The Hyundai Pro Longboard tour is done and dusted for another year. The last comp of the circuit was held at The Mighty Port Waikato on the weekend where we had a solid swell with onshore winds both contest days.

I won my 2nd round heat but kept sliding round and falling off in the quarter finals, I made the rookie mistake of putting too small fins in for the size of the surf. So 13th is where I finished up in the contest, not where I was aiming to finish but its alot better than my effort at Whangamata.

Being the last contest of the tour Hyundai put on a massive party after the prize giving with ‘The Feelers’ playing and a huge fireworks display! A big congrats to my mate Dylan Barnfield for winning the Tour this year, check the photo below (what the photo doesn’t show is that he kicked me in the face hahaha) and check Ant and Daniels faces – true Kodak moment!

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Well its been anouther crazy year for the annual Whanagamata Beach Hop.  If you havent heard of Beach Hop it’s where thousands of people come in to town for a week and show of their 60s cars.  It’s a pretty full on week with a lot of petrol heads loving it.

The Tuesday before the Beach Hop started I was out longboarding and as I fell of a really small wave I popped my head up the the strong offshore wind blew the board back at me and smacked me in the face . . . so to cut a long story short I had to have a big hole glued up right between my eyes so yeah I kind of look like Harry Potter at the moment haha.

Well the I’m off to the Nationals in Gisborne tomorrow, they start this Thursday and the surfs meant to be not too bad so I’m really looking fword to it!  I will give u an update when I get back and fill you in what happened – I’ll also try and get a hold of some pics!

My gooodness what a weekend! I left Christchurch after some much needed awesome family time on Thursday afternoon arriving into Auckland, caught a bus to Spaceships campervan hire NZ and picked up my Spaceship, got lost (as per usual) on my way out to Port Waikato and finally ended up at the final destination.

Us ladies about to head out for our semi final, picture by Dave?

Morning came and it was a struggle to get out of my cosy bed and brave the howling onshore wind and mellow rain drops outside, but I did and it was straight down to the contest site where solid wild west coast waves were rolling through. Port Waikato was the final destination for the Pro Longboard Tour so there was a fantastic turn out from southerners to Australians. The chica dees all charged when it came down to the finals and the boys were shredding the big west coast walls. Next stop Gisborne for the National Shortboard Championships!

I will leave you with these pics to illustrate the weekend. Yee ow

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I am very excited as I am flying back to NZ tomorrow!  Picking up my Jucy Rental and heading to Gisborne for the NZ Surfing Nationals on the 1-5th of April and then over to Taranaki for the NZ Women’s Open on the 10-11th of April!  This one is a biggy as it’s part of the ASP World Tour and the winner of the Open division will receive wildcard entry to the ASP Womens World Tour Championship tour event!!!

But first of all I want to say a big thanks to Whale Watch Kaikoura for getting me over to the Nationals and to Taranaki! I feel so blessed to have their support!  So awesome!  Hey seriously if any of you go to Kaikoura, go check out our majestic whale buddies out! A few months ago I went on the Gold Coast Whale watching tour next to Sea World (as I’m been based over here at the mo) and it was incredible!!

Sorry just found this to add

On the podium!

Hey, So I have finally had some time out of a plane and an airport to upload some pics from the US Burton Open.

It was such a great event, in all honesty I wasn’t riding to well for the practice days and didn’t think I could pull it together in the finals. I even crashed and cracked my helmet AGAIN on finals day and wasn’t going to compete.

another cracked helmet this season

But somehow I got it together when I needed to and landed my last run in finals and got 2nd WOWEEEE!!. 1st Sina Candrian and 3rd Jamie Anderson.

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I’m off down to the lake for the weekend for the Boards & BBQ’s Comp which I will be MC’ing on Saturday.  Then on Sunday I will be coaching at Karapiro, email me at bsmeele@hotmail.com if you are interested in finding out more about coaching.

I will be taking plenty of Dew down to give away at both venues!!!

Hey, went up and tested my new camera and wireless mic today at Boreal. It works GREAT! This ‘Resort Rundown’ is a new mini series I want to keep going. I think it’s something a bit more personal and a lil different.

http://www.nzsnowboard.com/articles/717/mar_23rd_10__resort_rundown_video_-_boreal_lake_tahoe

Tahoe has been heating up a bunch but all looking decent for the next month. Choice!

- Holler