Carry out a random act of kindness, with no exception of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
~ Princess Diana
Upcoming Events
Some of the next comps that I’m really looking forward to are; the Raglan Secondary Schools event that runs over two days at Manu bay, Raglan in early August and in September the Scholastics, also in Raglan, which is a week-long event of hard out surfing and a whole lot of fun. For the Scholastics, Taranaki take a team up and stay together for the whole week. Each team member gets points for where they place in their event and at the end of the week the team with the most points wins.
What I’ve been working on
Sports Taranaki has started up a program called future champions where they do sessions on Sports Psychology, nutrition, etc. The sessions are about 1.5 – 3 hours depending on the topic and I’m finding this program so helpful and I’m trying different things to see what works for me. I’ve been wanting to do something alongside surfing, so this year I decided to get back into hockey after not playing last season. This year I am playing for my school, New Plymouth Girls High School in the Junior A team. Hockey is great to have alongside my surfing as it helps keep me fit as it involves a lot (and I mean a lot) of running. Hockey is also a team sport so it’s quite fun playing a team sport as well as doing what is mostly an individual sport. With it being Winter I haven’t had the opportunity to do any comps this month so I’ve just been surfing as much as I can to train for all me comps in the near future including the Taranaki Champs and Winter series that should take place locally soon.
Local news
Earlier this month Oakura Boardriders club hosted a paddle out for WSL Pure #stoptrashingwaves. This was a worldwide campaign where people from all over the world paddled out to show their support for WSL Pure. At the start pro surfer Paige Hareb gave us briefing before the 80 or so of us paddled out and formed a huge circle to splash water to show our support and raise awareness on such an important environmental issue. WSL Pure #stoptrashingwaves pledge is to show support for stopping the use of single use plastic which end up in our oceans and in our beaches. It’s awful to think that if we don’t stop using single use plastic by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish, so please always remember to reduce, reuse and recycle.
