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Earth Hour Night Surf from Nic Reeves on Vimeo.

Earth Hour is a global WWF climate change initiative where everyone is invited to switch off their lights for one hour on March 27 at 8.30 p.m to show their support for action on climate change. People across the world from all walks of life will turn off their lights and join together in celebration and contemplation of the one thing we all have in common – our planet.

Big Rock Boardriders decided to host a night surf between those hours to show their support.
Music by Dunedin musicians Junk Shop Star www.earthhour.org

Peer Poll Prizegiving and Night surf

This Saturday Night
7Pm Ocean View Pad

The day before the Tsunami

Mary's board, and her artwork.
Below: 8 year old Reuben Peyroux, with dad Steev below right, and Jeff Munroe below left.



Above styling Ollie Crooks, and Matrix Matt below left. and Mary right: minus 5 half teeth after a shorey dump wipeout.


Above Jayin dishing the friendly on a drop in.

Brighton Coastal Cleanup for Seaweek -14th March

Seaweek 2010 - Fish for the Future!

The 4th Annual Seaweek 'Dunedin Coastal Cleanup' is on again this year
Sunday the 14th of March 2010.
With support from the Dunedin City Council and the Department of Conservation

Jay and Nic are again organising a coastal cleanup in conjunction with the Great Dunedin Coastal Cleanup & Seaweek again with the support of Big Rock Boardriders

You are most welcome to join in with our local crew, no matter where you live.

We will be setting off into groups to clean up the Brighton Domain, Ocean View, and down along the coast towards Taieri Mouth. If there are enough people we will send a group off to Blackhead as well. Please register your support by emailing me.

Meet at: Sunday 14th March 10am meeting at the top domain at Brighton at 10am, anyone else from town is most welcome to join us

Rubbish collected will be taken to Hancock Park, St Kilda (corner Victoria Rd and John Wilson Dr) from 12.30 to 2.30pm for rubbish weighing, recycling and disposal.

Please bring: Water bottle, sturdy shoes preferably gumboots, sun hat, sun-block, raincoat, warm clothes. Rubbish bags and gloves will be supplied. We hope you can join us.

Prizes: At the weigh in, there will be prizes for most rubbish collected and strangest item found. There will be Seaweek 'Fish for the Future' displays & activities, videos, Free sausage sizzle, prize giving and Rocky Shore Guide launch!

Hancock Park Festivities start at 12.30pm, prize-giving from 3 to 3.30pm. Hosted by the Dunedin City Councils' great Dunedin Coastal Cleanup.

Other Seaweek Activities:

• Dunedin City Council Wild Life of an Estaury Seaweek Poster Compeition
• Young marine leaders competition
• Short stories from young people
• Otago Changing Seas Symposium see here
  

More information on events during Sea Week, please follow this link
or go to http://www.seaweek.org.nz/

Heres looking for a better turnout than we did last year ( see previous blog post here)

First Club Ladder Comp

UPDATE: :See Sidebar for updated Ladder dates.
First Comp of the 'Summer' series is to be held on Saturday 30th January.
Planning to kick off at 9am! (so be there 8:45)
Meeting at the top car park at Ocean View, if no parking is available, there is a car park at the bottom of the hill.
We will be taking entries for open shortboard, open longboard and possibly woman's as well - depending on numbers.


Fees are also now due and it would be helpful if these were paid at the comp, as follows:
Student/Retired $5
Adult $10
Family $20
** Fee's include SISA Membership **

If you have any questions or suggestions please post them as a comment or email us.

Who's charging?

November First Funday

8:30Am
Brighton Domain
Nothing special just a get together
why 8:30 on a sunday ? SeaBreeze !
See you there !

Spring Bling - The Movie

Big Rock Boardriders' Spring fun day. A bring your Bling surf day.
unfortunately the surf was crap. but as always the best is made of a situation, and the Spring Bling rap Comp was followed by a human powered speed event.

Go Girls

Drop Knee Mary















Caity on Nemo














Rocker Nicola














Longboard waves














Fun Day ?

they thought so!

Go Jimi !

AGM Minutes 09

1088 Brighton Road, Brighton Dunedin

Present: Jono, Jay, Ollie, Nathan, Andy, Jimi, Jeff, Matt

Apologies: Rob, Chris,Pete, Nic, Bev, Briahne, Caitlin, Sam, Mary.

1. Lowering of Membership Fees to:

Student/Retired $5

Adult $10

Family $20

2. Constitution: Approved.

3. Committee:

President: Jimi Crooks

Secretary: Jono Pascoe

Environment Officer: Nicola Reeves

Treasurer: Jayin

Club Captain: Jimi Crooks

Fun Captain: Nathan Lungley

4. This year a calendar to give approx dates of club events to be issued in next month:

Comps: 4-5 club ladder events to prepare for SISA circuit and constitute club ladder

Family events: 1 learn to surf days, 3 fun days

5. Logo’s for hoody/ t-shirt/ bumper sticker, now being investigated

6. Night surf – Dec/Jan full moon

7. SISA affiliation to be paid $125;

surfbreak protection society $15

8. 1St Annual Peer Poll Night ,Quiz night, DVD night first half of November.

9. Fundays - your ideas make it work for you : – Household item, other ideas are welcomed and can be emailed to bigrockboardriders@gmail.com

BRB AGM

Its that time again...

AGM Meeting
Saturday September 12
7pm South Seas art gallery

Come have your say....
Agenda;
New Committee

Fees
(yep they're recession adjusted and cheaper than chips)

Vote in our first annual Peer Poll Awards
( Grommet, Wahine, Kook, Charger, Ripper)

Plus the Calendar for ;
Competition Ladder
Fundays

Rep also needed for SISA AGM ....

Be there....

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.