Murbreak

TomK — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:07:28 +0000

Murbreak is a local surf federation in Graz / Austria founded in 1999 by Peter Bartl, Reini Urban and other local surfers. There are approximately 100 members at the moment. Paying members also get discount rates at one of the two local surf shops in Graz.

Protecting River Waves in Graz

Because of a planned hydro power plant near the city of Graz the main wave “Radetzky” and possibly also the “Hauptbrücke” and “Bowl” waves may disappear after the year 2015. Murbreak is in negotiation with the local energy company in order to get a replacement wave if the power station will be built. Whether it will be built or not is a steady debate here in the city of Graz and will be decided soon.

Murbreak’s Objectives

Maintaining surfable waves in Graz.
Point of contact for people interested in surfing the river.
Events, gatherings and contests.

The Board as of 2013

Paul Sorger
Wolfgang Taucher
Peter Bartl

Get in Touch

Website: murbreak.at

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Murbreak Riversurf Contest 2012

Börny — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:15:52 +0000

Every year riversurfers from Austria join the “Murbreak Riversurf Contest” at the Radetzky bridge on the river Mur (pronounced “Moore”) in Graz. After an unsuccessful year 2011 with no contest due to low water levels the sixth Murbreak Riversurf Contest was held on 24th of June 2012 with a perfect water level of 410cm.

In spite of the late announcement (water level forecast is only possible for a few days) there were 28 surfers. Very good weather condition, too. There were a lot of arials, three-sixties, one-eighties, ollies and other tricks. Finally Flo Wagner beat last contest’s winner Stefan Schafgassner. Third and fourth place went to Wolfgang Taucher and Michael Reitmann. Two girls also took part in the contest. Chrissi Rieger reached place 9 and Lisa “Dr. Lisa” Veith place 16.

Final results Murbreak Surf Contest 2012:

1. Florian Wagner
2. Stefan Schafgassner
3. Wolfgang Taucher
4. Michael Reitmann
5. Alex Schwab
6. Sepp Bauer

7. Paul Sorger & Ralph Weissnegger
9. Chrissi Rieger & Florian Galler
11. Thomas Kugi & Stefan Themessl
13. Paul Stornig, Franz Quehenberger & Niko van Hal
16. Lisa Veith, Tom Staud & Kevin Etheridge
19. Hermann Strauss, Clemens Scarpatetti & Michael Hansmann
22. Georg Dornhofer, Christoph Kaiser & Hannes Herr
25. Matthias Wröhlich, Martin Konrad, Thomas Kaiser & Max Wurm

Judges: Alban, Christoph & Migl.
Sponsors: Blue Tomato, Surf Service Graz & The Chillhouse Bali Surfcamp.

Murbreak 2012 Gallery

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