Durban surfer wins Quiksilver surf event
Durban surfers excelled at the second Quiksilver Takes One To Know One event.
THE second leg of the Quiksilver Takes One To Know One Series concluded in contestable one-metre surf at the weekend.
More than 90 of the country’s top surfers converged on Umdloti’s south point for the Surfing South Africa 3A PST-rated event that catered for both open men and under twenty pro junior boy’s divisions.
Umhlanga’s Beyrick De Vries put on a solid performance to win the open men’s division. De Vries impressed the judges with selecting the biggest wave and pulled off two radical maneuvers to post the highest score in the twenty-five minute final. Durbanites, Brandon Jackson and Daniel Redman were placed second and fourth respectively.
Durban’s Slade Prestwich, one of the contest’s stand-outs, finished second in the junior boy’s section.
Quiksilver’s Brandon Jackson was very pleased with the second leg of the series and said: “As a surf company we want to put on an event that both our spectators and competitors can enjoy and Umdloti allows that with its amphitheatre set up.Even though Saturday’s conditions were unfavourable, on Sunday all of the elements came together allowing the athletes to perform at their best and they put on a great show for everyone on the beach.”
The last remaining event in the Quiksilver Takes One To Know One Series will be held at Victoria Bay in September.
