BONDI BEACH, New South Wales/Australia (Saturday, March 13, 2010) – A host of local celebrities joined Kelly Slater, Taj Burrow and Mick Fanning at Bondi today for the second day of the Boost Mobile SurfSho, presented by Samsung.
They were mobbed by fans hoping to catch a glimpse of the surfing heroes and celebrities as they entered the water to compete in the Celebrity Surf Challenge.
Local celebrities including boxer Danny Green, tv presenters Jason Dundas and Mike Whitney and Bondi Vet Dr Chris Brown, were teamed up with a stellar list of Australian surfing talent to compete for a $5,000 donation to charity. Thousands of spectators watched on as …Â Details
Twenty-eight-year old Glenn “Micro’ Hall racked up his first win on the world surfing tour today when he defeated South African Brandon Jackson to claim the ASP 4-star Burton Toyota Pro at Merewether Beach.
The Umina (New South Wales) surfer, who competes under an Irish passport for ease of competing in European surfing competitions, contested his first ever world tour event at Newle 14 years ago when he was just a grommet with a dream.
“I won …Â Details
From Ben Wilson: During our last trip Ian Alldredge & I took Danny Wills for his first kite lesson, he was up & going in 2hours. It was a fun time & he was frothing, it’s pretty cool how quickly it is to pick up when you come from a surfing background
MEREWETHER, New South Wales/Australia (Thursday, March 11, 2010) – Twice in as many days, a former world surfing champion has been bundled out of the Burton Toyota Pro in their first heat.
Today it was Sunny Garcia’s turn to join yesterday’s casualty Mark Occhilupo in exiting the 4-star $US85000 contest at Merewether beach.Â
The Hawaiian was repeatedly stung by blue bottles in the last heat of the day and was reticent to paddle around and find waves.
“Those blue bottles sting and you just don’t want to paddle around. They got me on the arms and legs and even on my head,” Garcia said … Details