The Jesus Surf Classic was blessed with waves on Saturday 8 September, despite surf predictions of totally flat seas by most of the best known surf forecast web sites.

Thanks to the arrival of contestable swell the first part of this year’s Jesus Surf Classic was run in good clean 2-3ft at Croyde Beach, North Devon, even though the Masters, Men’s Open and Juniors were  postponed until later in the month.

With two peaks running, progress was swift, and by the time the tide begun to turn with sets now slightly bigger the semi finals and finals enabled all the surfers a great platform to produce a very high standard of surfing.

In the Youth event (Under 14) the final was between three Newquay based surfers, and a local Beau Bromham. In a tight final Beau took the title ahead of Leon Mansfield, Tom Good and Jack Hughes.

The Junior Women’s division (Under 18) had the highest number of entrants so far in the contest’s history, and Swansea’s Beth Mason took the title from fellow Swansea resident Gwen Spurlock. Croyde’s own Kathleen Spears came 3rd and Katie Oakley from Morthoe came 4th.

Tom Good from Newquay, was 4th in the cadets, just beaten by Braunton’s Alex Baker, but the division was won by Woolacombe’s Stuart Campbell, ahead of Luis Eyres, currently living and training in Portugal.

The women’s final once again saw Beth Mason and Gwen Spurlock up against each other, joined by Croyde’s Karma Worthington and Izzy Burke. This time however it was the turn of Gwen to get revenge on Beth, beating her into 2nd place with Karma third and Izzy 4th.

Half an hour after the event was completed the conditions worsened, and a couple of hours later it was flat again!
Organisers Christian Surfers UK were pretty stoked for the event to have been held in some great conditions for the younger age groups, with some great weather, and are looking forward to hosting the remaining three divisions over the weekend of 22 and 23 September.

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