27/12/08

2009 CALENDAR / ENGLAND SURF KAYAK

CALENDÁRIO PARA 2009 / KAYAKSURF INGLÊS

Team England / Foto: BCU Surf Kayak Committee
Não brincam em serviço e o calendário para 2009 contempla 18 eventos, entre nacionais e internacionais. Lá está o Mundial em Portugal pelo meio e as melhores provas mundias da modalidade. John Watson enviou-nos o calendário. Aqui fica para potenciais interessados!
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CALENDAR 2009

England Surf Kayak ranking event (*)

Home" events & International

January 24/25 * Bantham
March 19-22 Santa Cruz, California
April 4/5 * Kimmeridge Bay
April 4/5 Cayton Bay, NorthEast Series 1 - short boat Open
April 11/12 (Easter)
Abr-18 * Widemouth H'cap, Short boat Open
Abr-19 * Widemouth, Longboat open, long & short Juniors and Ladies
April 25/26 * St Ives Bay
tba Mundaka, Spain
May 2/3 Teignmouth, NorthEast series 2 - short boat Open
May 9/10 * Cornish Open, Red River
May 16/17 (Cornish Open reserve date)
June 6/7 Pease Bay, NorthEast Series 3 - short boat Open
July 23 - August 2 World Championships, Ocean Spirit, Santa Cruz, Portugal
August 22/23 * Mega Plastic champs, Woolacombe - tbc
September 5/6 * NorthEast HP series - Final. Open, Ladies, Junior short boat.
October 4/5 British Open 2009, Wales
October 11/12 British Open 2009, Wales - alternative date

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Hi everyone,

Thanks for a really enjoyable year and your good company at beaches all over the UK and Europe! We finish 2008 with all the England Team as Home International Champions, Tamsin and Sam as World Cup Champions and Robyn and Philip as British Open Champions, as well as all our England ranking list champions - well done everyone!

2009 Calendar attached. Thank you as always to the organisers who have put themselves forward. There are new events from Ed Long, Chris Harvey at www.coldwaterkayaksurf.co.uk soon, and Steve Davenport with Bude CC, added to our regulars from James, Simon, SteveB, Pete and Malcolm/SteveChivs. The British Open is confirmed for October, run by Nathan Eades. Bude's event is particularly welcome, since it complements Simon's event with all the other classes, and should help ensure all classes have meaningful ranking lists.

If there's anyone else who has been thinking of running an event, please include all classes (or like Bude's, do a 2-day split). More events are not essential, but if anyone would like to run one, the best times seem to be late Feb or early March, late June, and perhaps late October too (or would that be a good time to organise a warm water surfing week for fun?). Let me know if you'd like me to add anything to the calendar.

England Surf Kayak. I know our new chairman John Barker has been making lots of contacts and spending time on our behalf behind the scenes. I know it will be really helpful for us all to have his support through the year. Also, I'm sure he'll appreciate help from lots of different people through the year too.

England Surf Kayak website. I understand Steve Childs has been working on it and it should be available soon.

England team selection for Worlds. As previously stated, this includes consideration of the Autumn 2008 events and the 2008 ranking lists. It will include the first events of 2009. I am expecting to hear soon when the team entry deadline is for the Worlds, and that may influence how far into the year we go. More details early next year.


Phillip, Ed and Darren on Ocean Spirit 2008 / foto: kayaksurf.net

Ocean Spirit Worlds, 23 July to 2 August 2009. News is mostly released on
http://www.kayaksurf.net/news.html and keep an eye on http://www.wska.org/about.htm . We'll start to look at plans early next year.

I'm sure you'll all join me in wishing Darren a great start in Australia now he has moved - we look forward to seeing him in Portugal at the Worlds.

Have a very happy Christmas break and I look forward to seeing you in sunny Bantham in January!

John

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Thanks John!

Happy New year to you all and congratulations for your great calendar!!

luis pedro abreu
http://www.kayaksurf.net/

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26/12/08

BEST 2008 PHOTOS AND REPORTS / NEWS TEAM DECIDES

AS MELHORES FOTOS E REPORTAGENS DE 2008 / NEWS TEAM IRÁ DECIDIR!



São 27 oriundos de vários países e irão, um vez mais, decidir quais as 3 melhores fotos da nossa galeria e quais as três melhores reportagens. Será o habitual balanço de 2008.
They are 27 and they will decide the 3 best 2008 photos and reports. The results will be published in the first days of January and, till there, while we wait for all the votes, here are the 3 best 2007 pics to remember:

Recordamos as três melhores fotos de 2007:




Alejo Pacheco / COSTA RICA / Março de 2007 - foto: Alfonso Petrirena




Nathan Eades ( País de Gales) em Bakio / 18.11.07 / Foto: olasdevizcaia.com




Chris Harvey (Guernsey) / 25.10.07 / Mundial de Kayaksurf / Foto: Steve Childs


Edu Etxeberria - Bakio, País Basco, 28 Outubro 2007 / Mundial de Kayaksurf / Finais Open Foto: OSKAR MARTINEZ


2009 calendar - England Surf Kayak

Boas ondas!

luis pedro abreu

www.kayaksurf.net

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24/12/08

MERRY XMAS AND A GREAT 2009!

FELIZ NATAL E UM GRANDE 2009 CHEIO DE SAÚDE E BOAS ONDAS!



Bom, e lá terá que ser como é habitual nestas alturas... uma grande noite junto das famelgas e de quem mais gostam. Votos da equipa do kayaksurf.net para todos os que, pelo meio das suas vidas, lá encontram um tempinho para fazer umas ondas. Especial agradecimento para a nossa EXCELENTE NEWS TEAM que nos envia com tanta celeridade todas as suas fotos e reports. OBRIGADO!

A great Xmas evening and a better 2009 full of glassy waves for all! Thanks for all your support. A special thank's to our EXCELLENT NEWS TEAM that keep sending us all this great pics and reports.





AS MELHORES FOTOS E REPORTAGENS DE 2008 / BEST 2008 KAYAKSURF PHOTOS AND REPORTS

Boas ondas!

luis pedro abreu
www.kayaksurf.net


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23/12/08

WATERTECH TOYS IN ISRAEL

MÁQUINAS DA WATERTECH EM ISRAEL



Algumas máquinas novas da Watertech acabaram de chegar a Israel. O modelo escolhido foi o novo 666. Esperamos pelas fotos dos kayaks e seus donos a curtir nas ondas de Israel...
Some new machines just arrive in Israel, they choose our newest model the 666. Hope the next pics are from the kayaks and their paddlers having fun on the water. We are sure that they will...



Omer from Terra Santa Expeditions just got his Watertech 666.

Omer da Terra Santa Expeditions com o seu novo 666.
KAYAKURFING IN ISRAEL






Podem acompanhar as novidades da W clicando em baixo:


Obrigado Rui!



AS MELHORES FOTOS E REPORTAGENS DE 2008 / BEST 2008 KAYAKSURF PHOTOS AND REPORTS

Boas ondas,
luis pedro abreu

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22/12/08

2008 US WAVESKI CHAMPIONSHIP / NEW VIDEO WITH TONY CHERRY

NOVO VIDEO COM TONY CHERRY / VENCEDOR DO US WAVESKI CHAMP 2008



Foi o vencedor nas duas classes: Waveski Open e Waveski Senior - no US Waveski Champ deste ano. É neozelandês, elemento da Tsunami Team e um grande surfista! O Marty enviou-nos o link para o seu mais recente video. Recordamos também o vídeo - mais abaixo - que já tínhamos publicado sobre o evento


US Open Champ Tony Cherry of NZ showing off his trophy (photo: warren schultheiss)



Não se esqueçam de visitar a nossa SECÇÃO VIDEOS WAVESKI onde se encontram muito mais sugestões!




AS MELHORES FOTOS E REPORTAGENS DE 2008

Thanks Marty!

Boas ondas,

luis pedro abreu
www.kayaksurf.net

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21/12/08

SANTA CRUZ KAYAK SURF FESTIVAL / CLASSES

SANTA CRUZ KAYAKSURF FESTIVAL - QUANTAS CLASSES EM DISPUSTA?



Chris Harvey foi o grande vencedor do Santa Cruz Kayaksurf Festival em 2007 e 2008 na classe HP mas, afinal, quantas classes comporta o maior festival de kayaksurf do Mundo?

Pois bem, aqui ficam as que estiveram em jogo na edição deste ano:

World Cup:
Men's
Women's
Junior's
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High Performance Expert Masters Open
IC, Men's
IC, Women's
Wave Ski Open
High Performance Intermediate Open
Production Plastic Intermediate Open
Production Plastic Novice Open
Sit-on-Top Intermediate Open

Contando com as "especiais" que pontuaram para a Taça do Mundo, somamos... 11 classes! Por cá, ainda só temos duas... vamos ver se em 2009 surgem mais. Aqui fica mais um vídeo para recordar sobre a edição deste ano:


Podem visitar a página oficial do festival clicando na imagem:

Boas ondas!

luis pedro abreu

http://www.kayaksurf.net/

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