The third stop of Rip Curl's GromSearch was held in Lakey Peak, Sumbawa. The GromSearch Crew is always excited about traveling to this area of Indonesia which is blessed with perfect surf from which Sumbawa's top surfers like Oney Anwar and Dedi "Gun" Satriadin emerged. The groms in Sumbawa are some of the best in Indo and live for surfing.

The swell started filling in just in time to offer perfect five foot waves for the frothing groms. The under-16-divison opened the competition with a low tide barrel fest. Surfing in yellow, Mansur scored the first ten point ride in any GromSearch for 2011 for a perfect deep barrel, two big snaps with a huge air reverse finish – and this was just the beginning. 

After talking to the under-14 groms, it was decided that they too would charge the peak at Lakey's. With lifeguards on both sides of the peak to look after the little guys, they paddled out to the almost triple over head waves. With survival-stance-air-drops and committed bottom turns the under-14 groms took it on. In the final heat Armansyah Baharudin, ten years old from Hu'u, out-surfed all the others in the under-14 division and was rewarded with a custom surfboard, a load of prizes and the title of the best grom under-14 of Sumbawa.

The under-16 final was a hard battle between Usman, who won last year's GromSearch in Sumbawa, Yasin, Mansur and 12 year-old Andre. All of the boys were pushing each other. In the end Yasin won the title of the best under-16 grom in Sumbawa and the trip to Bali to compete at this year's GromSearch final held in Kuta beach in October during Rip Curl's Surf and Music Festival.

All photos by Mick Curley.