These certainly aren’t the most typical weather conditions that we usually experience in June. However, being typical Brits, we make the most of all the conditions and still pursue our love of watersports despite the rain…

The rain started on Sunday night… and didn’t stop until late Tuesday night. West Sussex was issued with a severe flooding warning and only essential travel was advised. Simon took heed of this warning and took to his paddleboard to get around the 2XS office and car park.

Do send us any photos you might have of field surfing or paddle boarding/kayaking in urban locations.

 Neal Gent was photographed windsurfing at Joliffe Road riding the storm force winds, amongst many other brave faces battling the winds

There is more unsettled weather forecast for the rest of the week and hopefully we will see you all at WWWC for another windy weekend.

We have had some cranking wind over the last couple of days and here are some of the action photographs shot in the trench at low tide at West Wittering.

Levon, Chris, Ross , Jonny Boys and Pete all enjoying the strong gusty winds. Harty was running a perfect carve gybe course is classic conditions.

Laura, Jonny, Adam, Simon B, Holly Bassett , Kim, Luke, Zander, and Jack Petit were charging down the trench.

 The chairman had been out all afternoon and as we all left, more people turned up to make the most of decent conditions. Even some freestyle action Simon Russell – more wind to come this week!

Summer is just round the corner and we have organized another action packed series of events for the 2012 season at WWWC.

The club opens on 1st march when sunrise is at 6.45am and sunset is at 5.41pm –that’s nearly 11 hours of daylight in the day, ie plenty of time to get your kit out of your garage, find your WWWC bibs, perhaps buy some new kit, fill your freezer with bbq produce, and join us on the beach for what we hope will be the best season yet!

Firstly here are some DATES for your diary:
• Thursday 1st March: Start of 2012 season
– full time rescue starts.
• Sunday 8th April (11am): The Easter Egg Hunt
– come down with the kids and join in the fun!
• Saturday 30th June (6pm): Club BBQ
– bring your food to cook, we supply the drinks
• Saturday 28th July (6pm): Club BBQ
– bring your food to cook, we supply the drinks
• Sunday 29th July (11.30am): Charity paddle race
– from Shore Road to West Wittering (race starts 1pm)
• Saturday 25th August (6pm): Club BBQ
– bring your food to cook, we supply the drinks
• Saturday 6th October (6.30pm): End of Season Dinner
– Crouchers Country Hotel

 

Secondly have a read of the new x-train brochure and the new wwwc brochure.
And thirdly, spaces on the 2012 courses are filling up fast, so make sure you book up as soon as possible.

Did you miss out last year on learning a new sport? If so, then ‘seize the day’ and make sure you book into a beginner course for windsurfing, kitesurfing, powerkiting, surfing or paddlesurfing.

Or have you hit a plateau in your skills base? It is easy to go out on the water and to cruise around in your comfort zone, however it can be difficult to push yourself to learn new things.
In each watersports discipline you can book into any of the following levels of tuition:
• Beginner
• Improver
• Advanced
• One to One
• Pro clinic

And finally, don’t forget about the kids! They are the next generation of rippers so make sure they get off to the best start possible by booking into one of the many ripper courses:
• Rippers Windsurfing
• Little Rippers
• Rippers Advanced
• After school club
• Saturday surf club
• Rippers surfing
• Rippers kitesurfing
• Kids Pro Clinics
• Birthday Parties
• Team 15
• X Rippers(teenage)

Last year we held the first Rippers Freestyle Wave camp, which will be held again on October 27/28th and run by Sam Ross and Jamie Drummond. You can read a write up of the event on our news page here plus a selection of great photos.

And here are some video clips to really get you in the mood for the forth coming season….

Holly Bassett and Reece White – GoPro Playtime at WWWC

Nik And Ant Baker go wave sailing at Witterings

Simon and the BBC

Managed to get some photos of yesterday – there has been a lot of hard charging going on at West Wittering – the weather and temperature has dropped and for the last couple of weeks there has been a relentless pounding, decent waves and strong winds….

The forecast for the last couple of days has been pretty large with expected winds that didn’t quite arrive of up to 80mph.

Good to see so many people braving the winter conditions – seem to have seen Jamie Barrett, Kyle McGinn nearly every time the wind is up; managed to catch yesterday Paul Simmons, Paul Hatton, missed Innes because he was having a big swim bringing his kit in…

Didn’t manage to get photos of Ross and Paddy as they had packed up as I arrived – hope you like the photos!

Here is a link to a movie clip that Dan Sweeney took last week of the Baker Bros at West Wittering.

If you got any good pics of action on the water kite surf windsurf or sup please send them to simon@2xs.co.uk we will put them up.

This week Rob “Chunky” Moss windsurfer sent us some killer shots from Cooden bay East Sussex using a go pro mast mounted camera to this great pic spinning through a back loop.

James Randall at West Wittering had these shots taken by his dad on his new Goya kit.

See the new Goya boards and sails here at our online shop

And a shot from Innes Ross

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..

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…

Francisco Goya headed over to West Wittering Windsurf Club on Saturday 9th July. With the help of Rick from Zero Gravity, he brought a selection of 2011 and 2012 Goya boards and sails for demo.

Francisco and Rick arrived in the early morning and were greeted by warm sunshine and a blissful, summer, 20 knot breeze. It was low tide at West Wittering and the ‘trench’ just inside Chichester Harbour mouth provided some of the best possible demo conditions – 5.3 weather, warm water and hot sunshine!

Francisco Goya has an incredible amount of infectious enthusiasm for the sport and was getting everyone on the water on the new gear, running from sail to sail to make sure that not a single piece of gear went out without him tweaking it to perfection whilst explaining exactly what and why he was doing it.

Francisco headed down to the water to coach the kids from the water’s edge and later mentioned that he couldn’t believe how good the sailing was at West Wittering and how perfect it was for everyone to get out on the water together.

The conditions in West Wittering on days like this are always easy and fun for all – flat water in the lagoons and trench and small waves breaking onto the sandbars for jumping.

The day before, actually made Emile and Rossco’s day when they went sailing with Francisco on 4.2s in nice little waves just in front of West Wittering Windsurf Club (unfortunately everyone was having far too much fun to grab a camera!)

Everyone made the most of the Goya demo gear, which included the Goya 2011 Custom Quads, Goya Ones, Goya FXR freeride boards and 2011 and 2012 Eclipse, Guru and Banzai Sails. 2XS have been selling Goya boards for a while now and will be shortly adding the Goya Sail quiver to the website.

The West Wittering Windsurf Club barbecue was fired up for lunch and Francisco, who is normally nearly vegan, was taken in by the smell of Waitrose finest…

It was a truly great day and one of the best demos we have ever seen. The 60 year age range present gave testament to this and more importantly than anything else, everyone had fun!

Mention has to be made of the West Wittering club member Nick De Candole. In his rush to get out on the water with his hero, not only did he forget to lock his van but also to actually turn the engine off… Nice of him to keep the carpark warm for us all…