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THE annual Western Province Surfing Championships were staged at Witsands and Noordhoek beaches over the past two weekends and while the results have been embargoed until the awards ceremony and AGM of the association on Wednesday evening at the Railway House in Muizenberg, most divisions were dominated by Deep South residents.

The premier open division was a case in point, where the four finalists were Kommetjie locals Dave Richards, Brett Shearer, Josh Salie and 14-year-old Matthew Bromley.

Richards and Salie are also in contention for the u/20 boys' crown along with Brandon Roberts (Sun Valley) and the vastly improved Craig Johnson (Muizenberg).

WP committee member John Bromley and long-time fellow Kommetjie resident Jeremy Zinn qualified for the final of the veterans (over 44) division with Sun Valley's Ronnie Veldhuis, while yours truly is waiting anxiously for the results of the legends (over 55) title also won last year.

The successful introduction of internationally recognised standards for surf coaching to SA, which has seen more than 60 SSA accredited level one surf coaches trained in this country since February, steps up a level in December when the first SSA level two courses will be conducted in Durban and at the Kahuna Surfing Academy in Kommetjie.

A capacity building initiative from Surfing South Africa (SSA), with funding from the National Lottery Fund, the courses will be conducted by British Surfing Association (BSA) head coach Barrie Hall, who also introduced the level one courses earlier this year. Hall will be assisted by Dene Botha, SA's only accredited coaching trainer / assessor, who hopes to qualify to present level two courses while Hall is in the country.

Big wave charger Andrew Marr last week received a surprise invitation from a colleague in Hawaii to spend the winter partnering him in a tow-in team operating on the North Shore of Oahu. Marr, formerly of Knysna but now established in the Kommetjie-based big wave crew, has spent many years in Hawaii challenging the biggest rideable waves available, earning the nickname "Waimea Andy" for his fearless exploits at Waimea Bay, Hawaii's Mecca of big wave surfing.

The third and final event in the Kahuna Surf Series for novice surfers will be staged in the Kommetjie area on the weekend of 10 and 11 December. The KSS caters for u/10, u/12, u/14 and u/16 boys and girls and started at Muizenberg in August, followed by Big Bay, Bloubergstrand in October, where the final day was postponed due to mist.

The final round of the Big Bay event will be staged at Melkbosstrand on Sunday, 4 December.

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