Entries open for surf event

THINGS are heating up for the annual Just Juice Umhlanga Summer Festival 2015 at Umhlanga’s Main beach from 12 December to 23 December.

Opening up the festival, top South African surfers will take to the water in the Lizzard Hurricane Summer Surf event, which carries over R50 000 in prize money and products. Local surf club Wave Wizards will be hosting the contest and will have top A grade judges in place.

Local surfer, Casey Grant, (25), took the victory in 2014 and is hard at work getting ready to claim the trophy again this year. Casey has been crowned SA Champ many times and has been runner up in the Ballito Pro.

Surfers of all ages and ability are welcome to enter. There will be short boarding and long boarding divisions. Especially welcome are any novice surfers of all ages that would like to try out competitive surfing. Competition will be fierce again this year with a prize purse of R10 000 from Lizzard for the open men’s winners and R5 000 from Hurricane for the open ladies winners. Competitors will all get T-shirts and fantastic products from numerous companies.

There will also be R10 000 up for grabs for the surf club that wins the Tag Team event, plus another R1 000 from top South African surf magazine Zigzag for the surfer that performs the best over the weekend.

For more details on how to enter, contact Wave Wizards Club Chairman Jestyn Viljoen on 079 500 3945 or email Julie de Vries on: juliedev@mweb.co.za for an entry form.