With the surf being 1 – 1.5 m at Ballina, the usual crew arrived yet again to knock a few heads. The banks at North Wall have all been sucked out providing only big thick waves about 50m from the end of the wall. So decision was made to all move around to Shelly Beach where the jusges hopefully could score some good waves. There turned out to be ample opportunity for big moves on the low tide !

CADETS / JUNIORS – RESULTS
1. Casey Robinson
2. Jack Cerne
3. Jimmy Martineau
4. Tom Halvorsen

OPENS – RESULTS
1. Kristian Gerathy
2. Josh Pollard
3. Ben McDonald
4. Casey Robinson

Good to see Neville Batters by back with his new Unknown prize board after a short break – a bit rusty but he’ll definitely stick it up the rest next time !

Best moves – what can I say ? Kristian Gerathy and Josh Pollard traded blow for blow every heat, both scoring 8s and 9s, but Kristian eventually coming out on top.

Boring moves – pretty much the rest of the crew ! No one looked like doing anything a lot of the time – scores were disaappointingly low. Casey Robinson averaged 5s and 6s and Ben McDonald through in one 9 in one of the earlier heats. Must say that watching the sausages cook was sometimes more exciting !

Thanx to Axcel for filming and we hope some good shots were captured for the Headlanders web site coming very soon.

Saturday night party time is playing serious havoc with the club. Guys either turning up with a F**K YOU attitide or not turning up at all is really starting to put a dampener on the whole thing. Come on Guys, follow the older ones’ lead and look sharp and ready to kick ass or we all may as well not bother at all. And it must be pointed out that the yellow flag is to let you know to paddle out – alert and eager for your heat – not prompt you to ask what colour you are then scratch your bum !

Next comp is on June 22nd and at Byron Bay if conditions allow. Sadly, If we don’t see a big improvement in both numbers and attitude, it may be our last so let’s see what we can do, hey ?

Cheers, Frank !