ASP 2 stars Liencres, SPAIN
July, 9-10-11

July, Sunday 11th The kids were on fire!!

Yesterday evening, after a short meeting with the 8 semi finalists, the decision has been taken to wait until this morning to go thru the last 3 heats of this 2 stars Pro junior contest in Liencres. Not insane conditions were expected but clean enough to make the show;1 to 2 feet waves were breaking on the little sand bar of this beautiful beach of Liencres.

The kids were still hungry and went out with full determination in these small and tough conditions. 3 heats on a world class level.

Aritz Aranburu and Simon Marchand got rid of Nathan Hèle from Lacanau and Txaber Trojaola from Euskadi who impressed everyone since his first heat of the round of 64. Defenitely one kid to follow...

The second semi final heat was just insane! 3 of the 5 best juniors on tour and an incredible tahitian rider Michel Bourez willing to play the outsider role. Michel, Jérémy Flores, Hodei Collazo and recent winner of the 2 stars contest in St Leu – Réunion Marlon Lipke showed ones of the best performances of the event. The highest scores for the tahitian rider with a heat total of 15.33 points.

The 40 minutes final heat was intense. Tactically and technically. Only a few set reached the sand bar chosen by the 4 riders Simon Marchand, Aritz Aranburu, Michel Bourez and Marlon Lipke. You had to find your waves to make it thru. The german Marlon Lipke surfed the best waves of the heat with surprising skills in small conditions!

He comments: ”I'm so happy! This kids are so strong in small waves, I'm not! Everything was coming together in the water. I'm stoked.”

Second contest in a row for Marlon Lipke who remains one of the favourite title contender for this season with Aritz Aranburu and Jérémy Flores.

Thanks you kids for the show!

RIP CURL PRO JUNIOR Liencres-Cantabria Infinita is proudly supported by “La Consejeria de Cultura, Turismo y Deportes” of the Cantabrian Governement, Pielagos Town Hall, Telefonica and Playstation.

the kids are grateful and would like to thank Luis, Nancy and Leire- happy birthday, guapa!

Franck Goudou