Surf Sports provides club members of all levels the opportunity to compete at Surf Life Saving carnivals across the state. Competition enhances your surf life saving skills and can help raise the profile of the club.
Competitions
Surf Sports provides club members of all levels the opportunity to compete at Surf Life Saving carnivals across the state. Competition enhances your surf life saving skills and can help raise the profile of the club.
Surf Sports Competitions
Secret Harbour has a proud history of competing at junior, senior and masters surf carnivals and hosts state and club carnivals each season at Secret Harbour beach.
Every season our junior, senior and masters surf lifesavers will take on the surf and sand, providing many challenges for our competitors. Secret Harbour SLSC provides a strong training and coaching environment for our surf sports competitors.
Surf sports include:
Competition Options
Surf sports include ocean, beach and pool events. Nippers and Seniors are encouraged to compete at Carnivals in the events that they are interested in and can even choose only beach events.
Secret Harbour SLSC competes against other WA clubs in a series of Surf Life Saving WA and club run events. Carnivals run from October through to the SunSmart WA Championship event series in February and March. All open water training and competition participants must wear a yellow hi-vis rash vest.
At carnivals, all nippers are required to wear their Woodside Nippers hi-vis vest in water events. Seniors must wear a Secret Harbour SLSC surf sports vest available from the club office. Members who participate in board events need their own board or can hire a board for the season from the club with a deposit and hire charge.
Junior surf sports for Under 8’s and Under 9’s (Little Nippers)
- beach sprint and relays
- beach flags
- surf races (ocean swimming)
- board races
Junior surf sports for Under 10’s to Under 13’s
- beach sprint and relays
- beach flags
- 1km beach run
- surf races (ocean swimming)
- board races
- ironman/woman
- board rescue (U11 and up)
- Cameron relay
- surf teams
- board relays
- pool rescue lifesaving events (winter)
Cadets and Seniors surf sports – Under 14’s, 15’s, 17’s, 19’s, Opens & Masters
- Individual ocean events such as surf (swim), board, ironman/woman, tube races
- Ski (U17 and older) individual races
- Ocean team events such as board rescue, Cameron and Taplin relays
- Surf Boats (rowing in a team)
- Pool Rescue – lifesaving events held in a pool during winter
- Lifesaving Events – Belt Races, Rescue and Resuscitation (R&R), champion patrol, champion lifesaver and first aid.
- IRB (inflatable rescue boat) racing in winter
How To Join – Juniors
For a junior to compete in the ocean events, they must complete a competition proficiency in addition to the Nippers pool proficiency.
- U8’s 100m ocean swim in less than 9mins
- U9’s 100m ocean swim in less than 8mins
- U10’s 150m ocean swim in under 12 minutes
- U11 to U13’s 288m ocean swim in under 9 minutes
Competition proficiencies are carried out during the first few water training sessions or nipper sessions of the season. If your child becomes interested in surf sports after the start of the season we can arrange for the proficiency to be carried out at a separate time so that they can join the ocean training group.
If a Nipper only wants to participate in beach events they are only required to perform the Nipper pool proficiency, no additional competition proficiency is required.
How To Join – Seniors
For a senior to be proficient and compete they must hold an award relevant to their age and for over 14s, have fulfilled their patrol obligations of a minimum of 30 hours.
- U14’s and U15’s – Surf Rescue Certificate (SRC)
- U16’s and above – Bronze Medallion