Dean Bowen wins Billabong Pro Junior Bali at Keramas
Dean Bowen : photo ASP Australasia/Robertson
Billabong Pro Junior Bali
ASP Grade 5 Mens Pro Junior event Keramas Bali, Indonesia 21 - 27
July 2009
Dean Bowen wins Billabong Pro Junior Bali with Keramas delivering
four days of Excellence
Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 24 July, 2009 : - - Keramas Beach,
Bali, Indonesia: Dean Bowen (Australia/NSW Sth Coast/Gerroa) today won the
Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Grade – 5 Rated Billabong Pro
Junior Bali.
Held in magnificent surf over all four days at the now famous Keramas
Rivermouth on the east coast of Bali, Bowen’s powerful backhand on-face
surfing proved too strong for Teale Vanner (Australia/Kangaroo Island/SA)
in a one sided final with Bowen’s top two rides of a 7 and a 7.5 and
final total of 14.5 eclipsing Vanner on a two wave total of 7.5.
“It’s been such a good event with waves pumping in every heat and I really
wanted to win here” said Bowen. “Everyone was getting amazing barrel rides
throughout and I was always ready to take on a big barrel but that’s the beauty
of this wave, if it’s not barrelling then generally it’s performance driven
on-the-face moves and all my heats and particularly the final with the tide
going out was more about big moves rather than tubes.”
Bowen’s win today saw him significantly jump from 10th up to 2nd
place on the ASP Australasian 2009 Pro Junior ratings behind Owen
Wright. “It’s good to be up on the ratings but I’m not really concerned with
ratings this year, more focused on winning events and simply surfing good”
added 18 year old Bowen who earlier this year also won the World under 18
Surfing title.
Teale Vanner, who throughout this event had posted multiple 9 point plus
outstanding barrel rides and earlier in the day scored a perfect ten point
barrel ride in his quarter final seemed to be hunting for tubes in the final but
was unable to find any while Bowen maintained his powerful and vertical
top to bottom attack on the wave to take the win.
Dean Bowen : photo ASP Australasia/Robertson
“I thought I’d find a few barrels in the final but it wasn’t to be” said
Vanner. “It’s been a great event for me and I’m so relieved to do well here and
score some fantastic waves as well.” Vanner is a former Australian Junior
Champion but his year-to-date on the ASP Australasian Pro Junior series had been
a shocker and in all 6 events prior to this one, had not made one single heat!
“I was down on confidence and really didn’t know what I had to do to find a
result but surfing here has really turned my year around and to score a perfect
10 and quite a few high 9 point rides feels great.”
Equal 3rd placed surfers today were Chris Bennetts (Australia/Gold Coast) who
was eliminated in his semi-final by Dean Bowen in the final seconds and Dale
Staples (South Africa/Cape St Francis) who had been a standout in deep tube
rides throughout the event.
Indonesian surfers had surfed exceptionally throughout this event and their
top placed surfer here was Raditya Rhondi (Bali) who made it through to the
final 16 surfers and the final day but had to settle for equal 13th place
overall. Surfers at this year’s Billabong Pro Junior Bali almost unanimously
agreed that this event was the best ever ASP Australasian Pro Junior they had
competed in.
Keramas the wave, across all four days exposed it’s variety of super
high performance qualities, from small and perfect on day one, to solid onshore
but superbly carvable on day 2, then epic solid powerful barrelling slabs
on day 3 to rifling perfect barrels on high performance midsized waves on the
final day.
As the only ASP rated event for 2009 in Indonesia, it was an excellent event.
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