Noosa Festival Noserider Wrap Up By Di Cuddihy

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March/April 2011
In this Bumper Issue:
• Festival wrap ups from Phil & Di
• 25th Anniversary Barefoot Ball
• W&R - The fossils are full!
• NMC members at the festival.
Editor’s Note:
What another great Noosa
Festival of Surfing (thanks Phil &
your team), especially if you got
to surf First Point with only five
others in the water! Check out
all the news, results & pictures!
See you in the water - Andrew
Noosa Festival Noserider Wrap Up By Di Cuddihy
Always a challenging division, even with good surf. Unfortunately the surf gods weren’t shinning on the event this year
with the trials being held on the dredging low tide at the
groyne. It was a great advantage point for the photgraphers
but this was going to sort the men from the boys by seeing
who was lucky enough to get a wave that would run all the
way through.
The club was represented by it’s younger members
- Brodie, Ezra, Zac & Mitch - but all missed out on progressing through to the next round. But it is a big achievement to
get to round 2, let alone the semis, so well done guys!
Zye Norris set a blistering pace in round 2 (coming in with
the 3rd highest score) just behind Harrison Roach and Matt
Cuddihy. But the gods weren’t kind to Zye in the Semis with
the surf depleating and high scoring waves were few and far
between.
Harrison Roach took out the semi just ahead of Matt
followed by Taylor Jensen & Christian Wach. (I think Christian
must have been wondering why he didn’t bring his carbon
fibre board when it had carried him to 4 titles in the previous
years.)
That was the placings for the semis and the line up for the
final, which was taken out by Harrison, who had been waiting
a long time to win the Noserider Final after completing in 4
finals and always just missing out. Matt came second.
The Noserider Pro can be very fickle. Matt has surfed in 11
Noseriders and has made the final 7 times and only won two,
President’s Report Hi Mal Clubbers
Well the 2011 festival is done and
dusted. Congratulations to Phil and
Sam Smith for putting on another
beauty. For those few members who
attended the functions we all had a
really great time.
Highlights for me - other than the
surfing, which considering the surf was
pretty special - were Tuesday night at
Le Monde with Rusty Miller and crew
(one of the best festival nights I’ve had
in years), Friday and Saturday nights
(Dolphins on Friday night were great)
The Noosa Malibu Club is partly funded by
so you can see it’s not an easy
accomplishment.
So don’t give up all you
groms - it will happen so just
keep trying.
Right: NMC’s own Matt Cuddihy
and Noserider winner Harrison
Roach after the final.
Below: What a shot! Harrison
making the small surf look very
good in the final. Gotta love Noosa
- even on a bad day it looks good!
Photo: Di Cuddihy
Pic: Supplied.
and of course the 25th Anniversary Ball.
It was great to see so many past
members and friends along for the
night and those who were there can tell
you that missed it what a rocking night
it was - with everyone up on the dance
floor! Thanks to all those who helped
make this such a good night, especially
the crew who put it together and of
course to Susie for all her hard work.
The year is drawing closer to an end
with only 3 more point score rounds to
go. Unfortunately we are missing tally
sheets for 2 rounds so please if you can
help find them let Griffo know or one of
the executive.
Don’t forget that the next GM is on
By Dave Dunn
Monday 11 April so as many of you as
possible please come along as we
need to discuss a few important issue
such as the 2012 festival, possible
support for a team to Malibu etc.
One last thing, if you haven’t seen it
yet you must get hold of a copy of the
25th Anniversary book. Libby and
friends have done a great job putting it
together and should be a must for any
dedicated member to have as a coffee
table book and a keep sake of the club.
Hope to see you at the GM
Dave Dunn
President
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Fun times at the Barefoot Ball By Susie Locke
Well... what a hoot we all had !! The
night started with quiet quaffing of
champagne by the bar and morphed
into a dance party to truly rock your
thongs off!! Late for Woodstock played
up a storm, the dance floor was full and
there was food aplenty.
Accolades have to go to Mark Tume
for being able to tie his own baby blue
spotted bowtie, to Libby for her ball
frocked leap onto the dance floor, it got
the party rocking! And to Brad for his
crowd splitting calisthenics as part of
his dance moves. I have to say heaps of thanks to
Jackie and Lucy who welcomed guests
at the door and to Rosie for stepping
up to the mic and to the tune of
matching Josh’s hairstyles to certain
years took Georgie, Jackie, Lucy, Tim
May and her ‘ring in’ friend through the
dance of the seven t-shirts.
Thanks to the guys that are always
there to help Rob, Sue and Mon for the
hours setting up and to Linda for
helping ‘the morning after’. To our great
delight we arrived to find that Tom had
oganized the vollies to wipe the place
clean. Much apprieciated!
Libby was heard to to comment....
“the next time we do this”...lets hope
we still can in 25 years !!
Out & about at the Festival.
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1: Surfing Royalty - Looks like Phil Jarratt (bottom left) is about to lead a veritable Who’s Who of surfing through a round of Kum ba ya.
2: Karin with NFOS regular Tom Carroll. 3: Di spending a quiet moment with another NFOS visitor - and former world champ - Layne Beachley
4: What is the collective noun for a group of world champions? 8 of the world’s best in Noosa for the Festival. (All Pics: Alan Thomas)
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Keeping it in the family. By Di Cuddihy
NOOSA FESTIVAL OF SURFING FAMILY CHALLENGE.
What a great event! This is what surfing is all about families enjoying themselves.With the pressure not only
on the youngest member but also on the dad or mum to
get those most important points to bring the team
home. I saw a few families really hungry to win at all
costs, but you know what they say - Karma is a bitch!
The NMC was well represented with the Winters, Whites,
Whitfields, Walkers (past club treasuer) and the Win’s
(just had to keep the W’s happening) - The Cuddihys.
All teams (except the Walkers) progressed to the next
round with the Winters & Whitfields bowing out in a hard
fought battle. Pete & Brett White surfed exceptionally
well just to miss out on the finals. At one stage Win &
Matt were going head to head with the Pioli’s splitting
waves but in the dying moments of the contest they
missed out on 1st place but came home a fantastic 3rd
from the Cunninghams.
To top of the final, Win & Matt shared the last wave in
to cap off a great moment. It was the first final Win had
ever made and said he had never been so proud to
stand along side Matt on the podium. Smiles all around!
Top Right: Finalists in the Family Challenge (L-R) the
Cunninghams, the Piolis and the Cuddihys.
Right: Doing the club proud (L-R) Win & Matt Cuddihy, Brett &
Peter White. Win & Matt took out 3rd - well done guys!
Photo: Di Cuddihy
Photo: Di Cuddihy
Teams Club Challenge
Noosa Malibu Club entered two teams in
the club team challange this year. This
tag team event is a great addition to the
festival program with clubs from USA,
New Caledonia, Taiwan, Qld & NSW.
Each team has 40 minutes for 4
compeititors and 2 scoring waves each.
The team A was: Lindon Whitfield,
Gordon Fuz, Keena Wilson and Matt
Cuddihy while Team B was made up of
Brodie Williams, Mark Tume, Andrew
Engel and Rosie Locke.
Team B was knoecked out in the first
round but Team A made the final where
they went down valiantly to a strong team
from Alex Heads. Malibu Surfing Assoc.
from California came 3rd with Manly
Beach taking out 4th.
Special mention to Lindon & Gordon
who surfed beyond themselves and set
a great platform for Keena and Matt.
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1: NMC Team A before their first round (L-R) Lindon Whitfield, Keena Wilson, Matt Cuddihy and Gordon Fuz. 2: Matt getting one to line up in
the Teams Challange. 3: Gordon tagging Keena in the final 4: Gordon left nothing in the tank and showed great style and wave selection.
(All Pics: Andrew Engel)
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Results - NMC members everywhere.
NMC’s favourite surfing son
Josh Constable claimed the
1 Star ASP Golden Breed
Pro, cleaning up his competition in the small, clean surf
at the event’s back up site of
Access 12, during the Noosa
Festival of Surfing.
The five times Australian
Men’s Longboard Champion
and 2006 ASP Men’s World
Longboard Champion
proved unstoppable in the
final, opening up with a
cracker 7.50 (out of ten) ride
and followed up with an
excellent 8.00 ride to secure
a huge lead over the rest of
the field.
Constable surfed a smart
heat in the tricky conditions.
Mixing up his performance
with skillful nose rides and
massive off the top snaps just the kind of all round
performance the judges were
looking for, earning a well
deserved 15.50 heat total
(out of 20.00) to defeat Jared
Neal (Aus), Taylor Jensen
(USA) and Thomas Kibblewhite (NZL).
As mentioned elsewhere,
Matt Cuddihy came second
in the Noserider while other
stand outs were Keena
Wilson making the Senior
Women’s final and Glenn
Martin making the O65s final.
Apologies if I’ve missed
any other NMC members but
the club thanks you for your
participation.
13. Andrew Engel & Libby Winter
modelling the 25 Year anniversary
t-shirt (stock still available);
14. El presidente Dave Dunn in the
competitor tent in the Teams
Challenge; 15. Nice umbie Taylor!
Mr Jensen keeps out of the rain while
watching the Noserider semis. Pics
(if unnamed): Di, Griffo & Andrew
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Photo: aspaustraliasia.com
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1. Josh on his way to winning the thing! 2. (L-R) Mike Krieg, Peter White and Keena Wilson; 3. Bruce Goulding;
4. Mick Henderson & Ian Borland; 5. Mick on a nice little one; 6. Golden Breed’s Murray Walding & NFOS head
honcho Phil Jarratt; 7. Keith Crocker, Warren Walker & Pete White; 8. John Gregory showing some style on the beach;
9. Mark Tume; 10. Mark Rogers; 11. Brad Corby; 12. Kerry Purdon and Homey discussing tactics - or that girl in the bikini!
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20th Festival another big success By Phil Jarratt.
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Now that the dust is beginning to settle and the fog to lift,
to mix a metaphor or two, it seems apparent that the 20th
Noosa Festival of Surfing was another critical success,
despite the fact that we got skunked a little for surf in the
second half of the week.
Of course, you have to expect bad years along with the
good, but we’ve been so spoiled over the last few years that
it was disappointing to have to move down the beach for the
second half, particularly with the fantastic infrastructure we
had at First Point this year. Going mobile also adds a couple
of hours to a very long day for the event staff, which isn’t
much fun.
The surf at Access 12 was quite contestable most of the
time, and on the high tide mornings it was briefly good. And
on the low tide on finals day, the standard of surfing from the
likes of Josh Constable, Taylor Jensen, Chelsea Williams and
Harrison Roach made it look far better than it was. In any
case, I didn’t hear any complaints about conditions, other than
the occasional gripe that First Point wasn’t its former self.
As anticipated, it was a tough year financially for the
festival. You’ve only got to look around the sales signs in the
shopping centres to realise that no one is spending any
money. Still, our beach bar and our film and music nights in
the Noosa Woods attracted good crowds despite the slightly
dodgy weather, and most agreed that the entertainment was
the best yet, with some smokin’ sets on Saturday night from
Dallas Frasca, Marshall and the Fro, Band of Freaks and Asa
Broomhall.
Magic moments of 2011? Well, it’s hard to go past our
opening ceremony, conducted beautifully in traditional
Hawaiian style by Reno Abellira, assisted by 82-year old
Barry “Magoo” McGuigan, who had flown up from Sydney
for the weekend to celebrate life, which sometimes hangs
by a slender thread. Chemo patients Magoo and MC John
Stokes barely had a hair between them, but it was wonderful
to see these two life-long surfers fighting back. And the
sunset showing of Paul Witzig’s Hot Generation, right on the
beach, preceded by a beautiful set of acoustic guitar from
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1. Christian Wach making it look better than it was 2. Gidget, Queen of the
surf (AKA Layne Beachley) was all over it this year with hubbie Kirk Pengilly
from INXS. Pics: supplied.
Peter Howe and Tim Gaze, was pretty damn special too.
And in the water, the SUPS race was sensational and the
Seaglass Project Finless just amazing, both great additions to
the festival, as was the Classic Malibu International Clubs
Challenge, which really got the opening day off to a great
start with just the right kind of team spirit. Big shout to NMC
VP Peter White for all his help in putting that one together.
It was a tough year, and we would not have got across the
line without the amazing support of our 43 sponsors, headed
up of course by lead sponsor Global Surf Industries, but
including many local businesses who were pretty strapped
after a lean summer. Our sincere thanks to all of you.
Phil
call libby
on 5447 5810 if
you’d like one!
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Where the hell is that...?
In what may, or may not, be a new section of the newsletter, we
bring you “Where the hell is that?”
This month’s pic comes from Porthleven UK, in the very bottom
SW corner of Pommyland. It looks like an OK wave until you see the
guy circled and then it becomes a quadruple overhead monster!
Bet you have to wear a wetsuit all year round though!
7th Annual Over 50’s
Longboard Get Together
MAJOR SPONSORS
18th-19th June
Return of the Fossils
Wrecks & Relics - The Fossils are full!
The Wrecks & Relics, to be held on the 18th & 19th June,
has a distinctive primitive feel in this, it’s 7th year.
As the saying went in caveman days; “He who hesitates
is sabre-toothed tiger poo!” and this has proved to be true
again this year with the competition already fully subscribed.
However, one division could run an extra heat if enough
25 Year Anniversary T-Shirt
Still some stock of this
limited edition T-Shirt.
It is a white shirt and
features a black &
white of First Point
and are only $20.
interest shown, so contact the registrar now if you are keen.
The mounting time we’ve all spent in the water is reflected in
heat numbers, currently three heats of Over 50, four of O55s,
five of O60s and two heats of over 65s, with one heat each
of Over 50 Women, Old Mal (pre-68) and Over 50 SUP.
For details go to: www.noosawrecksandrelics.com
Camera for Sale.
Canon 300D Digital SlR with
18-55mm lens & 90-300mm lens
$350. excellent condition. Contact
Matt Cuddihy on 07 5448 2138 or
mobile 0402 205 373.
In the pipeline.
The next GM will be held on
Monday 11th April at Sunshine
Beach SlSC at 7.30pm.
Malfunction - STOP PRESS
The next Club Comp will be
held on Sunday 17th April. Meet
at Noosa SlSC at 6.30am.
News just in...The Watson-Brown
girls have done really well in the
Under 18 Girls at this year’s
Malfunction in Kingscliff. Cathy
came 2nd and Maddie 4th.
Well done to your both!
If you have any comments,
pictures or stories for the next
newsletter please email me at
[email protected]
See you in the water!
Andrew Engel
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