An African proverb suggests: “If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.” Border Buffalo City Surfing has got the go-together thing working. This past weekend our local surfing fraternity ran a spectacular winter festival surfing competition and burger evening to raise funds to support our junior surfers headed to the World Championships in September. Local surfing has come together in a big way to support our five juniors who have made the SA team of 12 surfers.
Wearing green and gold and going to El Salvador is costing our young champions R70,000 each. Big dreams are expensive but local surfers are all pitching in to help send our athletes on the far trip. A total of 16 sponsors pitched together for event prizes and support, and roughly 110 surfers entered from U12 to open, masters and longboard to rally up the rands.
You might think that 110 x R150 is a fair amount of money (R16,500) but when you are trying to give R10,000 to each junior, that is still a long way away from R50,000. Thus there was much burger building and moms in kitchens and dads at braai fires, and pancake sales and on and on. Taylor Emslie is surfing so well at the moment.
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Her brother David came home from varsity on holiday, went to a Clarendon hockey festival and fried pancakes to help raise her funds. How is that for sibling support!
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