Oh man, what an afternoon. The following experience highlights very clearly the widening chasm of quality of service between ‘the little guy’ independents and ‘the big guy’ corporate chain stores. As you all know, the little guy is being swallowed up because his prices are too expensive and he is not efficient enough; the growing [...]
The KKC, or Kernow Kitesurf Club are holding their launch demo day at Marazion Beach, Cornwall, on Sunday 12th July. This is a chance for anyone interested in kitesurfing, or who already kitesurfs and wants to mix it up with other riders in Cornwall to get in on the special clinics and check out the [...]
Ailing airline BA are reallyh up against it at the mo, and are asking some of their staff to turn in a month’s work for no pay. BA hopes this saving will coast the company through the lean patch. I can’t see many kitesurfers, surfers or windsurfers having any sympathy with British Airways since last year [...]
gwithian-beach-restrictions.pdf - Click me! Got this through from Loz at Ocean High Kitesurfing School and Kernow Kitesurf Club, it’s a map to show the summertime kitesurfing and power kiting restrictions that apply during the summer at Gwithian from 11th July to 7th September between 10am and 6pm. It also applies to windsurfers, blokarts and horses so don’t [...]
Crikey that was a close one! I’ve literally just uploaded the last of the files to the FTP. The last few days have passed in a weird sort of slow motion, like an extended car crash. A concertina rush of effort that leaves the nerves jangling with coffee and adrenaline. Part of the blame can [...]
Remember when the F One skate was the cutting edge shape in the twin tip world? Sure you do! I spotted this round a mate’s house and was surprised at how drawn in and sleek looking the tips were compared to boards nowadays. It makes you want to get out and ride it, surf it, [...]
I just got in to find that I had about 30 postmaster@cantdeliver.bollox emails in my inbox. A sleazy dirty bunch of funkers behind something called Kanicn dot com – I won’t put those a***holes’ link up here – spammed everyone in my inbox with a load of cobblers about one of their trashy shops where [...]
The other day, we were scouring the lost Roseland Peninsula looking for some east wind and a white sand beach with crystal blue water. We found the beach, and on the way, top lens Tony Plant suddenly says, just as we are rumbling down a quite, sunny, backcountry lane, “Aren’t you going to stop and pick [...]