Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Kiwis spitting chips after record pip spit
MANJIMUP'S Clayton Ellis has claimed the national record at the New Zealand Olive Stone Spitting competition.
Mr Ellis spat an olive stone which reached a distance of 12.64m as part of the third annual Hilux New Zealand Rural Games in Palmerston North on March 12.
The distance was not only a national record but a personal best for Mr Ellis, who said his prior record for cherry pip spitting was 10.3m.
Mr Ellis attended the games in New Zealand after winning the Cherry Pip Spitting Competition at the Cherry Harmony Festival last year with a distance of 9.2m.
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The Champ is also in The West
But there's more
Clayton Ellis, Australian cherry stone spitting champion from Manjimup near Perth, became New Zealand olive stone spitting champion in association with Helisolutions and also finished second in the wine barrel racing championship run in association with Property Brokers Palmerston North, behind local man Paul McClutchie.
Monday, December 12, 2016
Sunday, December 04, 2016
Better Bigger Brighter
This year’s Manjimup Cherry Harmony Festival is the 15th.
And they said it would never last.
The spitters will make their mark again, on the tarmac, on
the road, where the pips land.
And don’t forget the first prize in GlobeVista Cherry Pip Spitting
Championship of Australia and All Other Freedom Loving nations of the Entire
Universe is: free ticket to New Zealand to spit on their champs. Sorry, Against
their champs.
This year the local champ will fly to Wellington in March
and spit olive pips. The Big Spit will take place in Palmerston North, a town
once verbally harassed by John Cleese.
But all is forgiven and John will be there to spit along
with the best Australasia has to offer. Okay, maybe I made that up, but he will
be mentioned, there is no doubt.
To spit a pip, be it cherry or olive, makes no difference, a
spit is a spit, by any name.
ARE YOU READY?
THIS years festival will be different.
The usuals will take place and even new stuff.
We have been challenged.
Accepted.
Be prepared.
The usuals will take place and even new stuff.
We have been challenged.
Accepted.
Be prepared.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Monday, December 21, 2015
Thursday, December 17, 2015
THE WORLD RECORD?
UNBELIEVABLE
The longest spit of a cherry stone in competition is 28.51 m (93 ft 6.5 in) by Brian "Young Gun" Krause (USA) at the International Cherry Pit-Spitting Championship at Eau Claire, Michigan, USA in 2004. On the same day in the freestyle competition he spat a stone 33.62 m (110 ft 4 in).
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/cherry-stone-spitting-greatest-distance
The longest spit of a cherry stone in competition is 28.51 m (93 ft 6.5 in) by Brian "Young Gun" Krause (USA) at the International Cherry Pit-Spitting Championship at Eau Claire, Michigan, USA in 2004. On the same day in the freestyle competition he spat a stone 33.62 m (110 ft 4 in).
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/cherry-stone-spitting-greatest-distance
Friday, December 04, 2015
Thursday, December 03, 2015
YES, IT'S SPITTIN' TIME AGAIN!
What can we expect this year?
The big spitting Clint World's Best Practice Thomson will be back to defend his Globe Vista Australasian Championship belt.
They sent this bloke, Mike Wardill (right), a couple of years ago and he did fine but this year, guess what, Two Big Guys.
Shane and Jack Jordan know how to chop, spit, and talk.
Back home in Taranaki Jack should be mayor and if he wasn't so young, he would be.
Steve Hollander from Hilux New Zealand Rural Games said Shane and Jack could do anything - play rugby, cricket, arm wrestle, even bake a pavlova.
This is Jack Jordan.
LET THE SPIT OFF BEGIN!
To watch Shane Jordan rip threw a log, go here:
And don;t forget to go here to check out the general news.
Cherry Festival Latest
The big spitting Clint World's Best Practice Thomson will be back to defend his Globe Vista Australasian Championship belt.
They sent this bloke, Mike Wardill (right), a couple of years ago and he did fine but this year, guess what, Two Big Guys.Shane and Jack Jordan know how to chop, spit, and talk.
Back home in Taranaki Jack should be mayor and if he wasn't so young, he would be.
Steve Hollander from Hilux New Zealand Rural Games said Shane and Jack could do anything - play rugby, cricket, arm wrestle, even bake a pavlova.
This is Jack Jordan.LET THE SPIT OFF BEGIN!
To watch Shane Jordan rip threw a log, go here:
And don;t forget to go here to check out the general news.
Cherry Festival Latest
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
MANJIMUP
SATURDAY
13/12/14
THE new GlobeVista Australian Cherry Pip Spitting Champions previous winner Clint "Howling Wind" Thompson.
He won it last two years ago and came back this year a dark and quiet horse but once that pip was clean and ready it went like a bullet.
Next year, 2015, Clint will spit off in Queenstown for the right to say: "I am the Champ of the Southern Hemisphere."
It won't be easy. The New Zealanders not only have a buoyant economy, they have a way with the cherry stone.
These two idiots (below) called the big event and had to work on their feet when a spitter caught a small child on the side of the head and very nearly removed his ear.
In Manjimup, health and safety is never forgotten and ambulance officers raced to the scene and stretchered off Doust (he's the old one with the beard) after they found him gasping, coughing and wobbly on his feet.
You want to see footage? (There will be more later.)
Click here
Organisers are saying it was the biggest festival yet and no better example than the 3000 standing gawking at grown people spit.
SATURDAY
13/12/14
THE new GlobeVista Australian Cherry Pip Spitting Champions previous winner Clint "Howling Wind" Thompson.
He won it last two years ago and came back this year a dark and quiet horse but once that pip was clean and ready it went like a bullet.
Next year, 2015, Clint will spit off in Queenstown for the right to say: "I am the Champ of the Southern Hemisphere."
It won't be easy. The New Zealanders not only have a buoyant economy, they have a way with the cherry stone.
These two idiots (below) called the big event and had to work on their feet when a spitter caught a small child on the side of the head and very nearly removed his ear.
In Manjimup, health and safety is never forgotten and ambulance officers raced to the scene and stretchered off Doust (he's the old one with the beard) after they found him gasping, coughing and wobbly on his feet.
You want to see footage? (There will be more later.)
Click here
Organisers are saying it was the biggest festival yet and no better example than the 3000 standing gawking at grown people spit.
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Cherry Pip Spitting at it's best!
MANJIMUP
December, 2014.
On Saturday the 13th it will be someone's lucky day. Lucky because no-one can tell in the spitting game - one spitter who spat 13 metres in a heat will choke and only manage 10 in the final.
It has happened. And this year will not feature the current Australasian Champion, New Zealand's Mike "Wide Mouth" Wardill.
Not only will Mike stay home, he will keep his son, Bob "The Blaster", who was poised to pip the spit of his dad.
Over the ditch there are moves and shifts and changes and we can expect a contender to head to Manjimup for the 2015 season.
This year contenders will face the current Australian Champ, Manjimup's very own Adam "Atomic" Buckley. Adam has been hard at it all year to improve his technique and is disappointed that the "Wide Mouth" will not be challenging him on the 13th.
Once again thousand will flock to West Australia's food bowl in the Southern Forests and around 2000 will stand stunned in the main street of Manjimup and watch grown men and women spit their hearts out to win the Globe Vista trip of a life-time - a ticket to Queenstown, New Zealand, and a spit off against the "Wide Mouth" and his fast developing son, "The Blaster".
You looking for details?
Go here:
http://www.cherryfestival.com.au/
Friday, January 10, 2014
Home town advantage
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Spitting titleholder's family has talent
Cromwell cherry stone spitter Mike Wardill successfully defended his national title on the weekend and it seems his family is set to follow in his footsteps.
With a winning spit of 12.09m, Mr Wardill smashed his previous record of 11.5m and outspat the Australasian champ Adam Buckley, of Manjimup, by just better than 2m.
Mr Buckley had beaten Mr Wardill at the Australasian championships held during the Manjimup Harmony Cherry Festival in Western Australia about three weeks ago and travelled to Cromwell to compete in the New Zealand competition on Saturday.
Mr Wardill's son Bob (13) had also travelled to Manjimup, winning the junior category there.
He repeated that win on Saturday with a spit of 8.91m while sister Anna (12) won the junior female category with a spit of 5.87m.
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