Below is a scrapbook of history of the Pa & Ma Bendall Competitions over the years. If you have anything to contribute or can add some interesting editorial we would love to hear from you. Please email the club at info@windanseaboardriders.com.au
2019 Pa & Ma Bendall
Surf Conditions – Solid Bumpy 4-6ft with some bigger sets with the tide. Killer sweep and Jetski assist at times. Testing conditions.
Open Men’s winners
1st Mitch Parkinson
2nd J Bartholomew
3rd Oney Anwar
4th Alister Reginato
Open Women’s winners
1st Ellia Mai
2nd Lucy Tandler
3rd Jahly Stokes
4th Holly Anne Williams
Junior’s winners
1st Taj Stokes
2nd Jackson Graham
3rd Zane Jenner
4th Keo Bartholomew
Men’s over 50s winners
1st Terry Landsberg
2nd Clive Stinton
3rd Glen Winton
4th Darryl Parkinson
Men’s over 40s winners
1st Ben Silk
2nd David Reardon Smith
3rd Mark Richardson
4th David Scard
Men’s over 30s winners
1st Shane Bevan
2nd Jarrod Sunderland
3rd Adam Hauzer
4th Joel Smith
Cadet Boys winners
1st Luke Brumby
2nd Luke Skelton
3rd Tim Bain
4th Ben Lorentson
Cadet Girls winners
1st Lucy Tandler
2nd Lillian Abowrey
3rd Jahly Stokes
4th Keisha Wakeham
2018 Pa Ma Bendall
Surf Conditions – 3-4ft Southerly swell, sometimes bigger with the tide, plenty of sweep, onshore tricky conditions but some good sections.
Special Guests – Tom Curren & the original “Moffatteers”
Open Men’s winners
1st Taj Stokes
2nd Cooper Davies
3rd Matt Fillipo
4th James Cervi
Most Promising Cadet Award – Jackson Graham
Old Mal Division winners
1st Bowie Pollard
2nd Kai Annetts
3rd Aiden Feeley
4th Damien Coulter.
Cadet Boy’s U16 winners
1st Zeb Stokes
2nd Jackson Graham
3rd Archer Curtis
4th Luke Brumby
Cadet Girl’s U16 winners
1st Isabella Caldon
2nd Nyxie Ryan
3rd Malia Ting
4th Jacki Stokes
Open woman’s winners
1st Amber Dodds
2nd Sasha Baker
3rd Vittoria Farmer
4th Stacey Baxter
Junior Boys U18 winners
1st Thomas Carvalho
2nd Toi Tanaka
3rd Indi White
4th Taj Stokes
Masters Men’s Over 40’s winners
1st Paul Wayland
2nd Andy Johnston
3rd Jack Hagen
4th Nathan Peters
Senior Men’s Over 30’s winners
1st Jarrod Sunderland
2nd Ben Scarlett
3rd Adam Hauzer
4th Dave Reardon Smith
Legends Over 50’s winners
1st Marty Simpson
2nd Terry Landberg
3rd Owen Cavanagh
4th Clive Stinton
2017 Pa Ma Bendall
Surf Conditions – Generally excellent. Clean large 4-6ft walls with a bit of breeze Fri/Sat then clean 4-5ft waves for finals day and light winds.
Open Men’s Winners
1st Tim MacDonald
2nd Mitch Parkinson
3rd Oney Anwar
4th Noah Kearney
Open Women’s Winners
1st Klein Codie
2nd Teah Van De Wakker
3rd Alyssa King
4th Nyxie Ryan
Cadet Boy’s Winners
1st Taj Stokes
2nd Will Muskens
3rd Zeb Stokes
4th Zane Jenner
Cadet Girl’s Winners
1st Nyxie Ryan
2nd Malia Ting
3rd Ellia Smith
4th Mikki King
Junior Men’s Winners
1st Cooper Davies
2nd Thomas Carvalho
3rd Vetea Wulf
4th Kalani Wulf
Men’s over 30 Winners
1st Eduardo Oscar
2nd Ben Scarlett
3rd Jarrod Sunderland
4th Dean Carpenter
Men’s over 40 Winners
1st Jye Gofton
2nd Ben Silk
3rd Peter Boyd
4th Ross Day
Men’s over 50 Winners
1st Terry Landsberg
2nd Darryl Parkinson
3rd Richard Whitpaine
4th Martin Simpson
Kneeboards Winners
1st Gary A Slater
2nd Rick Liddy
3rd Dean Case
4th Mick Casey
Surfing Life Article – https://www.surfinglife.com.au/2017/04/17/30350/ma-pa-bendall-2017/
2016 Pa Ma Bendall
Open Men’s winners
1st Eli Steele
2nd Thomas Prout
3rd Dave Reardon-Smith
4th Harry Bryant
Open Women’s winners
1st Hinako Kurokawa
2nd Sophie McCulloch
3rd Laura Poncini
4th Stacey Holt
U16 Boy’s winners
1st Taj Stokes
2nd Alister Reginato
3rd Vetea Wulf
4th Will Carter
U16 Girls’s winners
1st Skye Faddy
2nd Ellia Smith
3rd Anna Toohey
4th Felicity St-Baker
U18 Boys’s winners
1st Dextar Muskens
2nd Thomas Prout
3rd Noah Kearney
4th Sam Williams
Men’s over 30 winners
1st Yerin Brown
2nd Trevor Tripcony
3rd Dave Reardon-Smith
4th Russell Miller
Men’s over 40 winners
1st Ben Silk
2nd Peter Boyd
3rd Jack Hagan
4th Nathan Peters
Men’s over 50 winners
1st Clive Sinton
2nd Terry Landsberg
3rd Richard Whitpaine
4th Trevor Medcalf
2015 Pa Ma Bendall
Open Men’s winners
1st Noah Kearney
2nd Dave Reardon-Smith
3rd Paul McGregor
4th Mark Richardson
Open Women’s winners
1st Cody Klein
2nd Laura Poncini
3rd Stacey Holt
4th Tarnea O’Meara
Cadet Boy’s winners
1st Alister Reginato
2nd Luke Glover
3rd Vetea Wulf
4th Kalani Wulf
Junior Boys’s winners
1st Connor Lyons
2nd Aaron Kelly
3rd Tom Prout
4th Stirling Mitchell
Senior Men’s winners
1st Trevor Tripcony
2nd Jye Gofton
3rd Russell Miller
4th Nick Ferguson
Masters Men’s winners
1st Mark Richardson
2nd Ben Silk
3rd Kyle Robinson
4th Peter Capper
Legends Men’s winners
1st Clive Sinton
2nd Richard Whitpaine
3rd Trevor Savill
4th David Masters
Kneeboard’s winners
1st Dean Case
2nd Gary Slater
3rd Bevan Bache
4th Mark Stewart
2014 Pa Ma Bendall
Opens
1st Mitch Parkinson
2nd Wade Goodall
3rd Harry Bryant
4th Hayden Cervi
Legends
1st Clive Sinton
2nd Marty Simpson
3rd Daryl Parkinson
4th Trevor Medcalf
Cadets
1st Liam O’Brien
2nd Noah Kearney
3rd Tom Prout
4th Reef Heazelwood
Women’s
1st Codie Klein
2nd Laura Poncini
3rd Vittoria Farmer
4th Renee Heazelwood
Snr Men
1st Dave Reardon Smith
2nd Trevor Tripcony
3rd Dean Carpenter
4th Ben Silk
Masters
1st Shane Bevan
2nd Mark Richardson
3rd Kristian Kearney
4th Shane Munro
Juniors
1st Connor Lyons
2nd Aaron Kelly
3rd Noah Kearney
4th Kane Landsberg
Kneeboards
1st Gary slater
2nd Dean Case
3rd Mick Casey
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2013 Pa Ma Bendall
Open Men’s Winners
1st Dale Lovelock
2nd Thomas Cervi
3rd Mark Richardson
4th Blake Wilson
Open Women’s Winners
1st Keelie Andrews
2nd Sophie McCulloch
3rd Sam Waugh
4th Vittoria Farmer
Cadet Boy’s Winners
1st Kane Landsberg
2nd Connor Lyons
3rd Dexter Muskens
4th Tom Prout
Junior Men’s Winners
1st Nick Callister
2nd Harry Bryant
3rd Reef Heazelwood
4th Jack Reginato
Senior Mens Winners
1st Dave Reardon-Smith
2nd Shane Bevan
3rd Russell Miller
4th Dean Carpenter
Masters Mens Winners
1st Mark Richardson
2nd Shane Jefferson
3rd Peter Boyd
4th Kristian Kearney
Kneeboards Winners
1st Marcus Hague
2nd Gary Slater
3rd Luke McCall
4th Anthony Defries
Saturday, March 30, 2013 Sunshine Coast Daily
Pa and Ma contest an ode to surf traditions
By Bill Hoffman
Bill Hoffman says “enduring Easter event is into its 39th year,offering $11,000 in prize money”
A SURFING competition where history and traditions are in many ways as important as who ends up winner is being held over the first three days of this Easter weekend. The Pa and Ma Bendall Memorial Contest at Caloundra’s Moffat Beach, presented by the Henzells Caloundra RSL Foundation, will offer prizemoney of $11,000 across seven divisions. It remains one of the few surfing events in the world that still includes kneeboards – a surfing style whose heyday came and went 30 years ago.
Daryn Fissenden, a member of the organising body WindanSea Boardriders, said a respect for tradition and acceptance of the responsibility to maintain it were what had made the event, now in its 39th year, Australia’s second-longest continuously staged
surfing competition behind the Rip Curl Bells Easter Classic, also being held this weekend. That responsibility is likely to be passed on to a younger generation of organisers after the staging of the 40th competition in 2014. Fissenden is confident they will step up to the mark. The event holds a special place in surfing lore. Ironically, given that it was one of Australia’s earliest professional surfing events, the Pa and Ma Bendall is loved because it recognises a couple frozen in time and memory at the moment before competition began to dominate the sport.
Pa and Ma, both considerably older than the young larrikins attracted to the freedom and exhilaration of surfing, were a steadying influence on all with whom they came in contact.They epitomised a beach culture that still to this day many look back on with nostalgia or cling to in desperation despite the pressures of development, population growth and our money and success-driven lifestyles.
The retention of a division for kneeboards is reflective of that. Fissenden acknowledges that the
kneeboard competitors are aging. The introduction of bodyboards robbed kneeboarding of its next
generation. But the discipline will retain a place in the “Pa” as long as there are sufficient entrants to run heats. A year after Charles Ben Bendall’s death in 1973, the inaugural “Pa’’
Bendall Memorial Contest was staged as a mark of respect for his contribution to the Sunshine Coast surfing community. He was in many ways the granddad of Queensland surfing. When he and his wife Marjory, who came to be affectionately known as Ma to all she met, settled in Caloundra in the 1950s,
only a handful of surfers lived locally. Ma ran Harmony Holiday Flats at Bulcock Beach and the couple used an old van to carry them up and down Australia’s east coast.
In 1966, Ben formed an invitation-only boardriders’ club called the Moffateers to promote integrity and
sportsmanship in the sport. Free membership was offered to the region’s surfing youth who maintained good character.
When he died in 1973, his funeral was held overlooking the waves of Moffat Beach which he loved so much and where he would whistle others off waves he called his own. A plane flew overhead scattering his ashes. In August that year, a memorial plaque was unveiled christening Pa Bendall Park which overlooks the surf break.
When the first contest was held on February 2-3, 1974, it carried prize money of $1500, the largest purse at the time for any contest in Australia.
The prizemoney attracted the sport’s elite including Wayne Bartholomew, Simon Anderson, Hawaiian Gerry
Lopez, Michael Peterson, Richard Harvey, Nat Young, “Sultan of Speed’’ Terry Fitzgerald and Peter Drouyn.
Harvey, the inaugural winner, used the cheque as a deposit on a block of land, one street back from the sea, at Mermaid Beach on the Gold Coast.
Over the years as a world surfing tour and qualifying circuits emerged, the event evolved into a springboard for emerging talent that to this day strives to earn a place for their names on the perpetual trophy.
As Windansea developed as a rich nursery of surfing talent, it produced its own champions including Serena Brooke, Wade Goodall and Joel Parkinson, all past or present members of the club.
When Ma died in 2001 at the grand age of 91, the contest was renamed to also honour her contribution to
women’s surfing. A full field for the open women’s competition this weekend is a tribute to
those early efforts.
“Today, the contest has become a
perfect opportunity for up-and-coming
young surfers to be part of a rich
history by getting their name on the
trophy,’’ Fissenden said.
Current world champion Joel Parkinson, who was born in Caloundra, is a past Windansea member and still firmly in touch with his surfing roots here. His name is included on the list of luminaries who have held the trophy aloft.
Parkinson is a big believer in the competition which remembers the couple who gave birth to the Coast’s
surfing culture. It is now part of the contest’s history that the 1998, 2000 and 2003 champion gave over his prize cheque as a 21-year-old to send Ma on a holiday.
“I was on the (professional) tour,’’
Joel told the Daily in 2008.
“She was just by herself. She
wanted a holiday so I donated my
money.’’
The current world champion never had the chance to meet Ben “Pa” Bendall but he remembered Ma as a
lovely person.
“She was unreal,’’ he said
“She was a lovely old lady, who used
to have a lot of time for us when we
were younger.”
Early in 2008, the then Caloundra City Council funded a documentary, Ma and Pa Bendall: Making Waves, a
42-minute film that captured the Bendall story both from old 8mm film recorded by Ma, and through the
memories of those who had met the extraordinary couple.
Completed over two years by television producer Michael Berry, it features interviews with former world
champion surfers Ian Cairns, Phyllis O’Donnell and Bob McTavish.
“I think they (the Bendalls) were very important to the surfing culture,” Berry told the Daily.
“They helped a lot of young people find a sense of direction with Pa saying to kids, ‘You can join the Moffateers club if you are well-behaved and have a sense of purpose’.
“That seemed to work back then.”
Spectators can catch all the action today and tomorrow from 7am.
This year’s champions will be honoured at a beach presentation tomorrow before an after-party at the
Caloundra RSL from 6pm. Organisers are also appreciative of the support from key sponsors M and B Rigging, Telstra, Hotondo Homes, Dicky Surf and Griffith Parry Lawyers.
2012 Pa Ma Bendall
Festivities for the Pa and Ma Bendall 2012 kicked off at the RSL on Thursday night. Crowds were kept entertained with art exhibitions, wine tastings, old memorabilia to peruse and a Q & A couch session with Richard Harvey, Bushy Mitchell, Gary O’Donnell, Matt Clark (No “E” in Clark) and Wade Goodall. A story telling highlight was Richards Harvey’s story about getting “stuck” surfing Tea Tree for a week because of a cyclone. Fortunately he was “stuck” with a small crew of surfing legends. A good start to an even better weekend.
Very uncharacteristically for the Easter weekend we were greeted on Day 1 with a picture perfect morning and to top it off, 3 to 4 foot of swell. By mid-morning the place was packed and buzzing with excitement. Huey was on our side! The day didn’t start off as perfectly for poor old Twiga who ended up with a bunch of sea urchins in his foot. Lucky we had our resident doctor on call – Dr Dave! After months out of the water there was no sign of Wade Goodall’s career threatening injury as he annihilated his round one heat with some of his signature aerial manoeuvres. With a number of Windan Sea Members making it through to Day 2, the level of surfing from the club was at an all time high.
Day 2 was a similar picture with the sun shining and 3 to 4 foot offshore lines. The surfing was at a high standard however only a handful of Wind an Sea boys made the finals on Sunday. Crowd favourite Eli Steele was knocked out in the semis much to the disgust of a few of the locals! The food stalls kept the crowds full and the Brazilian Boys kept the carnivores amongst us very happy with their meat fiesta. DJ Wezman finished the day off with some fat beats that kept the place buzzing till dark.
The good weather and pumping waves continued into Day 3. The Heazelwood boys took out the finals in the Father and Son comp and Lippy and Terry represented the committee in the Senior Men’s final. Cut back Clive, Wade Goodall, Eli Steele, Reef Heazelwood, Christian Kearney, Noah Kearney and Nic Doran also made it through to the finals. Wade impressed the judges as well as the spectators by scoring a 9 and a 10 for his first two waves. And Wind an Sea president Terry took down the current World Masters champ in the Masters final.
The presentations were held at the RSL where Dejan Shred Factor set the place on fire with his surf guitar tunes. Everyone was talking about how great the weekend was and Gary O’Donnell even said it was quite possibly the best Pa and Ma Bendall Memorial ever – and he has seen a few to say the least. A great Easter weekend had by all!
words by Lisa Litfin
Open Men’s winners
1st Wade Goodall
2nd Thomas Cervi
3rd Dale Lovelock
4th Noah Lane
Open Women’s winners
1st Naomi Stevic
2nd Dimmity Stoyle
3rd Sophie Callister
4th Keely Andrews
Cadet’s winners
1st Kai Hing
2nd Dexter Muskins
3rd Connor Lyons
4th Noah Kearney
Junior’s winners
1st Nick Callister
2nd Nic Doran
3rd Kai Hing
4th Eli Steele
Senior’s winners
1st Matt Clark
2nd Terry Landsberg
3rd Jason Litfin
4th Shannon Neil
Master’s winners
1st Terry Landsberg
2nd Mark Richardson
3rd Kristian Kearney
4th Clive Sinton
Kneeboard’s winners
1st Gary Slater
2nd Matt Gallagher
3rd Bushy Mitchell
4th Kevin Ross
2011 Pa Ma Bendall
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