Archive for October 9th, 2009

Secret spot

Friday, October 9th, 2009

You know you have finally made it in the kitesurfing world when someone offered to show you one of britains elusive top secret flat water kiting spots. I couldn’t believe my luck, smooth strong 25 mph wind and not a ripple in sight. And only four of us from brizzle plus three other locals. I haven’t had such a good and easy for learning session in years. Well that was at least until I massively stacked it doing a huge jump with a double rotation and somehow sent my kite into a megaloop. And got wiplash. But it was sooo worth it cause I now have the top secret gps coordinates too…

Carnyville

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Ok this one is a hard one to describe… Imagine a deserted fire station in the centre of Bristol with a large courtyard in the middle. It had one of those fire towers for practicing putting out fires, and it has wrought iron balconies around the walls.
Basically, a circus group had made the whole area into a stage set village complete with sinister shops, a job centre plus and it’s own currency. All of the public were dressed up so it was impossible to tell who was a performer and who wasn’t. There was a whole back story too. The citizens of carnyville were forbidden from having fun but gradually throughout the evening the performers started to break free. And there was acrobatics on the sides of buildings, tightrope walking, fire juggling and a full circus stage show. Never seen anything like it – absolutely incredible!

Fresh

Friday, October 9th, 2009

5th freahers fair and equally mental as ever. We reckon we knicked a lot of members from the windsurfers which is always the aim and giving out free biscuits was the best investment ever! Bring on this year =)