Winter Classic
Layback Longboarders 2025 Winter Classic – and you’re welcome!
Saturday 5TH of July
the Layback Longboarders of Wollongong are celebrating our 33rd year in 2025, and on Saturday 5th of July we are holding our annual Winter Classic competition at Bellambi, Wollongong! We’ve been surfing these local breaks as a club since 1992, and are the oldest longboard club in Wollongong.
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We have fantastic waves around here, and many of our longboarders are national and some world class surfers, men and women.
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The Winter Classic will have 5 longboard divisions (9 feet plus boards) and a Twin Fin division (2 fins on any length board) as follows:
* Opens
* Ladies
* Over 40s
* Over 60s
* Old Mal
* Twin Fin
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You can enter up to 2 divisions and there will also be a Mystery Division drawn on the day from those knocked out early.
All competitors are required to judge, and we will have a professional judge in the tent all day to help maintain quality and consistency of judging.
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As a bonus for the Winter Classic this year, we will be holding a competitors draw – every competitor who takes part in the competition on the day will get a free ticket for the chance to win a custom Carabine longboard! The winner will be drawn at the award presentation.
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There’ll be a Seven Miles coffee barista on site all day, and lots of delicious baked goodies as well as our famous BBQ for bacon and egg rolls for brekkie, and pulled pork rolls for lunch!
The presentation of awards following the last final of the day will be held at the nearby Bellambi Hotel, where we will be holding another raffle for everyone (those raffle winners will need to be at the presentation). There’ll be meals available there, and some great beers of course…
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Laybackers pride themselves on aiming to maintain a polite friendly vibe on shore and in the waves, which we reckon just goes without saying in longboarding.
We appreciate the wonderful surf heritage we are all part of and want to carry it forward in a positive way.
The Wollongong Chapter of the longboarding tribe has pretty strong roots around this beautiful part of the world…
To Enter:
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Registration for the Winter Classic is open use the link below.
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