Christian Surfers have used the event to serve the UK's top surfers, build friendships, and share their faith with the competitors, their friends and families.
The Jesus Surf Classic was blessed with the only waves all week, for what is now one of the most popular events on the contest calendar. Despite discouraging surf predictions of flat seas by most of the best known surf forecast web sites, the first part of this year's Jesus Surf Classic was run off in good clean 2-3ft waves during the day on Saturday 8 September.
The 'Jesus', due to its increasing popularity, was split this year between the traditional event at Croyde, Devon, and the Jesus Longboard Classic to be held at Polzeath, Cornwall, over the weekend of October 6 and 7. With over 130 contestants registered for the Croyde event, and the very gloomy swell forecast, it was decided to postpone the Masters, Men's Open and juniors to the weekend of September 22 and 23.
Conditions for the remaining four categories were an answer to the prayers of the organisers, starting off on Saturday morning with a slight off shore wind and sets of around 2ft. With two peaks running, progress was swift, and by the time the tide begun to turn with sets now slightly bigger the semi finals and finals enabled all the surfers a great platform to produce a very high standard of surfing, said event organiser and head of Christian Surfers UK, Phil Williams.
In the Youth event (under 14), the final was between 3 Newquay-based surfers, and a local Beau Bromham. In a tight final, Bromham took the title ahead of Leon Mansfield, Tom Good and Jack Hughes.
The Junior Women's division (under 18) had the highest number of entrants so far, and Swansea's Beth Mason took the title from fellow Swansea resident Gwen Spurlock. Croyde's own Kathleen Spears came third and Katie Oakley from Morthoe fourth.
Tom Good from Newquay, was fourth in the cadets, just beaten by Braunton's Alex Baker, but the division was won by Woolacombe's Stuart Campbell, ahead of Luis Eyres, currently living and training in Portugal.
