Windansea Surf Club Menehune Contest

WindanSea Surf Club will host its annual Menehune/Junior Surf Contest, a non-profit surf contest for children two to 16 years old, on October 7 and 8 at La Jolla Shores beach from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The event kicks off on the evening of Friday, October 6th at the La Jolla Recreation Center for a pre-event pizza party, hosted by Filippi's Pizza Grotto. The pre-event party is a chance for participants to check out prizes to be raffled off, as well as the chance to mix and mingle with other contestants.

The Menehune Contest has been a WindanSea Surf Club tradition since the early 1960s, growing from a roster of 44 contestants to its current size of more than 300 contestants competing in both shortboard and longboard divisions, according to age.
This year's participants come from across the nation, including a group of kids from Hawaii (Team Aloha) that have been sponsored by the WindanSea Surf Club for the last four years.
Later this year, through reciprocal sponsorship, a team of surfers from the WindanSea Menehune/Junior Surf Contest will be chosen to compete at Rell Sunn's Menehune Surfing Championship at Makaha Beach, Oahu.

The Menehune/Junior Surf Contest, which attracts surf legends such as Skip Frye, Hank Warner, Debbie Beachum, Bonga Perkins and Rob Machado, will feature a raffle with hundreds of items, including custom made boards from local legendary board shapers such as Hank Warner Custom Shapes, Gordon & Smith, Mitzven, Superior Glass, Diamond Surfboards, Kane Garden, Ukulele Surfboards, Uliboards, South Coast and Surf Tech.



The WindanSea Menehune/Junior Contest is one of the major fundraising vehicles for St. Vincent de Paul's Kids Day at the Beach and the Special Olympics Day at the Beach , two non-profit events that WindanSea Surf Club produces each year for challenged athletes and underprivileged children: www.dayatthebeach.org.

Where: La Jolla Shores Beach
When: Saturday and Sunday, October 7 and 8
Time: 7 am to 4:30 pm


You can also check out the Windansea Surf Club and all their local events at www.windansea.org