20 Jan 2009
How big is this barrel?
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Going undridden of course! The big pit is at Watergate, again from The Day, and the other shot is the conditions at Towan Beach, Newquay.
19 Jan 2009
A few more crazy big wave kitesurf photos from Cornwall…17th January 2009
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Above are some more shots of Smiler and myself from that day. Dunno if I mentioned this but he is riding with his Cabrinha Switchblade IDS 8m and custom Cabrinha board, I am testing kit for the mag and running the Cabrinha Convert IDS 9m and F One Bamboo Surf SL strapped surfboard. Let us [...]
17 Jan 2009
OK…So today was our biggest ever day kitesurfing at Watergate!
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Smiler and I have just got back in from clearly our biggest day yet at Watergate. I cannot say that the day passed without a huge amount of trepidation, indeed I personally had nervosa-dysentry this morning before heading to Watergate Bay. Today the buoys were measuring 4m plus swell, straight from the West. We are [...]
16 Jan 2009
Big swells hitting Cornish North Coast. Gwithian and Waterate turn on…
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Last Sunday, Smiler and myself rode what I’m pretty certain was the biggest stuff we’d been out in at Watergate, yet. Double overhead plus and peeling – nay, reeling! God knows how people would have managed this with the kites of old, because the wind was gusting from 15knots to about 30knots. 7m SLE was [...]
08 Jan 2009
First sessions and lessons of the year…
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I’ve never known kitesurfing in Cornwall to be as cold – but that’s a relative term as I do remember kitesurfing at Brancaster in Norfolk as snow was falling so thick that once you were a little way offshore, you couldn’t actually make out the beach. So while technically it wasn’t the New Year (it was [...]
