ROUND four of Fortser Tuncurry Bodyboarding Association took place last month after the winter break.
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The call was made early to hold it at Bull’s Paddock. The forecast swell did not look to have arrived when the crew first set up but by the second heat there were some solid four foot sets pushing through the line-up. This certainly had the grommets on their toes in their earlier heats.
Groms hit the water first with Flynn Dunn taking out the first heat of the day with excellent wave selection scoring him two clean barrels on nice set waves. Jeremy Coombes snuck through into second position with a nice flip on the last wave of the heat. Recent Nationals Finalist Jack Rogers hit the early lead in his heat with a very tidy six point barrel. Josh Aurisch was hot on his heels though, slamming down his rolls and rev spins and flawless barrel rides.
Masters saw Sam Elbourne come out of retirement to take on Simon Patterson and Ben ‘Fury’ Fletcher. Simon kept busy clocking up many heavy closeouts. While Elbourne and Fury were more selective and it paid off. To finish of the heat all three got an all-time party wave.
The swell started to swing further south, the tide dropping and banks did not favour riders.
The Junior Men division was very tight. The five-man 30 minute final was dominated from the start with Jumaane Fredricks getting two perfect deep set wave pits scoring high 7s.
Doddsy challenged the boys to try and bust out a roll flip or inny instead of wasting waves on closeouts. The heavy lips were causing a problem and folding most of the boys in half.
Jeremy Coombes and Brody Hill were the only ones to come close to Jumaane finding some good sections to roll out or end carve to rev bowls.
The Dropknee Final was very tough. The straight bank now being a pest, making it very difficult for the boys to get up in time before the bottom turn. Josh Smith’s only wave in final scored the biggest Wipeout of the day with a perfect 10 point chair ride. Josh Aurisch scrapped through a few bottom turns and closeouts. Donz was all style coming in hot for each closeout trying to bust floats and dragon snaps. But it all came down to Kallan Bragg finding smaller waves with better shape where he could get three well ridden waves.
In the Open Men Brody Hill first found the chicken dinner scoring a magic pit and rev bowl scoring a high 6. The heat was on with Jumaane, Jacob Dunn and Kallan Bragg going wave for wave. Kallan came up trumps dominating the heavy sections and coming out in front of the shock waves with some massive rolls.
Congratulations to last year's Club Member of the year who bagged the Daily Double win in Open Men and Drop Knee of round four.
Round five will be held on September 27.
RESULTS
Drop kneel
1st Kallan Bragg
2nd Thomas Donnelly
3rd Josh Aurisch
4th Josh Smith
Groms
1st Josh Aurisch
2nd Jake Rogers
3rd Rory Hill
Juniors
1st Jumanne Fredericks
2nd Jeremy Coombes
3rd Flynn Dunn
4th Brody Hill
5th Connor Jackson
Open Men
1st Kallan Bragg
2nd Jumanne Fredricks
3rd Brody Hill
4th Jacob Dunn
5th Grant Gardner
Masters
1st Sam Elbourne
2nd Ben Fletcher
3rd Simon Patterson
4th Daniel Smith