The first of this year’s junior series took place in pumping surf in Fraserburgh with perfect 3-4ft clean waves and sunshine.
Our Belhaven club surfers travelled north to one of Scotlands most famous surf rich regions. Fraserburgh is open to north swell from the Arctic. Within 30 minutes you can be in Peterhead facing south all the way to Belgium giving the region close to 270 degree access to waves similar to an island. Its also home to beautiful beaches and reefs with a talented surfing population. It’s a wonderful place to surf and compete. This year our juniors surfed pumping surf in Fraserburgh with success at both ends of the age bands.
Results
In the Under 18yr boys, 15yr old Joel Christopherson won the boys division. His best wave scored a 7.3 (out of 10) for a carve and top turn finish. This was one of the highest single wave scores of the full competition. Joels two total of 11.1 was also in the top three combined totals of the day. Fellow Belhaven Surfers Rudi Forrest 10.0 ripped with an exciting radical back hand display. Rudi 2nd place was just ahead of fellow national team surfer Charlie Pugh surfing well to third.
The girls under 18yrs Rosie Moore finished 3rd with some efficient surfing. Fellow club team mates girls Erin Patterson 4th and Freya Pilarski 5th. In the under 14yrs Belhaven Surfers Tessa and Jacob surfed well finishing 3rd in the girls under 14yrs and 4th in the boys under 14yrs respectively.
In the under 10yrs new Belhaven ripper Holly Hadden made her competition debut winning that division!
Stand outs in the event where Kai Cruishank and sister Callie who took the titles in the U14yr boys and U18yr girls respectively with some wonderful surfing. With hoe break advantage they put on an exhibition of great surfing and you can see why these two are highly ranked at a British level.
Thanks to the Broch Surf Club for acting as amazing hosts and running a high quality surf competition in excellent surf conditions. Photos Young Rudi Forrest Johnston ripping the perfect waves. Photo credit Duncan McLachlin. Studiograff Photography.
