Carnivals and events

Nippers participating in carnivals and events provide an opportunity to\test their skills in a new beach environment and enjoy representing their club.

There are several types of events in which nippers (aged from under 8’s and above), can participate.

Cost per entry is $25 and can be paid at the office.

Board/Swim Race

Board and swim races are staple events of surf carnivals. This is an event for U9 up which consists of starting on the beach and swimming / paddling around a series of cairns before returning to shore. There are both individual and team variations of this race.

Teams include; a board relay (3 people in a row), board rescue (one swimmer and one board paddler to pick them up), and swim teams (total score of 4 swimmers in one race).

Iron

The Iron race is considered one of the hardest events in which an individual undertakes either a swim or board leg around a set of cairn. Then when they return to shore they run around a set of flags before undertaking the leg they have not completed, finishing with a sprint around 2 flags.

The team variation of this is the Cameron (consisting of 4 people all of whom undertake one leg each in a relay form)

Beach events

There are two types of individual beach events:

White flags - participants lie on their stomach facing away from a flag in the ground and once the whistle is blown get up and grab a flag (there are less than the number of participants).
Sprints – depending on the age group, participants may sprint up to 70m in soft sand.

Teams include a sprint relay and an all-age relay in which a person from every age group undertakes in one large relay.