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Kite Forum Rebrand

Friday, August 28th, 2009

As you may all now be aware, the Flexifoil Forum is now the Kitecrowd Kite Forum. It is likely that as the site develops we will start to port over some of the content (how-to guides etc) over there.

Kiteival 09 Swansea Results

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

I had the chance to pop to swansea to catch the first Kiteival, all went well. The wind certainly was around, the rain did pop over but Swansea made up for it with a good night out!

Here is the released result info:

Dates- May 15th-17th
Location- Swansea Bay Swansea South Wales
KITEIVAL 09 ROUND 1
Event Sponsor- The City and County of Swansea Council
Co-Event Sponsor- Gower Kiteriders, Flexifoil , North
Tour Sponsors- Red Bull, Deadman, Buff, King of Watersports
Disciplines- Kitesurf, Kitelandboard, Kitebuggy Freestyle and Kitesurf Course Racing
Results after 3 days of non stop wind and 97 competitors !

Kitesurf Freestyle
Pro Men
1 – Toby Raw
2 – Sam Light
3 – Ali Barratt

Pro Ladies
1 – Hannah Whitely
2 – Nicki Rudd
3 – Sarah Silvester

Am Men
1 – Tom Butler
2 – Sam Moore
3 – Ben Todd

Am Ladies
1 – Megan Griffiths
2 – Sukie Robertson
3 – Sherly Confue

Seniors
1 – Pete Whitely
2 – Matthew Davies
3 – Marc Rowley

Juniors
1 – Dan Morrice
2 – Dan Sweeney
3 – Oli Bridge

Course Racing Kitesurf
1
Steph Bridge
2
Andy Gratwick
3
Denzil Williams
4
Steve Stubbs
5
Callum Edge
6
Darren Pompey
7
Jason Mc Caffery
8
James Longmuir
9=
Rob Darling
9=
Dom Moore
11=
Neil Harper
11=
Nicky Rudd
13=
Alex Laird
13=
Matt Smith
13=
Peter Whiteley
16
James Edwards
17
Steve Mews

Kitelandboard Freestyle
Mens
1st: Lewis Wilby
2nd: AJ Philipsen
3rd: Nick Austin

Juniors
1st: James Langton
2nd Greg Chilton
4th = Robbie Shire Maidment, Ted Polkey , Jack Daykin

Kitebuggy Freestyle
1st Will McKeen
2nd Neil Oakden
3rd Frazier Cohen

Thanks to everyone involved .

Atmosphere tickets released

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

Hey,

In case you have not noticed tickets are now available for Atmosphere09

Book now before they sell out!

Atmosphere09 – Ticket Update

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Hey,

So we have just started the fun of 2009, and the tickets for Atmosphere09 will be released in one day.

Make sure you turn up!

New Season Upon Us

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Long time no word,

The new ’season’ of Kiting will be upon us soon, longer days, more blue skies and of course the events will come.

Do you have a suggestion for us, or a new idea, or product to promote then leave us a comment.

Good Winds,
Neil