We’ve had a couple of very decent SUP session at West Wittering over the weekend – small swell, 10 secs, off shore winds and a half meter swell.

The sand banks at West Wittering beach are throwing up some great surf, loads of peaks mainly lefts but plenty of rights. The sand bars were reeling just before and after high tide – Berties Reef was ripping outer banks were starting to work as well as the Hayling Bar.

This makes the multi million pound Boscome reef look like a farce ours is all natural and cost nothing! Holly, Matt ,Adrian West, James myself and Tez all made the most of a very cold session -sea temp was hovering 4 degrees c and air temp 1 with a nasty wind chill.Have to say we all managed a couple of hours in the water –took a while for the feet to thaw out. Luckily hots showers at West Wittering Windsurf club and few cups of tea made the morning feel perfect. Pics of Matt ,Holly, Tez taken by Simon Bassett –who stood in freezing offshore wind on the beach …

Wow what a December -West Wittering has been kicking off for nearly 10 days in row – Santa definatly delivered this year!!

If you had a chance to get out its been warm, wet and windy – plenty of decent sessions some great wave riding and jumping – some heavy southerly sessions -and supercharged sessions on flat water. Watched a few people taking some proper beatings out the back even had a few myself –great to be out on the water.

Good to see the kite lords getting down early Ross, Ross’ dad, Chris, Adam, Larry, Chris, Paul Rothwell Innes, Barry, Kev, Rich and Tony Philips. Also Mike Black, Mike Stewart, Rick Giddings, Jamie Hawkins, Will Mackie and Stu Holland.

On the windsurfing front – there has been some decent wave riding to be had -Justin, Grahame and Phil seemed to be there every day, the odd showing from Lord Lucan even saw Jonny Wilson out of retirement. I watched James Randall ripping into the lip with some heavy top turns – Paul Simmons has been out all the decent days, good also to catch up with Paul Hatton who escaped the relatives on a decent heavy duty West Wittering day. Tim and Mark Perry have been out a lot Timbo has been tearing a few sails in the process as did Toby on the way out in a big southerly. James Mellor, Martin Edmead, Patrick and Tim Guilland and Mark Twist all have been out there enjoying the festive gales.

If you have any pics then please send them to me and I will add them to the site [email protected] Sorry only took a few its too good out there to stand around taking pics… Lets hope 2013 is windy not so wet season –Happy New year to every one, we hope to see you all on the beach……

Big thanks to Stuart Holland for sending in his GoPro footage from the 15th June.

If you have any photos from last weekend (30/1st July) then please drop an email as we would to showcase your footage and action photography.

Have a look at the action shots. The GoPro Camera takes watersports photography to a new level with amazing high definition – just look at the detail in the water droplets in some of the photos for a brief insight into the camera’s capabilities. And in the 2nd photo, who is the windsurfer in the background!?

If you want to create photos like this, then have a browse through our GoPro Products. Stuart mainly 3 mounts: the helmet mount, the line mount, and the surf board mount. They all create different angles of view – question is – which one would you buy?

Another hard charging weekend started with a 40 knot Friday third one in a row used my 3.7 again in June .

Seems like we are getting some full on weather this summer and with maybe more coming next weekend.

Thanks for all the photos that are being sent in. This week Mark Rutherford, Craig Leroux, and Mark Perry’s GoPro took a sand blasting on the beach to get these great shots, and I also took a few of them.

If you have any decent photos or video, then please send them to me: [email protected].

It was good to see so many people out – including a couple of Pros Andy bubble chambers &Timo who were going for some large moves.

And then Neal, Emile, Kyle, Justin were seen doing some nice stalled forwards. Other people I spotted were: Goodwin, Hatton, Da Perry’s, Mike Chesnut, & Westy…

These certainly aren’t the most typical weather conditions that we usually experience in June. However, being typical Brits, we make the most of all the conditions and still pursue our love of watersports despite the rain…

The rain started on Sunday night… and didn’t stop until late Tuesday night. West Sussex was issued with a severe flooding warning and only essential travel was advised. Simon took heed of this warning and took to his paddleboard to get around the 2XS office and car park.

Do send us any photos you might have of field surfing or paddle boarding/kayaking in urban locations.

 Neal Gent was photographed windsurfing at Joliffe Road riding the storm force winds, amongst many other brave faces battling the winds

There is more unsettled weather forecast for the rest of the week and hopefully we will see you all at WWWC for another windy weekend.

We have had some cranking wind over the last couple of days and here are some of the action photographs shot in the trench at low tide at West Wittering.

Levon, Chris, Ross , Jonny Boys and Pete all enjoying the strong gusty winds. Harty was running a perfect carve gybe course is classic conditions.

Laura, Jonny, Adam, Simon B, Holly Bassett , Kim, Luke, Zander, and Jack Petit were charging down the trench.

 The chairman had been out all afternoon and as we all left, more people turned up to make the most of decent conditions. Even some freestyle action Simon Russell – more wind to come this week!

Summer is just round the corner and we have organized another action packed series of events for the 2012 season at WWWC.

The club opens on 1st march when sunrise is at 6.45am and sunset is at 5.41pm –that’s nearly 11 hours of daylight in the day, ie plenty of time to get your kit out of your garage, find your WWWC bibs, perhaps buy some new kit, fill your freezer with bbq produce, and join us on the beach for what we hope will be the best season yet!

Firstly here are some DATES for your diary:
• Thursday 1st March: Start of 2012 season
– full time rescue starts.
• Sunday 8th April (11am): The Easter Egg Hunt
– come down with the kids and join in the fun!
• Saturday 30th June (6pm): Club BBQ
– bring your food to cook, we supply the drinks
• Saturday 28th July (6pm): Club BBQ
– bring your food to cook, we supply the drinks
• Sunday 29th July (11.30am): Charity paddle race
– from Shore Road to West Wittering (race starts 1pm)
• Saturday 25th August (6pm): Club BBQ
– bring your food to cook, we supply the drinks
• Saturday 6th October (6.30pm): End of Season Dinner
– Crouchers Country Hotel

 

Secondly have a read of the new x-train brochure and the new wwwc brochure.
And thirdly, spaces on the 2012 courses are filling up fast, so make sure you book up as soon as possible.

Did you miss out last year on learning a new sport? If so, then ‘seize the day’ and make sure you book into a beginner course for windsurfing, kitesurfing, powerkiting, surfing or paddlesurfing.

Or have you hit a plateau in your skills base? It is easy to go out on the water and to cruise around in your comfort zone, however it can be difficult to push yourself to learn new things.
In each watersports discipline you can book into any of the following levels of tuition:
• Beginner
• Improver
• Advanced
• One to One
• Pro clinic

And finally, don’t forget about the kids! They are the next generation of rippers so make sure they get off to the best start possible by booking into one of the many ripper courses:
• Rippers Windsurfing
• Little Rippers
• Rippers Advanced
• After school club
• Saturday surf club
• Rippers surfing
• Rippers kitesurfing
• Kids Pro Clinics
• Birthday Parties
• Team 15
• X Rippers(teenage)

Last year we held the first Rippers Freestyle Wave camp, which will be held again on October 27/28th and run by Sam Ross and Jamie Drummond. You can read a write up of the event on our news page here plus a selection of great photos.

And here are some video clips to really get you in the mood for the forth coming season….

Holly Bassett and Reece White – GoPro Playtime at WWWC

Nik And Ant Baker go wave sailing at Witterings

Simon and the BBC

Managed to get some photos of yesterday – there has been a lot of hard charging going on at West Wittering – the weather and temperature has dropped and for the last couple of weeks there has been a relentless pounding, decent waves and strong winds….

The forecast for the last couple of days has been pretty large with expected winds that didn’t quite arrive of up to 80mph.

Good to see so many people braving the winter conditions – seem to have seen Jamie Barrett, Kyle McGinn nearly every time the wind is up; managed to catch yesterday Paul Simmons, Paul Hatton, missed Innes because he was having a big swim bringing his kit in…

Didn’t manage to get photos of Ross and Paddy as they had packed up as I arrived – hope you like the photos!

Here is a link to a movie clip that Dan Sweeney took last week of the Baker Bros at West Wittering.

If you got any good pics of action on the water kite surf windsurf or sup please send them to [email protected] we will put them up.

This week Rob “Chunky” Moss windsurfer sent us some killer shots from Cooden bay East Sussex using a go pro mast mounted camera to this great pic spinning through a back loop.

James Randall at West Wittering had these shots taken by his dad on his new Goya kit.

See the new Goya boards and sails here at our online shop

And a shot from Innes Ross