December 2008

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Check out the new page on my blog: http://www.skyhooked.co.uk/?page_id=89. Since I closed the doors on the Skypark two years ago, there seems to be a real lack of power kiting, landboarding, buggying and kitesurfing lessons in Cornwall. Well maybe not so much kitesurfing, as Will Bennet of Atlantic Riders has been doing a cracking job with [...]

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Check out this shot of Crantock Beach mid winter. It’s empty and packed with powerful swell lines, but the first thing that springs to mind isn’t how much fun it would be to jump in and surf but rather how uninvitingly cold it is. Winter brings the best surfing and kitesurfing conditions to Cornwall, but do we [...]

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No one can escape the ever-present sense of doom thanks to our over active media reporting on every single facet of the widening global recession. The UK is on the verge (once the figures for the next quarter come out to show the economy is still in decline) of a true recession, which means as [...]

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Hi crew
 Here are the new dates for the next BKSA Powerkite Instructor Course to be held in Cornwall:
Saturday 11th, Sunday 12th, Monday 13th April
 The course is split into two parts:
 The first part is the Powerite Instructor course, and this runs over two days – the 11th and 12th April
The second part is the Landboard and [...]

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Check out http://www.bloggsd.com, GSD are basd in Wales but run surf trips abroad and look to be running a very tight organisation with video coaching and other advanced techniques. I’d seen their ads around in bars in Bristol and finally got through to checking out their site; updated daily and with plenty of surf reports [...]

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Look at this map of the boundaries of the land that ING own: notice that it does not run down to the area that we kite at, known as The Bluff.
Next, look at this aerial photograph of the proposed development – notice how the development does not run down to the area that we kite [...]

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If you’re looking for an online resource about the proposed development of Hayle Harbour then check out www.hayle.net. John Bennet is the deputy mayor of Hayle and his site contains all the docs. relating to the development. It is interesting that John raises three key issues regarding the development of Hayle Harbour: 1) Something needs [...]

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Oh my God, I cannot understand the heavy handed Draconian tacticts employed being against the poor kitesurfers of Cornwall.
What am I on about? Check this link and see for yourself - solictors_letter_nov_08.pdf 
Have you ever kitesurfed at The Bluff in Hayle, Cornwall? It’s the best spot in the UK isn’t it?! Well I hope you enjoyed it because a bunch of [...]

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Hoo! Just got in from a hectic kitsurf session at Watergate Bay, for a change I wasn’t testing any kit for Kitesurf Magazine and was using my own gear – a 7m SLE from last year and an old custom surfboard without footstraps although it does have a tail pad that is peeling up and a [...]

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I woke today, and with Kitesurf mag all sent off to print the day before, found myself with not a lot to do. Everyone was at work, but that didn’t matter because as I have learned over the many years, you can never get bored in Newquay. There’s always something going on and somewhere new to [...]