It’s official: West Wittering has been named by The Sunday Times to be one of the top 50 British Beaches. We sat down with nice cup of coffee and read the whole article and were very pleased that 2XS had a mention! West Wittering, West Sussex The privately owned West Wittering beach is West Sussex’s […]
We have had some great surf in the past week and the X-Train Team (Simon, Holly & Rossco) have been making the most of it. The sand bars have moved around in front of the club giving us some great left handers. Pics are from Simon Bassett and Dave Gammon..
It has been a long time since the wind has blown – but since last week the wind has returned and the love for the ocean is now back on! Got some pics – it looked like so many people have been out – Kyle, Neal, Emile, Hatton, Rossco, Jake, Gert, Chris Hayes, Sam […]
Hard to believe how radical the waves were. Between the sets you see just the mast tips!
I watched Randall, Emile and Ian Whittaker linking up between 5 and 6 big turns then the big lip hit.
The current was full throttle the guys were getting properly pounded when they got it wrong.
Good to see the Joliffe road posse Dave Gammon, Paul Metcalfe, Ian and Raggi travelling West for some wave action.
Here’s Emiles comments on the session:
I turned up at West Wittering expecting to go for a paddleboard – the surf was looking very nice. Walked from the van to the clubhouse and Rossco pointed out that it was about 18-20 knots and cross-off so we might be able to go for a sail!
I grabbed the Goya Custom Quad 94 and Banzai 5.0 and jumped in the water (is there a better float-and-ride combo?)
When we first hit the water, the tide was still strong and the wind was very light. Randall and I wobbled out the back, with a fair bit of swimming. We then had to sail straight downwind to stay out of the harbour! In the beaming sunshine, we caught a bunch of waves each before anyone else hit the water. I had never seen West Wittering like this – perfect sunshine, clean head-high waves, cross-off and a very nice bowling inside section! The best thing was that you never actually had to sail upwind – the tide did that for you. At one point, when the wind went really light, we both actually had to walk downwind.
All the boys showed up within half an hour and the wind picked up enough for it to be really nice – everyone was smiling in disbelief at the conditions.
I have lived and sailed in the Witterings for the last 15 years and I have NEVER had conditions like this….
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Another awesome session at West Wittering – the hammer had been down all week with the wind and surf – the sun popped its head out and pics look good –more westerly direction and that classic West Wittering swell.
Loads of riders out Mark and Tim perry (new father Tim taking a few waves before baby duty), Paul Simmons,J ack Pettit ripping into some decent chunks and Dad Grahame giving it large.
Xav Tournambe, Driss Arissa, Stu Holland, Ollie Sargent all tearing it up. Paul Hatton, Sam Fishbourne, Alex Mckirgan and James Arnell Smith (who has been working hard with home work) getting some rocket air. Even the legend of the 90’s Jamie Hawkins was out there ripping.
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