Great race today with some fun glides in the ocean followed by the flatwater slog, but with a high tide, not too much water moving and enough shelter from the wind, it was pretty good as far as flatwater paddling can be. Tough battle between the girls the whole way.
Congratulations to Beau on a great win!
Only suggestion I could offer Surfing QLD to improve would be recognition of all place getters in each division (rather than just first) and for the State Qualification divisions, it would have been nice to see them announce/recognise all paddlers who've made the team.
Looking forward to the Bop tomorrow.
Great suggestion Ali.
Prizes and money are nice for the winners but organizers need to remember that the human element of racing without the inclination or time or even physical attributes to train daily and b at the pointy end need reasons to keep showing up.
I would never criticise anyone with the ability or motivation to run an event, it's hard work but if there was anything that could be done for participants in general to take away with them more people would be part of events. I don't know what that is yet but I'd love to hear suggestions. Other sports do it well to attract people that will never win, what do they do?
Is the long distance race at the Nationals 14ft and the technical race 12'6?
Well done to Jacko and Dylon on doing it on 12'6's but why? Clearly they are good enough paddlers to do it on 12'6 but you would have to be pretty confident that you were going to beat a few 14s to make the team.
I like the idea of trophy's for the place getters and some random draws for everyone who entered. They do that at Merimbula where every person wins something.That's one of the reasons they still get 200 competitors and it's been running for over 30 years.
Re: Jacko on the 12-6 he did amazingly well he was just behind the pack of 2nd 3rd & 4th overall.
Got more of the others on the 14 footers,
maybe he thought he could take it out on the 12" 1/2
Not having a go more power to you if you can qualify on a 12'6 competing againts 14, its a big effort, was just curious as to why you didn't paddle 14s.
I know shop owners/ sponsored riders don't have unlimited boards at their disposal and good on you for supporting others by giving your two 14s to others.
And the Surfing Queensland results are in for the tec race, sorry no times though.
1 Open men Beau O'Brian
2 Open men Kelly Margetts
3 Open men Paul Jackson
4 Open men jake jensen
5 Open men lincoln dews
6 Open men Dylan Magee
6 Open men Troy Pease
7 Open men Stephen Walker
8 Open men Simon Hunnybun
9 Open men Trevor Tunnington
10 Open men Luke French
11 Open men Chris Devine
n/a Open men Aaron Bitmead
1 Open women Angela Jackson
2 Open women Karla Gilbert
3 Open women Sondra Purser
4 Open women Tenille Devine
5 Open women Alison Fullagar
6 Open women Molly Walker
7 Open women Keale Dorries
n/a Open women Sue Dorries
1 Over 40 (Open-Gender) Troy Pease
2 Over 40 (Open-Gender) Peter Dorries
3 Over 40 (Open-Gender) heath brown
4 Over 40 (Open-Gender) Dale Chapman
5 Over 40 (Open-Gender) Steve Quiller
6 Over 40 (Open-Gender) Alain Teurquetil
7 Over 40 (Open-Gender) Brett Williams
8 Over 40 (Open-Gender) Wayne Johnstone
9 Over 40 (Open-Gender) peter turner
10 Over 40 (Open-Gender) Rob Walton
n/a Over 40 (Open-Gender) Andrew Edhouse
Congratulations to all the winners and especially those that had a go!
1st place Over 40 (Trans-Gender) Troy Pease
40.... happy birthday you rat bag , sorry mate don't care if you just turned 40 , you can't compete in the over 40's if you still look like a grom...
Surfing Qld states you must have at least one of the follow to compete in the over 40's :- Grey or no hair , wrinkles or excess body fat.
Great fun BOP race today some nice surf to go with it. Pretty cold too!!
Great to also see a nice field of girls paddling their butts off to qualify. Excellent work
By everyone today.
Good to see surfing Queensland recognize the Top 3 finishers in each division today.
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Surfing Qld states you must have at least one of the follow to compete in the over 40's :- Grey or no hair , wrinkles or excess body fat. 
Forgot Troy turned 40 last week, sitting there urging him on all race, telling him when waves are coming, Shoulda bloody ran him over and tripped him up.
Thats the problem when you've been coaching a bloke since he was 16....
Any suggestions where i can take my borrowed board to get fixed
Im glad every body else had fun Was a good spectacle , did someone swabb Beau he is on fire.
Im glad every body else had fun Was a good spectacle , did someone swabb Beau he is on fire.
Good fun race again today, even though it was freezing.
As Angie said, great to see the place getters in each division recognised today.
Surfing Qld states you must have at least one of the follow to compete in the over 40's :- Grey or no hair , wrinkles or excess body fat.
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