April 2009

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I’ll be putting a full write-up in Powerkite Magazine (complete with quotes and snippits and rumours from the weekend…), but for now, Atmosphere 09 was everything and more that we’d hoped it would be. The wind was eerily similar to last year; with a light offshore – glassy start to things on Friday, followed by [...]

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No matter how I try to plan my time on the mag (and after the first few, I learned the need to plan better) there’s always this concertina effort rush at the end to get across all the ideas that have built up since the last issue. Usually the wind is a player in this [...]

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We’ve just completed the second BKSA Instructor Training Course this year at Watergate Bay, and what a cracking weekend it was! Four new instructors from as far away as Kent, Sheffield, and a bit closer to home – Cornwall – got stuck in and progressed through the course in fine style. Thanks to the Extreme Academy for the classroom [...]

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 Here is a picture of Watergate Bay, taken today at around 5pm. The surf looks inviting and empty, and fun until you see the person stood on the beach and get that flash of perspective. This was during a long period 3m swell which is not that uncommon, but the volume of water that gets pushed [...]

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Just a very quick post – I get asked this question quite often, ”How do you water start with a strapless surfboard?”
Usually I think what the person is really telling me is, “I don’t think I will ever be able to water start with a strapless surfboard”. The truth is, if you can water start with a twin [...]

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Saw this fella on the grassy bank overlooking South Fistral about to take off, just as I was on my way down to the sand to get some pictures of a kite.
The wind was about 10-14knots and he was really cranking some fast turns on that thing. It was especially interesting to see how he [...]