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Day 9

Great young surfers from all over Australia,Μύ Tahiti, Hawaii, New Zealand, USA, Ireland, England, Indonesia and Japan are surfing at one of New South Wales' finest performance beachbreaks. This is why Rusty Gromfest is eyeballed by all in the surfing world.

New South Wales

This year's finalists will again reveal a window into the future stars of surfing as the event exposes exciting new emerging and up and coming surfers. We rolled out of bed at 6am this morning and stretched out before breakfast. Today was our shot at the Rusty Gromfest.

Yesterday was cancelled due to poor surf conditions (not the usual setting for the competition in past years), so we were all kind of pessimistic towards what the waves were going to look like as we rolled up to Lennox Head.

First up was the U16 boys, Iarom and James from Ireland. They both put in a real good effort and were so close to making it through to the next round. Unfortunately the waves just didn't offer a long enough face for the guys to link some turns together and make it through.

In Paddy's heat for the U14 division, the waves had increased in size, making it super difficult to make it past the numerous lines of white water. Unluckily the waves did not come through in his heat to offer again any face to work with.

Tassy makes a new friend

Then a few long hours later, was my heat in the U16 girls, the waves felt even bigger and it was even harder to get out and find the right waves, luckily I got a rip then took me out back to secure a couple of the better waves to enable a couple of average turns to sneak through to the next round.

I have another heat tomorrow, so hopefully the surf will be a bit smaller and less messy, 3ft and clean would be nice!