From TGI Reports – Surfer from Kilauea announced as the winner LAUNIUPOKO,Maui – Jim Carney, 52, of Kilauea took out a heat full of teenage surfers Saturday to win the men’s open division of the Ole Longboard Classic. Carney won
From TGI Reports –
Surfer from Kilauea announced as the winner
LAUNIUPOKO,Maui – Jim Carney, 52, of Kilauea took out a heat full of teenage surfers Saturday to win the men’s open division of the Ole Longboard Classic.
Carney won in waist-height waves, edging out the 22 other men surfers entered in his division.
His win came through a strategy of sitting outside to catch larger waves combined with smooth cutbacks and skillful noserides.
Carney said he was surprised when his name was announced as the winner of the top-ranked event at the annual Ole contest. The contest is considered the longest-running longboard event in the world of surfing.
“I just got better waves…they could outsurf me easily if they had to, they could surf circles around me,” Carney told the Maui Sun in a post-contest interview, commenting on his victory over surfers three decades younger than him.
The surfer from Kilauea also took second in the 50-59 men’s division, finishing behind long-time Lahaina surfer Leslie Potts.
Carney works as a message therapist and surfboard shaper on the North Shore.
