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Kieran and Jade to compete at inaugural Youth Olympic Games Young windsurfing stars, Kieran Martin and Jade Rogers, have today been named as part of Team GB’s 40 strong squad of young athletes set to compete at the first ever Youth Olympic Games, to be held in Singapore next month (August 14-26). |
Support Boat Crew Required Sailors are fed and watered at events by volunteers on support boats and we don't have enough of you - please let us know if you might be interested in helping. Experience isn't necessary. |
New Techno Committee CALLING ALL TECHNO PARENTS!
The current TSG committee is in the process of creating a formal Class Association for Techno windsurfers, as a sub section of the UKWA.
We are interested in recruiting parents to take up positions within a new committee structure. |
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Too old for Techno? Try RS:X What happens if you love racing but you're getting too old for the Techno? If you want to try sailing an RS:X, the UKWA is running a series of training/selection events. | ||||||||||||||||||
Zone Selection Qualifiers / Open Training Events On the 11th/12th September, the TSG will be running combined Junior Windsurfing Open Training / Zone Selection events at three regional venues.
You may attend any of the events unless you’re applying for a 2010/11 zone squad place - in this case you *must* attend the right event for your region.
If you enjoy Team15 racing and you can successfully sail a simple course, why not join in the training and meet some top class coaches! A Techno board is preferred (any sail size) but feel free to attend on whatever junior board you normally sail.
If you want to attend one of these events, you must register by the 5th of September.
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Online Entry via Sailracer North / West Regions: NORTHAMPTON SAILING CLUB (Pitsford) East / South East Regions: DATCHET WATER SAILING CLUB South / South West Regions: BRISTOL CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB (Axbridge) Cost will be £45 per sailor for the weekend. The events are non-residential. See the venue websites for details of local accommodation. Training starts at 9.30 both days, finishing at 5.00pm Saturday and 4.30pm Sunday | ||||||||||||||||||
TSG T15 Windsurfing Training The TSG is organising open training aimed at all T15 sailors across all the regions this summer. These specific T15 training events are all attached to a Regional inter-club challenge – so why not make a weekend of it.
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North Sea Cup - Wimereux 9th & 10th October The Techno Support Group is pleased to announce the opportunity to access coached support for UK Techno Sailors at the North Sea Cup event in Wimereux, France (half an hour drive from Calais) on 9th & 10th Oct. The TCC is grateful to the RYA from whom we secured funding for this event and on this occasion we are able to offer the support free of charge. |
Team Racing - Mondello, Sicily The TSG is pleased to announce that the following sailors will represent the UK in the Team Racing Event in Sicily: Saskia Sills, Imogen Sills & Max Bushell. |
2010 Team Racing Championship, Mondello, Sicily The TSG wishes to bring this event to everyone's attention. We are intending to send a Team for the Team racing event but anyone can enter the course racing event that will be run in Parallel.
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Another Great Week at Pitsford 40 young windsurfers from around the country came together at Pitsford SC, near Northampton from the 16th - 19th August. |
GBR Bronze at Youth Olympics Final: Kieran Martin holds Bronze position after finishing 1st in the medal race. Jade Rogers also unchanged at 11th. Congratulations to both sailors for a World Class performance! Full results on the event results page and commentary on the twitter page. [thanks to Paul for posting the twitter link]. |
Med Cup (Marseille) Results See the full results as a downloadable PDF file.
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Moblog +44 7532 307 119 Mon Aug 02 10:56:29 2010 - Anna (email): Another video here. More being made. Sun Aug 01 22:15:27 BST 2010 - LordSnooty: Links to more of Ian's podcasts:
Fri Jul 30 18:28:27 BST 2010 - LordSnooty: Results are on the event website. Ckick here. Wed Jul 28 23:56:30 2010 - LordSnooty: More reports and videos here. No results yet. Wed Jul 28 21:26:38 2010 - Richard: waiting for wind today! eventually all raced. u17 girls came off water after 8.00 pm! lots of protests so it will be a busy night at the club. 1200 FPS tomorow. Tue Jul 27 12:46:49 2010 - Anna (email): We had some good training on Friday afternoon with 17 of the TSG group in a lovely warm 16 - 18 knots. Saturday and Sunday were around 50 knots with the mistral blowing through, which meant we didn't get on the water. Yesterday we got on the water for the practise race starting in about 19 knots gusting mid 20swhich built during the afternoon. It was pretty wavy, but HB and Emily Hall did really well on the 6.8 course and Luke Patrick did well on the 7.8 course. Today the mistral is really blowing again, so we're waiting for the race committee to make a decision around 3ish. Tomorrow looks lighter, hopefully we'll get some racing in then. vidéo du jour ... cliquez ici. Mon Jul 26 21:19:49 2010 - Richard: More wind today, several sails came off the water after the practice race rather the worse for wear! The opening ceremony was good fun and there are >400 competitors, an early start tomorrow! fingers crossed that the wind gods are reasonable! Sun Jul 25 22:46:26 2010 - Richard: Registration and Measuring today, we hope that the wind will die down so that the practice race happens tomorrow. Everyone is keen to get started...... Thu Jul 22 08:18:52 2010 - Ian: Training day - Podcast 1. Thu Jul 22 08:18:52 2010 - Richard: Thursday morning 0815 the crickets have woken up! If you've recorded your mobile phone number on the forum registration page, you can post text messages about this event to the website using the MobLog number. |