2012 Jim Beam Surftag Australian Championships including the Boardriders Cup runs Feb 21st - 23rd at North Wall Ballina. The Boardriders Cup event features club champions from 42 club across Australia with the winner receiving $2,000 and a $500 Sanyo video camera. James Wood will be representing Le-Ba starting in Ht 9. Get down to the Wall on Tuesday and give Woody some support. The Surftag event runs over Wednesday and Thursday in our backyard so do whatever it takes to get down there. The team is Adam Melling, Owen Wright, Stu Kennedy, James Wood and Marcus Aboody. GO LE-BA !!!
Wednesday 1pm - Heat 5 Scarborough, North Shelley, South Coast SA, Le-Ba
Update Feb 21st
Boardriders Cup ran today in 1' - 2' righthanders in front of the Pub @ Lennox . Woody surfed brilliantly in every heat and eventually won the final to be crowned Australian Boardriders Cup Champion of Champions. He was met in the surf by a band of vocal Le-Ba supporters, congratulated by his little Bro ( in his very wet Lennox Public uniform ) and chaired up to receive the cheque for $2k. What an incredible start to the 3 day event. “It was a good day and great to start the week and for the Surftag finals, I knew it was going to be a pretty big day if I was going to go all the way I just tried to drink as much water as I could and I was still cramping up a bit and in the end”, said Wood who surfed five solid heats.
“I had a really good heat just before the semi and catching lots of waves, we have a really good team this year and hopefully we can keep it going and come away with a win at the Club Challenge tomorrow.
Love ya work Woody. Go Le-Ba !!!
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| Your Champion - image Craig Parry Photography |
Update Feb 22nd
The team had a solid heat win today with a 84.21 total. Le-Ba surfs next in quarter final 3 @ 10am. Team Emery progressed to the final of the FCS Manufacturers Cup today. It's going to be a busy day for those surfers tomorrow. Live vision and scores below
Update Feb 24th
We won !!! “We’ve ended up in a few finals over the years but never nailed it, we’ve put a lot of effort and a lot of time to get to this spot, we are all pretty proud to get here. All the boys are really happy to even make the final so everyone is feeling great”.
“The conditions were quite good, we started off with Melling, Owen in second then I was third and we finished up with Stuey and James Wood, we were pretty confident we were going to come out in front at the end of the day.”
Marcus Aboody Le-Ba club team captain and Man of the Match.
LE BA 2012 jim beam surftag national champs from hamish mackenzie on Vimeo.
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| Photo Ben Campbell |
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| Photo Ben Campbell |
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| Photo Ben Campbell |
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| Photo Craig Parry |
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| Photo Craig Parry |
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