what i like about australia...

Bells Beach

i got here in torquay 3 days ago, and i've been surfing super fun waves with not too much crowd (after the goldie everywhere seems so uncrowded!)

i am still a little upset with my last heat in Margaret, where i was just watching the girls surf. Hopefully in that one i wont forget to take waves in my heat! 

the contest here is starting next tuesday, so until then i'll just enjoy being here and try some boards.....

news from margaret river

We're here again at Margaret for the first big WQS of the season. When I arrived here after the goldie I felt kind of lost in the ocean while I was surfing, the waves are so different here and I've surfed 3 foot rights for a month so it was pretty hard to adapt to the powerfull waves of Main Break. I couldn't find a good board as I had to choose between a 5'11 and a 6'6...

Fortunately for me Maxime Huscenot was here with a 6'1 back up board that looked magic.

After I asked him about the board and he said it was made for Kelly,  and Belly (quiksilver team manager) gave it to him when he got his Junior World Title in January.

He said I could ride it for the contest but I could see the fear in his eyes knowing that you easily break a board at Margaret River. I surfed it in my first heat and it went really good, so thanks Maxime and dont worry I'll be carefull with it!

Anyway, the waves are good now so I am probably going to go for a surf and then watch a couple of the guys heats....

speaks soon

leeann

End of the roxy pro- congratulations steph gilmore!

This is the ned of the first contest of the year...

I finished my run in the round3 against Sylvana Lima, I made a few mistakes in that heat, leaving the good waves for her and of course she ripped them..

Anyway, it was a good start for me because I made a good first heat and got a feel of what it takes to make good results in WT events. I have still 9 WT to come and 6 WQS so hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and get a good result.

Steph had a strong start to the year again, she was ripping and definitely inspiring in that contest. She's going to be hard to beat but all the girls are surfing good so this year should be interesting...

I am off to Byron Bay tomorrow, with the roxy team, it should be fun to go surf different palces with Sally, Johanne Defay, Laura Enever etc...

Thats it for today, I am going to try to post more news and photos in the next few days.....

Speak soon

:)leeann