Boland Big Wave Contest Preview
Source: www.ibatour.com
posted on 30th June 2004
In a sleepy little fishing village, an hour out of Cape Town, comes an event of Huge proportions. A big wave contest with a difference, Hermanus plays host to this years premier bodyboarding event, the Bayview Big Wave 2004. 20 of South Africa's best bodyboarders will be pitting themselves against the power of king Neptune at a surf spot that is still relatively unknown to the outside world.
The Venue will be Bayview, a ledging right hander that grinds its way over a very sharp and shallow reef only a few feet below the surface with the resulting wave being a fearful prospect to anyone brave enough to take on its raw power. With this in mind, enter an elite core crew of bodyboarders, all hell bent on proving just who is king in surf that counts, their goal is simple: to push their own limits and that of the sport into new heights. The aim of the game in this contest isn't just the biggest wave ridden, but the biggest and best manoeuvres in the critical section of the wave. The result will be nothing more than awe inspiring. From spinners deep in the tube to the astronaut like weightlessness of a huge forward air high above the sharp barnacles below. This will be a show worth watching, this is elite, this is underground, this is cape power at its most ferocious, this is the Bayview Big Wave 2004.
Just like the Red Bull BWA, there will be a waiting period of a week for the event to run, starting on the 2nd of July and running till the 6th of July, The pre-contest briefing will be held on Thursday evening (July 1st) at Onverklaar Bar in Hermanus on the Main road upstairs from Zebra Crossing at 7.00 pm.
Sponsors for this event are:
Surfwear House & Mike Stewart Bodyboards
Reef
Pionier Furniture
See and Sand holiday Accommodation
Cape Media
Wavescape.
The freaks who will ride the event are:
Marcel Habbets
Hankus Loubser
Mark McCarthy
Jono Sutherland
John Catlin (Cato)
Aadam Grant
Ishmael Grant
Henk Esterhuisen
Johan De Goede (Tjoekie)
Justin Walker
Renee Hanekom
Werner Adenhoff
Mark and Ryan Jukker
Stephan Du Toit
Sean Olberholzer
Wayne Gardner (Shaggy)
Wade Harrison
Vaughan Harris
Darren Halse
For background information about Bayview and the Big Wave contest, please visit the Boland Bodyboarding website
www.bolandbodyboarding.co.za/news/news.html
If you need to know anything else about the Event please contact Riaan Du Preez on 0827773605
Good luck to all and may the force be with you.
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