We have had some great surf in the past week and the X-Train Team (Simon, Holly & Rossco) have been making the most of it. The sand bars have moved around in front of the club giving us some great left handers. Pics are from Simon Bassett and Dave Gammon..
It has been a long time since the wind has blown – but since last week the wind has returned and the love for the ocean is now back on! Got some pics – it looked like so many people have been out – Kyle, Neal, Emile, Hatton, Rossco, Jake, Gert, Chris Hayes, Sam […]
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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Pics Simon Bassett
Another awesome session at West Wittering – the hammer had been down all week with the wind and surf – the sun popped its head out and pics look good –more westerly direction and that classic West Wittering swell.
Loads of riders out Mark and Tim perry (new father Tim taking a few waves before baby duty), Paul Simmons,J ack Pettit ripping into some decent chunks and Dad Grahame giving it large.
Xav Tournambe, Driss Arissa, Stu Holland, Ollie Sargent all tearing it up. Paul Hatton, Sam Fishbourne, Alex Mckirgan and James Arnell Smith (who has been working hard with home work) getting some rocket air. Even the legend of the 90’s Jamie Hawkins was out there ripping.
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This was a good low tide session as there hadn’t been any decent wind for a while.
We had our Rippers Camp on with Sam Ross and James Randall and here is the low tide kite action.
I watched Levon Lister charging some of his first runs were of the 35 to 36 knots mark.
Levon did a run the following Monday of 38 knots and it looked uber fast. John Hamer had a decent high tide session – Mike McChesney was ripping on his Cult Quad, Patrick was out, Stacey was getting some decent jumps and Simon Russell was getting some big air!
Justin came out later and busted out some nice pushies. Frank Mrkirgan and Westy were out in the trench giving it some 90s action.
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At first light Rossco, James and Ollie from West Wittering Windsurf Club were up trying to get to the beach.
Storm force winds overnight had downed trees and made it hard to get to the beach.
At just after 8am the beach opened as the Storm passed through gusts of wind were still in the 45 knot range this morning – gusts had been over 70 mph at 5 am according to local weather data, Chimet. …
Here are some more shots from last weekend’s action out on the water at West Wittering – and a gopro video that Simon Russell took whilst out kiting.
If any of you have anymore Gopro footage then please send in to us and we will publish it……
Last Saturday, the 15th June, we had a classic weekend down here at West Wittering.
30 knots in the morning, good for the trench, flat water and kiting and a very decent session at high tide when the waves came up in the afternoon.
Good to see so many people out on the water, unfortunately we didnt get any pics in the morning at low tide but Dave Gammon took these great photos of Emile, Neal, Timo and others later in the day at high tide…
Lewis Crathern Kitesurf legend, Dan Charlish from Snow Camp and event organiser, Chris Bull from CBK, Rich Gowers the boss at BKSA now British Kitesports, Simon Bassett and Julia from Snowcamp were have a meeting at West Wittering Windsurf Club about The Big Charity Downwinder kitesurf event in September.
It happened to coincide with some wind check out the shots of Lewis he must have been at lest 60 feet above the water –it was hard to keep the guy in the frame he just shot upwards –amazing…
Here are details about the event
Pics Simon Bassett ..
