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PLEASE NOTE: DATES FOR GOLD COAST ROUND ARE AS FOLLOWS SUNDAY, 15TH JUNE NOT 16TH AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED

Carter Surfing Industry is proud to announce the return of the original Tag Team Surfing. …

Apologies to all you readers who keep tuning in…..and have had a long wait for this piece of news. Ive had a few computer problems but have rectified them now and I will be bringing more frequent updates to whats happening on the Gold Coast in the future…

Owen Wright from Culburra on the South Coast of NSW added another trophy to his mantle piece and a hefty $25000 to his …

More videos from Gold Coast film maker Craig Halstead!!!.

Craig has been busy covering Parko’s new Grom Comp held on the Sunshine Coast and which finished up a few days ago.

Parko’s Grom Stomp follows in the footsteps of two other very successful grom Comp’s put on by WCT surfers Occy and Taj Burrow.

Just like those contests Parko’s Grommet Event was a great success.
Joel presented the finalists with their prizes and …

Mark Richardson got his ratings campaign off to a great start today by taking out the Senior Men’s and over 35’s division in the first event of the Printpoint Queensland Masters Surfing Circuit at Duranbah.
The standard of surfing from the ‘Old Salts’ of the Queensland surfing community was extremely high all weekend, with high scoring rides posted throughout the event that had their younger counterparts on …

Queensland’s premier master’s surfers gathered today at Duranbah Beach to contest the first event of the Printpoint Queensland Master’s Surfing Circuit 2008.

Overcast weather and small waves couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm of the ‘old salts’ of the Queensland surfing scene, and the event got underway in clean glassy conditions.

An in form Mark Richardson, last year’s winner of the ‘senior men’s’ division, convincingly won his heat. ‘Richo’ also won his heat in the over 35’s, his first …

Fresh off the back of WCT coming to town, the team has been decided to represent the Gold Coast at the QLD school surfing state titles. In 2 months time the coast’s best surfers will board the ferry for North Stradbroke Island to take their next step in an Australian Title campaign. The first team members selected were in the MR Shield division. The MR Shield is a pairs surfing event in which 2 surfers …

BYRON BAY EASTER CLASSIC
IN MEMORY OF BEN KING
Presented by THE GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL AND CORONA
MARCH 21ST, 22ND,& 23RD 2008

Byron Bay surfer Jarrad Sullivan today won the 33rd Byron Easter Classic, only narrowly defeating the form surfer of the event, 2006 Champion, Yerin Brown. Sullivan was the dark-horse of the event unassumingly progressing through his heats, before blowing up in the final, to defeat Brown by 15.53 points to 15.19. Sullivan put everything …

Now, in its 33rd year ‘the Byron Easter Classic’ is one of Australia’s longest running annual surfing events.
The event has been renamed in honour of Byron Bay Boardriders club president and long time stalwart, Ben King who sadly passed away 2 years ago.
Ben was the driving force and instrumental in Byron Bay Boardriders being inducted into the Australian surfing ‘Hall of Fame’in 2005.
Sadly another former president of Byron Boardriders passed …

Gold Coast Videographer, Craig Halstead from Superbank movies and now Go211.com has provided us with the latest clip from the Ripcurl Kirra Teams Challenge 2008.

This clip is a beauty , it shows World champion Mick Fanning ripping into a win for his club Kirra Surfriders. The heat also included WCT surfer Jay Thompson from Burleigh and Jock Barnes from LeBa (Lennox Ballina)
Also in a another heat, Josh Kerr carving it up …

Craig Halstead from Go211.com has supplied us with a few new video clips .

The first is clip is Part two of the 24th Annual Rip Curl Kirra Teams Challenge.

The second video clip below is some classic old footage Craig has dug up from somewhere of the 1974 Australian Titles at Burleigh Heads with Gold Coast legends such as Michael Peterson and Wayne Rabbit Bartholemew.

Remember if the clips keep …

It’s been a long time between drinks for the Kirra Surfriders club who took out the Rip Curl Kirra teams Challenge today. Their surfers winning seven out of eight heats surfed over the three-day event.
Kirra has won the title on four previous occasions. The last time being fourteen years ago.
With five wins and a second place at the start of the day, Kirra was in the box seat.
First, Asher Pacey sent …