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Postcode Challange 2010 WRAP UP & PHOTOS Nathan Cronan (Opens), Ash McDonald (Juniors), Mick Gordon (Masters over 35), Dave Winders (masters over 45), Gary Dickson (masters over 55) and Jade Antoineff (Women’s) have been crowned Brisbane's Best surfers for 2010. In 2ft surf at Sunrise Beach the Primitive Surf Post Code Challenge ran for 2 days before the finals heated up late Sunday. Nathan has had a couple of bridesmaid tags in the PCC before but this was to be his year. In testing conditions Nathan ripped and just pipped Ash McDonald who also had a stellar weekend posting a 9.7 on his last wave in his rd 3 heat. Hugo Prasser and Garth Lewis finished 3^rd and 4^th respectively and definitely earned the spot in the final as these were the form surfers of the event all posting great scores throughout. Ash McDonald, the busiest surfer of the weekend (making both opens and junior finals), went one better in the junior division. Ash made easy work of the difficult conditions while the other finalists were finding it hard to post a score. Cam Cotterell made a charge grabbing some scores late in the final but just falling short in second. Tom McGiffen made a great fist of his first PCC grabbing 3rd and Will Hohnke surfed great all event but couldn’t find rhythm in the final to finish 4^th. After many attempts Mick Gordon finally nabbed his first PCC crown in the over 35’s. Gary Brownrigg slotted into 2^nd place in his first PCC event with Ben Arnell and John Ziglioto filling 3^rd and 4^th positions. Mick has been surfing the Primitive comps since the early days so congrats to him for jagging a win. Over 45’s had a heap of entrants this year and made for some entertaining viewing. Funniest thing would be the grudge match between brothers Gary and Brian Hall. The boys shaped off in the semi finals and there was more water splashing then a day at wet’n’wild. Gary got the better of that exchange to advance to the final where he finished 4^th. First place found its way to Dave ‘wiggly’ Winders who got the nod over Brett Jackson who had been a standout in the earlier rounds giving the winders crew something to cheer about on the beach. Paul Curran was the man in 3^rd place at the final siren. Over 55’s saw a tightly contested final in which John Christie (father of Primitive Rider Tara) led most of the way until getting pipped at the post by Gary Dickson. Peter Kearney and Peter Vos came in 3^rd and 4^th in waves that were hard to find scoring potential. Kelly Giles (who most of you would know from her days at primitive) had a vision of Occy putting the PCC championship ring on her finger at the presentation. Unfortunately that didn’t work out with Kel finishing in fourth place. Jade Antoineff clinched her 2^nd PCC victory with a very tight win over Brooke Fogarty who was getting massive support from the Christian Surfers tent. Jessie Brennand finished in 3^rd position. 2 spots were to be auctioned of in our specialty heat between Mark ‘Occy’ Occhilupo vs Nick Vitko (primitive team rider). Bidding was fierce and eventually Garth Lewis won the chance to surf in red with Occ and Adam Johnston would line up in white with Vity. In the first few minutes there was an awesome exchange with Vity posting a high 8 to take the lead. After 20 minutes it looked like the white team were in charge when something loomed on the horizon and fell in Occy’s lap. This wave gifted him a 9.5 which was enough to steal the heat from Vity and AJ’s grasp. $700 was raised at auction and passed on to the Christian Surfers who are using the funds to sponsor an underprivileged Brazilian child known as Alberto. Thanks for everyone involved in a first for Primitive Surf and something I’m sure everyone at the beach will remember. A big shout out goes to all our sponsors for supporting this event for 2010. World Surfaris and Haatafu Beach Resort, Billabong, Quiksilver, Dakine, Xcel wetsuits, Nixon, VZ, Peter Gordon Jewellery, FCS and Future Fins. Also many thanks to the Noosa Boardriders for providing excellent judging and commentary over the weekend. Last but not least a huge shout out to the Christian Surfers who again done an excellent job in keeping us all fed and hydrated.	CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE PHOTOS FROM THE WEEKEND CLICK HERE FOR ALL HEAT RESULTS
SUNRISE BEACH THE VENUE - Heat Draw and Schedule below. Sunrise Beach has been locked in as the venue for the 2010 PCC. Vity tore apart the small beachies on offer last year but this year we will crown a new winner. The conditions look perfect for the weekend with little to no wind to speak of and a nice sized south swell to rip into. If you haven't been to Sunrise Beach before, simply follow the link below for a detailed map. Directions to SUNSHINE BEACH The 2010 Post Code Challenge has a massive 93 competitors and looks like getting some great waves with contest director David Cervi confirming good banks at the preffered location. For the complete Heat Draw and Schedule for the weekend click below. SCHEDULE CLICK HERE HEAT DRAW CLICK HERE There are a few acommodation options available right across the road from the beach. Give Aqua Prominade a call if your looking for a good spot to stay and mentoin the Primitive Surf Post Code Challenge for a bit of a deal. At this stage were looking at running the first three rounds of Opens heats on the Sat. Also the Juniors through to the semi finals on the Sat. Sunday will run the Over 35's, 45's, 55's and womens with the finals for all divisions including Juniors and Opens on in the afternoon. Things should be wrapped up by 3:30. Remember to check back in on Thurs for a more detail of the days proceedings, regarding heats, time and prizes.
POST CODE CHALLENGE 2010 TIME RUNNING OUT The Post Code Challenge is on next weekend May 15th/16th and entry's will close next week, please get any last minute entry's in by WED and sort out any unpaid entry's. We will endeavour to have the heat draw and relevant heat information available on the website by Thurs this week and also the heat draw board will be available in store so you know when your surfing and can also suss out the competition. Head judge David Cervi has been doing a bit of recon for us and we are looking at surfing a good left at Hangliders at Sunshine Beach or if the southerly kicks in we can move to the Noosa rivermouth which has a really good long right hand bank. This too will be confirmed later in the week when there is some certainty to the forecast. Peter Gordon Jewellery has finished the winner rings and they look amazing. This year World Surfari's has stepped it up and are kindly giving the winner accomodation for two at Hatafu resort in Tonga, and we will also be adding heavily discounted airfares. Download an entry form below or come into the store to secure your place. Entry Form 2010
POST CODE CHALLENGE 2010 We are now taking entries for this years PCC surf comp. The PCC is a surf comp run by us to find Brisbanes best surfer. To be eligible you need to live on the mainland in between Beenleigh and Caboolture. Entry forms are available from the store or you can download them here. Entry Form 2010 All entries must be lodged in store accompanied with a current drivers license or ID. Cost is $35 but with over $10,000 worth of prizes it's a small gamble. Divisions are Juniors (under 20) Opens, Womens (all ages), Masters (over 35's, over 45's and over 55's). The PCC will be held somewhere from Sunrise Beach to Noosa on May 15th and 16th.... tell your family and friends. This years event will also host special guest and Australian surfing legend Occy! He will join us on the mic on May 16th and i'm sure will be happy to sign some posters. 2009 PCC CHAMPION NICK VITKO

SHAPERS TOUR NIGHT NOV 18th

November Wednesday 18th from 5:30 to 8:00pm will see Primitive Surf host an all star cast of some of the worlds best surfers and shapers. Bob Mctavish will be on hand to release and sign copy''s of his new book called STOKED and many other shapers and surfers will be here to answer any of your questions. Including Greg Webber from WEBBER surfboards who has provided boards for some of the worlds finest including Taj Burrow and continues to push the limits of design. Richie Lovett former top 45 pro surfer and now designer for popular board label ALOHA. Steve Walden from WALDEN surfboards who is described as the Mctavish of the U.S.A and finally Thomas Meyerhoffer whom is responsible for designing the revolutionairy new mal shape the MEYERHOFFER (as seen in the pic to the right).

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get this much talent under one roof. Entry is free so don''t miss out on a relaxed evening of beers and stories with some of the best shapers of this era!

To view any of the shapes produced by any of these shapers please follow this link

Bob Mctavish research and development of his newest model the 'Bobsled'

SURF TRAVEL NIGHT THANKS FOR THE STELLA EVENING

Big thanks to everyone for coming out on Wesnesday night for another awesome travel night and a big shout out to World Surfaris for again helping us put on an unreal event. Thanks also to the Christian Surfers for pumping out the snags and keeping us all full. Thanks to Xcel and Dakine who provided the punters with a few freebies. Special thanks to Scardy for coming up and running everyone through his Stealth Missions which im sure got everyone else's head spinning on the possibilities of a trip with him (follow this link for more details of Scardy's Stealth Missions) and also big thanks to the boys from Billabong, Hopey and Wade Goodall who turned up after just stepping off a flight home from the states to scribble out a few autographs.

For those of you who missed proceedings on Wednesday night, the two happiest guys in the room ended up being Leno Batistan who picked up a Dakine Coffin Cover for his Kodak moment of himself running the gauntlet on an absolute bomb in the Maldives and Mark O'Beirne who is off to Jungle Camp in G-land. Congratulations fellas. Im in the process of throwing all of the happy snaps from the evening up in the gallery if you want to check out all the festivities.Thanks again everybody for another great travel night and if you have any ideas of how to make next years even bigger and better please let us know!

Scardy, Wade Goodall, Shaun Levings and Reesy picking a winner

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