Heres how the last few contests down South have gone ……….Making the finals for the Christchurch Hyundai Longboard Pro and placing fourth in Feb , then it was a first in the Greymouth Go for Gold and also the Single Fin Classic, so overall pretty happy with that effort. It was good to get to the west coast and surf Greymouth again, such a fun place and beautiful New Zealand scenery has got to be good for ya. The ocean has been pretty nice to us this summer, however, we have had a few weeks with not a lot of waves lately and busy uni schedules so looking foward to the Easter Break to get some quality surf time ….much awaited….
Heading into the colder months now so there is bound to be some good swells around the Canterbury coast to look forward to. Or perhaps plans to head to more tropical climates are in stall…we shall see…

All good over here in Mayrhofen. This place is awesome and I totally recommend it to anyone wanting to do a season in Europe. Even tho it is one of the worst seasons they have had here it is still pretty epic! I’ve had some of the best snow I’ve ever had in the last few weeks!

Rad crew here to shred with to Mark Anderson, Andy Kennerley, Adam Shaw and Louis Purucker is here somewhere. Apart from the riding the nightlife is a little too inviting…even tho the music is pretty cheezy there is always something to do and places to go.

Although I’ve been enjoying the hot bluebird days the last few days (24C) there is a big storm coming and the locals are calling for up to 2m of fresh snow!!! Heres hoping!

Anyways I’ll let you know if it comes to the party!

PCE

Well its been awhile, and I can finally tell you what I’ve been up to for the past 3 months. Film school ended in October and i got an email from a production company asking about Mountainboarding..
Apparently they were making a movie about it. I went up and met them and found out a bit more info about the gig. Well without releasing too much information as I’m still not really allowed to all i can say is.. DISNEY, HUGE DEMO SETUP, HUGE PARK, A few MILLION $$.

Anyway, so that’s been my busy life for the past month. We wrapped on the 24th of Feb and now I’m back in the real world. Found myself a full time job which doesn’t start for a month so that gives me sometime to edit the 6 hours of footage I shot while working on the movie. Hopefully I’ll eventually be able to release it here and on the internet.

Later

I’m gutted bout my weekend, I was in the quarter finals and got myself a solid scoring wave, only needed a 5 point ride which is nothing but the ocean went flat for 6mins and my time ran out – so frustrating! My next comp is South Islands and I really want to win it, just have to work on my competition strategy a little . . . its only a matter of time till I win!!!

PS Watch TV3 tonight at approximately 9.30pm – they’re showing a feature on the Nationals and apparently I’m on it!

After a not so successful month on the Australian Pro Tour, finishing up somewhere in the teens, I was looking forward to coming home and competing in NZ.

Our first stop was Napier for the 3rd Wake up contest, I arrived at Keith and Collette’s place the night before to catch up with a few friends over some drinks.

The contest day was unfortunately pretty bad weather, with showers coming through and overcast sky’s, although that did not stop the crowd from hanging out for the day.

After a practice round we were straight into the open men’s final, a few of the up and coming riders qualified and where up first displaying some impressive riding.

The top 5 riders from last years Wake Up where followed leaving last years winner Antonyo Colling as the only rider after me.

I threw down a solid run witch included a toe side 720 and a gap over the A-frame, unfortunately I fell on my double up leaving it open for ants to throw down and have a chance of beating me. He went out and had two stand-up passes of stock tricks letting me take the win with him close behind in 2nd. Chris Dunn “The Dark horse” finished in 3rd.

The second weekend was a big one with the Tairua Pipe Masters on Friday and Saturday followed by the North Island Championships on the Sunday.

Pipe Masters started off in a bad way for me with a big crash on the morning of the main event. My board dug into the plastic surface of the slider breaking off a big chunk which split my board down the middle, I was thrown out the front and took a heavy fall thankfully leaving me only with a few cuts and bruises.

Finals came around at the next high tide drawing a huge crowd. I had a bad start to my run taking a couple of falls, after some good venting I came back at the end of my ride with some big gap combos on the big Step up A-frame and the gap slider. Jeff Weatherall took 1st place with some impressive sliding and gaps, Josh O’Connell 270′d and pressed his way into 2nd and I took 3rd.

Up early the next day for a quick road mission to Lake Karapiro just in time for my qualifying ride at the North Island Champs. I had a good solid ride seeding me 1st and giving me the final rider advantage. After a long day playing MC on the mic we got into the Open Men’s final. All of the boys had some good rides bringing out some fresh new moves and going huge off double ups. It came down to me knowing what I need to do and to go out and do it. Stomping a toeside 720 and a 900 off the double up sealed me the title of the North Island Champion.

The final stop of the NZ pro tour was the NZ Nationals held for the first time in the South Island in the small town of Blenheim.

The event kicked off to a good start on the first day with some impressive riding throughout the divisions. When it came time for the open men to ride the wind had picked up and was blowing straight down the course, although due to a low number of competitors in the open men’s division the first days ride only counted for seeding the final round

I was in top seed for the finals putting me as the last rider for the day. I was pretty confident on winning until I watched Antz throw down one of his best contest runs ever, that was when I went from relaxed and confident to nervous and under pressure.

I went out on the water knowing exactly what I needed to do to win, I threw down a toe side 720 followed shortly by a heel side 720 along with some big smooth tricks and a couple of solid slider hits. The end of my second pass was where I had my only fall; this meant I had to do something big off the double up to secure the win. I hit the double up perfectly spinning a toe side 900 and stomping it cleanly right in front of the crowd.

That night at prize giving I was awarded the NZ national title, NZ pro tour title and set a new record time for sculling from the trophy, smashing Jeff’s previous time of 45 seconds and bringing it down to 10 seconds. The highlight for me was the fact that the podium was claimed by the “Pretty Wild West” our Mangakino crew; Myself in 1st, Wild man Antz Colling taking 2nd and the Westy Brant Hales bringing home a 3rd place.

I am now in Christchurch doing some filming with Josh Robinson from ‘Sideswipe productions’ for his next DVD release ‘A Road Less Traveled’.

Hey guys,

I’m home from Canada and just hanging in Christchurch until the winter season hits here. I’ll then be moving to Wanaka and spending my time training at both Snow Park NZ and Cardrona with Claire Nash, it’ll be so good to race with another chick regularly! It’s soooo good to be home and catching some sun!

Already excited about Wanaka!
Let the winter roll on!
Cheers! Jenna:)

Well I fly up to the North Island tonight and head to the Raglan Pro competition tomorrow morning……..I’m hoping there will be some waves this weekend …….hoping for a lot bigger than last weekend anyway. I will be camping with a couple of other surfy girls Misha and Daisy which I’m sure will be a lot of fun……..