Lennox Head to host Red Bull Junior Surf Masters this weekend

August 6, 2008

Lennox Head Main Beach will be the venue this weekend for a round of the Red Bull Junior Surf Masters.

Promoted by current ASP world champion Mick Fanning (pictured), the Masters is a first-time event being held in NSW to give young surfers an opportunity to go head-to-head with Australia’s best Junior Pro surfers.

The first prize is the biggest ever awarded for a junior surf event in Australia and is designed to help up-and-coming surfers launch their pro career into the World Qualifying Series (WQS) and beyond.

The total prize pool for the whole comp is $50,000.

How it works is that a series of five qualifying events will take place in various NSW locations. The top four surfers from each event (20 in total) will then be invited to battle it out on the water at the Red Bull Junior Surf Masters Trials to be held at Queenscliff on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, on Friday, August 29.

The top four from the Trials will then compete against 16 Junior Pro Surfers, hand-picked by Fanning in a new surfing format called Torched.

Fanning says he is stoked to give something back to grassroots surfing and will be attending the Red Bull Junior Surf Masters Finals at Queenscliff to watch all the future Aussie pros in action.

He will be joined by talented young Aussie surfer Julian Wilson, who will be one of the 16 Junior Pros competing in the finals.

“An opportunity like Red Bull Junior Surf Masters doesn’t come along very often and could be just the break these young guys need to launch their surfing careers,” said Fanning.

“It will be an intense competition designed to pick only the best surfers, but is the first step that could realistically see someone go from their local beach on the North Coast to some of the most amazing surf venues in the world.”

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