Event Reports

Miss Reef Bikini Contest, Surf Awards Presentation, and Rock and Roll Conclude Reef Bali Pro 2010 at Kuta Beach, Bali

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29 June 2010, Kuta-Bali:  After 6 days of searing surfing action on Halfway Beach, the Reef Bali Pro had to end on a wet note as a rainstorm rolled in on Saturday evening June 26 to give the Miss Reef Bikini finalists, live bands, competitors and spectators a quick cooling off before sending them home from one of the hottest events Kuta Beach has seen in years.
 
The surfing action began on Tuesday morning with the Women’s Division surfers taking to the water to battle it out for a finals berth, then for the next three days the crowded beach was treated to watching 64 of Indonesia’s top pro surfers going all out to impress the judges in hopes of winning this 6-star Coca-Cola ISC sanctioned contest. 
 
On Friday night the Hard Rock’s Center Stage was packed to the rafters with people checking out the premiere of Cancer to Capricorn and then moving over to the Hard Rock Café to cheer on the 10 Miss Reef Bikini semifinal candidates.  It was an amazing evening, so crowded that the entry line trailed out the door and onto the busy Kuta street. 
 
Surprisingly, the remaining surfers found their way to the beach the next morning for the 7:30 am start of the Open Quarterfinals, although Wayan “Betet” Merta did have to be woken up and yanked out of bed, just making it to his heat with a minute to spare.
 
The crowd built throughout the day as the cheers grew louder and louder with fans rooting for their favorite surfers, culminating in the finals of the Women’s, Masters, and Open Divisions.


In the Women’s final it was Febri (Rohaye) Rahman Ningsih who came all the way from Padang in Sumatra that was victorious, getting her first-ever ISC tour win and a check for Rp 2,500,000.


Made Lapur from Uluwatu took out the Masters Division win in a tightly contested final that saw him exchanging the lead several times with runner up and Kuta Beach local Ketut Wirtawan, but coming out on top in the end.



The highly anticipated Open Division final was a beauty, with last year’s Coca-Cola ISC Champion Lee Wilson up against the younger Raditya Rondi.  Both surfers can name Kuta Beach as their first ever surfing experience and are both radically explosive surfers, so it was a great matchup.  Rondi took the lead early and seemed to be a wave magnet, steadily racking up higher and higher scores and putting Wilson on the ropes.

But a come-from-behind victory from Wilson was just one wave away, so tension was high throughout the 25 minute final.  Unfortunately for Wilson that one perfect wave never appeared, and fortune was with Rondi who was ecstatic, saying, “I have grown up surfing this place with my hero’s like Lee and Pepen, so to be in a final and get a win over a great surfer like Lee is a dream come true. I am so stoked!”  He was also stoked to receive a check for Rp 12,500,000 and get 3,000 points in his run for the 2010 ISC Championship.


After the beachside trophy presentation the Reef International pro surfers took to the water to be towed into the waves and deliver an Expression Session demonstration of how to do the most radical maneuvers possible and still live to tell about it.  Jay “Bottle” Thompson, Ross Williams, Heath “Nutty” Walker, Nick Rosza, Mike Losness, Paul Fisher, Jack Perry and Adam Bennetts were flying through the air and carving deep gouges in the Kuta Beach waves to the delight of the spectators, then they joined Miss Reef International 2010 Natalia Baccino from Panama to sign posters for the fans that were waiting on the beach.


Then as the sun was beginning to set over the Indian Ocean, MC Tai “Budda” Graham and Rani announced the start of the Miss Reef Bikini final.  It was a seemingly impossible task, as the girls were all between a 9 and 10 on a 10 point scale, but the judges finally came to agreement that 21 year old Carolucia “Carol” Octaviana from Jakarta (Number 9) was to be crowned Miss Reef,   Running a close second was Bali’s Putu Dhyah Antari and the 3rd winner is Erica Ocampo from USA.


When she was asked how she felt when she heard her named announced as the winner, Carol replied, “I was very surprised.  Really happy but really surprised.  All the girls are so beautiful and perfect that I really didn’t think I had any chance to win, especially because I’m not as tall as most of them.”  How did she get such a great figure?  “I swim, do fitness, and go to the spa.  Plus I eat very healthy and I don’t smoke,” she said.  Then she added, “I’m going to use this experience to share with other Indonesian girls how to live a healthy lifestyle, that you should eat healthy food and do some type of exercise each day.” 


Carol received a Kawasaki motorcycle, Rp 10,000,000 in cash, Hard Rock Hotel 2 nights stay Voucher; runner up Putu received Rp. 5,000,000 and 3rd winner Erica received Rp 2,500,000. All of them also received other sunglasses and goodies from Reef and other sponsors.


The surfing awards presentation followed, and then to round out the night as the rain was increasing in intensity but nobody seeming to care, first Bali’s own rock n rollers Superman is Dead took to the stage to everybody jumping, and then the Rockstars from Jakarta.

All in all it was an action-packed and fun-filled 6 days of Reef revelry, with everybody having a great time at Kuta Beach in Bali. 
Reef’s Senior Marketing Manager for Asia Pacific,  Jenn Kong had this to say at the conclusion of the event, “  It was an amazing week of events at the Reef Bali Pro, we're so happy to support the local surfing community and were fortuante to get great waves for the contest. We hope to make the Reef Bali Pro a fixture on the ISC tour for years to come !  Bali is the perfect destination to communicate Reef's surf and exotic beach lifestyle , our new movie Cancer to Capricorn, and it was exciting for Bali host the only Miss Reef Bikini contest we'll run in the region in 2010."

The Reef Bali Pro 2010 was sponsored by Reef Indonesia, Kawasaki, the Hard Rock Hotel and Center Stage, the Hard Rock Café, Hard Rock Radio, Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia, Heineken, Optik Seis, Waterbom Bali, FHM Indonesia, Surf Time Magazine, Lines Magazine, and sanctioned by the Coca-Cola Indonesian Surfing Championship Tour.


Text by Tim Hain
Photos:  Damea Dorsey and Tim Hain


For high resolution photos please contact Ratna at reefindo@indosat.net.id
 
Reef Bali Pro 2010 Coca-Cola ISC Tour Surfing Results:


Open Division
1.        Made Raditya Rondi
2.        Lee Wilson
3.        Pepen Hendrik - Putra Hermawan (Equal Third Place)

Masters Division
1.        Made Lapur
2.        Ketut Wirtawan
3.        Nyoman Wastika
4.        Ketut Menda


Women’s Division
1.        Febri (Rohaye) Rahman Ningsih
2.        Yasnyiar (Bonne) Gea
3.        Dyah Rahayu Dewi
4.        Jasmine
 
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