Video from Ynyslas Windsurf Session
For those of you who aren’t bored with my GoPro HD video footage, here’s the video from yesterday’s windsurf session.
Category: Windsurfing
You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks
It may have been my 40th birthday at the weekend, but I’ve just got back from the first windsurf session of my 40’s and I’ve just got back from landing my first ever push loop! Better still, Tom was on the water too and saw it so I did actually do it and wasn’t imagining...
Life Begins at 40 Knots – Update
Well, I think that windsurf session this morning may have been my last chance to hit 40 knots before I’m 40 in a few weeks time. There may be another chance but it hasn’t quite come together yet. I had a nice early start as Ivor, our local katabatic wind was in full force, so...
That didn’t quite go to plan
The conditions this morning looked awesome for windsurfing. A rare strong SE wind and some decent waves to give us 30 knots of cross-offshore winds and super clean, head high waves to play on. Perfect for down-the-line wave sailing and not conditions we normally get here as it’s usually cross-onshore so the waves are never...
People to Windsurf With
Autumn has been living up to expectations with some decent winds. I have of course been making the most of it and have been out windsurfing quite a bit. Even better is the fact that there are a couple of students at the university who windsurf as well this year so I might actually have someone to...
Crazy Winds
Well, we knew it was coming but when it blows properly it blows! The wind here started at around 3am, then eased off a little this morning before picking up properly to 40-50 knots at around 10am. The exact time we had planned to go out windsurfing. Normally that would be a good thing, but...
Awesome Windsurf Session
I don’t post about every windsurf session or bike ride that I do here – You’d soon become bored if I did and besides, I don’t have time to actually do them and to blog about it all the time, but today’s session was a particularly good one! It was blowing a hoolie and had...
Autumn
Autumn is here in style. I really do love this time of year. There is lots to do with Halloween, lantern parades, bonfire and firework parties, harvest festivals and plenty going on elsewhere. The trees look amazing, my drive down to South Wales yesterday for a MTB ride at Cwmcarn was spectacular. The route follows...
55 Knots has fallen
The kitesurfers have now smashed the 55 knot barrieer over 500m – The speeds have yet to be officially ratified by the WSSRC, but Sebastien Cattelan has done it again at the 2010 Luderitz Speed Challenge. After writing history just over two years ago by being the first kiter to break the magical 50 knots...
Going Loopy – Pulling the Trigger
I’ve just got back from an excellent windsurf session here at Ynyslas. I wandered over to the beach and it didn’t lok great, grey, not that windy and not much in the way of waves either. I rigged my bigger sail, a 5.6m Gun Nexus and decided to give it a go with my Naish...
