On the 1st of June we began our trip to Nicaragua , was a long 10 hour flight to Sao Paolo , Brazil from there we had a 8 hour flight to Panama then to Managua there after we has a 3 hour drive to Nicaragua .
After a long trip we finally got to our house , we had really nice accommodation right on the beach where a shared a room with Gina , our team vice captain . After settling in we had the SANZ challenge where unfortunately New Zealand came out on top .
Worlds kicked off with the opening function and the sands of the world ceremony . The competition started the next day , My first heat went well and I advanced through to the next qualifying round , my next heat didn't go as well as I planned, but I had a second chance in the sudden death repo rounds where I surfed 3 more rounds and eventually I was eliminated in equal 16th as the joint highest SA Girl , a whole lot better than my last years result .So I was stoked.
Team South Africa did much better this year and we climbed 3 places to finish 6th over all!
All and all it was a great trip and a great experience and a learning curve for me and my surfing.
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| Morning free surf at Playa Santana |
I wasn't home long and I was surfing in the Cool Shoe SA Champs at New Pier, representing SKZN in the u/20 girls division, I had a great run and surfed my way into the u/20 girls final along with Nicole Pallet and Anoush Zakarian who had been just been in Nicaragua with me and Emma Smith who took the win, I never really got the waves in the final and had to settle for 4th but all good I'm still u/16 and it was my first ever Senior SA Champs :)
Busy 2nd half of the year , school and contests but I'm looking forward to it.
xoxo
Chanelle <3
