What a stunner of a day we had Sunday for our opening round of 2025! Middle Diggers Beach was our location with 1 – 2 foot waves & light winds consistent for most of the day. A splash of rain in the morning then intensely warm sun for the rest of the day.
Comp 1 is always finding our feet again after a break and the day just ran so smoothly with so many arriving at 6am to help set up – this is always appreciated.
Highlights of our day were definitely having some of the OG crew return to surf in the 45’s Greg Simpson & Bryn Goode plus their banter on the mic created such a fun vibe.
Julz supplied us with incredible mushroom & beef bulgogi, Korean sandwiches which were the absolute bomb along with those famous B&E rolls.
Our groms were posting some pretty epic scores with our head judges ensuring their great surfing was really rewarded. This year we have a few kids surfing in older divisions again to really push themselves and become better surfers. Carter, Tye & Hamish all stepped up to A Grade to surf with the guys they’ve admired for years. Will be great to see how they all progress and improve this year.
Sasha got an early season win in the Open Womens, which we now have a beautiful crew of girls competing in this division and Creed took out the Open Mens in a very solid start to the year.
In a very stacked 16 Boys division – a few of the 12’s have come up to be better surfers – great to see Maxxy get back on the winners podium, well deserved!
Can’t forget Emile kicking off the year with a win in the Ripperz, the cheer was incredible!
This year we will be chairing the winners up the beach for each division, it’s a big thing to win a CHBC comp and we feel it should be rewarded! So if you are surfing in a final, the live scores will be published as the heat progresses and you’ll be given updates on the mic of scores. This makes it fair so everyone can know their position whilst the final is still going and the winner gets a chair up, so be prepared for comp 2.
Let’s do it all again on the 23rd.