The 5 beaches is by far one of my favourite races on the calendar, great people on the south coast and old school fun coming through the surf on the 5 beaches along the course. Well huge surf that has smashed the coast made the race impossible forcing Billy Harker to move it to town and have a 2 lapper from Marine. Good call for the large field.

There is some small part of me that would love to have taken on the south coast today. I remember years crashing through mountainous surf. The sport is going in the right direction but there are still a small few with the skills and ...

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Chopper and I hanging onto Matt Bouman's wave right near the end of the harbor mouth.

Again and again SportsGuide are lifting their game. The mag is totally free, get it at a store or you can download it off their website at www.sportsguide.co.za. Classic articals of which one is mine, Thanks to Craig Dutton and Rudy project for supplying the photo!

Its really feels strange starting a surfski race at the Stella Canoe Club in the harbour after the first 2 races of the series we beach starts. Less tension worrying about getting away through the surf. Got away fine and settled in the bunch and even did one small stint on the front (more to see if my rudder was clear of weed) on the 10km loop out the harbour.

It was super low tide today so the root thought he harbour was simple until the mouth where there is massive construction works widening the harbour walls. The water starts rebounding off the ships as you near the mout...

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Matt Bouman secured a hat-trick of wins in of the Discovery Men's Health Surf Ski Series with a dramatic win in the McCarthy Toyota King of the Bay surf ski race, after he took an early break out of the harbour on a boat wave and never looked back.

Bouman, together with Eastern cape star Richard von Wildemann and Barry Lewin broke away from the pack once out of the harbour, ...

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It’s way past my bedtime and my eyes are hardly open. I am watching the live coverage of the Molokai race on www.surfski.info , so glad I am not there with hot and flat conditions this year and my bank manager is patting me on the back to! My bank balance still hasn’t recovered after last years trip!  

Got so many cool memories of hanging around the Island after the race last year with Hank, Steve, Ian and Carter. Made the trip so wor...

 I love racing season, especially the winter series. Classic weekend with your mates on some of the best beaches in the world. Been getting mails from www.barrylewin.co.za reads in Europe and Canada bitching and moaning about the stupidly cold conditions they paddle in.

Well Durban don’t have no winter, O boy and it delivered again today. Moderate surf with a stiff SW wind (died during the race) and the sun shining.

Didn’t get a great start. Not like me! Was standing in hole and got held by a wave. Just made the back of the front bunch into t...

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Durban - The defending champion in the Discovery Men's Health Surf Ski Series Matt Bouman won the 14 kilometre Powerade Dairy Beach race which formed the second leg of the popular winter series ahead of Barry Lewin and the brothers Herman and Oscar Chalupsky, continuing the impressive form that saw him win the European Surf Ski World Cup title ...

To continue the legacy of Christo Petzer, Varsity College has set up the Christo Petzer Memorial Bursary Fund.  The fund is aimed at building on the foundation Christo laid in terms of helping underpriviledged scholars with their tertiary education.  His hard work for and dedication towards uplifting young people will live on through an annual Varsity College bursary recipient (or more depending on the donations).
 
Christo’s  journey at Varsity College started as a UNISA student and then in 2000 he joined the full time staff as Student Advisor-SLB C...

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Had been taking part in the legends challenge so had little time to check the weather before arriving at my home club of marine for the open race of the surfski series. The wind had dropped from the day before but there was still enough bump from the South West to make things interesting. Even the rain cleared for most of the race!

Had a good start and lead almost all the way to the f...

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Durban - Defending series champion Matt Bouman charged to victory at the New Balance Grading race which formed the first leg of the Discovery Men's Health Surf Ski Series. The twelve kilometre race from uShaka beach in Durban enjoyed calm conditions with very little swell and was the perfect start to the popular winter series.

Bouman lead from the start while Barry Lewin and Grant Van der Walt worked together to k...

My biggest supporter and kind of second family in Jeep Apparel invited a number of their athletes to take part in the SARLA Challenge. It consisted 4 teams taking on a number of events over 3 days.

The teams consisted of a SALRA, ELAN, MERCURY and JEEP team. The event was an awesome team building experience for me and our squad with the events built around team work and fun.

We dominated the mountain bike and adventure challenge on Friday. Got smoked into last place in the golf (the shame is bad) on Saturday. Got 3rd in the fishing, 1st in the Ushaka challenge and 3r...

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Billy Harker who runs the infamous Surfski Series organises a media challenge every year before the series starts. Its great to mix with some of the media and for me a opportunity to leverage my amazing sponsors.

Wednesday was already a hectic morning with...

We have had world class conditions for the last 2 weeks. Check out this video of the Ocean expert class over the weekend!

Was lucky to part of a small group of friends who gathered for Max and Eszter's special day over the weekend. The story is best told through some cool photo's. www.maxcluer.com, www.multigirl.co.za

The happy couple!

Very in love!

The view behind the we...

The last couple days have been a blast. Went tow surfing on the south coast with my best mate and his wife to be. Was the cleanest day ever, so blessed to be able to do this in winter, hehehe! Rusty who's ski we were using and I are still learning but what a jol.

High to low, low to high. Always back and forth!