Photo By Steen Barns
2010/Newsletter 8 23rd November.
Hi Everyone,
Well ,its over for another year. Our 4th and final comp of the year has just been completed at Meanoes , under the Gunnery at Flinders Head. Our guest reporter for this comp is the one and only Stan "the man" Kofoed. I wont steal any of stan's thunder , so read on for his insight into a very fun day.
FOUR KSV STATE ROUNDS COMPLETED….. AND FOUR DIFFERENT WINNERS!!!
WHO HAS WON THIS YEARS OPEN & B GRADE STATE TITLES…..
IS IT YOU?.....
A MASSIVE swell hit the Victorian coast this week… Where are we to hold our club state title event?...
Victoria was hit by a large ground swell on Thursday 18th November with swell sizes thumping the Mornington Peninsula and Phillip Island at 10ft + .
The swell was supposed to drop out by Saturday, to the 4 to 6 ft range, the perfect size for the beaches along the Mornington Peninsula. But for the chance that it didn't we needed a back up surf location as Peninsula Board Riders Club also had an event for the day and had first car park Gunnamatta booked for their event. This was the only beach break that had banks that could handle the swell at size .So we didn't have the option for waves there….
Jim and I contacted each other on Friday morning the swell was still pumping and smashing the coast with 10ft + sets along the beaches. Jim had just finished surfing Flynn's reef with 8 ft sets which is protected from the brunt of the swell. There was no way the swell was going to drop out enough for us to find and surf beach breaks that could handle the swell..
So we decided for every one to meet at West Head at Flinders early Saturday Morning to surf a reef break called Meanoes…
We arrived at the care park to be greeted with a super consistent 3 to 5ft swell hitting Meanoes reef. A right and left hand peak reef break, the right being a hot-dogging pocket wave and the left a dangerous heavy heaving body breaking 6 inch deep barrelling wave on high tide. And should be only surfed on the fullest of tides..
We got the contest on the way, the standard of surfing was at a super high level with lots of waves to be caught per 20 minute heat.. Actually in one of the heats there were 22 waves caught and still some waves in the heat went unridden..
Plenty of waves to keep every one having fun..
There was a lot of action happening through the heats with Red
(oh my god what am I doing up hear ) Ceglowski attempting to take off on one of the biggest waves of the day, which decided to hold him up on the take off then throw him viciously in to the reef below bouncing him a few times and throwing him like a rag doll . Lucky ya did ya flexibility and deep breathing warm ups Red before your heats.
Another surfer having the onlookers hoooing and ahhhhring was Peter Browns attempts at taming the lefthanders, but instead the left hander had other ideas and gave him a good old fashioned whooping. We all thought he was going to come back with a catch of seafood digging up the Crayfish from the bottom of the reef. He still came to the beach after his heat with a smile 10 miles wide after his throttling
Some of the outstanding surfers of the day were Young Jethro Cooney who through himself at every thing, viciously driving turns at the lip. At one stage I thought he was Dean Bould on one of his waves. He is right on the tails of the top guys.
Neil Owen turned back the clock 20 yrs, taking off at the reef on bottomless waves hitting high G forces on his bottom turns aiming for the top of the waves punishing the lips. He just missed out on making the open final.
Mark Jeffery was throwing together some big snaps and reo's and had the top order worried. Paul (Turtle) Mannix was having a great day smashing every thing that came his way and was unlucky to not progress to the semis.
Josh Considine pushed himself to the limits having some of the best heats I've seen him surf, doing some great tight turns and made it to the semi finals
(good effort Josh)…
The Surfers to progress to the final 4 in their prospective divisions :
Opens Stan Kofoed, Dean Bould, Mick Discassio, James Anderson
B grade Jim Brown, Anthony Jewell, Murray Armstrong, Stephen Hough
The B grade final were first out now with the water running hard off the reef.
Tony Jewell was finding the best waves of the heat doing full rail power turn surfing that would of given the top order of the opens a run for there money. There was one wave he got where he threw his 110kg frame in to a power bottom turn fanning out 100dreds of litres of water. Aiming for the lip hit it that hard that we all heard the thunderous crack causing a tremor to hit the land and for rocks to give way and fall off the cliff.
Jimmy Brown was getting some good rail turns at high speed in the final he looked like he was having a lot of fun he also just missed out on progressing in to the second round of the opens
The B grade results 1st Toney Jewell, 2nd Jim Brown 3rd Murray Armstrong 4th Stephen Hough.
Next the open final was out with the water getting really low .The takeoff rock being only covered with 6 inches of water.
Mick got a massive power hit in the heat and surfed nicely with linking turns
Bouldy was surfing brilliantly doing a lot of high speed turns maintaining constant flow and smoothness
James Anderson Kept all the finalists honest with his repertoire of new and old school manoeuvre he even did what he calls the Rodeo manoeuvre this time it was under the water and the judges could not see it to score it.
Stan Kofoed Surfed Aggressively and sharp to keep pressure on the other finalists..
The final was a very close affair and kept every one on the beach guessing who got first. So we went off to the Flinders pub for a few ales and presentation.
The open final results are 1st Stan Kofoed, 2nd Mick Discassio 3rd Dean Bould
4th James Anderson.
So the winners from the rounds of the KSV circuit are Tim Kadwell,
Mick Discassio, Dean Bould and Stan Kofoed.
Who will be this yrs open and B grade state champ?
This will be announced at our presentation night on Friday 3rd December at Pino's trattoria in Thompson Avenue Cowes. 7.00 pm start. Pizza's $10 per head.
So please try and come along for an evening of food , beer and bullshit.
The planning for the World Titles is well under way with fundraising continuing and organising of the social events almost complete. It looks like being a large field of surfers and a fun week for all our guests.
Keep tuned to the contest website www.2011kneeboardsurfingworldtitles.com or to the KSA website www.kneeboardsurfaustralia.com for all the latest news.
