CLUB ACTIVITIES

JULY 2010

NASA sent reps down to Port Moresby for an ISA Level 1 Surf Judging Course conducted by Glenn Elliot of Surfing Australia, and faciliated by Surfing Assocation of Papua New Guinea. Reps from Surf Clubs in Madang, Vanimo, Wewak and Port Moresby also attended. This is the second such course which representatives from New Ireland have attended, and we now have a great bunch of guys who can judge our local surfers in competitions, and will also be able to be surf judges at the next PNG National Surf Titles

APRIL 2010

NASA held its Annual General Meeting at the Kavieng Club on the 8th April, with excellent attendance from our Surf Resource Communities and Surf Tourism Operators, as well as representatives from the New Ireland Tourism Board & Bureau, National Fisheries Authority and the New Ireland Provincial Government.

Also in April, NASA and our Surf Club Members had the opportunity to take Hon.Charles Abel, who is the Minister for Culture & Tourism in PNG, along with the CEO of the PNG Tourism Promotion Authority, Mr Peter Vincent, for a late-season surf at Nago Lefts, here in Kavieng. The Minister and CEO were visiting Kavieng with Andy Abel, President of the Surfing Association of Papua New Guinea.

April was a busy month!! We also handed over a bunch of surfboards and boogie boards to the Ungalik Surf Club, which were donated through the generosity of many individuals and companies from the Sunshine Coast all the way down to Sydney. The Surfboard Donations was a coordinated project between SAPNG, Saiid Metwali who is a member of Sero Surf Club in Port Moresby, and Jamo Borthwick, a surf coach from Coolangatta who has done surf coaching courses up here in Kavieng. Through their tireless efforts, they were able to secure many boards, clothing, leg ropes, wax and other sports equipment which were then distributed to Surf Clubs all over Papua New Guinea. Boards which came to NASA were then distributed to various Surf Resource Communities and Surf Clubs in New Ireland Province. THANK YOU SO MUCH to SAPNG, Saiid and Jamo for getting it all together!!