Chilli Blog

Get ready for Kai Hing, world!

Posted on: Monday, May 23, 2011

Kai Hing is a 13 year old super star in the making. He is currently representing Australia at the ISA Junior World Championships in the U/16!

This is why he made the team at such a young age...

Cooper Chapman Surfing at Home

Posted on: Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Chilli from Nathan Foster on Vimeo.

Matt Banting Wins Quisilver King of the Groms!!!

Posted on: Thursday, September 30, 2010

Matt Banting taken on the world best groms in France and come out on top winning the 2010 Quiksilver King of the Groms

Matt battled the final against Brazil's Filipe Toledo, pulling off some awesome moves on the 3-4 foot clean waves that came through at Les Bourdaines. With good scores coming through from both surfers, it was Matt Banting who impressed the judges the most with some great combinations and managing to take more waves than Brazil's Filipe Toledo.

Well done Matt, see you when you get home.

Cooper Vs Slater Vs Fanning?!?

Posted on: Saturday, March 13, 2010

Cooper anticipating a heavy impact © Photo courtesy of Boost Mobile

The first international surfing competition to take place on Bondi Beach in over 20 years, the three-day event will see the most exciting aerial surfers from across the globe competing for a $30,000 prize on Bondi’s famous waves.

Chilli's own Cooper Chapman managed to land himself in the Final tomorrow; first heat looks like this

Red	Mick Fanning	aus
White	Kelly Slater	usa
Yellow	Criag Anderson	aus
Blue	Asher Pacey	aus
Green	Ben Godwin	aus
Black	Cooper Chapman	aus

(Ouch) Good Luck Coops!

Click the photo above to watch the action live from Sydney Beach Australia

Cooper Chapman is Quiksilver King of the Groms

Posted on: Monday, March 08, 2010

Image © ASP

Cooper Chapman will represent Australia at the Quiksilver King of the Groms World Final in France after claiming victory in the Australian leg at Snapper Rocks on Friday.

Running in conjunction with the Quiksilver and Roxy Pro Trials, Coops said he was buzzing after taking down some of the country’s best junior sufers. “It’s was all-time,” he said. It was such an experience competing in an event that was running as part of the Quiksilver Pro. There were loads of people just cheering on the beach – It felt unreal!”

In winning the final, Cooper surfed away with a return trip for himself and a chaperone to the Quiksilver King of the Groms World Final at the Quiksilver Pro France with accommodation and airport services supplied.

Nice days work for the youngster!

Blue Snapper; Photo Blog

Posted on: Monday, February 22, 2010

Pororoca Pop Grab

Bluesnapper is a photo blog of our backyard, here on the northern beaches of Sydney Australia. All images shot by an unassuming & humble lad by the name of Alex Marks.

I met Alex on the beach at Palmy during BL's blast off grom festival last year... He told me to use any images we liked from Blue Snapper on our blog (I forgot)

...just got a reminder email with a few great shots of Cooper Chapman... enjoy

You should click any of these images & sign up to Blue Snapper & have an email full of gold delivered to your inbox weekly... for free!

down pour waft

in pocket gouge

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Unstoppable; Matt Banting U16 ISA World Champion

Posted on: Friday, January 29, 2010

Chaired up the beach by fellow Chilli team mate Cooper Chapman, Matty Banting celebrates his first world title today in the lovely Piha, Aukland New Zealand.

Stay tuned for more info...

Tylah to surf at Rip Curl Pro

Posted on: Monday, January 25, 2010

Tylah throws the fins with all his Warriewood flare! Image courtesy of Surfing NSW

Warriewood shredder, team Chilli rider & all round Mr Nice guy Tylah Hutchinson took out a convincing win at the Rip Curl Gromsearch in Cronulla today.

Tylah surfs with power & flare & i definitely one to keep an eye on.

“In the past few comps that I have surfed, I’ve only managed to get a few second and third places, but to take out the Cronulla GromSearch is such a good feeling,” said Hutchinson. “To win here is just amazing – a dream comes true!”

“Now I get a chance to surf in front of my heroes during the Rip Curl Pro!” Hutchinson said excitedly.

Tylah's victory scores him a start in the Rip Curl GromSearch National Final held at infamous Bells Beach during the Rip Curl Pro over the easter holiday.

Congratulations Tylah, all that hard work is paying off

Laura Enever crowned 2009 Junior WORLD CHAMP

Posted on: Saturday, January 16, 2010

Laura Enever’s hometown victory came as no surprise to anybody. The explosive natural-footer consistently posted the highest scores each round, and with the help of some massive scores courtesy of her trusty GROM model & a blistering forehand attack, Enever posted an insurmountable lead in the Final.

I just wanted to go out and have fun and that’s what I did,” Enever said. “This is my home and I’m so stoked to be here with all my friends and family giving me so much support. This is the best day of my life. It’s been my dream forever to win here at home and now that I’ve done it, I’m at a loss for words.”

“It’s been my goal to win the World Juniors since I can remember and now that I have I just want to enjoy it,” Enever said. “I just want to have fun this season. I’ll be doing the ASP Australasia Pro Junior Series and start getting into the WQS events. The goal to qualify for the Dream Tour, but I just want to have fun this year.”

We're all as happy as pigs in mud right now & are extremely proud of you Laura!

Banting Crowned Australian Champion

Posted on: Friday, December 11, 2009

Matt Banting has added yet another title to the list in taking out the Arnette Australian Junior titles under 16 division in Coolum. Matt was handed the belt (so to speak) from fellow Chilli team mate Cooper Chapman, who won event last year.

Matt was also awarded the prestigious Duke Kahanamoku and Ma/Pa Bendall/Isabel Letham award for emerging junior surfers displaying a high degree of sportsmanship and international surfing potential.

The win earnt him a position in the TravelSim Team Australia, which heads to Piha, New Zealand for the ISA World Junior Surfing Championships, which you can watch live from January 20-28 by clicking this link