Steve O'Donnell shaped Bennett Board

Not much in the way of waves or banks on the central coast lately
but have been trying out a sick board hand shaped by Steve O’Donnell at Bennett surfboards (thanx for the loan Tom).
So much fun riding a finely tunned and crafted surfboard. The way the board reacts and surfs is just amazing.

Noosa Festival

This year I went to the Noosa festival to compete in the u/15's. The week before the festival the swell had crept up to a solid 4-5ft. This larger than normal swell size was due to two cyclones off the coast Queensland. When it was my turn to surf my heat I was just stoked to be out there catching almost perfect 4 foot peelers all the way through main beach with only five other people out.

In my semi-finals it was low tide and barreling really heavily. It was also fairly windy and i could not hear what scores were being called out. This meant that I decided to sit out wide in the last five minutes and go for a bigger set. I caught the bomb of the set and then realised that it was about to close out, so I jumped of the back but my board didn't make it and came down in the close out and snapped. Luckily Jamie from Global Surf Industries got me a deal on a new board for the finals.


Although I snapped my board, I still made it to the finals and got the hardware. Keen for next festival