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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.

DK WARS Cape Town 5th January 2012

The first Drop Knee Wars in SA was held at Long Beach, Kommetjie on Thursday the 5th January 2012 with 3-4 ft offshore waves with a left rolling in from the back and also a hollow shore break.

 With the organizers Lee Moran and Karl Liebenberg hoping for good conditions, it was all they could ask for.
From there every thing else fell together.
With everyone not knowing exactly what DK WARS was about , but still coming along to compete, it came together perfectly.

26 riders signed up into 6 x 4 man teams plus one 2 man team and were then split into 3 teams riding for an hour then the next 3 teams going in for the next hour and then the process repeated again giving all teams 2 hours of riding with everyone watching and hooting from the beach. Once everyone had ridden the riders got a voting sheet and they voted who they thought the best team and riders were.

To be honest, the level of riding was extremely high from all the riders with floaters, slashes and shore break barrels being the order of the day. I think all the riders would agree that we were all winners on this day as the level of stoke of overflowing from everyone but the cash had to go somewhere and it went to old school riders, Team SPU (Sascha Taljaard, Hankus Loubser, Euvrard Loubser and Ismael Grant) who consistently threw the moves out winning R2000.

 Best Solo rider went to Sascha Specker who won R1230 cash with Aden Kleve taking best wipe out, DVT taking best charger and Sascha Taljaard taking best wave ridden and best floater winning R1000 from Tribal Surf Shop.

 All in all it was a great day on the beach with a bunch of Drop Knee enthusiasts just pushing and amping each other to do the best they can.

 A big Thank you to Tribal Surf Shop in Hermanus, Sport Unlimited in CT and Keiki in Durban for sponsoring the event and also photographer Billy Ackerman from PB Surfing.
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  Keep your ears to the ground for when the next battle will happen.
Lee Moran.