ANIMAL WETSUITS WINTER 2010 I’m sorry to say that the summer is almost behind us but the windy and wavey weather should soon be with us! The Autumn / Winter Animal wetsuits will be in stock soon. There will be a full range of 5.3mm winter wetsuits for guys and girls. ANIMAL ASSASSIN WETSUIT Animal [...]
Not a huge amount to do with what we specialise in but still some good juicy news for those of you who love your toys. Here is what NeilPryde have to say about their new design venture: Anyone can design a bike, but few can create an icon. We began by looking for a design [...]
FCWatersports Team rider Sam Neal is now back in the country after training and competing in various locations around the world. For the next couple of moths Sam is going to be back in the UK spending most of his time sailing in and around Dorset and Hampshire. We hope to get Sam out with [...]
Cabrinha are in the process of launching their new 2011 products. The new 2011 bar is something a little different: The Powerdrive IDS control system starts with an ergonomic design, which allows precise steering and power input to your kite. Secondly, by adding our new Recoil system to the Internalized IDS Landing Line we have [...]
The Windsurfing Movie II soon in the UK Coming very soon to the UK X-Dance Film Festival ‘Best Director’ winner Johnny DeCesare and water-cinematographer Jace Panebianco, spent three years in production and filmed in seven countries in search of windsurfing’s new frontier. The Windsurfing Movie II expands on the story lines of The Windsurfing Movie [...]
The new 2011 sails from NeilPryde are on the horizon! The 2011 range of sails has two new designs the Atlas and the Fusion. Lets have a look at the new Atlas: The Neil Pryde Atlas is marketed as a powerful wave sail filling the gap that the well loved Alpha has left. I personally [...]
20 August 2010
This would be a great opportunity to tune your windsurfing skills this weekend, I know it is a little short notice, but Guy likes to do forecast based courses, which work well so that you are more likely to get a day learn stuff than just sitting on the beach. Please see email below I [...]
19 August 2010
12 years…10 competitions…8 features…3 parties…1 huge weekend! South Coast’s Biggest Action Sports Festival hosts new features for 2010 The established Animal Windfest event held annually at Sandbanks, Poole will host a series of new features in its 12th [...]
16 August 2010
NeilPryde has won three of the prestigious Red Dot awards by Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen for great design. One of them is the lofty ‘Red Dot: Best of the Best Award’ for NeilPryde’s Lucifer dry suit. NeilPryde’s creative director Alex Zenovic says he doesn’t know of any other Hong Kong brand who has won Red [...]
20 July 2010
2011 Cabrinha Kites: People keep asking me what can Cabrinha do this year to improve their kites? For 2011 there are lots of developments, pushing towards racing, new boards and new bar systems. The main range of kites however, has stayed the same for 2011 and the development guys at Cabrinha have been working hard [...]
06 July 2010
Windsurfing has been around since the late 60’s. Since then there have been huge developments in the equipment and materials used. These developments have made windsurfing easier to learn and equipment stronger than ever. Using this top of the range equipment windsurfers have pushed the boundaries of their sport. These days’ windsurfers can travel at [...]
06 July 2010
Over the last two years paddle boarding has been making its name on our shores and is becoming ultra popular. I thought I would have a look bit of a deeper look into how it became! We think of Stand up Paddle Boarding (SUP) as being a new thing, its not! It can be traced [...]
06 July 2010
2009 Cabrinha Caliber Having not read the reviews on the Caliber I was guessing where in the range Cabrinha was placing it. The board comes in a 130, 133 and 136, for this test i was using the 136. The first impression I got from the Caliber was that it was easy to ride and [...]
02 July 2010
Looking for great waves? Kimmeridge (K-bay) is truly world class on its day. There are three breaks: The Bay, which sits centrally and can be accessed by a slipway. Best in south or south-westerly and quite flat at low tide. The Ledges: directly below the cliffs to the east, which offers starboard jumping in a [...]
