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Bukit Boardriders support the groms

26 February, 2013 : - GROMS: Last Sunday, Grommets battled for top place honours at the 2nd series of the Rip Curl GromSearch 2013 on the beautiful white sand’s of Pandawa beach. 3 to 4 foot waves were served up, offering the Groms perfect sized conditions to show-off there skills during the entire day. A …
Big finale for Wahu Surfer Groms series

25 February, 2013 : - GROMS: The final event of the Wahu Surfer Groms Comp national series was condensed into a single day of competition at Port Kembla Beach. Regularly a two-day event, this final stop of the series experienced uncontestable conditions and dangerous surf on day one. On day two, competitors were…
Alpha groms emerge at Whangamata event

25 February, 2013 : - GROMS: Five of the six division winners at the Whangamata leg of the Billabong Grom Series repeated the dose Sunday with class performances that saw them match results from the first event held at Mount Maunganui three weeks ago. Kehu Butler, Jasmine Smith, Tane Bowden and Raiha Ensor …
Rip Curl GromSearch series kicks off in Bali

22 February, 2013 : - GROMS: The first event of the Rip Curl GromSearch series finally went ahead this Tuesday after being postponed from Sunday Feb. 17. Lack of waves over the weekend delayed the competition. Rip Curl’s event manager explained: 'Our objective of running the event with the local …
NSSA explorer event scores fun Oceanside

13 February, 2013 : - CONTEST: Good 3-4 foot chunky, scattered lefts and rights lit up Oceanside's south jetty for the NSSA Explorer event #8. Rick Takahashi clinched his record breaking 6th conference title in the masters division while Kairi Noro-Tokushima of Japan claimed his first win of the 2012/2013 season…
Top Kiwi groms crowned at Mt Maunganui

4 February, 2013 : - GROMS: Mount Maunganui’s Kehu Butler and Gisborne’s Jasmine Smith have claimed their respective Under 16 Divisions at the first event of the 2013 Billabong Grom Series presented by Oceanbridge completed at Mount Maunganui. In good 1.0m waves with light onshore winds, Butler and S…
Legends of the Bay comp finds magic

28 January, 2013 : - CONTEST: The bay came alive with Legends in physical and spiritual form thru the magic that happens at Honolua Bay. In a forecasted monster NNW swell, Contest Director John Willard allowed the bay to dictate the offering of a contest or not. It is never about points or the competition when g…
Rip Curl Grom Search em Garopaba

29 January, 2013 : - GROMS: A molecada mostrou surf de primeira linha e fez bonito na etapa inicial do Rip Curl Grom Search, encerrado neste domingo (27), na praia da Ferrugem, em Garopaba/SC. Acompanhados de perto pelo top do World Tour, Gabriel Medina, que já passou por esse campeonato e, inclusive, &ea…
Searing heat, action at Teenage Rampage

18 January, 2013 : - GROMS: A scorching summer’s day graced Maroubra for the first day of the trials at the Teenage Rampage OZ Invitational presented by Ocean and Earth. With the mercury hitting the high 30s by 10am, grommets had little option but to cool off by attacking waves in their heats. Early standouts i…
Melinz & Hing win Taj's Small Fries

13 January, 2013 : - Groms: Kai Hing is the new King of Taj’s Small Fries, with the Sunshine Coaster claiming the blue-ribbon 16 & Under Boys division of the eighth annual event which culminated at Shallows, a reef break located north of professional surf Taj Burrow’s homebreak of Yallingup, today in …
Kelly & McCulloch claim Wahu Grom Comp

9 January, 2013 : - GROMS: Local surfers Aaron Kelly and Sophie McCulloch have taken first place in their respective Under 15 divisions today at the Wahu Surfer Grom Comp – Sunshine Coast, held at Coolum Beach. Grommets from all over Queensland took to the beach for the final day of competition of the Wahu Surf…
Hing & McCulloch top Sunshine groms

17 December, 2012 : - GROMS: Kai Hing and Sophie McCulloch claimed victory today in the blue ribbon 16 and Under Boys and 16 and Under Girls divisions at the final leg of the 2012 Rip Curl GromSearch series on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. With a persistent 1.5m rolling in at Coolum Beach, Hing snatched vic…
Cronulla wraps high-summer grom comp

17 December, 2012 : - GROMS: A near perfect summers day greeted the 100-plus competitors on the second and final day of the Wahu Surfer Groms Comp at Cronulla. As the mercury crawled past the 30-degree mark, surfers cooled off by tearing into peaky little beach-breaks at Elouera on Cronulla’s northern stre…