SA Masters Surfing Champs

Live streaming action from the 2014 Cool Shoe South African Masters Surfing Championships which begins at Nahoon Reef in East London on Thursday

Surfing South Africa has announced that for the first time ever at a National tournament, real time live streaming surfing will be broadcast from the 2014 Cool Shoe SA Masters Surfing Championships which kicks off with an Opening Function at the Nahoon Lifesavers Club at Nahoon Beach at 7pm on Wednesday. The first rounds of competition start at 8am on Thursday 15 May and the finals will be held on Saturday 17 May.

The live surfing will be available for viewing via the internet onwww.streamit360.tv In order to watch the live action from Nahoon Reef click the link and activate the SURFING button on the page. The Cool Shoe SA Masters Surfing Championships will be streamed live from noon on Friday 16 May and will include all the finals which will be held on Saturday.

The SA Masters Surfing Championships always produces the highest quality surfing and with 4 – 6 foot perfect offshore conditions predicted for Friday and Saturday this year’s event looks set to be a cracker.
Two current World Champions, Greg Emslie (Border) and Chris Knutsen (KZN Central), two former World Champions, Andrew Banks (Zululand) and Heather Clark (Southern KZN), 18 surfers who have represented South Africa in international competition and a host of provincial and South African champions will be in action at the 2014 Cool Shoe South African Masters Championships.

In addition all seven age group champions from last year’s event in Mossel Bay have been included in their respective provincial teams. Greg Emslie won both the World and South African Masters titles last year, Llewellyn Whittaker (Southern Cape) won the Senior Men’s (O30) title, Wayne Monk (Border) won the Grandmasters (O40) Division, Gareth Sepp (Border) took honours in the Kahunas (O45) Division, Robin Lavery (Zululand) was the 2013 Grandkahunas (O50) champion in Mossel Bay, Hans Kamhoot (WP) won the Veterans (O55) title and former two time World Masters Champion Heather Clark (Southern KZN) was crowned the SA Masters Champion in the Women’s Division.

Hosts Border, the defending champions and seven time winners of the Masters Cup which is awarded to the top provincial team at the event have put together a star studded side for this year’s 10th edition of the South African Masters Championships and will be hard to beat at their home break.

Anything can happen over the three days of competition and Border will face tough competition from 2013 runners up Western Province, neighbours Eastern Province and 2015 Masters Championships hosts Zululand. The other provincial teams are from Southern Cape and Southern KZN.

The 2014 Cool Shoe SA Masters Championships will decide seven individual champions and determine the top Provincial team. Each team member’s points will count towards the Masters Cup, which was won by Southern KZN in 2005 and 2006 and by Border in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Heats and the provisional format are posted onwww.surfingsouthafrica.co.za and each day's results will be available from 8pm on this website.