Date of Birth: May 4, 1990

Best Known For: Being happy, winning a Pro Junior when I was 17 and representing my country at the World Juniors in France last year

Local Spot: Currumbin Alley, D-Bah, Snapper

My Crew: Dale Richards, Nick Pollet, Brent Dorrington, Jack Freestone and Blake Ainsworth

Board of Choice: Hayden Shapes Black Cat 6'0” x 18” x 2.15”

Dream Wave: Mexico. I love the look of that crazy righthander. It looks similar to the pointbreaks where I live, but maybe a little better.

My Top Five Gansta Rappers:

1.) Lil Wayne 2.) Young Jeezy 3.) Juelz Santana 4.) T.I. 5.) The Game

Jeron wins again, this time in North West Bali

At the scenic fishing village of Medewi in Northwest Bali dozens of groms, who had traveled from all over Bali and Nusa Lembongan, lined up together with the local Medewi groms to sign up and compete in the fifth regional Rip Curl Gromsearch event of 2009.

At the end of the day it was 11-year-old Jeren Kiring from Canggu that claimed victory in the Under 14 division with an impressive display of forehand surfing, throwing out big turns and floating over long sections on his way to racking up big scores. He was the first surfer of the day to post a 9 point wave during his round 2 heat, but had to fight off the constant charge of Koko Misuantara from Nusa Dua, who put on his own grom clinic with deep bottom turns and aggressive re-entry’s, taking 2nd place.

This win for Jeron is another great result and shows that he is by far the best talent coming up in Bali. Taken in by Rizal, i am sure young Jeron is on the way to making a great go of pro surfing!

-Mitch

Mitch Crews wins a Pro Junior in Japan

What's up!

I am finally home. After my long Japan trip, nothing feels better then stepping back on Australian soil. Japan was epic though. I had such a good time, whether it was meeting the locals to surfing the fun peaky beachbreaks.

I was lucky enough to end my trip off with a win. I entered myself in the Murasaki Pro WQS and Pro Junior at Fukashima and managed to make some heats in the WQS and finished in the quarters... I felt like I was going to win the comp but in my quarter the ocean went to sleep.

I ended up winning the Pro Junior Divsion which was Japan's highest rated Pro Junior of the year and had a lot of support from all the Japanese people when I won which made things extra cool.

Pretty happy to finally find my feet again in the contests. Anyway I have 2 days at home then I'm down to Sydney for the Mick Fanning's Red Bull contest.

Keep you posted! —Crewsy

Dillon and I having fun in Japan!

Hello everyone!

The Oakley Pro Junior in Chiba kicked off last weekend. Dillon Perillo and myself travelled to the land of the sunrise and tried our luck in qualifying for the Oakley Global Challenge (that I competed in last year in Bali).

You may have heard that Dillon won! I was a little unlucky to get 3rd place!! Which is one spot off qualifying for the Global Challenge. I opened up with an 8.5 and needed a 4.00 for 2nd and a 5.25 for 1st. But the waves just weren't on my side.

So the past few days, Dillon and I have just been exploring Japan and having a fun little time together.

Check out some of the shots!

See you soon!

CREWSY

Bali is the best place in the world...

It's drawing to the last few days of my Bali trip. Unfortunately I wasn't able to join the other Hurley boys over here when they scored earlier this year. But I'm sure I scored just as hard!

My trip begun boarding a flight from South Australia, Bali bound! I had a pair of jeans and flanno on and as I stepped out of the plane, the humid & hot Bali air hit me hard in the face!
So I lost the jeans and the flanno, threw on a pair of Phantom boardies to kick around in, jumped into a car, and went straight to my place of stay.

Day one of the Billabong Pro Junior @ Keramas started the next day, and the boys were expecting arguably one of the best swells to hit Keramas this year. But as I walked up the beaten track of Keramas that morning it was far from pretty. Howling onshore winds, 2 foot dribble, and rounds 1 and 2 were sent out in the water.

Day two was a little different, everyone kept rambling about this amazing swell that was suppose to hit. I was a later heat in the day, so I left Legian at 9:30am, threw my board in my scooter racks and hit the road solo. I navigated my way through the cluttered Bali traffic from one side of the island to the other. As I arrived in the car park I can hear hooting and whistling. I walked up the path and stood on the shore amazed...... 6-8 foot beasts were grinding through Keramas and Red, White, Yellow and Blue in the line up! Not a breath of wind and dirty chocolate water. Buckets of froth.....as for I am about to surf the best waves we have had for a contest ever! Luckily enough for me I got a few monsters and Keramas with 3 other guys out. Locked in a 9.8 and a 8 in one heat, 9.00 and 8.5 in another, a handful of 8's and 7's in the following heats and a snapped board in my last.

In my last couple of days, I've just been driving round the streets on my scooter, bartering with the local shop clerks, having a few cold bintangs and keeping an eye out for some girls and of course... surfing perfect waves.

Im home on Saturday and then I'm off to Japan on Tuesday!
So, I'm off to enjoy my last two days in paradise.

Later!
Mitchy

Its always good to do a little road trip to clear the head...

What's up guys,

It's been a while since my last little update and I want to let you know where I have been!
Things have been pretty crazy this past month, I have had some time at home and I have been using this time to prepare myself for another big leg of contests that are coming up. I'll be off to South Oz, Bali, and then Japan to compete in a whole heap of Junior events and surf some really different waves.

Although I haven't really been in the contest frame of mind this past few weeks or so because the surf has been pumping! So I have just been trying to get a heap of clips and photos while there is blue skys and good waves.

Last week, I gathered my gear and did a little road trip down to Forster. The waves weren't the best but it gave me a little time to get away from the crowded Gold Coast and clear my head so I'm in good form for these contests. There I met up with my good buddy and filmer, Riley Blakeway, who was there to capture anything that went down and It was just a full week of just surfing, fun waves, and good times!

Check out some of the frame grabs from the footage we got at Forster! Images by Riley Blakeway.

Now I'm back home and it's a few days until I'm off to South Oz, so I should actually be surfing or organizing my stuff!

Later Guys!

MC