"After an epic day of action here in Fiji, history is made at the Namotu World Paddle Challenge, presented by Air Pacific, as Maui's Connor Baxter storms to a landmark victory on the long distance downwind run from Natadola Beach to Namotu Island.

Finishing 8 minutes behind, in 2nd place and also from Maui was 2x Stand Up Paddlesurfing World Champion Kai Lenny.

Behind Kai from New Zealand was Jeremy Stephenson, stepping up to battle ahead of Jake Jensen from Australia, Noa Ginella from Oahu and Slater Trout from Maui.

Pictures and full story to follow at www.standupworldseries.com and right here on facebook
www.facebook.com/pages/Stand-Up-World-Tour/169116436453478 ."

4th place a great result for young Jake!!!
Best of luck to him and Andy in the surf race later in the week.

It doesn't seem like that long ago teatree was trying to convince Jake to get into sup and now he is up there mixing it with the best. With a number of good results lately in all different types if races its only a matter of time until he cracks a big win.

Long Distance highlights...



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Surf Slalom results...

1st: Kai Lenny
2nd: Connor Baxter
3rd: Zane Schweitzer
4th: Slater Trout
5th: Noa Ginella
6th: Jake Jenson
7th: Andy Davies
8th: Jeremy Stephenson

Kai and Connor to have a race off on Friday for overall champions title (both sitting on a 1st and a 2nd)

chrisparker said...


Surf Slalom results...

1st: Kai Lenny
2nd: Connor Baxter
3rd: Zane Schweitzer
4th: Slater Trout
5th: Noa Ginella
6th: Jake Jenson
7th: Andy Davies
8th: Jeremy Stephenson

Wow - top 6 all teenagers, we could see them all racing each other for another 20+ years!!!

My Best pic from Fiji , LOl

paul.j said...

Is that a pic of Jake?

Nah this is jake a bit tired after the racing.


Jake and Slater Trout


The Young Guns

teatrea said...

What a trip , just got home.Jake went really well and would have learnt a lot , he was made a few mistakes that cost him an even better result.He well and truly showed what he can do on the final day , beating Connor , Kai and just getting pipped by Slater in a run up the beach to determine outright third place overall.
The surf race was epic , with some really hard conditions , once you hit the reef the waves where jacking up and had quite a bit of power , if you got through the break unscathed you had a massive bonus , once outside it was back inside again only to battle gainst the current and waves again , before the run home.Most competitors had to back up 5 times on this one lap course to make it to the final.

Got to surf Cloudbreak , unfortunately it was far from epic , but good to be there any way.Not sure i would like to surf the place on the sup if it was bigger than 4ft ,The reef is gnarly

Had a great time , the event itself was a bit unorganized and getting boards to and from events was a real hassle and could have been real costly too if not for Victoria and Jeremy from NZ hooking us up with Woodie for some cheap boat rides.Cant be too harsh though first time , i guess they will sort a few things out for next time.

I can understand why Downwinder raves about Namotu Island though , wow what a surfers paradise that place is

namotuisland said...

Jeez Teatree you're a hard man to please. Every race started on time. You guys rang us the night before to say you were here. Jake then had FREE transport from and back to Namotu twice plus free transport from the mainland to Natadola not to mention the FREE lunches. Do all the other races send taxis to your homes to pick up the competitors before a race? We are always open to constructive criticism but everyone else had a blast and the amount of work that goes into these things is mindblowing.
Why don't you organise one yourself. Trust me it's a thankless task.

If your open to constructive crtiticism your facts are a bit skewed mate.If it hadnt been for woody on muskett that ferried us from their to namotu for $40 bucks each time , we where stuck paying $60 each way per person , we had 6 people who wanted to come and support the event.Here are some facts for you $100 to get boards from hotel to Ferry $120 to get boards from ferry to Muskett cove (thats after much negotiation to take them in the first palce) , Jakes Mum paid $120 to get to Namotu to watch his first race , whats the distance by boat 10Ks?
Paid woody $40 bucks for slalom race (awesome),Lunch was awesome and appreciated.Thought last day was suppoosed to be at muskett , family day .Did not find out till next day muskett was off and race was know at namotu , actually diidnt find out to jet ski come out to cloudbreak to infrom jake that race is no longer from cloudbreak to namotu but around the island instead.So to rap up we had 5 people stuck on Muskett that had no idea what was happening , both his mum and dad missed his last race because we had no clue where or what was happening.For the people staying on Namotu im sure they all had a blast , for the people not staying their , well forgotten is probably a good word.

Did i mention the Ferry then refused to take our boards back from muskett to the main island , so kindly woody accepted $100 to take them back in his boat and i gave Victoria & Jeremy $60 to organize transport from their to hotel.

Ask those who were not on your Island how well it went!!! I appreciate the work you guys put in to the event , but if your open to feedback take it , and make the event bigger and better next time.

Oh and what has the ferry got to do with me. You were a guest at Musket not Namotu.