Keshia enters the Ericeira Surf Shop Pro as a Willcard and makes the final

Last week Keshia got a phone call from Ericeria Surf Club telling her she had received a wildcard to enter the Open Nationals in Ribeira D'Ilhas.

Obviously stoked about this opportunity but nervous to be competing in her fist open event.

The contest was held over a two day period and due to the very small swell at Ribeira, they moved to Foz, much to Keshia's disappointment of course. The girls did not go in on the first day and the call for Sunday was at 06am...and at Foz again. Driving from home we saw the lines coming in at Ribeira can could not work out why they had not moved it for the final day.
Arriving at Foz, made our question even more questionable........! There were no waves.... somehow the Gods heard our prayers and they stopped the contests just before Keshias heat went in....and moved it to Ribeira.
Now Keshia was smiling :)
The first heat went pretty well although nerves seem to play a little part in not catching the best waves and Keshia got through in second. She surfed amazing throughout the day and her semi was 100% local girls.....but Keshia had left all the nerves and emotions behind and went for the kill. She totally dominated the heat from start to finish and scored a combination of 13.00 points, the highest score combination so far of the event.

There was going to be a break between the girls semi and the finals with an expression session, giving the girls from the second semi, some time to rest but, they changed their minds and put them in straight away.
Keshia did not have time to rest and get some food and I think fatigue took the best out of her. She did not manage to find the best waves and although she still scored pretty high, she could not get a better back up waves.

She still finished 4th in the final getting an amazing result for her first Open event.

Now is time to prepare for the Grom Search next weekend, the inter clubs championships and then the European Pro Junior Series :)

Many contests and many more good results to come for sure. Thanks to everyone and will update again soon.

Ericeira Surf Shop Open Pro

Keshia wins Nationals in Aveiro

This weekend was the 3rd round of the Nationals in Aveiro.

Keshia had an amazing weekend, winning all her heats. On the first day, Keshia had the highest combined score of the day with a total of 14.00 points out of 20.

Second day she surfed two heats, and both both with scores around 9.00 combined.

The final was on Sunday and Keshia comboed the field with a total of 12.90.

A great weekend for Keshia. She leads the rankings in the Girls Under 18's having won two out of the 3 events so far.

Next one will be in August in Viana do Castelo.

Saltrock UK Pro Junior

Last weekend was the UK Saltrock Pro Junior.
Always a fun event but, not always fun waves.

The first day was not too bad with some small but consistent waves. Luis had entered the Pro Junior event and he had a couple of pretty good heats scoring some of the highest wave combinations of the event.

But the last day failed to deliver and the surfers even had a meeting to try and call off the contest and split the points. Well, somehow that did not happen and they had to surf the heats....well, wait and try !

Luis did not manage to get anything that you could call a wave and it was the two local guys that, used to those conditions, took 1st and 2nd. Luis took home 3rd spot.

It was all not too bad as, because of the final qualification, he has now guaranteed his spot in the Nike 6.0 night surf event which will take place on the 08th and 09th of July. Also the Cash for tricks will be on at the same time for which Luis has already got his invite :)

Lets hope for better waves for then.

A bit thank you to Phil Williams and everyone involved in the Christian Surfers organization :)

Keshia at the Swatch Girls Pro / Hossegor

So, after a couple of hours at home, Keshia headed to Hossegor ready to compete in the Swatch Girls WQS 6 star as well as the Pro Junior event.

Today was an early call at 07:00 French time, with Keshia in the second heat. The conditions were tough and some of the heats had super low scores.

Keshia, one of the youngest in this prestigious event that has some of the World Champions competing for the title, came out fighting, and ready to show what she is capable of.

Check out below her quotes, results etc on the ASP site :)

Tomorrow, check-in is at 06:30 with round 2 of the QS. More updates and photos as we get them.

Swatch Girls Pro / Hossegor