South African U16 Longboard Champion Sam Christianson of Durban will be competing amongst SA’s Top Open Longboarders at this year’s Durban Surf Carnival presented by Jeep Apparel this weekend at the New Pier Beach situated on Durban’s Golden Mile.
This weekend is the 12th edition of the Durban Surf Carnival presented by Jeep Apparel it is the veritable who’s who of South African Longboard and SUP surfers that will be descending on Durban’s World Class surf break, New Pier.
The Longboarding Open division is going to be hugely contested this year with numerous former SA Longboard champs and carnival winners taking the stage with popular names like Justin Bing (WP), Thomas King (WP), Brad Weare (KZN) Rat Mundy (KZN) and rising junior star Sam Christianson (KZN) who was recently crowned U16 Junior SA Champ, to name a few, who will be taking nothing away from the other divisions who are peppered with surfing longboard aficionados from around the country.
The Ladies longboard division has also drawn huge interest with Bernie Shelly (WP) bringing a whole troupe of ladies up from Cape Town to participate, which will see SA Champions and previous carnival champions in the surf. Names to look out for here will be defending champ Heather Klug (KZN) , Nix Bex (KZN) and Cape Townians Tarryn Kyte and Roxy Davis, to name a few.
The Forgotten Soul Retro Surfing event is also going to be a showdown with defending Champ Justin Maisch, a favourite for this event, up against top surfers like Die Hard surfer Deon Bing duelling against his son Justin. The only lady entry into this event, Teal Hogg (KZN), is ready to show the men what she has got and relishes knocking the guys out one by one.
The SUPSA Champs is once again going to be hotly contested in all the divisions with favourites in the opens being Defending champs Brandon Ribbink (KZN) and Justin Bing (WP) - both surfers along with Tarryn Kyte (WP) have just returned from the ISA world games in Nicaragua where SA achieved a respectable 7th place out of 27 Teams.
This year the surf carnival also features the NAISH SUPSA Racing for the first time and, as predicted, has attracted racers from all over South Africa with Ethan Koopmans and Mishka Steyn from the WP heading a pack of SA’s top racers.
Paul Godwin the event organiser from Nerve Events said, “This year’s Carnival has attracted over 160 entries, the biggest field in this event 12 year history and Durban in June has splendid warm waters and usually mellow surf which is perfect for these disciplines and surfers”. He also added that the event will offer free surfing lessons as well as the SNAP photographic competition which is free to members of the public, and for the ladies, a female self defence course will be offering demos on the beach. “Come and join the fun, its free to members of the public,” he emphasised
there is also a free to enter SNAP SHOT Photographic Competition that you can enter, as well as a free Surfing clinic, so don’t miss out! For enquiries call Paul Godwin 0835601185 or email mw.nerve@mweb.co.za <mw.nerve@mweb.co.za> . For information on the event you can visit the event blog http://durbansurfcarnival.blogspot.com <http://durbansurfcarnival.blogspot.com>
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