Over the years of all the international junior surf comps held in NZ, these competitions have given our own junior surfers a chance to mix it with the best talents in the world, given a taste of what is needed to make it on the global stage and given our surf populations in attendance a glimpse into the future of world surfing.
It wasn’t that long ago that we got to witness a fresh-faced grom named Julian Wilson destroy the waves at Ruapuke during a Pro-Junior, then in 2009 during the ISA World Junior Champs the cast was intense, with names such as Tyler Wright, Kolohe Andino, Keanu Asing, Lakey Peterson, Courtney Conologue, Ezekiel Lau and many more with the wonder kid from Brazil named Gabriel Medina totally blowing minds. From that contest alone of those names, there are at least 10 surfers that went on to compete on the World Tour and four World Titles between them.
Raglan has always captured the attention of the worlds surfers, and every event held over the last 30 plus years has always seen some of the big names of world surfing show up with a couple of promising groms in tow.
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Trigger Finger
Ask any top surf coach and the two elements they will concentrate on and recommend are a solid bottom turn and being able to develop speed - as they say, speed is your friend, and many of the best surfers on the planet also happen to be the fastest surfers.
THESHAPESHIFTER ROGER HALL
Ladies and Gentleman Choose Your Weapons: How to decide on your next surfboard.
The Olympians
Over 50 years ago surfing’s greatest ambassador of all time, the legendary Duke Kahanamoku, had a vision that one day surfing would become an Olympic sport.
The Gladiator Pit
Born from the era of the Roman Empire, armed combatants known as gladiators would enter the arena also known as the Gladiator Pit to face up against other gladiators, animals and criminals in fierce battle in what was seen as entertainment often ending in death to one or the other.
Rising Grom Asia Braithwaite
There are those young athletes that get into sport who possess natural talent, even the X-factor, yet as the road is usually a far-too-easy passage, they either take it for granted or don’t push beyond their capabilities.
Licence To Score
The adventures behind the wheel of Mount Grom Luke Griffin.
Land Of The Long Lefts
It was the year 1966 and the sport of surfing was sweeping the world.
Theshapeshifter - Roger Hall
Ever heard of a Mini Simmons?
The Road Less Travelled
Take a look at a map of our coastline and you will see thousands of kilometres of coastline, 15,000 to be almost exact, making it the 9th longest in the world.
Then & Now
It was the early 80s and the world of sport was evolving rapidly.
