Badda bing badda Bling - Take 2 and a meeting

Come on down for a Bling'n good time, this Sunday around 12, same as last time:

'Bad Taste' Bling Day

So dust off your gold chains, and gangsta gear,
bling up your ugly boards and bring your kook skills.

Prizes for Best:
Blinged out Board
Bling Costume
Pre-Surf Rap
Golden Lady
Golden Grom
Iced Wave
Kook Wave

By request there is even a special heat for over 30 women!

Where: Brighton Top Field Domain
When: September 6th 12 noon

Entries taken on the Day, bring your own lunch.





ALSO!!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday night kicking off 7pm a short meeting about fees and ideas for the future, In the South Seas Art Gallery, 1088 Brighton Road, Cheers to Janet for letting us use the Gallery and for her continued support!

Stormy Spring Bling

Murphys law, organise a surf fun day, and the weather packs up. The dedicated Big Rock crew arrived at the top domain Brighton at noon to a mush-burgered out Brighton break with strong chilling winds. As I type this i just can't understand how the weather report tonight came up with Dunedin being 14 degrees?
Consensus was to move the event around the corner to back beach.
Only five went out for a surf, and due to the un-fun nature of the weather and surf it was decided to revisit the Sping Bling event in a months time when the weather had settled a bit. We did however hold a mini comp and gave out the second place cards, and will save the trophies for the next event when more people could come and take part.

Above: Rob catches a bomb. Top left: surf conditions on the day. Top right: Lambie tucking in.
Below: Jimi, Jay and Glenn. Bottom: Timmy luingley entertaining with me filming

As all Big Rock events do, things got a bit twisted and the Pre-Surf Rap was held at the end with some entertaining and worrying performances. This morphed into a skate session and a human speed camera test which got some local residents out of their houses and hovering at their gates to watch the show. (short film to come)

Winners:
King ICE - Jay Tzu
Queen ICE - Nic Reeves
Grom ICE - Jimi Crooks, runner up Rob Millburn
Bling Board - Glenn Drinkwater
Bling Gears - Nathan Lungley
Best Bling Rap - Jayin Tzu

Spring Bling Day - Fun Surf

Being that Spring is about to sprung Big Rock is throwing a
'Bad Taste' Bling Day

So dust off your gold chains, and gangsta gear,
bling up your ugly boards and bring your kook skills.

Prizes for Best:
Blinged out Board
Bling Costume
Pre-Surf Rap
Golden Lady
Golden Grom
Iced Wave
Kook Wave

By request there is even a special heat for over 30 women!

Where: Brighton Top Field Domain
When: August 30th 12 noon

Entries taken on the Day, bring your own lunch.

Early morning, wheres the crew?

Matariki Comp

Celebrating Matariki,. the Maori New Year, our second annual mid winter comp on the day before the shortest day of the year, which was also International Surfing Day.
A good turnout gathered at Ocean View at 9am.

Above, morning light .. first up the womens event which saw a straight final of 5 surfed.
Results Women

1st Hayley Coakes
2nd Jean Davis
3rd Nic Reeves
4th Mary Sutherland
5th Caitlin de Bruyn

Next up on the events list was the Ugly Fun Board . This year, not to be outdone, in the second heat Jimi and Nathan teamed up on an old windsurf board and paddled out the back to do a tandem ride, sharing the points to go through to the finals. Below right: lucky they decided to go for this wave so they didn't get cleaned up on the set wave behind! below again, they did manage to stand up together for a second or two, although going left might have been a longer more impressive ride!? Note, Jimi with the Gath, and Nath with the straw hat.

Above and above left: Andy went out with a body board, and proceeded to score negative points for his shameful rides. Then Jimi styles on the winsurf board, pic taken by Ollie Crooks.
Below right: Jimi and Jono doing the pose with their real nice retro 'ugly' boards for the finals... left: Judges look on from the road.

Results Ugly Board Comp:
1st Jimi Crooks
2nd Jono Pascoe
3rd Chris lamb
4th Nathan Lungley

The Open Comp was three heats with Hayley and Jean competing with the men. There was a bit of sweating and comp talk going on which pushed the surfing whch was impressive in the conditions. Great to see Matt really improving and making it to the semis.

Open Results:
1st Hayley Coakes
2nd Jimi Crooks
3rd Nathan Lungley
4th Rob Millburn

Congrats Jimi Crooks 2009 SISA Junior Men Champ

Above Jimi gets another full page in the Taieri Herald this month.
I think some real surf lingo needs to be introduced to Mr Davisons vocab :0)

Jimi Crooks, putting 16 points on the club points board for 2009
Placing Big Rock Boardriders 10th on the Inter Club trophy placings.
Heres to more success for Jimi, the Cluc and the rest of the crew for the 2010 season.

Matariki fun day

Time flies
and we are heading for celebrating a year of Big Rock Boardriders
it's time for our annual New year Funday Or Comp
20 (or 21st if stormy) june Ocean View 9am.
Wrap up warm!

Kaikoura Cold Water Classic 09

Jimi Crooks, Andy Sutherland, Nathan Lungley, Chris Lamb and Jono Pascoe travelled up to kaikoura for the Cold Water Classic over Queens Birthday weekend. This was the final event on the SISA circuit.

Jimi won the Junior U18 event, and by doing so won the Junior mens SISA circuit for 2009!

Jono surfed in the open heats, and longboard heats, pic here of a free surf.

Andy surfed in the open mens' heats

Nathan surfed in the Open mens heats
Chris surfed in the Open mens heats, and made it through to the Quarter finals

At the prizegiving on the Sunday Night.

Pin Up Star - Andy Sutherland

Andy got snapped by Chris Garden a few months back, and ended up featuring on a R&R sport poster. Ha I was stoked to get mine autographed.

Original shot by Chris Garden. Original shot looks way better.

Big Rock Boys Beaming

Above: Andy with another snapped Nathan board, twice snapped already. Below: Nath giving the thumbs up to being hit on the head with the wave behind him.

Above: Jimi finds shelter from the shitty weather. Below left: A ,lower tide, and a bigger swell will set this reef off.. one day.. waiting , Below right: Some people stretch before a surf, nath stretches while surfing.. sik late drop.

For a day that didn't look promising on the weather charts, the it sure delivered in real life.

Jimi Crooks leading the SISA Junior Mens' circuit

Above: an article which appeared in the Taieri Herald in mid March
And below: Jimi got a photo in a kiwisurf slideshow of the go for Gold surf comp in Greymouth.

Last Sundays Comp.

Perfect day for it, sun shining and nice little peelers running through Brighton
With the tide still a bit high the mals went out first, with Jono being the eventual winner
Followed by the womans, with all entrants catching quality rides, it was close until Nic caught two long rides from out the back almost to the sand, to take first place
The grommets provided a couple of big upsets, with all competitors putting in a solid effort over summer, we've seen some big improvements leading up to this event, Ollie made his intentions clear early as he showed total commitment to his wave, charging straight onto a bed of rock, scoring a few hoots and a sneaky extra point for his efforts, with the surf improving as the tide went out, Matt picked off a couple of nice bowly ones and worked them well for first place.
The open mens also provided entertainment for those watching on Barney's with Nath and Jono colliding on a wee lefty,

and Sean, somehow, sneaking in and out of a barrel, but Andy's solid backhand put him well out in front to take the event.
Finally the ugly boards went out, heaps of fun just catching a few waves on boards we wouldn't normally ride, a 4" thick single fin, a kneelo, a mal which looked more like a boat the way the bottom was shaped and a finless shorty that pretty much just spun circles, Jay was the winner on the mal with a hull.
Awesome day, hope everyone enjoyed it and we'll see you next time!