The Jakarta Post, Tim Hain, Contributor, Kuta | Fri, 04/30/2010 12:25 PM
Thirteen-year-old Jeren Kiring claimed the 2010 Rusty GromFest Series Under 16 Division top place at Kuta Beach.
As the Under 16 Series champion, Kiring receives an all expense paid trip to Australia.
In Australia he will compete with other international GromFest winners in the 15th Annual Rusty GromFest at Lennox Heads this coming July.
It will not be his first trip abroad. This budding young surf star has been to Australia before and traveled to New Zealand in January to participate at the ISA World Junior Surfing Championships with the Indonesian Junior Surfing Team.
In the previous two events of the three-part Rusty GromFest series, Kiring surfed to second place at both Keramas Beach and Canggu Beach, putting him out in front of the series point standings to be selected to compete at the final Kuta Beach event.
On the beach after competing, Kiring said he was overjoyed.
"After coming second place at Keramas and again at Canggu, it feels good to get first place to end the series," Kiring said.
"Then to take the Under 16 division series victory and be invited to go to Australia is perfect."
If this young man keeps up his pace, he has the potential finish the 2010 season as the Coca-Cola ISC Junior Tour Champion.
In the Under 14 division, the day belonged to Nyoman Alit.
The overall Under 14 division series win, however, was taken by Komang Sastrawan.
Sastrawan was placed third at the Keramas event and finished second at Kuta Beach.
Sastrawan was also one of the recipient's of the Coca-Cola Youth Encouragement Award.
The award also came with a custom-made surfboard for his performance at the Keramas event.
All finalists received prizes such as Rusty branded clothing and accessories, and Sony Ericsson cell phones.
They also received Creatures brand board grips and leashes, free surfboard art and repairs from Freedom Surf shop among other products from event sponsors Sabre, Macbeth, Stomp, Zinka and Walls.
The Rusty GromFest Series Bali 2010 was part of the Coca-Cola ISC Junior Tour and is a yearly event created by Rusty to help develop surfing in Bali and throughout Indonesia.
