Finale Sealed
Friday 21 September 2013 Two days of fun warm-up surf at Seal Point has set the mood for the finale of the Billabong Junior Series presented by BOS, and cooking winter-like surf looks set to continue over the weekend, and the extra day on Monday.
The best junior surfers in the country have been arriving and paddling straight out into the perfect walling lines of one of the Eastern Cape's premier pointbreaks. Spike from Wavescape said that conditions would prevail, with a stiff west wind Saturday with lots of swell, which gradually tapers towards medium sized surf on Sunday, and a little smaller on Monday. Sunday looked clean in the morning, with a whiff of onshore later. Monday looked smaller 3' but with light winds and clean seas.
"It's looking like a great surfing weekend ahead of us," said Billabong South Africa Marketing Manager Chad D'Arcy.
We've extended it to a three-day event due to the massive field, and we're excited about this final event. Junior surfing is the future of our sport and we believe that this surfing series will play an important role in nurturing our young surfers into champions of tomorrow. Apart from all the series winners, we also have a number of impressive specialty prizes and we expect these to get our junior surfers going for broke in their heats.
"We've extended it to a three-day event due to the massive field, and we're excited about this final event. Junior surfing is the future of our sport and we believe that this surfing series will play an important role in nurturing our young surfers into champions of tomorrow. Apart from all the series winners, we also have a number of impressive specialty prizes and we expect these to get our junior surfers going for broke in their heats."
There will also be some fun activities under the BOS tent for the competitors – a table tennis table, swing ball, soccer and finger board. Sony will also have their mobile playsation unit for the kids to enjoy. Billabong will be running a Billabong “create-a-tee” station where the groms can hand paint their own Bong Tee – all competitotrs will get a free voucher in their packs – anyone else who wants to create-a-tee can pay R10 with all proceeds going to the Penguin Rehabilitation Centre at Seal Point.
The opening function for the event will take place tonight Friday 20 September at the Cape St Francis resort, and will start at 7PM sharp. There will be a brief welcome and then all surfers will receive their competitors' packs. The event will also have a closing function at the same venue, with food and entertainment provided. The Cottonfields band will be perfoming at the closing function.
The event has an extensive digital footprint, and can be tracked on the following platforms.
Billabong South Africa www.facebook.com/Billabong.South.Africa Billabong Womens South Africa www.facebook.com/BillabongWomensSA
Billabong South Africa www.twitter.com/billabongsa Billabong Womens South Africa www.twitter.com/@bbwomens_za
Billabong South Africa: @BillabongSA
Billabong Womans South Africa: @Billabongwomens_za
The Billabong Junior Series presented by BOS is sanctioned by Surfing South Africa, recognised by the Dept of Sport and Recreation as the national controlling body for surfing.