Warwick Heny has been surfing since about 1984/85. That puts him in the game 41 years. I connected with Warwick and his family in Port Alfred on the Kowie River in about 1986/87 and being on the Eastern Province committee at the time, I convinced him and his buddies to come and surf the EP trials in the boys’ division.
In 1988, I chaperoned Warwick and his buddy Stuart Haller to represent EP at the SA Surfing Championships in Cape Town. We surf-tripped and stopped off at all the best breaks all the way down to Cape Town. Thanks to a call by EP open top seed Leofwin Erasmus we turned off the N2 and surfed Still Bay for my first time and then Jongensfontein too.
I recall Warwick’s bravery as one of the smallest surfers in the EP team jumping off the rocks for a heavy Morris Point surf session and riding big waves. The perfect texture and flexibility of foam core, divine blend of rocker, perfect rail shape and comely outline, perfect glassing and sanding, and a heaven-sent combination of fins and placement. EP senior surfer Barry Theron had his surfboard smashed in half by a wave right in front of us just before we paddled out.
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Well, blow me down, in 2025 we are back in Cape Town, 37 years down the track. Only now we both surf for Border Buffalo City and Warwick wins his first SA title right in front of me. I could not be more pleased and am claiming it.
This is my guy. These days I am staggering in at a geriatric 63 while Warwick is at a fired-up 51 years of age and at the peak of his surfing.
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