SURF TARANAKI SURFING Triple Seven Series
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SURF TARANAKI SURFING NEWS
The Latest News Break for Taranaki Surfing, Taranaki Is to host the worlds first Triple Seven Series a Seven star surf event to held around Feb 07 to 14 Feb 07 still to finalized be sure to book your accommodation we are the most central Surf Backpackers In New Plymouth
SURF TARANAKI SURFING
Taranaki Surf Highway 45 Map
The Taranaki coastline provides the best surf in the New zealand. New Plymouth’s Fitzroy Beach faces north west, Stent Road faces west, and Opunake Beach faces south-west: so you are guaranteed adrenalin-pumping rides all within a 60 km radius. The Taranaki cape has many farm service roads which fan out from the Volcanoe to the Sea.
Home of the Triple Seven Series Surf Competition
New Plymouth’s main holiday spot, Fitzroy Beach is a great place to start with excellent beach breaks. Westerly Swells from the deep south produce excellent waves all along the coast from Waiwakaiho river to Belt Rd. Back Beach is just south of the port and has excellent sand bars and takes a North / East / South winds, Back beach is a great check for wind and swell , if there is white wash he who hesitates is last
Surf Highway 45 Map
Oakura Beach is an amazingly beautiful sea village with ok waves at high tide. Ahu Ahu Road has slow left and right-hand reef breaks, but can be off more than on. Stent Road (37 kms from New Plymouth) is regarded by most as one of New Zealand’s top rated surfing spot, the right hand point takes up to 12+ feet and is most challanging, there are gauranteed tubes here, respect the locals though and watch the bowl!!!.
The Taranaki South coast
Take S.H.45 from New Plymouth and turn off just past the village of Warea. The west-south-west orientation of the Stent bay seems to magnatise all swells that hit the coast. The result is consistently excellent waves that break on a near perfect right hand shelf, this all comes together to make Stent Road a favourite spot
OpunakeSurf
Opunake Beach (64 kms from New Plymouth), the dump, Mangahumi are all
close by and provide some excellent juice this is an amazing surf Location
with shallow reefs, Points and sand bars , Opunaki is surf active all
year round
Have a look at Greenmeadows just south of Opunake you will need a local
Guide to set you up here and the sand has moved on making this somewhat a hit or miss (large proportion MISS) deal you have to drive past a lot better to get there
World's best surfers to compete in Taranaki
PLANNING FOR Taranaki to host an elite international surfing competition next year.
It is expected to lure dozens of the world's top surfers to the region.
The Triple Seven Series, scheduled for February 7-14, will bring surfers like Kelly Slater, Andy Irons and Mark Occhilupo to Taranaki, said World Professional Surfers' assistant secretary Paul Sargeant.
The sport's governing body, the Association of Professional Surfers, gave its seal of approval to the event which will fit between the two existing professional surfing competitions - the World Qualifying Series and the World Championship Tour.
Sargeant, who was in New Plymouth last weekend, predicted the event, which would feature 160 surfers, would attract tens of thousands of spectators."Surfers are just in awe of these guys, they are the best in the world.
There will be people coming from all over the country to see it."New Plymouth surfing identity Wayne Arthur said this was the biggest opportunity New Zealand surfing had ever had."No one has gone close to attracting this kind of talent here before," he said.
Sargeant said the Triple Seven Series was aimed at helping up-and-coming surfers make the transition from the qualifying series to the tour.The world's top 45 surfers, the top 100 qualifying series surfers and 15 wildcard entries will compete in the Triple Seven Series, he said.The series would move around from year to year, held in areas that had good quality waves.
Sargeant said Taranaki had the perfect geographical layout for the inaugural event with a myriad of surf breaks."It's an area I have heard of for a long, long time, I have seen pictures of it," he said.
"New Zealand and particularly Taranaki has quite a deep surfing culture, it has a long history going back to the late 50s."Piha was the only other area in New Zealand that had hosted an event on the world professional surfing circuit.
Article courtesy of www.stuff.co.nz