Top surfers to compete in series final

SOUTH Africa’s best open men and junior surfers will soon be making their way to Victoria Bay in the Southern Cape to compete in the final leg of the Quiksilver Takes One To Know One series.

The event is the third of a three-part series and will take place on 20 and 21 September at the popular and picturesque point break setting of Victoria Bay. The event is a 3A Surfing South Africa Pro Surf Tour event that offers R30 000 in prize money.

With two of the three events already completed at Long Beach, Cape Town and Umdloti, KZN, the final stage in Victoria Bay is set to attract some top level competitive surfing. David Van Zyl of Durban North put on an impressive performance in Cape Town to take out his first open men's victory while Beyrick De Vries of Umhlanga Rocks stole the show in Umdloti and was crowned the KZN north coast champion.

Both Van Zyl and De Vries won’t have it all their own way in Victoria Bay with the likes of Slade Prestwich from Durban, Michael February from Kommetjie, Dylan Lightfoot from Jeffreys Bay and Dan Redman from Durban North looking to impress and take home some silverware.

In the U20 junior division Diran Zakarian of Melkbosstrand will be keen to repeat his previous result in Umdloti where he performed a series of radical manoeuvres to win the junior division final. He will be up against rivals Durban's Slade Prestwich, Jarred Veldhuis from Kommetjie, Shane Sykes from Salt Rock and Matthew McGillivray from Jeffreys Bay.

To find out more about the series visit the event mini-site at https://www.quiksilver.co.za/totko/.

Surfers wanting to take part can visit https://www.surfingsouthafrica.co.za to enter.