A new hobby of mine... Speedwinging. Such a great buz especially when me and a few mates are cruising down the hill together. Big thanks to Martyn Hogg for getting me into this inssane sport

Kitescoop and Tona are running a best trick comp, so thought i would throw a couple of entries together. Here they are. View all the entries @

Kitescoop and Tona Best Trick Comp

Short video from one of my sessions on my summer trip to north scotland. Probably the coldest place ive ever kited ( wearing 2 wetsuits most of the time) but fun in the flat water lagoons.
Thanks to Jack Ridel for filming

Music: Camo and Krooked: cross the line

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The BKSA finals this year were held in Blackpool. I came 3rd in the freestyle for the event, 1st for the twintip racing and 3rd Overall for the year in Freestyle.. Heres the vid. Check out my megaloops :)

After the Hunstanton event, myself, Luke Whiteside and Holly Kennedy all cruised down to Richard Flindalls house as the wind was looking sweet. He took us to his local secret spot and showed us what he was always raving about. It was incredible. Heres the vid we shot from a couple of hours on the water filming each other.

BKSA HUnstanton was the 4th round of the british tour. The event runs along side the Lifestyle event, which means there is skating, BMXing, Windsurfing and also a big music festival so there is always something going on.
Friday there was no wind, so we jus chilled out.
Saturday the wind started to pick up, By about 12, the tide was far enough out, and the wind was up, along with the rain. We started with the juniors, and then moved on to the ams. Throughout the afternoon, the wind got stronger and more consistent, and the sun came out, making a great day of competition.
Sunday rolled round and it was time for the pros. By the time the tide had dropped enough it was nice 10m weather. My first heat was against Jon Bleiker. I had a good heat landing quite alot of tricks. I've changed my game plan in comps a little bit, and am sticking to the smaller handlepasses to really rack up the points, instead of going straight into the biggies. It worked and i made i through the heat. Unfortunatly though Jon snapped his board in half right at the end of the heat on a massive kiteloop pass.
My next heat was against Mr Ned Taylor. I was really up for the heat as the water was getting flatter and the wind was increasing. I went out to test the conditions before the heat and i was stacked on my 10m. I thought i would take the sensible decision to changed down to my 8m.... ROOKIE ERROR. ALWAYS GO BIG ha. Just as the heat started the wind dropped again and i just couldnt keep upwind so kept having to run, and i just couldnt get any power. Ahh well.
This put me through to the losers final against Rich Flindall, not bad for his first comp back in 50 million years. I went out nicely powered on the 10m and threw down. It was the best heat of my life. railey-blind,switch railey-blind, grabbed back-blind, switch back-blind,s-blind,nosegrab back-blind, shift 3, mobe, smobe, b313, kiteloop3, backloop kiteloop3. think thats about it :D
I was proper stoked with the heat and has good me in a good head space for the next event in scotland. This leaves me 3rd overall this year so far, which is pretty good, considering i missed the first event due to exams.
Cyas all in scotland.

This is a short vid i made after about 30mins filming a few weeks back.
check it out.

After the KBO it was straight home and onto Beach Break Live.. This is a huge student festival, which also has extreme sports competition. Kiting, Snowboarding and Wakeboarding competitions are all held in the festival.
I got there on Thursday and it was just rain rain and more rain, which isnt ideal when you pitched in tents alongside 20000 students. But spirits were high as the acts started to play. Some big names such as Tiny Tempa, Magnetic Man, Katy B, London Elektricity, Nero, Subfocus were all playing, so each night we were in for some banging parties.

On the Saturday the weather cleared up and the wind was howling. It was the perfect day for the SKA (student kitesurfing association) comp. The event was run as a rider judged event on a jam session.. Everyone went out and rode for a few hours, then judged on who should get into the 8 person final, then the final would run for 20mins, and people would judge again. 
When i first rode it was perfect wind for my 10m RPM and Ian Edmonson from Expix photography was in the water putting his life on the line to get some awesome action shots.  By the time the final arrived, i was completely overpowered on the 10 and could barely hold an edge. I changed down to my 8m for the final. It was perfect condtions. Maxed on my 8m, blue sky, flat water inbetween the waves. I went out and just put on the best show i could for the crowds. I did some megaloops, and big board offs along with some big grabbed s-blind, and some nice mobes..
This was enough for me to win which i am stoked with.

Big thanks to Expix photography for the pics once again, and check out www.expix.co.uk for the full event write up and the wakeboarding and snowboarding pics .