November 2008

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 There’s no denying it: over the last few years we’ve seen a near complete reversal of fortune regarding budget accommodation in Newquay. Once, if you wandered down Headland Road, you’d find a colourful world of surfers, travellers, hippies and regular tourists all mingling and hanging out in the backpackers and surf lodges down there. The [...]

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Here is some footage I captured on my Olympus waterproof camera. I just had a great waveriding session myself at Daymer Bay, and grabbed a few clips of Smiler kitesurfing on what must be the longest wave in Cornwall…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg8OsqEzjus
Just look how nice and mellow that wave is! On a northerly wind, the swell cleans up [...]

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 ***EDIT NEWSFLASH*** Check the heavy handed aggression from HHML and their DOG  – Coodes Solicitors!! (I fucking hate Coodes for what it is worth) http://www.skyhooked.co.uk/?p=77 Talk about censorship and blocking freedom of speech! My god it’s just like 1984. Why can’t HHL just send a letter to the BKSA themselves? COWARDS WHO DON’T UNDERSTAND THE OCEAN. [...]

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Following on from the post below about old school landboaring images. This first one was taken by Si Mitchell (www.noseriders.com). He’s a great mate and also the editor of Powerkite magazine and one of the most prolific kiting photographers in the UK. He also has his own online longboarding magazine, www.corduroylines.com. So anyway, this was [...]

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I was browsing www.kitegallery.net the other day – hat’s off to the guy behind that site – Craig Sparkes (www.craigsparkes.com) . It’s not as busy as it used to be, I suppose people have youtube when they wan’t to post videos of themselves and flickr for their photos. Also most of the people that are [...]

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The last few days I’ve been testing kites like mad for Kitesurf mag and we couldn’t have had better conditions for it. Strong north winds have been blowing down here in Cornwall and Daymer Bay and Hawkers cove have been lighting up. The crew from Edge – Eric and Steph Bridge were down one day [...]

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Hi crew
These are the new dates for the land based power kite instructor course, originally penned in for the 20th – 22nd December. I’ve had to change the dates, and I forthrightly apologise for this – because I had already booked (long ago) to go to a wedding of a friend on the 20th December, so yes [...]

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 The BKSA (British Kitesurfing Association) have picked up the reigns on the land based instruction tip after the BPKA (British Power Kite Association – yes it is confusing!) fell silent for too long. The BPKA used to run these courses, and I was the regional examiner for the South West and conducted many of them myself. I [...]