Fantastic Noodles Pro Junior – Noah Lane and Laura Enever win the Fantastic Noodles Pro Junior in South Australia

Noah Lane and Laura Enever win the Fantastic Noodles Pro Junior in South Australia

Sunday 19th July Waitpinga Beach South Australia: Noah Lane (Rainbow Beach/Queensland) and Laura Enever (North Sydney Beaches/NSW) have won the Pro Junior Men’s and Women’s divisions of the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Australasia Fantastic Noodles Pro Junior.

In very good three-to-four feet (1 meter) surf both surfers produced outstanding 9 point plus rides to secure today’s wins.

Laura Enever ‘s victory was one of the best of her career and has further extended her lead on the ASP Australasian Pro Junior Series Women’s ratings for 2009.

Seventeen year old Enever was staring at a big defeat at the half way stage in the final which saw Tyler Wright open with a strong 7.75 and shortly after take a commanding lead with an excellent 8.75.

Enever, with just two moderate scoring rides was requiring a combination of scores to take the lead and with just 10 minutes remaining in the 30 minute final she found an excellent wave, unleashed four major bottom to powerful top turn snaps and found herself right back in the final when she was awarded the finals top scoring ride of a 9.25.

Her task was still difficult, requiring a 7.25 to win with Wright also holding priority and by the time Enever had returned to the outside peak the final had less than 5 minutes to go.

Surprisingly Wright allowed Enever to take a mid-sized wave under priority (Wright had the right to take the wave) and Enever wasted no time extracting every potential point out of the ride which she rode through to the beach and was awarded a 7.35 to take the final on 16.60 out of a possible 20 to Wright on 16.50.

“I never gave up at all in the final even tho I knew Tyler had a big lead” said Enever.

“I scored a 9.8 in the opening round so I actually thought I need to do that again and I was chasing a 9.5 ride to try and win it on one wave when I caught that second last ride.”

When the score dropped at 9.25 and it wasn’t quite enough to take the lead I at least realized another reasonably strong ride would win it and that’s exactly what happened, — I’m quite proud to come back and win like that, it feels like a hard fought out win.”

“My ratings lead is extended and I feel really comfortable to fully qualify for the ASP World Junior Championships (top two on the season ratings qualify) and my goal this year was to win the ASP Australasian Junior Series and I’m on track to achieve that.”

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Huntington Beach set for the Hurley US Open Of Surfing basically looks … flat.

surfline is reporting a possible ground swell to fill in later today, but that will only push the surf into the 1-3 ft range.. There are some surfers out, but looks like slim pickings…

Famous last words, but Long Island and Rockaway Beach wave riders may soon be able to peel off their “Surfing Is Not a Crime” bumper stickers.

After handing out a number of tickets against surfers at Montauk Point State Park, Robert Moses State Park and the Rockaways over the years, authorities are quietly phasing out the practice.

Ronald F. Foley, the director of the Eastern Long Island region of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation – the main ticket-writing entity in Montauk – said that his officers had issued just one surfing-related summons in Montauk Point State Park this year.

Officials with the city’s parks department have issued none this year for surfing outside the legal breaks in the Rockaways. Patricia Bertuccio, a spokeswoman for the parks department, said that its officers have generally avoided summonses, choosing instead to direct wayward surfers to stick to the officially designated surfing beaches that were established in 2005 and 2007.

This is probably a mixed blessing for longtime surfers in the area.

On the one hand, they are not being harassed by the police. But if the phase-out holds, it would also seem to signify the growing acceptance of surfing as a local pastime, translating into more crowded breaks and more competition for waves.

“Surfing was not a very popular thing back when there were nothing but big boards and you had to have Hawaiian and West Coast-style waves,’’ Mr. Foley said. “Now, things are different, and the boards you have are different for the waves we have here in the Atlantic, so the interest has grown.’’

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