Jobs at X-Train, West Wittering for 2014

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We are looking for experienced Instructors to work for X-train, West Wittering beach – if you have a seasons abroad experience would be helpful and have a real passion for watersports and want to be involved in running our windsurfing club and tuition centre at West Wittering.

You will need to have good people skills and enjoy working with customers of all ages.

You will be based on the beach at West Wittering where you will be involved in looking after club members, tuition and dealing with rescue and safety.

We have a full RRD, Ezzy Test/Hire Centre plus Goya and the latest kitesurfing kit from RRD, surfing, SUP from Fanatic and kids windsurf equipment. We also run one of the most progressive windsurfing/kitesurfing/sup/surf schools in the UK and we are developing new teaching methods as well as new format courses. We were also the first stand-up paddle school in Britain.

We teach kids from 5 years old – surfing, paddle surfing, windsurf and kitesurfing. We also run pro clinics with Pete Hart and Sam Ross, demo days and wave and freestyle events.

You will also be involved in selling kit from www.2xs.co.uk

The roles we are looking to fill:

Windsurf instructor – 1st March till October 31st 2014

Kite surf instructor – 1st March till October 31st 2014

Windsurf instructor – June till September

Windsurf instructor – July until September
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We will provide training plus its a definite advantage if you have multi sport instructor qualifications. You will need to have all your relevant certificates up to date including First Aid, Powerboat and your teaching certificates.

We will also be offering internships for 2014 so if have a passion for watersports and want to get qualified we will consider applicants who want to work and develop skills and qualifications during the season.

We also offer schools and colleges work placements and Duke of Edinburgh work experience .

Please send your CV to Simon Bassett on 0774 775 8883 or 01243 512552 or email him on simon@2xs.co.uk.

2013 WWWC Club Awards

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We had our annual club awards this year at The lamb Inn on the road to West Wittering.

Jim who with his business partner took over the pub last December has done a great job there and he and his team looked after us extremely well.

Jeff played some top tunes on his guitar all evening and along with the great food we had a good evening.
The place was complete with loads of club members and legends of the 90’s Stu Holland, Jamie Hawkins as well Neal Gent and Jem Hall.

The Graham Strudwick Windsurfing award –was between Francis Goodwin and Danny Smith –Francis cliched the deal with his performance in force 9 at high tide last weekend.

The WWWC kitesurfing award – John Hamer, Mike Black and Simon Russell were nominated –Simon Russell was the the winner.

The Lisa Furlong Rippers trophy – always a hard one for us as we have some many good kids out in the water –Alex Mckirgan (2nd Am in Baja AWT tour); Jack Pettit (1st place NWF Hayling) and Jenna Pettit who has put a lot of effort into her windsurfing.

Jack Pettit clinched it for his improved windsurfing and really going for it in the surf!! ..

Save £££’s on Quatro KT at 2XS – normally £1499 now £1199 (while stocks last)

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The Quad KT 2013 in red neon or green neon – wave

Keith Teboul’s signature quad wave board. Hard core wave sailing has transformed, and the designs of Keith Teboul are a leading revolution. The Quad KT represents Keith’s personal preferences about what a trus hardcore wave board should be.
What has been a rarity is now the new standard. The all new Quad KT board designs move through the water like modern high performance surf boards with fast, full rail and tight radious turns. This positive rail set allows you to finish your turns completely and with speed in the most critical sections, resulting in fluid and fast lines through areas of the wave rarely visited before.
TEST COMMENTS:
Windsurf Magazine “You’ll like…..everything about this board”
Boardseeker “the best bottom turn in the business” ..

2012 Demo Kit Up For Grabs

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We are busy putting together the Demo Kit Sale List for all the 2012 Kit we have down at the beach at West Wittering.

To reserve an item we need a 30% deposit now and you can collect your new “toy” at the end of October when we shut down.

Sails:

Ezzy Wave Tiger 3.7m (x2) £275
Ezzy Wave Tiger 4.2m (x2) £285
Ezzy Wave Tiger 4.7m (x2) £295
Ezzy Wave Tiger 5.2m (x2) £305
Ezzy Wave Tiger 5.8m (x2) £315
Ezzy Wave Tiger 6.3m (x2) £325
Ezzy Cheetah 7m £350

Boards:
RRD FSW 96 Ltd £929
RRD FSW 90 Ltd £929
RRD FSW 84 Ltd £915
RRD Firestorm 138 Ltd £1049
RRD Firemove 110 Ltd £949
RRD Firemove 100 Ltd £899

SUPS:
RRD 11′ Wassup 2011 £499
RRD 11′ Wassup 2012 £550
Fanatic All Wave 8’10 2012 £599
Fanatic All Wave 9’2 2012 £625
Nah Skwell 9’7 2011 £600
Drops 8’6 2012 £699

Booms:
Chinook 135-197 Pro 1 Alloy Wave Boom 2012 (x8) £99
Chinook 150-212 Pro 1 Alloy Slalom Boom 2012 (x1) £99

Kiteboards:
RRD Asso Pigliatuttu 2012 £450
RRD Style 41 2012 £499

There is more to follow – masts from Ezzy, kites from RRD will be posted up next week.

Either call Chris at the beach on 01243 513077 or Jane at the Office on 01243 512552

Demo Frenzy this week @ West Wittering

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Laylo Goya will be coming to West Wittering today, Monday 10 September with the 2013 Goya boards ,Goya 2013 sails and Quattro boards we have wind so if you fancy coming down for a test drive please let us know –we will also have the latest Goya range of of quads, thrusters and freestyle models plus the new Banzaii.   If want to organise a demo please call Simon 0774 775 8883 – we are expecting him midday at the beach .

On Weds this week- Dave White will be turning up with the new 2013 RRD cult range plus RRD sails – we have here the new Ezzy Elite’s again if you fancy a test drive please call me 0774 775 8883

Chris and I will be on the beach so see you there –we will also be having a Dan Sweeny RRD kite demo and Chris Martin from Cabrinha and Nik Baker from North Fanatic. ..

Sail For Gold Prepare Series at Weymouth

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Had a chance to get down to Weymouth Portland harbour to check out The Sail for Gold Regatta which is one of the final International sailing events pre the Olympics.

Prosport sunscreen is involved as one of the Team GBR official supplier and myself and Rich Marsh went down to check the event out and meet some pro sailor.

We were expecting a nice sunny day out on a rib and some corporate hospitality, however, what we got was force 6, heavy rain and poor visibility. It felt like someone had unleashed a fire hose on our rib as we sat in Portland Harbour.

We had the chance to watch the RSX mens and ladies course racing, I have to say I was very impressed with the really high standard of the women who were hanging onto 8m+ rigs in really hard conditions and the speed and skill that these athletes have in competing in really strong wind conditions. We saw Bryony Shaw charging around the circuit as well as in the Mens Fleet, Britain’s Olympic medalist Nick Dempsey.

When the Mens Fleet went out the top end speed some of these guys were getting on boards not being renowned as ‘being the fastest’ was pretty spectacular.

We also saw some of the Finn Class start their racing but the visibility was so poor we could only see a couple of hundred metres into the mist. We also saw Ben Ainsley and Ian Gibson leave the shoreline heading out into some pretty strong stormy winds.

While we were in the Team GBR hospitality tent which felt like it was going to take off – we met with Pippa Wilson a Gold Medalist at the Beijing Games who told us about her experiences at the Olympics and the training involved to get there.

We hope Pippa will be coming down to the beach at West Wittering over the summer where she is going to learn to paddle surf providing we can supply the sunshine!!

Visit the Prosport Website ..

Rippers Camp round up

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The last weekend in October we had our Rippers Freestyle Wave Camp, hosted at West Wittering Windsurfing Club with Sam Ross and Rossco Moore.

The weekend kicked off early Saturday morning and the concept is a mixture of fitness, freestyle technique and wave sailing technique. Sam Ross who is one of the most energetic instructors in the UK delivered the course with Rossco from X-train.

The group was warmed up then did dry land drills and then spent the rest of the time out on the water as the wind picked up and the tide changed developing new skills to take their windsurfing to the next level.

On the second day of the course, Julian Du Vall and Trevor Funnell from the UKWA came over and explained how Freestyle Comps worked, judging, about starts and competition zones and held a “mini comp” on Sunday afternoon in pretty light and difficult conditions.

Jamie Drummond, Adam Sims were on hand over the weekend inspiring the new crew with reasons why you should take up windsurfing to a higher level. James Randall also helped with the judging at the mini event.

A big thanks to Chris Rainbow, James Randall, Rossco Moore, Sam Ross, Trevor Funnell and Julian Du Vall; also thanks to Ion, Seasprite and 2XS who gave us some goodies to hand out.

Next years date: 27/28 October 2012 – if you like what you see, get yourself booked on!!!! Contact: Simon@2xs.co.uk

Holly Bassett has put together this video which really sums up the action and fun we had over the weekend.