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comp update 8 7 09 Solid Swells and 240 Great young Surfers to hit Lennox Head for Rusty Gromfest A very solid easterly swell is set to unload on NSW’s far north coast right on time for the 14th annual Rusty Gromfest which begins tomorrow, Friday July 10th, with a waiting period running through to Tuesday the 14th of July. Most of Australia’s and many of the world’s best young surfers from Tahiti, Hawaii, New Zealand, USA, Ireland, England, Indonesia and Japan will line up in conditions that are certain to test not just all these great young athletes surfing skills but also their all round ocean skills.
Contest Director Max Perrot commented on the coming swell saying, “Once again Rusty Gromfest will deliver surf and I’m monitoring the weather and swell forecasts closely and I’m utilizing the expertise of some long time local surfers to ensure we get the best of the conditions across the five day waiting period.” Rusty Gromfest is the original and most prestigious grommet event in the world and the horde of young surfers heading to Lennox Head will all be hoping to enhance their careers in a big way by making the final and hopefully winning a Rusty Gromfest title. The line–up is awesome with the likes of Tyler Wright (Lennox Head), Matt Banting (Port Macquarie) and Jack Robinson (Margaret River) facing a top line field of internationals along with many relatively unknown but rapidly emerging young talents from Australia wide. Competitors
will meet at 7:00am Friday morning on the beach at central Lennox
Head for a call on the day one location and schedule with the event
having the luxury of choosing a location across a great variety of
quality surf spots in the area. Great young surfers chasing prestigious Rusty Gromfest Titles is eyeballed by all in the surfing world. Daily press releases will be forwarded from Rusty Gromfest along with high quality digital complimentary images. Results, news and press releases will be constantly updated on www.surfingaustralia.com Rusty Gromfest is made possible thanks to the support of Rusty, FCS, Otis, Waves Magazine, Bandit FM, NBN and The Northern Star.
Michael Wright floating the lip Solid Swells at Lennox Head for Day 1 of Rusty Gromfest Australia’s and many of the world’s best young 16 year and under surfers were greeted to large 2m surf along with cold offshore winds for day one of the Rusty Gromfest at Lennox Head beachbreaks today. The solid waves brought out some big performances and powerful moves were aplenty as the 16 and 14 year and under Boy and Girl divisions completed their round one heats. West Australia’s Creed McTaggart is no stranger to powerful surf coming from the famous Margaret River region and he relished today’s surf posting one of the day’s most impressive wins. “It was tough paddling through the close out sets and just holding position out the back but the waves are good when you pick up the right one, the clean wave faces allow plenty of scoring opportunities” said Creed after his win. “I
definitely prefer larger conditions as to small and apparently it’s
going to stay solid throughout the event so that’s good!” Other impressive performances were from Jake Sylvester (Newcastle), Matt Banting (Port Macquarie), Dylan Cummings (Central Coast NSW) and Nick Edgerton (Wurtulla/Qld) who all won their opening round heats easily. Matt Banting, with a heat tally on his top two scoring rides of 16.05 along with a top wave score of 8.9 (out of a possible 10) was the day’s highest scoring winner. In the 14 Boys local surfer Michael Wright charged the larger set waves to easily win his heat and later his high profiled sister Tyler who is current Australian and World Junior surfing champion and also a multiple Rusty Gromfest champion, easily won her opening round 16 Girls heat. Other impressive winners in the girls division included Sarah Mason (Coolangatta), Kirstin Ogden (Byron Bay), Nikki Van Dijk (Phillip Island Victoria) and Cody Klien (Kingscliff/NSW). While the day was unusually cold for Northern NSW, the waves remained good all day and tomorrow forecasts indicate even larger surf with offshore winds, great conditions and more winter sun! Organizers will make a call on conditions early tomorrow morning at Lennox Head.ach special thanks surfingaustralia.com |
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