National Windsurfing Festival at Hayling Island 2011

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

The Nomad, Crossbow and Switchblade have all been retuned this year. All are lighter in feel for 2012 with improved tuning and balance.

They have improved the 2012 Quick Link kitebar too.

They have a new surfboard construction with a cork laminate as opposed to wood:

As you can see, it’s pretty strong!

There is a new Freeride board called the Transport – an uber-light-wind twin fin board, based on a detuned raceboard.

Witterings Charity Paddle Race 2011 Results

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Surfers Paddle for Charity – Organised by X-Train -2XS and the Shore Surf Club.

Sunday 24th July saw 56 entrants to the Wittering Charity Paddle Race.

Entrants had to paddle against 20 knots of wind from East To West Wittering. The course is just over a mile from East To West Wittering which would normally take (on average) around 20 to 45 mins. However, the windy conditions made it much harder and it took the last competitor just under 2 hours to compete (the fastest time was 24 minutes 39). Even though the conditions were hard, nearly everyone fought on through and there were smiling, happy faces all over the beach at the finish line.

From West Wittering Windsurf Club, it was great to see Oliver Chipperfield and the McKirghans. Emile Kott managed to just squeeze in front of the boss (Simon Bassett) and James Randall managed to beat the old man by a convincing five minutes!

Event Results


The event, which is in its 7th year, brings the surfing community together to raise money for local charities. This year, the charity was The Sussex Snowdrop Trust.

The event raised just over £1000 for the charity and money is still coming in. Everyone involved enjoyed a BBQ at West Wittering Windsurf Club where there was a prize giving at the end of the day.

A lot of people put in a great deal of time to make the event happen, including the Shore Surf Club Team, the WWWC team, Puma Safety, West Wittering Estate Lifeguard.

Thankyou very much to event sponsors 2XS, X-train, The Shore Surf Club, Wittering Surf, Crouchers Country Hotel, The Beach House, Indoboard and Boardshop.co.uk.

The 2012 dates and times will be announced soon on www.2xs.co.uk and www.shoresurfclub.co.uk.

West Wittering Action in July 2011

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I am either suffering from amnesia or we have just had so many good days this July that I can’t remember which day was which. My hands are calloused, my feet leave skin wherever I go and I look like I’ve been tangoed.
There isn’t much story to this blog-entry, we just have a load of photos that we wanted to upload. There is a selection from Holly and Simon Basset, taken from the beach as well as some pretty decent ‘self-love’ GoPro shots from Simon and Stuart Holland on his kite-board.
There has been some standout sailing from all the West Wittering regulars this month. Most notably, the kids have been ripping it up – the Goodwins and Pettits are becoming part of the beach furniture and Holly Bassett has been flying around with a new love for the sport. Jess Napper is pretty much a full time kiter (I think she goes to work in her time-off) and is now showing up some of the boys with her skills. Paul Simmons is getting dangerously close to consistent back loops and Justin Goodwin’s forwards are looking very stylish.