Carnivals and events

Nippers participating in carnivals and events provide an opportunity to\test their skills in a new beach environment and enjoy representing their club.

There are several types of events in which nippers (aged from under 8’s and above), can participate.

Cost per entry is tba and can be paid at the office.

Board/Swim Race

Board and swim races are staple events of surf carnivals. This is an event for U9 up which consists of starting on the beach and swimming / paddling around a series of cairns before returning to shore. There are both individual and team variations of this race.

Teams include; a board relay (3 people in a row), board rescue (one swimmer and one board paddler to pick them up), and swim teams (total score of 4 swimmers in one race).

Iron

The Iron race is considered one of the hardest events in which an individual undertakes either a swim or board leg around a set of cairn. Then when they return to shore they run around a set of flags before undertaking the leg they have not completed, finishing with a sprint around 2 flags.

The team variation of this is the Cameron (consisting of 4 people all of whom undertake one leg each in a relay form)

Beach events

There are two types of individual beach events:

White flags - participants lie on their stomach facing away from a flag in the ground and once the whistle is blown get up and grab a flag (there are less than the number of participants).
Sprints – depending on the age group, participants may sprint up to 70m in soft sand.

Teams include a sprint relay and an all-age relay in which a person from every age group undertakes in one large relay.