Our Website has been Updated

We have updated our website today with more info and new developments. We will keep updating with new stuff as we can!

Tweeting

Now we're tweeting too so you can stay up to date as soon as things happen!!
You can find us here
https://twitter.com/TupiraSurfClub
Hope you like it!!

Presentation of Gifts from Hillbrook to the School and Surf Club

We recently received very special gifts from Sue and Steve from Hillbrook for the Surf Club and for the School.

Steve put together 2 sensational DVDs, one specifically for St Therese's Primary School and one for the Surf Club hgihlighting special moments of their recent trip to Tupira.

Here we are at the surf club watching the Club DVD that was excellent and loved by everyone. Everytime we put it on, we would watch it through 3 or 4 times!!

Sue and Steve also organised an album for both the School and the Surf Club. Here is the Headmaster and School Chairman looking at the album that was given to the School.

The Surf Club Album was also an extremely popular addition for the Club with everyone looking through it a number of times.

 This last photo shows the Headmaster, Teachers, School Committee members and other staff watching Steves DVD. This was loved by all of them as well and we watched it through a few times before heading back to Tupira.

We would once again like to express and emphasise our appreciation and gratitude to Sue and Steve for all their work they have done and continue to do to build this relationship and we really look forward to their next trip over and to being able to host a group from Hillbrook at the Club.

Training Begins this Week for the 2011 PNG National Titles

Shuttle Runs

Monday saw the beginning of the training season for our surfers in the lead up to the 2011 PNG National Titles. We started off with a fitness training session which included aerobic, anaerobic training plus leg strength, upper body strength, core stability, flexibility and suppleness. It was hard work but really good fun and with a crew of about 25, we were stoked it went so well. We are going to do this twice a week for about a month and then move onto a more challenging fitness training component.

Squat Jumps and Burpees

There were laughs and shreiks all round but everyone trained really hard and the waswas at the end was sensational in warm water, no wind, warm evening and full bright moon!!

There is a lot of excitement about the upcoming Championships and as this will be the first ones that we have competed in, we are all motivated and enthusiastic to train hard, work on technique and video analysis and try to put it all together out in the ocean when we get out on boards.

Core Work

First Decent Swell of the New Season Arrived Today!!!!

Yewwww……..great news.

We have our first decent swell of the season today. It is a good 3-4ft with the sets easy over head and super fun. It has been from perfectly glassy conditions to having a slight cross wind but the total crowd has been 2 or 3 of us out all morning.


We are all hoping this is the first of many to come and that the season will be starting early for us.

Sorry no photos of it this morning, we have all been too busy catching waves!! We might try and get some pics of the afternoon sessions.

Season Preparations Begin

The past week has seen the start of formal planning and organizing for the coming season. The period between now and opening time in October and for the duration of the season will be a mass of huge activity. We have a number of changes happening in the Surf Club, a heap of construction to get done and excitingly plenty of guests booked in to look after and many waves to surf. There were always plenty of helpers when reading and replying to emails.

Boss man Kela likes the idea of taking over this role!!

We have the PNG National Surf Championships in March 2011 which is going to be very exciting for us as a Club, competing at our first National Titles and to make it even more special we are lucky enough to be hosting them. This means though a bunch of things have to be done on top of the changes we are putting in place for the coming season.

Here is a photo of our first Surf Club meeting with all our surfers, talking technique, training, judging, surfing in contests and what we are going to do this season so we can perform well at the Titles. We also spent a lot of time watching different DVDs and surf footage.

Come Friday afternoon, after quick waswas in some fun little waves with glassy conditions and mangi singing in the line up, there was a game of touch, singsing for pre game entertainment and then into the Haus Bung for Friday night treat of watching the NRL!

From the Tupira Surf Club Patron, Justice Nicholas Kirriwom

Sira eliva. Greetings to all our friends visiting us now and reading this message.

It is with great pride and joy that I welcome you to our recently established web page, the source of all information, advice, queries, answers, comments and chat that you need or seek concerning Tupira Surf Club.

We are a family of over 20 different villages and hamlets stretched along the north coast of Madang between Bunabun and Suaru in the Bogia District, Madang Province who speak four different dialects but share common customs.

The biggest and most popular dialect in Ulingan area is mauwaake and up north along the coast is alaam. The less popular of the four and concentrated also in the Ulingan area are beteka spoken only in Medebur and Toto villages north of Ulingan and aamako spoken in Korak and Tavulte villages in the south.

My greeting to you is in the mauwake language, the language of the location on which Tupira Surf Club stands. Sira eliva or eriva means thank you.

This is an amazing achievement for Tupira in the short period of its existence that we are able to have a website of our own, the source of our identity and the library of our collections of stories, ideas, photos and blog.

I take my hat off to Jamo Borthwick of Coolangatta Queensland whose brief encounter with us during two days of Easter weekend of 2009 had buried in him such deep passion for the place and our people that nothing could prevent him from coming back to the rocky reefs of Meiwok and Sarar, but this time for a much longer attachment.

Having said that, it is my great pleasure to welcome Jamo as the Manager of Tupira Surf Club, who now joins and consolidates our small crew of dedicated men and women on the ground. Jamo fills in the vacuum that existed since the inception of the club.

All enquiries regarding bookings must now be done through Jamo on the email addresses given in this website.

As the Patron, I will speak to you from time to time through a dedicated column given to me by the administrator, on newsworthy information or policy changes if any on our surf management plans.

This webpage is updated regularly. Once the page is fully operational, we hope that your bookings can be done through the web when we are able to avail that service to you for your convenience in booking for your travel.

Please enjoy your visit and leave us your impression. But that is not all; we want to see you at Tupira when you find the time.

Justice Nicholas Kirriwom

Patron

Website Updated Today

Our website has been updated today and includes a heap of photos to get excited about for the coming surf season.
Stay tuned for more updates soon!!

Tupira Surf Club and local Primary School St Therese's Sister School relationship with Hillbrook Anglican School in Brisbane Australia

In June 2010, Tupira Surf Club pivotal role in the initiation of building a sister school relationship between local primary school, St Therese's, and Brisbane school, Hillbrook Anglican School. We hosted the 2 teachers from Hillbrook, Sue Petersen and Steve Cambridge, for the 4 days they were in Ulingan to set the foundations and build a plan for the future for how this sister school relationship could work.

We are all super excited about this new relationship that will reap benefits for our local school children and wider community as a whole but is sure to offer Hillbrook and those from the Hillbrook community that come over and spend time with us in Ulingan and the Surf Club.

We thank Sue and Steve for their time and effort in all they did in the planning for the trip, all their enthusiasm and excitement while they were with us and the massive amount of time, effort and work they have put in since returning home to cement and build this relationship.

Sue and Steve came to the School morning assembly and then spent some time in the classrooms with each Class on one of the days.

definitely one of the highlights of their visit was the Welcome that the School and our community put on to welcome our Australian guests and friends. Traditional singsing from a number of villages, speeches, school tours and an outpouring of appreciation and emotions filled the event. For all involved it was a massively emotional afternoon and one that was much appreciated and enjoyed by all.

Our Surf Club President, Al Mom, made an excellent speech about the summing up the excitement, the opportunities and the benefits of this sister relationship for each individual student, for the school as a whole and the entire wider community. The benefits of this can be far ranging and we are all so appreciative of this opportunity. President Al summed it up fantastically in his speech and like all of us there showed his emotions at what the future holds for everyone invovled.

 Here is Sue with a group of local grommies at the Surf Club. We thank Sue very very much for all her hard work, enthusiasm, motivation and vision to drive this initiative from Brisbane in gaining the approval from the Hillbrook Executive and then going about organising everything to make it a reality.

We cant wait to see Sue back with us as soon as she can!

Steve is pictured here at the top of the hill overlooking Tupira Surf Club with a crew from the Club that took Steve for a walk around to show him the many picturesque and beautiful sights we are blessed with.

We also are extremely grateful to Steve for all his work, time and effort that he has put into making this a reality and bringing this sister relationship to fruition and look forward to the ATLs return.

We understand the huge extra time commitment this will have placed on both Sue and Steve and feel very lucky to have been able to show them our life, our culture, our villages, our community, our school, our hospitality and our huge appreciation for all they have done.

Tupira Surf Club feels very priviledged to have been able to take such a major role in facilitating this and being able to offer another benefit to our community and show the potential of surfing for our whole area, not just for the surfers!

We look forward to exciting times ahead for all of us and extremely thankful for such an excellent opportunity to come our way!

Pictured here in this last photo is our Surf Club Patron, Justice Nicholas Kirriwom, Sue Petersen, President of the Surfing Association of PNG, Andy Abel and his son Shi and wife Mags and on the far right is Aunty Rachel, Justice Kirriwom's wife.

Lots of Exciting Changes to Come

Hello and thankyou for reading and looking into our new Tupira Surf Club Blog. This is one of the many new changes and additions that we are very excited about for the coming season and we will let you know more as they happen and when we can officially announce them

Here are some to start

• If you don't know we have a FaceBook Page here
• We also have a new website dedicated to our surf club here - http://www.tupirasurfclub.com/
• You can email us directly at info@tupirasurfclub.com
• We have heaps more and will let you know in the vary near future

The 2010/11 Surf Season is very quickly coming towards us and we are super excited about moving into our 2nd full year as an operational surf club with a Guesthouse for tourists. With a number of improvements, we are confident that Tupira Surf Club will continue to move forward and develop, maintaining and cementing our status as one of PNGs premier surf retreats.

We will post again very soon and look forward to filling you in on more developments as they happen!!