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Youngsters perform to global audience this Easter as The Saltrock Open
by Howard Swanwick
12/03/2008:// Competition will be fierce as the best young surfers in the country battle it out to win the 2* Pro-Juniors Open and the three 1* Grommets categories: Under-12s Open, Under-16 Boys and Under-16 Girls. The Saltrock Open is the first event on 8 event tour for the Grommets and 1st event on a 3 event tour for the Pro Juniors.
Saltrock is keen to support the development of surfing in the UK, and particularly the advancement in the junior categories. The standard of junior surfing in the UK has been improving so dramatically, and as a result the UK surf scene is being taken much more seriously across the globe.
Harry Timson from Newquay won all Under 12 events last year, and this year moves up to the Under 16 to take on the likes of Croyde’s Alex Baker. Alex was 2007 Tour Champion and winner of Wavelength Most Up and Coming Junior Surfer last year, so we can expect a ferocious battle between the two. Woolacombe’s golden boy Stuart Campbell, 2006 U16 tour winner and X-Press Yourself Pro Junior Winner 2007 is one of the favourites to take this year’s Pro-Junior title, and Zoe Sheath from the Isle of Wight, a former Under 16 champion is a strong contender in the Ladies Open
The winners of the Pro-Junior will receive £500 prize money, and there is a £100 prize for the winners of each of the Grommets events.
The British team has now set off for the World Surfing Games and things became a little nerve-racking before departure due to a last minute personal situation which meant that their invaluable team manager had to pull out
Costa Rican National Surf Team comes to Portugal with an arsenal of its strongest weapons
Russell Winter wins 2008 Elusive Welsh Open in one of the best finals the UK Pro Surf Tour has had to date
[Tyler Wright eliminating Stephanie Gilmore in Round 3]
[Jimena Calvo passes round 2]
[Stephanie Gilmore]
Some of the biggest and potentially costly upsets of the season went down today while Round 3 of the Beachley Classic
Nearly half of the Costa Rica National Surf Team hit the water today in Costa de Caprica, in the province of Almeda, Portugal, kicking off their part of the competition in the 2008 International Surfing Association (ISA) World Surfing Games (WSG).
The 2008 Beachley Classic got underway this morning, completing Rounds 1 and 2 as well as the opening two heats of Round 3 at nearby Freshwater Beach in clean two-to-three foot (1 metre) waves
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