Blue Crush 2
The crew of Blue Crush 2 and producers Universal Pictures Productions GmbH and Moonlighting Blue Crush Productions parked a convoy of trucks at the Supertube Foundation Park in Da Gama Road on Saturday 10 July. This film is about an 18-year-old girl named Dana that flees her Beverly Hills home for the beaches of South Africa, her mother’s home country to fulfill her mother’s dream – a long, flawless journey down the barrel of the killer waves of Jeffreys Bay. The film cast includes International actors such as Sasha Jackson, Sharni Vinson, Elizabeth Mathis and Capetonian Chris Fisher. It also includes world professional surfers Rosy Hodge, Tanika Hoffman, Heidi Palmboom, Roxy Louw, Danielle Dominique Le Roux, Jordy Smith, Grant “Twiggy” Baker and Andrew “Roosta” Lange. This film is directed by Mike Elliott and will be distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
Billabong Pro Surfing Competition
Lots of excitement in Jeffreys Bay with the Billabong Pro Surfing competition that started on Thursday 15 July to 25 July. This year is the 25th anniversary of this event where the world’s top 45 ranked professional surfers come to the renowned waves of Jeffreys Bay at Subertubes. With Kelly Slater the nine-time ASP World Champion (current ASP World No 1) also the only surfer to have his name etched on the Billabong Pro J-Bay trophy four times and South Africas’s Jordy Smith (current ASP World No 2), Travis Logie, Sean Holmes and Shaun Joubert chasing pack along with other surfers such as Taj Burrow, Mick Fanning, Andy Irons, Adriano de Souza, Dane Reynolds and Bobby Martinez just to name a few.
South Africa’s Jordy Smith wins the Billabong Pro Surfing Competition in Jeffreys Bay
South Africas’s Jordy Smith won the Billabong Pro Surfing Competition on Sunday 18 July. Smith defeated Australian surfer Adam Melling and is now top of the ASP World Title race ranking. The supporters cheered and blew vuvuzelas to support the first South African to win an ASP World Tour event since the mid-‘80s. The competition completed in the first four days of the 11-day waiting period for the first time since it became an ASP World Tour event in 1996.