Paul : photo Bill Davies
The Jersey Longboard Riders Association held the second of their Summer Series contests over the weekend at the Green Hut, St.Ouens Bay in Jersey. A relaxed atmosphere, light winds, 2ft of swell, another perfect day for guys to enjoy a long day for all competitors involved in the event.
The “Line-up” restaurant provided the refreshments throughout the day and with the two top ranked surfers, Joe Davies, back at Uni and Gordon Blake sidelined with a shoulder injury, the contest got underway with the knowledge of a very open contest
The
Junior ranks have expanded over the summer and the quality of surfing has
jumped forward with some very progressive moves being pulled off by Jack
Seymour, just missing out on the final and the big old school drop knee
turns being completed by Cole Jouanny who made the grand final to pip Jack
to take top spot in the Juniors.
Scott Letherbarrow and Will Glenn are really pushing hard on their new
boards but were unable to take their quality of free surfing into their
heats and standout super grom Ben Bates continues to improve his cross
stepping but his strength to back up waves put him at a disadvantage.
Andre le Geyt : photo Bill Davies
In the Ladies, Grace Davies still dominates, making it through to the open semis but there are a few young girls being encouraged by Grace to compete for the first time which is great for the future and of these girls the stand outs were Charlotte Bayliss and Megan Jones.
In
the Open Division, all eyes were on the style master, Jed Augun, who was
pushing Andre le Geyt all the way but the two of them forgot about the old
dog PJ, who turning back the years, scraped through to the final in the
dying moments of his semi final then found it all coming back to him as he
did exactly the same in the final.
Long nose rides combined with graceful turns performed on last few sets that
came through in the final won it for PJ. Cole was just so excited to have
made the final, he couldn’t back up the quality of his semi final and Jed
and Andre were left wondering how PJ had outwitted them again.
A great day was had by all, the bonus was, it is October and after
presentations and the beers and beautiful sunset were being enjoyed, Andre
le Geyt gave a demonstration of “stand up paddleboard” and super grom Ben
Bates swum out to ride tandem with Andre which was so funny, so awesome to
watch, but basically summed up our perfect day.
Results
Open
1st Pete Journeux
2nd Jed Augun
3rd Andre le Geyt
4th Cole Jouanny
Ladies
1st Grace Davies
2nd Charlotte Bayliss
3rd Megan Jones
Masters
1st Pete Journeux
2nd Bill Davies
3rd Steve Bates
Juniors
1st Cole Jouanny
2nd Jack Seymour
3rd Scott Letherbarrow
4th Will Glenn