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BKSA Barrow

7/25/2013

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Last weekend saw the arrival of the first round of the  British Kite Sports Association freestyle tour in Barrow in Furness. This place has always delivered with wind, but this time it wasn't looking too hopeful, with 25degrees, and 5kts offshore forecast.

The friday saw the morning start of with light onshore winds, and glorious sunshine. It was good to catch up with all the old BKSA faces, and also some new guys on the tour, at riders briefing and breakfast. With the wind looking bleak, the riders were kept on standbye
But Barrow is a place where anything can happen, and a sea breeze started to kick in cross onshore. Suddenly everybody started to scramble around pump there kites. Unfortunately the wind didn't pick up enough for heats, so a slope style competition was run, with everyone having a run of 2 tricks through the competition run, and 3 runs altogether.

Saturday saw light offshore winds of 10-12kts, again not enough wind to run an event. Luckily Gary Powell from Northwestkitesurfing was on hand with his zapcat, and plenty of Standup paddle boards to keep all the riders active. Even though the wind picked up a little, it was not enough in the gusty offshore wind shadow. But as the wind picked up late, myself along with James Boulding, Rosanna Jury, Craig Smith, and George Dufty all decided to drive round the corner to Roa Island with Mark Ding from Supersaturated, to grab some sunset shots. This turned out to be an incredible session with awesom golden light unlike any of us expected. We all stayed out till well past sunset in what was a great session.
Pics Courtesy of Mark Ding (www.supersaturated.net)

Sunday again started of with light offshore winds in the morning, increasing in the afternoon. Around lunch time, the wind started to increase, so i went for a quick ride to "test" the condition before judging. The conditions were surprisingly nice but the wind was very holy. This made it almost impossible to run heats, so we opted for a best trick competition in all categories which worked really well. Surprisingly though in the tough conditions, Pete Jones grabbed some awesom shots of me, and Paul from CKB boards shot a little video.

All in all, this compeition was incredibly fun, and i got alot more riding than i had expected so im pretty stoked.

Thanks for the guys taking the shots, especially Mark. check out his shots at 
http://www.supersaturated.net/unplugged/blog/bksa-barrow


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Photoshoot with Alex Parker

7/11/2013

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After a manic week at Beach Break Live, we took some time out to get some lifestyle shots of the new Mystic gear. Shots came out pretty sweet 

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Taking the win at Beach Break Live

7/7/2013

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At Beach Break Live, the UK Student festival, the SKA (Student Kitesurfing Association) ran a kitesurfing comp down at watergate bay Cornwall. During the 4 day festival, we had 2 days of perfect wind, and the competition was run on Saturday with 30kts and 3m swell. It was epic. With over 40 competitors, riding in Intermediate, Advanced and Pro it was a fun event with loads of stoked people.
In the Pro class, seasoned kitesurfers such as Robin Snuggs (Flexi), Craig Smith(Flexi), and Jonathon Bleiker(Flexi)  all made the effort to come support the event and ride!
Without going to into detail of all the heats, i WON :D. Pretty stoked, and it was so much fun riding with some old friends.
Alex Parker from AP Edits was down shooting the whole event, and is putting a vid together. Check out the screen shots below


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