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Channel Islands starts strong in France
by George Mojo
19/06/2007:// Channel Islands surfers have started strongly during the opening rounds of EuroSurf 2007 in France.
Guernsey has three surfers in the squad competing at the bi-annual event.
Former British student champion Matt Le Maitre, Channel Island number one Johnny Walbridge and former Children In Need surf comp winner Tom Hill have been competing in the early rounds of the multi-national contest at Les Cavaliers, in Anglet.
Le Maitre has made it through to round two in the Open division along with Jersey's Christian Boletta, who outpointed Spanish champion Carlos Benitez and fellow Channel Islander James Hick.
Jersey's Ben Skinner has started strongly in the longboard also winning his opening heat.
All three Guernsey surfers are members of the Guernsey Surfboard Club.
The opening ceremony was a characteristically bizarre affair with salt crusted soggy surfers parading in team uniform in front of the media, municipal officials and politicians.
Guernsey outshone all other teams as well as their Jersey colleagues with a huge national flag kidnapped from the pole of Close Trust Company's Esplanade office and when it came to the traditional sand mixing ceremony, bodyboarder Clint Loake stepped up to the podium and poured the island's finest white sand into the pot from a Jersey milk carton.
When later questioned on the origins of the sand, Jon Carden the Channel Island team manager said that due to the lack of decent sandbanks along St Ouens Bay caused by continued reclamation, the Jersey Surfboard Club was forced to collect the sand from the Gunsite slip in St Aubins.
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