I'm fairly new at this...and i have commented on this topic before.
I think the idea of having "speciality" contests for select groups of riders is a good one.
I feel that the time of year during which The Classic is held has a lot to do with the lack of good conditions, but then again March can cook-just look at the weekend before The Classic, epic swell up and down the coast.
It is a very touch and go time of year, just before the "big-stuff" arrives.
As for venues...Glen Beach, never really surfed there so i don't know whether or not it produces "the goods."
I think it was Jared who pointed out that Glen was actually quite a secluded location with the beach barely visible from the road.
I agree with that-unless you knew about the contest you wouldn't know it was there.
I will say that given the conditions around Cape Town over the weekend of The Classic, Glen Beach did have some of the best waves available.
Other locations mentioned by members in previous threads were...
Caves & Lands...
Caves, like Kelly said...too hectic a break for some of the divisions and Lands in my opinion just doesn't have the parking vacilities-if the event was held there riders and their famalies would take up most of the parking, leaving very little available for spectators.
Other options?
Long Beach...but will it get the swell?
Onrus Beach out near Hermanus...same also...will it get swell...Marthinus?
Out my way there's Big Bay, that attracts and has the ability to attract a crowd, but it's a miff wave and rarely gets good.
There's Derdesteen-not a lot of Parking and no public toilets, but it has the potential to attract passers by and produce the goods-given a touch of oceanic surge. This year however, it was as-flat-as-a-pancake.
Like Kelly says...conditions play an important role...there's only one entity who has the power to decide whether or not it's gonna be good.
In my mind if we want to attract public attention we have to get on "The Box" and the only way to do that and make people go...oooohhh aaaahhh.
Having said that...and just like everyone else has said...who wants to film 2 foot, mushy shorey?
The only way to go is for riders to be pushing the limits, riding "big"swell in testing conditions...that should get the producers rubbing their grubby little mitts.
K-Bay is a good idea for a speciality event(hasn't that already happened though-K-Bay Shoot-Out?)... what about parking and locals?
Peter would have to pull some strings and buy a couple blokes beers if we were to dominate the break over a weekend in maxing conditions...ha ha
Caves...yummy...same thing though.
Come on guys n girls lets put our kops together and come up with a constructive proposal we could approach SABA with...lets have a game plan.
