Queensland State SUP Titles

After the cancellation of the QLD Sup Titles back in June, a new date was set for the 7 July. The day before, Geoff Breen and myself headed to the Alley for a warm up session. We stumbled across fellow sup'er and frother - Justin Holland.

It was small, clean but challenging due to the strong offshore winds. The day of the comp turned out to be better than expected. Light offshores and about 2-3ft of swell.  Dogman even came up for the comp, and ended up commentating the hole event.... (he's found his true calling!)

As the comp got underway, the conditions stayed clean and offshore and before long my heat was in the water. The waves were small but clean and the bank at Lacey's was just perfect! Long right handers..  On my final wave I remember seeing this dark shadow under me, it was a huge stingray! I took it as a good omen, as he followed me along the wave! I made my heat and progressed to the Open Women's Final with Shakira, Ali, and Ang.

me during the final

The boys were ripping! Its so great to watch them, and try and learn from them. As time went on, the conditions still stayed offshore and it was time for our final. The bank was better than before, and i felt so at home. Laceys is one of my favourite sup spots and have many sessions out there! We had some magic waves and managed to get a combined total of 10.10. Shak was surfing so well, and at the end we found out there was less than .5 between us.It was close, and I'm stoked to have come that close to such a good surfer. We're both off to the Aussie Titles now... :)

(photos from Surfing Queensland)