Surfing Australia

Outstanding surf at Waitpinga Beach in South Australia for the Association of Surfing Professionals Fantastic Noodles Pro Junior

Saturday, 17 July 2010

The excellent surf continued to pump at Waitpinga Beach in South Australia today as the best 20-year-and-under surfers in Australia competed in the annual Fantastic Noodles Pro Junior.

This is South Australia’s biggest surfing event of the year and today’s action will crown the Pro Junior Men’s champion.

Tomorrow morning the Pro Junior Women’s will be finalised  most likely at nearby Middleton Beach due to a weather change forecast overnight.

Despite all the South Australian surfers being eliminated, today’s action saw many high 9 point rides with surfers getting perfect barrels in the powerful waves to 2m (6 Feet).

Attached Complimentary  Photos –

1. Davey Cathels from Sydney, current number 2 rated surfer on the Australasian Pro Junior circuit full of concentration as he pulls into a clean Waitpinga barrel. – Cathels lost to Ryan Callinan in a high scoring round four heat and placed 9th overall.
2. Ryan Callinan from Newcastle, scored the days best scoring ride of a 9.9 out of a possible 10 for this clean and long barrel ride.
Both Photos – ASP/Robertson.

Quote from Callinan – The best waves we have surfed all year on the circuit – it’s cold but the barrel rides are incredible and I’m loving it here –

Callinan eventually placed 5th in the event --- the final will be surfed around 5pm today and results will be forwarded – Pro Junior Women’s finals tomorrow morning at Middleton.
 
Note a new inclusion for all ASP Australasia events is to access to our daily gallery of complimentary shots – the five best images from each day will be added to the gallery and can be accessed via this link –  http://www.filesanywhere.com/fs/v.aspx?v=8972648c5b616f7770a3

All photos are for press and websites and only in relation to the event – no commercial use!

This event forms a crucial leg of the ASP Australasian Pro Junior circuit whereby professional surfers aged under 21 compete for points and prize money in a bid to become the Australasian Junior Champion and ultimately the World Junior Champion.

The event carries a Grade 5 boys rating and Grade 2 girls rating, and offers a stunning $36,000 prize pool, making the annual competition this years highest boys and girls combined event on the ASP Pro Junior Australasian circuit.

For the third year running the Fantastic Noodles Pro Junior organisers have decided to undertake a full Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions analysis and to commit to offsetting 100% of its associated emissions.

These efforts to reduce its impact on climate change are a clear demonstration of the Fantastic Pro Juniors commitment to environmental sustainability. The Fantastic Noodles Pro Juniors organisers are partnering with Balance Carbon Pty Ltd to analyse the GHG emission generating activities associated with the event.   Surfing SA, event managers have also committed to offsetting 100% of the audited emissions to achieve a zero net emission footprint or as more commonly referred, ‘carbon neutral’.