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Jerry´s Grom Bash is back! This year is going to be better than ever with Turbo stepping up the support aswell as Zion SA coming on board with the most insane prizes ever.

I might go as far as to say that this event boasts the sickest prize pack I have ever seen in 10 years of competing.

This is an event not to be missed. In 2010 Jason Fowler took home the prestigious “king of the groms” title and in 2011 it was none other than Wilder Schultz. Who will emerge on top this year, earning a years worth of bragging rights as one of South Africa´s most promising talents and a years worth of bodyboarding equipment to boot?

R100 gets you a spot and there are 2 divisions.

u/20 : 20 years or younger on the 1/1/2012

u/16 : 16 years or younger on the 1/1/2012

1 day event taking place on the 9th September 2012. Roaming venue, Big Bay – Yzerfontein. Venue to be confirmed on saturday the 8th September by 7pm.

Email Jared Houston at jaredh06@yahoo.com to secure your spot amd any other enquiries. Direct deposits are preferred but you can pay on the morning.

Huge thanks to Turbo body boards for their continued support of the youth in SA aswell as Zion SA for their first time contribution to this event.
Let the games begin!

The dust has settled after a weekend that saw probably the greatest wave conditions and riding performance for a Cape Classic and arguably any SABA event.

Western Province Bodyboarding Association kicked off the development clinic, teaching basic fundamentals and skills of Bodyboarding in Big bay. We invited everyone and anyone keen on getting involved, and found our presence was graced with organizations like wowess (Women of waves) and TLC. Everyone had a great time and I’m sure we are going to be seeing a lot more faces in the line up very soon.

The next morning, and the first day of the contest was kicked off on a wonderful sunny day in Cape Town and very contestable, 4ft right hand wedges exploding in front of the onlookers and judges.Just off the back of Mark McCarthy’s second place at the Box pro,the riders braved the freezing waters and took advantage of the flawless conditions to prove the level of riding in South Africa is on par or greater than that of the rest of the world.Huge inverts,backflips and air roll spins from the boys division all the way through womens, to grand masters saw impressed judges, entertained spectators and high rewarded scores.

The following day saw a change in the swell height and the WPBA making use of the peninsular and the fact that Cape Classic is one of the only mobile bodyboarding events in the world. The decision was made to transfer the contest to caves in the heart of Koel bay.

A predominantly heavy 3-4ft right wedge was the platform for the final day of the contest. Once again the ocean came to the party providing offshore winds before turning cross-shore for the finals. Riders relied on experience and wave knowledge to stamp their places in the final and gain those ever so valuable, SABA points. 

I was personally very impressed to see the level of riding in the boys division and thought it is a great indication of the future and standard of riding still to come in South Africa.

Apart from the riders giving it all they got, the judges saw a judging error of 97%, meaning only a 3% deviation between judge’s scores across every heat and every division of the contest! This is an incredible score and is worth recognition. The best judge of the contest going to Riaan du Preez.

Given the quality of waves, the competition and the intimidating company kept at the Cape Classic, Dave Comacho came away with full 10’s across the judging panel to secure himself best rider of the contest with his deep barrel to floating barrel roll.

The final heats went as follows:

 Winners of the Cape Classic 2012

• Pros
  1. Rheinhart Du Toit
  2. Aden Kleve
  3. Adam Morley
  4. Wesley Potts
  5. Steven Du Preez & Bas Koopman
  6. Rory Fellow Smith & Ian Kruger

• Juniors
  1.Bas Koopmans
  2.Jason Fowler
  3. Niklas Martin
  4. Stephen du Preez 
   
• DK
  1. Aden Kleve
  2. Dylan van Tonder
  3. Wesley Potts
  4. Peet Verreyne

• Mens
  1. Dave Camacho
  2. Emile Maree
  3. Chris van der Westhuyzen
  4. Micheal Meyer
  
• Ladies
  1.Pamela Bowren
  2. Jannecke de Kock
  3. Rossie Lombard
  
• Boys
  1. Dylan Le Roux
  2. Tristan Roberts
  3. Jarred Thomas
  4. Aeden O’Brien

• Grand masters
  1. Marcel Habets
  2. Len Bradford

• Masters
  1. Sean Oberholzer
  2. Morne Laubser
  3. Melvin Victors
  4. Lee Moran

A big thank you must go out to the sponsors of our event and prizes, without you none of this would be possible and we truly appreciate what you’ve done and the fact you keep backing us from year to year. Another, congratulation to the Western Province Bodyboarding Association committee for all there hard work and tedious hours they put in, to making sure the event ran as successfully as it did. Congratulations to the judges and of course, the riders! We thank everyone for following and enjoying the Cape Classic 2012 with us and look forward to seeing you up the West Coast this weekend for the next event on the SABA calendar.