About SRSC : Creating History Now


Every Australian World Champion started off his or her career in a local boardriding club. Australian boardriding club team events play an important part in Australian surfing history.

Since inception Snapper Rocks Surfriders Club Inc. has had ten world champions.

It takes a special formula for a club to be at the top competitive level over a thirty year period, as is the case with SRSC. Everyone wants to be associated with the high profile competitors, but it is the kids in the club, and especially how they are managed that is the lifeblood of a clubs existence.

The fact that SRSC holds an impressive seven world junior titles, states that we have the most impressive junior development program in Australia.

This program is stronger than ever, and is the key focus of SRSC,  with approximately 100 kids in the club, from juniors right down to the under 6 division,
all divisions being equally as strong.

Teams Events 2006:
Snapper won the biggest event in Australia, the Jim Beam Surftag National final at Curl Curl in Sydney and are  the only club to have won this prestigious event twice,
also holding  the record for the most wins in both  the Kirra Teams Challenge and the Straddie Assault Teams event. Backing that up with wins in the team QCSS and QSS titles making Snapper  the most prolific winners of teams  events of any club in Australia.

Individual Level 2006:
We have had some fantastic results this year from our club members.  Stephanie Gilmore who is already two times amateur world champion, qualified for the 2007 World Championship Tour and became the first person in history to win two WCT events starting from the trials. The first event was winning the Quiksilver Pro and the second, the recent Layne Beachley Havaianas Pro at Manly.

We also have a new qualifier for the mens WCT in Josh Kerr, who will now be competing against his club mates Dean Morrison and Joel Parkinson in 2007

Going into 2007 Snapper Rocks Surfriders Club will have four (4) representatives on the WCT.

Another young Snapper girl who is moving and shaking is 16 year old Airini Mason, winning the Billabong Proteen Series, and also the ASP Australian Pro Junior Championships, backing that up by winning the expression session of the
Layne Beachley Havaianas Pro, the worlds richest womens surfing event ever.

There are many other members kicking goals at both State and Aussie title levels.
And so the story continues .......

About SRSC : Long Term History

 
2004 Interview with  Peter Townend 


Question - So 40yrs ago, were you the man that started all this ?

PT - Well not the original group, originally what happened is, it started in 1964,
and they turned it into the Tweed River Board Riding Club (pointing to the DBAH building) when this clubhouse was built here and then it kinda died and everybody left

and then what happened is, a bunch of us were actually in Kirra to start with, and then Kirra fractured in the early 70s, and a bunch of us got together and had our first club meeting at Bundys in like 74 and it (SRSC) got resurrected a 2nd time over, and thats where we get to today.

There was like, myself, and a guy called Bob Suda,  kinda drunk one night at the Patch and said , lets get that club started again, and we talked Weeny into serving as President, and thats how it got going again....................               

                        Click Here To See The Full Video Interview 

SNAPPER WORLD CHAMPIONS

SNAPPER CLUB CHAMPIONS

 

SNAPPER AUSTRALIAN AND STATE CHAMPIONS

SRSC members over the years have held, or currently hold
national and state titles too numerous to mention.
 

Below, DBah Way Back..... (way way before they tried to rename it Flagstaff Beach)