Cold Water Classic - Full Results at SISA

Full Results from SISA website

O'Neill OPEN MENS
1st Levi O'Connor Kaikoura 12.70 pts
2nd Anthony Hema Westport 12.67 pts
3rd Tom Entwisle Sumner 9.83 pts
4th Dave Lyons Kaikoura 8.53 pts
Southern Paua and Surge Surfboards WOMENS OPEN
1st Hayley Coakes Dunedin 8.67 pts
2nd Alethea Lock Sumner 4.13 pts
3rd Kristi Zarifeh Sumner 2.10 pts
4th Haley Baxter Kaikoura 1.87 pts
Board Silly / Mt Lyford JUNIOR WOMENS
1st Alethea Lock Sumner 7.20 pts
2nd Haley Baxter Kaikoura 5.33 pts
3rd Kristi Zarifeh Sumner 4.43 pts
4th Emily Nicolson Kaiapoi 3.83 pts
Hydro Surf / FCS MASTERS
1st Dave Lyons Kaikoura 16.83 pts
2nd Richard Baxter Kaikoura 9.97 pts
3rd Neil Robb Sumner 8.20 pts
4th Matt McCrory Kaikoura 7.03 pts
O'Neill SENIORS
1st Alan Temoananui Kaikoura 12.97 pts
2nd Hayden Brain New Brighton 11.97 pts
3rd Tom Entwisle Sumner 11.47 pts
4th Aaron Surgenor Kaikoura 5.80 pts
R & R Sport Junior
1st Jimmy Crooks Dunedin 12.10 pts
2nd Sam Courtney Kaiapoi 10.33 pts
3rd Ben Bennett Dunedin 9.83 pts
4th Tom Bracegirdle Dunedin 9 pts
Encounter Kaikoura CADETS
1st Tom Bracegirdle Dunedin 11.50pts
2nd Sam Courtney Kaiapoi 11.17 pts
3rd Cody Mccusker Kaiapoi 9.57 pts
4th Hugh Ritchie Morth Wai 7.93 pts
The Whaler GRAND MASTERS
1st John Roussey North Wai 13.17 pts
2nd Neil Robb Sumner 9.23 pts
3rd Glenn Shuker New Brighton 9.13 pts
4th Chris Beaufort Westport 2.77 pts
McCrory Plumbing LONGBOARDING
1st Le Roy Rust Dunedin 12.7 pts
2nd Shayne Baxter New Brighton 11.9 pts
3rd Dan Warren New Brighton 10.33 pts
4th Homer Dunedin 5.17 pts

David Bain - The Verdict

This afternoon the summing up from Judge Pankhurst will finish and the jury will be sent to huddle together with their sandwiches and suitcases to deliberate the fate of David Bain.
The crown was the prosecution in the three month retrial at the High Court in Christchurch, of the charge that David murdered 5 of his immediate family.. his two sisters, Laniet, & Arawa, brother Stephen, and father and mother Robin and Margaret. The defense says that David is innocent, and his father Robin committed 4 murders, and then turned the gun on himself.
Innocent or Guilty?
What will the jury decide. In Davids first trial he was found guilty of the five murders and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a non parole period of 16 years. Bain supporter Joe karam championed Davids plea of innocence and has worked for his release for the last twelve years, with numerous appeals, release on bail, and finally the full retrial. This is one of the most historical murder cases in NZ history. There are 4,000 pages of evidence from this retrial.

My Opinion: Guilty - what do you think?
- Robins' body had absolutely no trace of forensic evidence linking him to the murders.
- Stephens blood was found on David's tshirt, shorts and socks.
- No fingerprints of Robin on the gun, especially considering how hard it would have been to make the shot (right handed shot left temple with silencer would have had to use tumb to pull trigger). Only Stephens blood & fingerprints and Davids fingerprints were found on the gun.
- Robin's body was still warm, and the other four were much colder, indicating that the first four had been killed much earlier in the morning. If Robin had committed the murders they would have all died within the 40 minutes that david was on his paper round (Robin would also have had to have washed himself up, changed his clothes, powered up the computer, left the note and shot himself in this 40 minute time frame)
- David admitted to putting on the washing the morning. Stephen had fibres from the green jersey in the wash under his fingernails.
- Robins' hands had at least a day's worth of grime and dirt on them, which if he had worn bloodied gloves and handled the washing machine, and bloodied shower cap and towells in the bathroom, he would have had to have some water contact or washed his hands.
- Robin had a full bladder with overnight accumilation and was found in the clothes in which he had slept. he also had the mornings' paper next to him on the coffee table which he had bought in. The light in lounge was off.
- The lack of fresh injuries on Robin but the presence of the fresh injuries to David.
- David describing Laniet as "gurgling" . Only the murderer could have heard that despite what the defence say.
- The blood stained opera gloves. No way would Robin have donned gloves to commit crimes he supposedly coughed to on the infamous computer message. Why would you need to hide your fingerprints if you were going to write a message incriminating yourself afterwards?
- The family he was staying with immediately after the murders, the Clark's, decided during this time that he had done it. And he was not the primary suspect at this time either.

- David never took the stand as a witness. Which to me smacks of guilt, in the first trial he took the stand, and said too many incriminating things (like hearing laniet gurgling), that the defense was scared he'd blow the whole trial if cross examined again.

At the outset of this retrial Reed promised damning evidence to counter all the Crown's major pieces of evidence. He has failed to deliver.

Not surf related, but I have been following this case since the beginning.. and its my blog.
Opinions anyone??

Cold Water Classic - Kaikoura 2009 Day1 part2

Below left: Tom Entwistle, Right: Aaron Locke


Womens' heats.. Below left: Leilani Brain, right: spectators with the snow capped seaward Kaikouras in the close distance. Below again: Sophia Moore.



Above left: Jean Davis, Right: Nicola Warren. Below: Kristi Zarifeh.


Above right: Aaron Locke, longboard heats.

Cold Water Classic - Kaikoura 2009 Day 1 part1

Kim, Helena, Jean and myself left on the Thursday morning with more gear packed into Kims' stationwagon than a sardine can could fit under pressure. The rest of the Dunedin Crew.. Hayley, Tash, Homer and Jamie in a 4WD.. Jono, leroy, Jimi and Tom in Jono's stationwagon.. Andy, Nathan and Chris in another car, Steve & Ben in another and finally MB and Geordi. Again a good showing of support for the last SISA event of the year from the Otago Surf Clubs.

Above: Friday morning at Meatworks, a clean green set peaks out back. Homers' truck on left with the FCS tent which was a godsend all weekend with protection from the sun, rain and wind. Below left: rashies all laid out ready for the first Open mans' heats ... red flag ready to drop as the sun rose to a crisp but clear morning. Right and Below: The first few heats of the day ran as the surf picked up and the sun made for some stunning light.

Top Right: Nash Robertson. Below, more images from the Open heats round 1. Below Left: Levi O'Connor, Right: Dave Melville ?


Above: an empty in the comp area. Below Left: Andy Sutherland, Right and Below: unknown



Above Left: Nathan Lungley, Right: Jamie Civil
Below: Freesurfing down the beach, and a shot from there towards the comp area.

Carrying on the theme.

Thanks heaps to all those who bid on the Art and Photography auctions on trademe this week, and for the extra orders off my blog that came through too. I really appreciate the support. I am leaving for Kaikoura on thursday!!

I have continued painting over the last week. The two images above are a 'before and after'. The before was a canvas I painted three years ago, and never managed to sell. The painting was off an Image by Al Ashworth. It started by a 'touch up' to try and make it work better that just morphed into something else.

Below, this was initially a design for longboard skateboard decks, which I was in the process of doing when I stopped painting (sorry I didn't finish them nacho).

Was design number 10 in the sketches above.
I'm still using up old canvasses, and have completed another two on top of these which arent photographed yet.

Jimi Crooks - Featured Surfer

Jimi Crooks, 18 years Old from Brighton, Dunedin.
- surfs with Big Rock Boardriders

Above: surfing during a heat at the Cold water Classic 2008 in kaikoura.
Below: Tucked away down south.

Above, sequence during a free surf at the Go for Gold 2009, Greymouth.
Below: during a heat at the Cape Classic 2008, Westport

Above, down the line last year, and surfing his local on a small day.

Last week

A few shots from last few weeks.. when the wind and swell was a bit kinder.

Above: Jimi Crooks finds some quiet time.
Below: Jay paddling out past a bomb set down the coast.


Above, jay same day.. what happens when a rainbow terminates in a wave, note the board

South Island Surf Champs 2009 - Results

Finally got the official results for the South Islands 2009

Below, Another yummy peak from day 1