South African surfers shone in the Aloha Hornet contest at Curl Curl in Sydney, Australia.
Beyrick de Vries (U14) and Chad du Toit (U16) both won their heats convincingly to get through to the quarter finals on Thursday.
Contest organizers remarked on the quality of the surfers from South Africa who competed against surfers from different countries in the highly competitive competition which is the last competition in Australia in 2006.
“I am chuffed - I only arrived yesterday in Australia and went into the surf a little unprepared, but I got into the groove quite early to take the heat” said du Toit.
The Aloha attracts the cream of Australian surfers as well as a number of surfers from countries like Hawaii, Tahiti, Reunion, NZ, Japan, Australia and others from the Pacific Rim.
“I cracked a second place in the Rip Curl Gromsearch in Gold Coast, Australia earlier this month” said Beyrick de Vries from Umhlanga.
“I really believe that us South Africans can show the Aussies a thing or two – so far Chad and I have won our heats and there are people like Jordy Smith who still have to surf their heats. We are flying the South African flag high so far and I think we can do a lot more in the next couple of days” said de Vries in Sydney earlier today.
Other South African surfers in town, with Jordy (2006 WORLD CHAMPION), are Steven Friedman, SA National Surfer Klee Strachan, 2005 SA Champ Rory Beach, SA National Surfer Rudy Palmboom Jnr, 2005 ASP Champion Brandon Jackson, and with this crop of surfers South Africa is bound to bring home a good amount of silverware!
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