The rebellious national titles

Day 1: We awoke all eager for the day ahead. Lance’s shoulder was feeling fine, Henny’s perm was bigger than big bird himself and jake, well jake wasn’t even awake yet. We walked down to Dbah to see the conditions were far from fantastic, team moral went down for a few seconds until we saw a few lefts break in the corner..Team SA were back in it. I was first in the water for Team SA coming up against Joe Clarke, ex SA now NSW frother Marshall Watson and a man who travelled all the way across the tasman who i don’t know his name. Feeling pretty confident in the mid coast like conditions i managed a second behind Clarke and beating Marshall, which put a smile on a SA team manager’s face, which was enough to put me through to the second round.


Next up was lance, by the time his heat came around the conditions were worse than the smell Henny’s poo left in the toilet. Not much came through in his heat apart from a few lil mushy rights were his competitors picked off and struggled to spin combo off. By the looks of lance he wasn’t up to the usual power boat paddling style during the heat, after confirmation from Tim Doman’s comment ‘apparently Lance’s shoulder is hurting’ all myths were justified, just coming third in his heat.

Last but not certainly not least was Hellwood. Who would have guessed that 25 knot onshore 3 Dbah could get any worse..But it did for henny’s heat. Struggletown was the theme for his heat with everyone not being able to link up any moves to get a score down. Eventually the heat finished with no one really getting a solid score down but unfortunately getting third as well and not making it through the next round.

After much discussion from the judges to see if 3 foot dbah was too big for the grommets, the call was made to push the second round of open mens foward a day.. I was up against Alex Halsey, a west aussie Lewy Finnegan and new south waleian Seb Miller. Quietly hopefully i could make it through my hopes and dreams went to shatters when didn’t catch a wave for 5 minutes.. But a few spin and roll combos went down and were enough to grab me second behind Alex Halsey and put me into the quarters.

Until tomorrow i fair you goodbye and goodnight