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Thank You Team USA, Well Done Team. I Was Not There ,But I Know It Was A Battle Immortals 1ST-Legends 1St Pro Jr 3rd-Jr-2cnd -Cadets-3Rd Women-3Rd Team USA 3Rd Well Done & Thanks To All Team USA And Safe Return Home

Thanks Akio and everyone else for the support and well wishes. We could feel you all pulling for the Team while we were on the Island

Thanks Jamie for your posts and insights. It was hard to get a feel for the forecasts for surf and weather as it was all word of mouth. We trusted that Surfing Victoria knew the forecasts and did their best to get the comp completed in the window of time available. Once Thursday hit it was obvious we should have gone longer on Wednesday....but would have only gotten in an extra 6 heats probably (if ended at 5 PM).

Although conditions were difficult Thursday-Saturday our Team did not complain but kept on surfing. Both Tom and Bill lost open heats on Thursday but advanced back into the Main Event via the repercharge heat. Tom pulled off two outstanding slashes under the lip on one wave, with speed, that raised eyebrows and drew hoots. Bill surfed radically and consistently to make the Open quarter finals and of course Bob Gove made the top 24 by excelling in the challenging conditions.

Early in the week the surf was small and weak. In Chris Buscemi's first round Open heat he had an outstanding 6.5 on his first wave but couldn’t get a back up wave due to the inconsistent surf. That 6.5 stood as the top scoring wave for a long time on Tuesday morning. He eventually made the semis of the Seniors division. Congratulations to Evan, Chris, Sam, and Cynthia---all Finalists! And of course congratulations to Bob and John for surfing to World Champion in their age divisions in very difficult, mixed up conditions!

Congratulations to David Parkes for his outstanding surfing and win in the Veterans division. One or two heats after Bob and John’s Final, David went out and got two waves both over 9.0 by sitting outside for the big ones and working them through to the inside with outstanding surfing. As he mentioned at the awards ceremony, the locals and long time PI competitors had a bit of an advantage over the International crew. But this was obvious to many of us watching the heats.

And another final congrats to Albert for his big win. He surfed a great Final and consistently went vert and linked many great turns with precision and style, despite the conditions. Chayne, Kyle, and David all had outstanding runs and deserved to be in the Finals and made the most of their waves. It was a fun Final to watch.

Phillip Island is great and the locals are awesome. We felt welcome at every stop throughout the week. Got fun waves at Right Point on Friday (two sessions) after arriving on Thursday, and again on Saturday at Woolamai although it was a bit unruly. Thanks to Red for the Cooper's Cup effort. Jim Brown and his team did an outstanding job putting on a great World Titles! Their two years of work, planning, and persistence was evident every day. It was so fun to renew friendships and meet new people and see some incredible surfing throughout the week.

To Team USA, way to go! It was a blast traveling, surfing, hanging, and rooting with you!
-Brad

A Huge "thank you" to everyone at the Island last week. A very big week with 160 heats to get through and some challenging conditions to surf in. Parksey did say it best, he has experienced most of what the Island can dish up and it showed in his performance.
Some of my highlights were at night, The bowling, the boat trip, golf, and BBQ's with friends.

I hope you all enjoyed your time on the Island and i am looking forward to seeing you all in Tahiti (or sooner)

RESULTS
OPEN
1st Albert Munoz AUS
2nd Chayne Simpson AUS
3rd Kyle Bryant AUS
4th Dave Parkes AUS

CADETS
1st Tom Novakov AUS
2nd Kurt Geisler NZ
3rd Evan Odom USA
4th Catherine Karney Jeffrey AUS

JUNIORS
1st Jethro Cooney AUS
2nd Chris Linn USA
3rd Kurt Muesberger AUS
4th Shane Whitehouse AUS

PRO JUNIORS
1st Hamish Christophers NZ
2nd Matt Novakov AUS
3rd Sam Coyne USA
4th Kelvin Weir NZ

WOMENS
1st Donna Jennings AUS
2nd Jordan Cooksley NZ
3rd Cynthia Wornham USA
4th Rebecca Heemi NZ
5th Josephine Moore NZ

SENIORS
1st Chayne Simpson AUS
2nd Albert Munoz AUS
3rd James Anderson UK
4th Armando Colluci VEN

MASTERS
1st Kyle Bryant AUS
2nd Simon Farrer AUS
3rd Chris Carey AUS
4th Matt Gallagher AUS

GRAND MASTERS
1st Michael Novakov AUS
2nd Kevin Fisher AUS
3rd Baden Smith AUS
4th Dale Ponsford AUS

VETERANS
1st Dave Parkes AUS
2nd Peter McLure AUS
3rd Red Ceglowski AUS
4th Mark Abel AUS

KAHUNAS
1st Craig McDonald NZ
2nd Damian Coase AUS
3rd Rob Rennie AUS
4th Paul Satchell AUS

LEGENDS
1st Bob Gove USA
2nd Steve Artis AUS
3rd Gunther Frensch AUS
4th Rudy Lausz AUS

IMMORTALS
1st John Mel USA
2nd David Condon AUS

TAG TEAM
1st AUSTRALIA
2nd UNITED NATIONS
3rd USA
4th TAHITI

Great results for Parkes Boardriders

Open
1st Albert Munoz AUS
2nd Chayne Simpson AUS
4th Dave Parkes AUS

CADETS
1st Tom Novakov AUS
4th Catherine Karney Jeffrey AUS

PRO JUNIORS
1st Hamish Christophers NZ
4th Kelvin Weir NZ

SENIORS
1st Chayne Simpson AUS
2nd Albert Munoz AUS


VETERANS
1st Dave Parkes AUS

KAHUNAS
1st Craig McDonald NZ


Well done Jim and the crew, wished I was there. But would not have missed the birth of my little fella Gwil for anything. Watching the web scores was pretty cool for kneeboarding, would be interesting to see how many hits that page got whilst the comp was running.

Bob Gove and Carol came over for dinner last night, and we went round Alberts for a small celebration with Chayne and Albert, and small group of friends.
Randy will be calling into town today to meet my little fella and hopefully score some surf. Albert will come and surf with us if time works out, chayno could do the early.

thats my world tittles

congrats steen on the bub, so tell us about how good the surf was down your way while we were grovelling in onshore slop
also tell bob n carol to make sure to call me when they're passing through on there way to brizvagas he's got my no. i'll hook em up with a few warm ones b 4 he heads home AB

Well done Parkes boardriders!, and to you too Steen & Jacqui .... Bob & Carole tell me Dave has already shaped young Barnsey a board.

On the Wollongong Area Kneeboarders Association .... the WAKA'S, the results were also amazing with Albert taking out the mens open World Title, Donna Jennings (Mrs Smurf) taking out the womens title - finalists for the Waka's were:

Open Mens
Albert Munoz - 1st

Womens
Donna Jennings - 1st

Juniors
Kurt Meusburger (Moose) - 4th

Legends
Rudy Lausz - 4th

Kahunas
Rob Rennie - 3rd

Veterans
Mark Able (Mable) - 4th

Masters
Matt Gallagher - 4th

Seniors
Albert Munoz - 2nd

Not bad for a club result, Chayne Simpson came 1st in the Seniors & 2nd in the opens with Simon Farrer pulling up 2nd in the Masters even though not club members we are proud to say they also reside in the Wollongong Area

Bloody awesome job Jim, Jill, Kenny, Adrian, the judges and all competitors also the sponsors (was particularly impressed with Paul's Rhyll Fishing & Bush Tucker Park for the array of hot food made available at the beach).

Cheers Wolruss

Ok ... Russ ... settle down big fella ...

How about the Narrabeen Boys ... Sparrow ... Keg ... Nov and sons.

Yes Russ ... Simon is a Narrabeen boy.

How good was Kegs result ... dark horse there.

Nov and the Novlets ... great to see the family tradition continue.

womble if ya gunna claim the northy boys try this out

Steve Artis 2nd age division (traveller)
Nov 1st age division 5th opens
jamie mchugh 9th opens(avalon these days)
greg geddes keg 7th opens
simon 2nd age division(sth of the gong)
Marcus Hague 5th opens(sunshine coast)
Shane Metcalfe7th womens
matt nova 2nd age division
Tom nova 1st age division

Some of us have moved on but we all cut our teeth out the alley and the point.

moved on to greener pastures

jamie wrote:womble if ya gunna claim the northy boys try this out

Steve Artis 2nd age division (traveller)
Nov 1st age division 5th opens
jamie mchugh 9th opens(avalon these days)
greg geddes keg 7th opens
simon 2nd age division(sth of the gong)
Marcus Hague 5th opens(sunshine coast)
Shane Metcalfe7th womens
matt nova 2nd age division
Tom nova 1st age division

Some of us have moved on but we all cut our teeth out the alley and the point.

Woops ...

To mention NN kneelos and omit Steve A ... ouch.

Steeno wrote:moved on to greener pastures

i like to retain visitation rights

So where the next World Contest be??????

Next World Kneelo titles are to be in Tahiti 2013

Get ready for the WAKAHITI TOUR

at a reef?