WHY KIRRA TIPS BEST SURF IN AGES
CLUB EVENT EXPECTED TO RUN JUST SWELL
“IT’S the best surf we have at Kirra Point for a club round in 20 years,” said Kirra Surfriders Club spokesman Rob Totem, describing a day of action at one of the best sand bottom pointbreaks in the world in two words – “Absolutely awesome!”
While the Culbura Boardriders, with two-time world women’s champ Tyler Wright and younger brother Mikey Wright in Newcastle, won the annual Australian Boardriders Battle, the KSC – who failed to qualify for the ABB – were having one of their best open clubs rounds ever in perfect 6-8ft down the line barrels.
It was like days of old with spectators clambering over every conceivable vantage spot to view Sunday’s TC Gita swell pound the Coast.
KSC were in the middle of the action using the traditional shed on the Point as a viewing and judging platform.
Countless snapped boards were sacrificed in pursuit of riding the famous barrel.
Double overhead barrels were spitting from Big Groyne then funnelling
through to the old Kirra double keg section in front of the shed produced by the reef called the “butterbox” and then stretching past the Pizza Hut and where little Groyne use to be.
“Its days like this that make all the work I do for my club worth it,” said Kirra club
president Paul Sheehan, ”For an open club round, it’s one of the best Kirra breaks I’ve seen in a good while.”
Kirra competitors in the semi-finals were notching up nine point rides with 30 minute heats and only the best single wave scored.
Kirra has had its share of extremely talented goofy foots performing at Kirra on their backhand like Graham Black, Dave McDonald, Neal Purchase Jnr and Jason “China” O’Connor, and that right foot forward tradition is continuing big time.
Their latest goofy champ is Blaine Robinson who pulled in twice on the backhand in the Kirra Club final, successfully negotiated the double keg section to score the best wave in the final and take out the Open Club Round.
KSC are the oldest boardriding club in Queensland and will host their annual Kirra Teams comp (now in its 34th year) from Friday March 2 to Sunday March 4.