Billabong Junior # 3 - Long Beach , Cape Town

This past weekend I was down in the Cape for the 3rd event in the 4 part Billabong Junior series, after a great start to the series taking the win in the u/18 girls division at the Durban and East London event, back in March and April, I was looking forward to getting back into the Lumo Billabong contest vest to give the 3rd event a good go! 

the event was held at Long Beach Kommetjie, the same beach where I won the SA Title back in 2010 so that helped keep my confidence up, knowing I had a lot of pressure me after coming off two wins, and seeing as though I had a really tough round 1 heat.

Photo featured on the Zigzag site, Photo by AVG
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 We were staying in a house right on Long Beach, I could walk out house walk down the pebbles and paddle into the line up, I was sharing a house with fellow Durban surfers, Cana Foster ( Fellow Lizzy Team Rider), Teal Hogg, Bevan Willis and Kye Weyer, along with all our Mom's.

The day before the event we had super fun long beach all day , getting used to the break and cold water.

Forehand carve during a heat , Photo: Chappy Pix

Round one was a really tough heat, and I battled to find my rhythm but I was lucky enough to get two mid range waves to advance into the next round in 2nd place.

The semi finals were held in similar conditions but I was stoked to get a quick start and take the heat win , event though I was stuck in the kelp for the last 6 minutes, thankfully the other girls didn't manage to find the scores to advance while I was getting worked in the kelp.

Carving my way into the u/18 and u/20 finals, Photo: Chappy Pix

Sunday morning we had the u/18 girls final, I sat patiently waiting for a good wave, so I was down in fourth for a good while, eventually at the half way point I got my first wave a 5.25 which put me up into 2nd , needing a low score to take the win, with about 3 minutes to go I found myself a 6.0 ride which sent me straight into the lead leaving the rest of the girls looking for quite high scores, when the siren went I was SOOOO stoked to have taken my 3rd win of the series, I couldn't believe it!

Love these big cheques, not so easy to fly with!

 By winning the u/18 final I got slot into the Pro Junior girls division, where I surfed my to the final, this time it didn't go my way and I had settle for 4th place, but a great result to end a rad day!

Morning surf check from our house, right on pebbles :) 

 Thanks to Billabong and BOS for an amazing series so far, It has been so much fun and great experience, already the pressure for the series final is on as people are asking "can she make it 4 out of 4".

After a great series this far I have solid and almost unbeatable series lead, which kind of take the pressure off a little, but I will be heading into Seal Point hoping to finish the series strong.

I'd like to thank .......

New fiends, such a cool group to travel with :)

Chanelle xxx