The Wrap on the Rolling Retro

It was a day of two halves, call it the Ying and Yang of surfing. Surfers and their families and friends arrived early on Sunday, 4th March, to a calm and glassy Llandudno. The waves were just breaking, the weather balmy and most were probably thinking that contest director, Captain Kai, had made the wrong call for waves, but a great call for a beach day. “I was pretty scared I had read the charts wrong, I will be honest, but Robby and I stuck to our guns and boy did the wave Gods provide for our belief!” Captain Kai As the beach filled to capacity, a record number of entries were signed up and excitement built, it was the Loggers sent out for the first few heats. This was the first time there were stand-alone Log heats, all surfed on ancient browning pieces of history and most shaped by the legendary, John Whitmore. Young stars like Dylan Swindale and Steven Sawyer gave the crowd a show on style and class and many of the Western Province longboarders joined the party. The longtime Rolling Retro standout, Michael Grendon, was his usual flamboyant self, but his main show was still to […]