O’NEILL CWC welcomed to Aotearoa

March 24, 2011

tags: ASP, CWC, gisborne, oneill, surf, surf competitions, surf contest, surfing

In what has been a long time coming, the Oneill Cold Water Classic has rolled into Gisborne and was welcomed in with a traditional Powhiri (welcoming) held at the Manutuke Marae. Competitors and officials were stunned after experiencing a deep cultural tradition and then feasted with the local tribe and fellow competitors. The contest will kick off tomorrow morning and while it doesnt look like great surf on the way, at least there is some ( most wqs events are held in 1-2 foot)

Top pro surfers Jack Freestone, Roy Powers and mates await to be welcomed in.

The challenge of the Haka laid down

Ian Proctor representing the surfers

Roy Powers exchanges Hongi with Local

Like this:

Be the first to like this post.

No comments yet

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

New Zealand Surfing Magazine

day6 O’Neill CWC layday called

AFter waiting for most of the morning it was decided to call off competition for the day. So at midday a few of the O’Neill international team jumped in the car and were shown a few sheltered spots nearby. let the pics do the talking.

Day5 O’Neill CWC

Well we are reaching the business end of competition. The venue today was back at Wainui beach’s Pines. After been on hold waiting on a building swell the comp kicked off with small 2 foot peaks rolling in. Many wondered why the comp was called on this day, but when the first surfers stroked into [...]

Day4 O’Neill CWC

After yesterdays shift to “Pipe” The new day dawned with another full day of competition held once again at pipe, morning conditions were stellar with our greatest surfer ever flying the flag, Maz dominated the first heat and moved through to the next round. Matt Hewitt was the next kiwi up but fell victim to [...]

O’Neill CWC day 3- A shift to Gizzy Pipe delivers

Competitors and onlookers could have been forgiven if they thought it was april fools today. After the contest director called the contest go at Wainui’s Pines break, every local and those that knew a bit about surfing in this region were bemused. Here was an international event with the best surfers in the world, surfing [...]

O’Neill CWC day 2 Gisborne

Day 2 dawned at around 2-3 foot but reports were to have the swell building throughout the day. WIth mixed up ocean conditions from a strong cold easterly at least it was perfect Cold Water Classic weather. Today the big guns came out to play and once the seeded surfers hit the water the action [...]

O’Neill CWC WQS 6-Star Gisborne Day1

Well what a shame after weeks of pumping waves mother nature has turned the epic waves tap off and the wind and rain tap on. The good news is their was surf and while it was sometimes atrocious with southerly squall after squall punching through the lineup, you wouldnt have known as the best surfers [...]

O’NEILL CWC welcomed to Aotearoa

NZ SURF MAG march/april 2011

NZ SURFING MAGAZINE 138 The 64th Primo Roady- Blessed by a Karakia we break the exodus north and head south, driving non-stop with Richard christie and Ryan Hawker for some southern hospitality Kaikoura style. Where? Here and Gone- The Cyclone Wilma Story: The thought of a cyclone to a surfer brings dream like memories of [...]

Quiksilver Eddie Aikau Big Wave NO GO !

After much hype all week of a pending swell hitting Hawaii that was forecast to be one of the largest ever, the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational was called a “NO GO” this morning. Waimea Bay, Oahu, HAWAII — January 20, 2011 — The Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau, Fueled by Monster Energy, was [...]

Jay Quinn is the National Champ

In a tightly fought battle Jay Quinn narrowly beat out his suitcase surfer team mate Richard Christie to take the 2011 Hyundai National Surfing Champs. In deteriorating conditions at St Clair beach in Dunedin, Jay managed to fit in a few more maneuvers on his waves to score higher yet Richard Christie didn’t give up [...]

Just another WordPress.com weblog

O’NEILL CWC welcomed to Aotearoa

Like this:

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Archives

Email Subscription

New Zealand Surfing Magazine

Follow “NZ Surfing magazine ”