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Rippers Freestyle Wave Camp 29th 30th October 2011 at West Wittering Beach

Posted on 5th October 2011 by Emile Kott

We are running a Rippers Freestyle wave camp 29th-30th October at West Wittering beach.

It is designed for young guns who can plane on their short boards and waterstart who are looking to develop skills to take them to next level.

The course will be full-on and fun for the 2 days with early starts and will incorporate:

-developing new manoeuvres

-learning about competing in wave and freestyle

-fitness-mental focus

-kit tuning

-technique and a mini comp on the second day.

There will be a push to try new manoeuvres and develop the next techniques and drills to take your windsurfing forward. We hope to inspire the next level of freestyle wave sailors.

We will be having some guest stars inc Jamie Drummond, Adam Simms and others to turn up during the weekend to chat about there competition experience and give some advice. Sam Ross (PWA freestyle judge top freestyle sailor and RYA coach) will taking the rippers course, along with X-train Team Chris Rainbow, Roscoe Moore ,Simon Bassett.

There will be still photos and video analysis. If there is a shortage of wind we will concentrate on developing light wind skills-fitness and SUP and equipment tuning. Saturday

Day 1

Arrive at beach – register –

8.00 am Briefing – outline plan to parents and groups

8.15 Kit rigged and warm up and hit the water

8.30 Session 1 on water Freestyle fundamentals and transitions upwind moves-switch stance – downwind moves

12.00 Lunch

2.45pm Session 2 on water Wave session getting though surf Jumping and riding the wave

3.00pm Off water / warm down

3.30pm Video debrief of water sessions

5.00pm End of day Sunday

Day 2

8.15am Warm up session /hit water

8.30am On water freestyle recap and new moves

10.00pm Comp rules and how to start/finish

12.00pm Lunch

12.45pm First comp heats

3.0pm Finals

3.30pm Video debrief

5.00pm Prize giving

What you need to bring:

winter suits

winter boots

hoods

towels

warm clothing

woolly hat

windsurf kit 100 to 90 ltr and appropriate sails sizes

Lunch and snacks and soft drinks

(If you have SUPS please bring them)

Also bring your running shoes, shorts and tees.

See West Wittering in action http://www.2xs.co.uk/news/index.asp#201

We will provide hot showers changing rooms, light wind gear, SUPS, surfboards

High tide 1.45 sat High tide 1.30 (clocks change Sat night)

HOW TO BOOK please call Chris Rosco or Simon at X-train West Wittering 01243 513077 info@x-train.co.uk

The cost of the course will be £120 inc a free tee shirt.

X-train Rippers Freestyle wave camp is supported by 2XS -RRD –EZZY- ION -NORTH -FANATIC BOARDS- BOARDSEEKER-WINDSURF..

RRD/EZZY Demo Kit For Sale

Posted on 21st September 2011 by Emile Kott

The 2011 season is nearly coming to an end and are selling off the 2011 ex-demo kit.

Our season finishes at the end of October and all the kit will be available to take home on this date. But to secure your bargain, you can put down a 50% deposit on items to reserve them.

Please email sales@2xs.co.uk to place your order (stating item number and description)

WINDSURF BOARDS

1) 2011 Quatro Tempo 84 £899
2) 2011 RRD Fireride 135 £759
3) 2011 RRD FSW Ltd 120 £923
4) 2011 RRD FSW Ltd 111 £923
5) 2011 RRD FSW Ltd 101 £889
6) 2011 RRD FSW Ltd 96 £889
7) 2011 RRD FSW Ltd 91 £889
8) 2011 RRD Wave Cult 83 Single £889

WINDSURF SAILS
1) 2011 Ezzy Freeride 7.5m £339
2) 2011 Ezzy Wave Panther 3 6.3m £319
3) 2011 Ezzy Wave Panther 3 6.3m £319
4) 2011 Ezzy Wave Panther 3 5.8m £309
5) 2011 Ezzy Wave Panther 3 5.8m £309
6) 2011 Ezzy Wave Panther 3 5.2m £299
7) 2011 Ezzy Wave Panther 3 5.2m £299
8) 2011 Ezzy Wave Panther 3 4.7m £291
9) 2011 Ezzy Wave Panther 3 4.7m £291
10) 2011 Ezzy Wave Panther 3 4.2m £284
11) 2011 Ezzy Wave Panther 3 4.2m £284
12) 2011 Ezzy Wave Panther 3 3.7m £279
13) 2011 Ezzy Wave Panther 3 3.7m £279

WINDSURF BOOMS
1) 2011 Chinook Pro 1 Wave £95
2) 2011 Chinook Pro 1 Wave £95
3) 2011 Chinook Pro 1 Wave £95
4) 2011 Chinook Pro 1 Wave £95
5) 2011 Chinook Pro 1 Wave £95
6) 2011 Chinook Pro 1 Wave £95
7) 2011 Chinook Pro 1 Slalom £95
8) 2011 Chinook Slalom Alloy £89
9) 2011 Chinook Slalom Alloy £89
10) 2011 Chinook Wave Alloy £89
11) 2011 Chinook Wave Alloy £89
12) 2011 Chinook Wave Alloy £89

WINDSURF MASTS
1) 2011 Ezzy Mast 460 complete £278
2) 2011 Ezzy Mast 430 complete £268
3) 2011 Ezzy Mast 430 complete £268
4) 2011 Ezzy Mast 430 complete £268
5) 2011 Ezzy Mast 430 complete £268
6) 2011 Ezzy Mast 430 top only £134
7) 2011 Ezzy Mast 430 top only £134
8) 2011 Ezzy Mast 400 complete £258
9) 2011 Ezzy Mast 400 complete £258
10) 2011 Ezzy Mast 400 base only £129
11) 2011 Ezzy Mast 400 base only £129
12) 2011 Ezzy Mast 370 complete £248
13) 2011 Ezzy Mast 370 complete £248
14) 2011 Ezzy Mast 370 top only £124
15) 2011 Ezzy Mast 370 top only £124
16) 2011 Ezzy Mast 340 base only £120
17) 2011 Ezzy Mast 340 base only £120

KITES
1) 2011 RRD Passion 5m comp £573
2) 2011 RRD Passion 5m comp £573
3) 2011 RRD Passion 7m comp £608
4) 2011 RRD Passion 7m comp £608
5) 2011 RRD Passion 9m comp £643
6) 2011 RRD Passion 9m comp £643
7) 2011 RRD Obsession 7m comp £647
8) 2011 RRD Obsession 9m comp £683
9) 2011 RRD Obsession 10.5m comp £727
10) 2011 RRD Obsession 12m comp £752
11) 2011 RRD Vision 10.5m comp £707
12) 2011 RRD Vision 9m comp £668
13) 2011 RRD Vision 9m comp £668
14) 2011 RRD Vision 7m comp £723

KITE BOARDS
1) 2011 RRD Placebo 43 £279
2) 2011 RRD Placebo 43 £279
3) 2011 RRD Placebo 41 £279
4) 2011 RRD Placebo 41 £279
5) 2011 RRD Placebo 41 £279
6) 2011 RRD Camo Poison 42 £319
7) 2011 RRD Poison Ltd 42 £349

PADDLE SURF BOARDS
1) 2011 RRD Wassup 11′ £669
2) 2011 RRD Wassup 11′ £669
3) 2011 RRD Wassup 11′ £669
4) 2011 Nah Skwell 9’3 £749
5) 2011 Surftech Laird Softops 11’6 £505
6) 2011 Surftech Laird Softops 11’6 £505
7) 2011 Surftech Laird Softops £505
8) 2011 Surftech Blacktip 9’0 £250

SURFBOARDS
1) 2011 NSP Surf Series 6.7 £100
2) 2011 NSP Surf Series 7.7 £110
3) 2011 NSP Surf Series 7.7 £110
4) 2011 NSP Surf Series 8.8 £120
5) 2011 NSP Surf Series 8.8 £120

KAYAKS
1) 2011 Ocean Duo double kayak £489
2) 2011 Ocean Duo double kayak £489
3) 2011 Ocean Duo double kayak £489
4) 2011 Ocean Duo Mambo single kayak £345
5) 2011 Ocean Duo Mambo single kayak £345

KIDS WINDSURF RIGS
1) 2011 Hot Sails Maui 1.6m £120
2) 2011 Hot Sails Maui 1.6m £140
3) 2011 Hot Sails Maui 1.2m £140
4) 2011 Hot Sails Maui 1.6m £160
5) 2011 Hot Sails Maui 1.2m £160
6) 2011 Hot Sails Maui 1.2m £120
7) 2011 Hot Sails Maui 2.1m £170
8) 2011 Hot Sails Maui 2.1m £170

TRAINER KITES
1) 2011 RRD Easykiter £264
2) 2011 Flexifoil 3m Atom complete £208
3 2011 Flexifoil 3m Atom kite only £180

Windy Freestyle Session at West Wittering Beach

Posted on 21st September 2011 by Emile Kott

We have had some pretty decent sessions this season. And last Monday was another epic day at West Wittering with decent waves at high tide and great flat water conditions in the Wittering trench.

The freestyle boys turned up fresh from Windfest at Poole – Chris Muzza Murray, Sam Ross, Max Rowe, John from the beach, Jamie Drummond, and John Palmer were all out ripping on the trench. People on the beach stood by the lagoon watching the new school freestyle action. Max Rowe said on the beach that he had one of best freestyle sessions of the year due the super strong winds and flat water.

Dave White (editor of boards mag and production speed record holder) and his son Reece was also out ripping at high and low tide. Dave also went sailing with Holly after she got back from school where she undertook her first mission above 35 knots!

Nik Baker turned up at high tide and brought with him the new Fanatic 2012 Quad and North Hero for a test drive (we will feature more about the gear test later).

Loads of people from the club were in on the action: Levon on his 5m kite, Paul Simmons, Inness, Jonny Boyce, Roul, Kev, John and Ru Hamer. Chris Rosco and Grahme P hit the late low tide and had themselves a good wave session.

Here are a couple video clips to tease you further if you didnt get out on the water..

SUP SESSION

Posted on 21st September 2011 by Emile Kott

Last Thursday summer arrived with a small swell between the windy fronts that have been battering the beach for the last few months. It was super smooth waves on Berties reef at West Wittering, downwind of the windsurf club.

West Wittering felt like Malibu really warm nice waves no wind a perfect Sup session plenty of folks riding long boards.

Don’t forget if fancy trying paddle boarding or want to learn wave riding on your SUP contact Simon who can help if you fancy trying this simon@2xs.co.uk or we rent direct from the windsurf club.

Day of Watersports Joy – West Wittering Beach

Posted on 13th September 2011 by Emile Kott

Some days it is great just being on the water. And sunday was just one of those fine days. It wasn’t just good, it was EPIC! People were out on the water from early doors all way through the tide until the last ounch of low tide. There were some decent chunks at high tide and at low tide the lagoon was like a flat-water speed track.

Loads of people were out and it was great to see how many kids on the water. Justin’s crowd, Jack and Jenna, James and Alex ripping up at high tide, Holly the Bassett was out at mid tide getting some top tips from ex British champ Julian Anderson. Jules managed to clock 35 knots on his wave board yesterday!!!

There was plenty of kite action going on with Stu ripping some holes in the surf – Pete Swan had so much action he couldn’t take any more….

A big thanks to Innes for rescuing Rob Langley who was about to have a long swim – Rosco had to launch the Jet Ski to pull in a drowned kiter.

Here is video link of some freestyle action of last week…

To enlarge the video – hover your mouse over the image and click on the full screen button/arrows

National Windsurfing Festival at Hayling Island 2011

Posted on 7th September 2011 by Emile Kott

NATIONAL WINSURFING FESTIVAL – Hayling Island

The NWF at Hayling Island saw a good crew from the windsurf club in action. As usual the reports from the event were excellent – organised by Allan Cross who has really put this event on the map for windsurfing each September.

Visit the Boards Mpora to see the entire gallery of shots.

The Goodwin’s, Petits, James Arnell Smith, and Julian Anderson all were involved in the racing over two days. This also included a night event and party.

In the under Turbo 15s class 1ts place was overall by Emily Goodwin, 2nd Jack Petit, 4th James Arnell Smith, Graeme came 14th in the free ride fleet, and Julian Anderson came 12 in the pro fleet.

Part of the night time event was a relay with a pro –James was with John Skye, Jack with Ben Profit and Emily with Saskia – Jack won the event with Ben and I think everyone had a great time.
Rohan Goodwin came in 4th in the free ride fleet and Francis was fully on it in the mosh pit until closing time at the party.

Roberto visits Wittering to demo the 2012 RRD gear

Posted on 7th September 2011 by Emile Kott

ROBERTO RICCI

Had chance to meet up with Roberto at the Seasprite warehouse to check out the new toys and look at the new RRD freestyle waves – New 100 ltr contest – New RRD religion – New RRD kite wave boards and the new -carbon autoclave 10 knot light wind twin tip.

Roberto also showed us the new SUPER Sup and talked through the new design concepts of all the gear. I will be testing out some of the new freestyle waves 2012 editions – Neal will be getting the new 2012 religions and James on the beach will have the new Obsession Pro on test later next week.

The RRD team dropped down to the beach last Friday to show off the new gear before heading off to the National Windsurf Festival at Hayling Island.
Neal, John Skye, Rosco, Chris, Jem, and Roberto all came to WWWC to before the wind arrived to bring some new RRD toys down to the test centre.

RRD 2012 LAUNCH -ROBERTO RICCI @ 2XS WEST WITTERING FRIDAY 2nd SEPT

Posted on 24th August 2011 by Emile Kott

RRD 2012 LAUNCH -ROBERTO RICCI @ 2XS WEST WITTERING FRIDAY 2nd SEPT

We are very pleased to announce that Roberto Ricci will coming to the UK and will be visiting 2XS and X-train – he will be launching 2012 new RRD product at WWWC -West Wittering – the RRD EZZY test centre.

Roberto will have the new 2012 RRD Freestyle Waves, Contest Quad Wave, The New RRD SUP and the new 2012 RRD Kites The Religion 2 – The new Obsession Pro and Obsession MKIV – RRD kite wave boards – the new 10 Knots LTD.

Roberto will be on hand to answer any questions and will introduce the new RRD toys.

Neal Gent RRD 2XS team rider- Chris Rainbow, Rossco Moore, James Crowe from 2XS and X-Train will be on hand to help with any enquiries.

It will be at West Wittering Beach at the windsurf club WWWC .

http://www.x-train.co.uk/about-west-wittering-windsurf-club/location/

The RRD launch will be on Friday 2nd September Starts 4pm BBQ 6.pm finish 7pm -we are providing free barbie and beers all you have to do is pay your car parking on the beach

Please can you let simon@2xs.co.uk know if you would like to attend or call the beach on 01243 513077 01243 513077 .www.2xs.co.uk

The ISAF Team Try Kitesurfing At West Wittering Windsurf Club

Posted on 26th July 2011 by Emile Kott

We were really pleased to host The British Kitesurf Association with the team from ISAF for kitesurfing lessons.

ISAF, based in Southampton, are the International Sailing Federation (the FIFA of sailing world) who have taken on Kitesurfing as the extreme end of sailing and looking worldwide to organise world class events and possibly add kitesurfing as a class in the Olmypics. This is a big deal for kitesurfing
as a sport and we were very pleased they chose X-train and West Wittering as a location.

Kitesurfing originally became a class of ISAF in order to claim the sailing world speed record in 2008. This record was then increased again by Rob Douglas in 2010 (56.65 knots)

Since Kitesurfing took the outright world speed sailing record in 2008, kitesurfing became a class of ISAF to claim the record.This record was increased again by Rob Douglas

We had a cracking team on hand for the coaching, including Kirsten Borse (4 times world kitesurfing champion), Ellie and Myles from Easy Riders in Poole and James Crowe from X-Train West Wittering.

Richard Gowers, the chairman of the BKSA was also on had not help. He commented “It’s great to see the ISAF team trying kitesurfing – we want them to understand the kitesurf experience and enjoy it!”

Tamsin, Q, Al, Dan and Clive were put through their paces with an initial power-kite session in the field at West Wittering beach and then straight out into the shallow, tidal lagoon for some body dragging sessions. The wind was light – about 10 to 15 knots and there was plenty of flat water. The conditions gave every chance of progress to board skills, edging and getting up for the first time to get the real kitesurfing experience.

The second day was not so windy. Everyone had a SUP session in the morning, followed by a second kitesurfing session in the afternoon.

Thanks to X-Train and West Wittering Windsurf Club for hosting the event.

Cabrinha 2012 Kites and Kiteboards

Posted on 26th July 2011 by Emile Kott

Here is a sneak preview of all of the 2012 Cabrinha kite and kiteboard gear. New boards, new kites and new kite bars.

Cabrinha have a very nice looking set of new graphics for 2012 and a couple of new models called the Vector and Drifter. The Vector is a surf and freeride kite and the Drifter is a pure surf orientated kite. Both of the kites are 3-strut designs.