June 9th, 2010 - Orlando,Florida:
13 year old St Winifred School Student Josh Burke surfed exceptional on Wednesday night at the Quiksilver King Of The Grom qualifying event held at The famous Walt Disney World ,Typhoon Lagoon water park,competing against 30 of the top junior surfers U-16 years old from across the United States and Puerto Rico,Burke was on par with the level of competition,placing 5th and winning The Most Progressive surfer of the event!
Burke recently signed a 2year deal with traction pad giant X-Trak & Magma surf wax and rides the ever faithful Burkie Boards that are shaped and produced by World class shaper Rich Price.
Patrick Schmidt from Manasquan New Jersey wore the crown of the King,the winning wave was a brilliant display of wave riding,taking off right against the pool wall coming off the bottom with a powerful off the top,a nice speed turn in the middle to set up for a huge fluent air reverse 360 on the closeout, literally cementing his place on the throne and a trip to France for the Grandfinal!
Who would think of going to landlock city of Orlando to surf? Matt Kechele,team manager for Quiksilver and organizer of the 2010 KOTG thought of the idea "every year instead of getting an ulcer worrying over if mother nature is going to produce or not,why not have guaranteed waves" Kechele states, and a great idea it was!
13 year old St Winifred School Student Josh Burke surfed exceptional on Wednesday night at the Quiksilver King Of The Grom qualifying event held at The famous Walt Disney World ,Typhoon Lagoon water park,competing against 30 of the top junior surfers U-16 years old from across the United States and Puerto Rico,Burke was on par with the level of competition,placing 5th and winning The Most Progressive surfer of the event!
Burke recently signed a 2year deal with traction pad giant X-Trak & Magma surf wax and rides the ever faithful Burkie Boards that are shaped and produced by World class shaper Rich Price.
Patrick Schmidt from Manasquan New Jersey wore the crown of the King,the winning wave was a brilliant display of wave riding,taking off right against the pool wall coming off the bottom with a powerful off the top,a nice speed turn in the middle to set up for a huge fluent air reverse 360 on the closeout, literally cementing his place on the throne and a trip to France for the Grandfinal!
Who would think of going to landlock city of Orlando to surf? Matt Kechele,team manager for Quiksilver and organizer of the 2010 KOTG thought of the idea "every year instead of getting an ulcer worrying over if mother nature is going to produce or not,why not have guaranteed waves" Kechele states, and a great idea it was!
The Typhoon Lagoon pushes out a 5ft wave every 90 seconds providing a fair playing field for the young future pro surfers and they did not disappoint,throwing adult type turns,and launching big air reverses on the closeout.Coach for Joshua,Alan Burke says" This was a very unique event,very cool scene,watching the best juniors from the US rip in a pool", "Josh adapted well ,the buoyancy had very little effect but he complained of the visibility of the wave due to the clarity of the water and the reflection from the lights,everyone had to deal with it so it was very fair" Burke states.
Joshua will be taking part in three international events over summer,Rip Curl gromsearch New Smyrna beach,East Coast Surfing Championships,Virginia Beach and The NKF in Cocoa Beach.
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