I was there to assist the team with general fitness, stretching and warm up techniques, as well as to add some insight into the judging criteria as well as the various interference rules.
It was a pleasure to work along side South African Surfing legends Graham Hynes and Ant Brodowicz, who are the teams' coaches.
What the team achieved over the 3 days was invaluable from a performance as well as a team building point of view. As intended we kicked the camp off on day one at a level that was built apon each day and by the end of the 3 day camp the entire team was well above the starting level.
Each team member left the camp understanding how important it is to work as a single unit , as they will be away for 18 days and this will be their support system and more importantly their family for the duration of the tour.
I put together this clip of the training camp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2mH61zP6fA&feature=youtu.be , but this really does not do any justice to just how talented this team really is, for many of us we will be waving good bye to our loved ones on the airport on the 1st of June, but we will be giving our full support from back home while our soldiers take on the worlds best in their quest to emulate the senior team and bring home the gold and with our support that is what they will do.
You can use the hashtag #SAjnrteam to send messages of encouragement to our juniors on twitter.
With just a few days until they depart, the team will no doubt be working hard on polishing up a few last aspects of their surfing.
GO TEAM SOUTH AFRICA!
Wade Botha
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