Congratulations Jagger Bartholomew for taking out the 2022 Pa & Ma Bendall Memorial Surfing Contest with some impressive progressive surfing. Conditions were consistent all weekend with an overhead east swell generating consistent swell lines throughout the event and lighter southerly winds setting a great platform for innovative surfing all weekend. The consistent waves kept the standard of surfing to a very high level and generated scoring opportunities for all surfers. The Bartholomew family become the first father and son win in the events history with Rabbit winning the trophy 45 years ago in 1977. Well surfed and well deserved.
Windansea Boardriders had a very successful event with Cam McDougall finishing 2nd in the open mens. Our very own president Tezza Landsberg won the Legends division with Brett Hodge 2nd and Bruce Dunne 4th. David Scard was stoked with the win in masters after many 2nd places over the years and Tim Bange ripped his way into 2nd place in the Junior Boys. A great result for the club.
Another congratulations is in order for Sophie McCulloch for another win taking out the 2022 Pa & Ma Bendall Memorial Surfing Competition. Sophie’s achievement this year cannot be overstated as the level of surfing by her competitors this year really went up another level. Sophie put in a notable performance with the highest heat total in all 3 rounds being 16.77, 15.9 and 15.77 in the final. It was an awesome display of speed, power and flow by all. The women’s divisions were well represented in 2022 with strong interest generating a new division for Junior Girls to add to the Cadet Girls and Open Women’s divisions. The Cadet & Junior girls surfed exceptionally well, and are on their way to becoming future Pa & Ma champions.
See further details here – 2020’s Pa Ma Page