 Million Mr Price Pro Ballito.
Formerly known as the Gunston 500, Tomson held a stranglehold on the trophy from 1973-1978 with six consecutive wins, including one in his world title year, 1977.
A total of 47 young surfers from all corners of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) competed in the first event of this year's Lizzard Tag Series which was held in contestable surf at St Mikes on Sunday (June 12).
After a week of huge surf in the area, participants in the Lizzard event were greeted by muddy but good contestable waves which were ideal for the format used in this type of team orientated contest.
The Surfing South Africa (SSA) Board of Director's have ratified the selection of the South African Surfing Team which will compete in the 2010 International Surfing Association (ISA) World Surfing Games in Punta Hermosa, Peru from October 19 -27.
BALLITO, KwaDukuza/South Africa (Saturday, July 10, 2010) - Jordy Smith (Dbn), 22, etched his name into the history books today, becoming the third ever South African winner of the ASP 5-Star Mr Price Pro Ballito, simultaneously moving into the No. 1 position on the ASP World Rankings.
The simple query “When are you gonna get the guys together?” by 1960’s Muizenberg surfing stalwart Henk ‘Farmer’ Schagen has triggered a sequence of events that will culminate in over 500 people from every corner of the globe re-uniting in Cape Town in March to celebrate their memories of the time they spent at the iconic ‘Surfers Corner’ between four and five decades ago.
The Wavescapes Surf Festival is officially underway, with the exhibition of the Surf Art boards open to the public.
A powerful Central KZN team followed up their victory at the recent SA Championships when they not only won the Team title but also bagged four of the seven individual titles in the second Reunion Island Challenge which was completed at Durban’s Bay of Plenty on Saturday (October 17).
Despite the near gale-force South East winds currently turning the surf into a churning mass of whitewater at Muizenberg, the venue for the Earthwave beach festival on Sunday, Cape Town surfers and the organisers are confident of breaking the Guinness World Record for the ‘most surfers riding the same wave’.
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VonZipper, your favourite sunglass company and all round nice people, is proud to announce the stellar line-up of local and international contenders who make up the field for the 2009 VonZipper Wildcard Trials.
