Hawaii, Noosa Festival and Malfunction

Well I've been pretty busy over the last month or so. I ended up doing a pretty sick trip to Hawaii where I got to spend a bit of time on Maui with Pete Cabrinha. We scored a pretty sweet swell with some good wind and got a couple sick sessions both kiting and supping. I got to bring home a sweet new Standup board just in time for the Noosa festival of Surfing that was on from the 14th till the 21st of March.

This years comp turned out to be pretty sick and we scored some of the best waves Noosa has seen in a long time. Thanks to not one but two cyclones we scored a week of epic swell at the points for the whole comp. There was a pretty major turnout for the SUP division and it ended with a total of 60 competitors which made for some pretty tough competition. They ran through the division until they cam up with a pretty tough final. It ended up having myself, Billy Watson, Matt Lumley, Jackson Close, Noel Graham and Zane Swheitzer. The conditions for the final weren't nearly as good as the rest of the week but there was still some good waves coming through and it was still pretty contestable. After a pretty tough final I ended up with second place which was one better then last year. It was close but in the end it ended up with Billy in 1st, myself 2nd, Jackson 3rd, Noel 4th, Matt 5th and Zane 6th. I was pretty happy with the way I surfed and super stoked to land a pretty good air in my final. Check out the pics and video. Keep an eye out for a longer video soon.

All photos by Geoff Fanning

Next was the Malfunction which runs straight after the festival every year. It definitely wasn't as blessed for swell but even though it was pretty small there was still a good fun bank that was pretty contestable. They ran through the comp until we had a 4 man final which was fairly similar to that of the Noosa Festival. It was Billy, myself, Noel Graham and Andy Davies. Once again it was pretty hard heat in fairly hard conditions but I was able to take it out in the end with Billy close behind in second then Noel, then Andy. It turned out to be a great event and it's definitely something I'm keen to do next year.

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