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Super Young Surfers posting Massive scores on Day 2 at the Billabong Occy Grom Comp

Occy Grom Comp

Surfing Australia
Burleigh Heads, Queensland
4 July 2009

An exciting day of surfing at the Billabong Occy Grom Comp on day 2 at Duranbah Beach with some amazing displays by relatively unknown emerging young surfers.

The international surfers are always a bit of a mystery coming into the event and 11 year old Californian Huntington Beach surfer Kanoa Igarahi quickly caught everyone’s attention today with possibly the most impressive heat ever seen in the 12 year division of this prestigious event.

Kanoa waited until mid heat to reveal his true style when he unleashed on three consecutive waves scoring 9.33, 9.77 and finally a 9.90 to take a massive round two heat win and he has put all of Australia’s top 12 year and under surfers on notice that he is the guy to beat in this division!

After his win Kanoa told us a little about his background saying “ I’ve been surfing since I was three years old and last year I placed 3rd in the USA 12 and under division. “This is my second trip to Australia but the first time I’ve competed and I love the waves here. Surfing against Australia’s best is really good for me because there’s so many great surfers here and I’m keen to do as well as I can in this event.”

With sponsor stickers all over the deck of his tiny surfboard Kanoa has clearly been identified as a young talent in the USA and as this division heads into the finals in the coming days there is much anticipation on the looming showdowns with exciting Australians Jack Robinson (Western Australia), Kai Hing (Qld/Sunshine Coast) and Jackson Baker (Newcastle/NSW).

Robinson, Hing and Baker all scored outstanding 9 point rides in their convincing heat wins with impressive heat tally’s on their top two scoring rides out of a possible 20 of 17.94, 16.83 and 16.50 respectively, however they were outgunned today with Igarahi’s near perfect 19.67.

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