ISA Stand Up Paddlesurf Worlds – Nicaragua May 2014

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ISA Stand Up Paddlesurf Worlds – Nicaragua May 2014

Holly Bassett 16 years old returns from The ISA Stand Up Paddlesurf Worlds in Nicaragua ranked No 11 in the world , in the women’s surf SUP division.
The International Surfing Association hold each year the World SUP surf and flat water Worlds with over 31 different countries competing in Surf SUP, Distance and Technical SUP flat water racing and prone surfboard events. Teams are selected from each countries national qualifying events in Holly’s case she was British Women’s SUP champion in 2013. It is a mini Olympics for Stand Up Paddlesurfing.
The whole event was paraded in country order through the city of Grenada with thousands of spectators – Holly was the UK teams official sand pourer where sand from each country (West Wittering Beach ) was poured to represent surfers uniting from around the world, in front of the ISA panel, Mayor of Granada and the Nicaraguan Minister of Tourism.
Holly was part of a 7 person team from all over the UK -the Surf side of the event was held in La Boquita on the pacific coast of Nicaragua. Each countries Teams were seeded then split into heats of 20 or 15 minutes to compete in riding the waves –Holly’s first heat was against the 2013 World champion from Brazil and top world ranked Costa Rican Surfer. Holly made it through 3 days of heats going through the reportage to get over all = 11 in blistering heat and humidity. Team GB was ranked 12 overall out of 31 countries.
The Team consisted of Aaron Rowe, Matt Barker Smith, Ollie Shilston, Marie Buchanan, riding SUP and prone surfers Andre Le Geyt and Robbo Conner ,plus myself Abi Barker-Smith and Catherine Andre’s girlfriend. The Team crew stayed in Grenada in a small very decent hotel Casa San francisco have to say we had a great time out there even though the comp time was intense.
The competition was super tough most of the women competing are full time professionals –world champions in other sports and full time paddle surfers –for Holly at 16 years old and just starting her GSCEs at Seaford College it was challenging the 10,500 mile trip the time change and 80 degree temperatures!
This ISA World competition has certainly fired Holly up, she competed in the prone surfing relay and was one place out of qualification – so she will compete in more events and aiming for the 2014 National Championships in October this year .
Have to thank also the TEAM Holly Bassett support crew –Jane, Daisy, Rich & Sandy Dale –The Humberstones and Mark Perry for their donations to team Holly Bassett.
The Team was sponsored by Aquapak -Brightstar–Penguin-Lifeproof-ION-2XS-Prosport-Waterbourn-Palmeria Local
Holly has been sponsored by Fanatic, Kialoa, Ion, 2XS, X-train West Witttering and Prosport sunscreen.
Photo credits Simon Bassett –team opening ceremony Rommel Gonzales & Michael Tweddle..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BKSA KITESURFING INSTRUCTOR TRAINING @ X-TRAIN, WEST WITTERING

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For 2014 we have a Kitesurfing Instructor Training course on at X-Train, West Wittering – the course starts on Monday 2nd June for five days finishing Friday 6 June.  Cost for the 5 day course is £449.

General
All kitesurf Instructor Training Courses (ITC’s) are run in conjunction with the British Kitesurfing Association (BKSA) and are open to all kitesurfers of a suitable standard of riding proficiency / experience. (Details of this are attached).
The aims have been to produce one recognised instructor training route for kitesurfing in the UK, to standardize the level of this training, to link BKSA training to a world based standard and replace all current licenses with one recognised license only.
The BKSA ITC has been modified to include extra areas of training for the UK. The syllabus forms the core of the course package with further areas that include foil training as well as single skin kites, further safety inputs and the legal and administrative requirements an instructor must be aware of when setting up their own school within the UK. The instructor training has been formulated to be either delivered on a modular bases, which means you may build up to your full qualification over a period of time and take into account prior experience and qualifications or by an intensive 5 day course which incorporates everything.

ENROLMENT REQUIREMENTS

Riding proficiency / experience requirements are attached to this fact sheet by way of a questionnaire which must be completed and returned to the BKSA. Further to this all candidates must possess:
  • A valid RYA Powerboat Level 2 certificate or above
  • A valid First Aid qualification
  • Valid BKSA membership
The BKSA can put you in touch with centers for training in both of the above – this training will usually be done preceding the start date of the ITC, and lasts for 3 days.

COURSE DURATION

This BKSA ITC usually runs from a Monday until Friday (5 days).
Once you have completed your level one Instructor course you will be issued with a course completion certificate on the reverse of which will be an individual action plan usually containing some shadow teaching hours to complete before becoming a fully recognized instructor.
After 150 hours of Teaching in a BKSA recognized school in no less than a 6-month period you can apply for you senior instructor course

Watersport Job Vacancies @ X-Train, West Wittering

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We are looking for experienced Watersports Instructors to work for X-train, West Wittering beach, West Sussex – if you have a seasons abroad experience would be helpful (but not essential) and have a real passion for watersports and want to be involved in running our windsurfing club and tuition centre at West Wittering.
You will need to have good people skills and enjoy working with customers of all ages.
You will be based on the beach at West Wittering where you will be involved in looking after club members, tuition and dealing with rescue and safety.
We have a full RRD, Ezzy Test/Hire Centre plus Goya and the latest kitesurfing kit from RRD, surfing, SUP from Fanatic and kids windsurf equipment. We also run one of the most progressive windsurfing/kitesurfing/sup/surf schools in the UK and we are developing new teaching methods as well as new format courses. We were also the first stand-up paddle school in Britain.
We teach kids from 5 years old – surfing, paddle surfing, windsurf and kitesurfing. We also run pro clinics with Pete Hart and Sam Ross, demo days and wave and freestyle events.
You will also be involved in selling kit from www.2xs.co.uk
The roles we are looking to fill:
Kitesurfing instructor – 1st April till October 31st 

Windsurfing instructor – June till September

Windsurfing instructor – July until September

We will provide training plus its a definite advantage if you have multi sport instructor qualifications. You will need to have all your relevant certificates up to date including First Aid, Powerboat and your teaching certificates.
WATERSPORTS INTERNSHIPS/WORK EXPERIENCE – if you are looking to gain a foothold into the watersports industry or are looking for a way of getting your hours up to qualify as a watersports instructor we can offer an internship/work experience on a short or medium term basis. We do this in windsurfing, kitesurfing, paddlesurfing or surfing.
We also offer schools and colleges work placements and Duke of Edinburgh work experience .
So if you fancy a summer job in watersports at a great south coast location – get in contact as soon as possible. 
Please send your CV to Ross Moore at [email protected] or give Ross a call on 01243 513077 – check out our website www.x-train.co.uk 


Free 2014 Tidetables for West Wittering Beach

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We are giving away free tide tables for West Wittering beach, Chichester Harbour and the local area.
If you want one of these free please email [email protected] with your name and address and we will send you one out right away.
The 12 month tide tables have tides time, tide heights and neap and spring indications.
We also have a live weather feed and beach web cam  for checking beach weather at West Wittering www.2xs.co.uk/weather/.

Jobs at X-Train, West Wittering for 2014

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We are looking for experienced Instructors to work for X-train, West Wittering beach – if you have a seasons abroad experience would be helpful and have a real passion for watersports and want to be involved in running our windsurfing club and tuition centre at West Wittering.

You will need to have good people skills and enjoy working with customers of all ages.

You will be based on the beach at West Wittering where you will be involved in looking after club members, tuition and dealing with rescue and safety.

We have a full RRD, Ezzy Test/Hire Centre plus Goya and the latest kitesurfing kit from RRD, surfing, SUP from Fanatic and kids windsurf equipment. We also run one of the most progressive windsurfing/kitesurfing/sup/surf schools in the UK and we are developing new teaching methods as well as new format courses. We were also the first stand-up paddle school in Britain.

We teach kids from 5 years old – surfing, paddle surfing, windsurf and kitesurfing. We also run pro clinics with Pete Hart and Sam Ross, demo days and wave and freestyle events.

You will also be involved in selling kit from www.2xs.co.uk

The roles we are looking to fill:

Windsurf instructor – 1st March till October 31st 2014

Kite surf instructor – 1st March till October 31st 2014

Windsurf instructor – June till September

Windsurf instructor – July until September
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We will provide training plus its a definite advantage if you have multi sport instructor qualifications. You will need to have all your relevant certificates up to date including First Aid, Powerboat and your teaching certificates.

We will also be offering internships for 2014 so if have a passion for watersports and want to get qualified we will consider applicants who want to work and develop skills and qualifications during the season.

We also offer schools and colleges work placements and Duke of Edinburgh work experience .

Please send your CV to Simon Bassett on 0774 775 8883 or 01243 512552 or email him on [email protected].

2013 WWWC Club Awards

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We had our annual club awards this year at The lamb Inn on the road to West Wittering.

Jim who with his business partner took over the pub last December has done a great job there and he and his team looked after us extremely well.

Jeff played some top tunes on his guitar all evening and along with the great food we had a good evening.
The place was complete with loads of club members and legends of the 90’s Stu Holland, Jamie Hawkins as well Neal Gent and Jem Hall.

The Graham Strudwick Windsurfing award –was between Francis Goodwin and Danny Smith –Francis cliched the deal with his performance in force 9 at high tide last weekend.

The WWWC kitesurfing award – John Hamer, Mike Black and Simon Russell were nominated –Simon Russell was the the winner.

The Lisa Furlong Rippers trophy – always a hard one for us as we have some many good kids out in the water –Alex Mckirgan (2nd Am in Baja AWT tour); Jack Pettit (1st place NWF Hayling) and Jenna Pettit who has put a lot of effort into her windsurfing.

Jack Pettit clinched it for his improved windsurfing and really going for it in the surf!! ..

Epic Monday 4th November 2013 – West Wittering

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Watched this while I was teaching a paddle surf instructors course from the club house!!

Hard to believe how radical the waves were. Between the sets you see just the mast tips!

I watched Randall, Emile and Ian Whittaker linking up between 5 and 6 big turns then the big lip hit.

The current was full throttle the guys were getting properly pounded when they got it wrong.

Good to see the Joliffe road posse Dave Gammon, Paul Metcalfe, Ian and Raggi travelling West for some wave action.

Here’s Emiles comments on the session:

I turned up at West Wittering expecting to go for a paddleboard – the surf was looking very nice. Walked from the van to the clubhouse and Rossco pointed out that it was about 18-20 knots and cross-off so we might be able to go for a sail!

I grabbed the Goya Custom Quad 94 and Banzai 5.0 and jumped in the water (is there a better float-and-ride combo?)

When we first hit the water, the tide was still strong and the wind was very light. Randall and I wobbled out the back, with a fair bit of swimming. We then had to sail straight downwind to stay out of the harbour! In the beaming sunshine, we caught a bunch of waves each before anyone else hit the water. I had never seen West Wittering like this – perfect sunshine, clean head-high waves, cross-off and a very nice bowling inside section! The best thing was that you never actually had to sail upwind – the tide did that for you. At one point, when the wind went really light, we both actually had to walk downwind.

All the boys showed up within half an hour and the wind picked up enough for it to be really nice – everyone was smiling in disbelief at the conditions.

I have lived and sailed in the Witterings for the last 15 years and I have NEVER had conditions like this….

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