sofiejenkinson
Alexandra Davies
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On Board Windsurfing magazine. Vol 3 No. 6 June 1982 (75p!)
This is the first in a series of a collection of old windsurfing magazines I have unearthed. It holds within its pages not only some absolutely classic vintage advertising but also old school techniques and loads of information about the ‘latest’ kit. It is a fascinating read in terms of the sport historically but also in terms of how the products are presented and the way things are written about.
The representation of women is also fascinating, with many of the wetsuit adverts peppered throughout the magazine having illustrations of doe eyed females with ample breasts and many of the sail adverts involving a beach-suit clad lady in the forefront looking on with earnest. Despite their use in adverts for practical sporting items none of the action shots in the magazine involve women.
It is interesting to compare the performance reviews of “new” kit with what is now cutting egde. Especially as a lot of the equipment I learnt to windsurf on was pretty old school and hard to find much information on anymore. There are interesting break downs in here of skeggs, footstraps, performance and maintenance, among other things .
Pgs 6 -7: News
Pg 13: New equipment
Pgs 20 - 21: An interview with Fraser Black
Pgs 24 - 25: Board Test - Icarus II
Pgs 32 - 33: Waterstart technique
Delightful advert #1
Delightful advert #2
Delightful advert #3
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Bic Hard Rock (PHOTO: Sofie Jenkinson)
CLASSIC BOARDS: Bic Hard Rock (1987 -1993)
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LENGTH: 2.83 m
WIDTH: 0.62 m
WEIGHT: 11 kg
VOLUME: 110 l
CLASS: Slalom LW
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Last weekend the skies were a lucid blue with the odd fluffy cartoon cloud floating by above Sandbanks beach in Poole, a place that can only be described as the closet thing that the UK has to L.A. And it was overrun with enthusiastic wind lovers – a record amount it turned out.
It's WINDFEST o'clock!
There were wakeboard demonstrations, bike shows, thundercat races, stand-up paddleboard races around little islands, slalom windsurf races and a couple of laps from the kitesurfers.
Wind boy.
Bit of light slalom racing
Steph Caller demonstrating her wakeboard skills
Wakebooardaaaz.
Sam Pilgrim using what can only be desribed as NO HANDS during the bike show.
It felt windy, the kind of wind that makes kids go mental in the playground at school. But in reality the wind was not so fierce. This meant that there were no official windsurf and kitesurf races and that the freestyle windsurfers had no choice but to chill the hell out on the lovely, floury sand.
We managed to catch up with wicked German-Caribbean kitesurfer Susi Mai and the brilliant freestyle windsurfer Nancy Tyrie.
Animal rider: kitesurfer Susi Mai
We asked Susi Mai if she had any hopes for kitesurfing.
“I want it to become a girl sport. I would love it there were ten times as many girls out on the water than boys because I just think it’s rad y’know. And um I definitely want it to go Olympic and we’re working on that right now but there all this internal crap. But it would be really fun if we could go to the Olympics. But mainly have chicks in it, when you go to Oahu now, you go to Honolulu and it’s all girls surfing – on their longboards with their bikinis matching their boards and I think that’s super cute. I would like to see more of that in kiting. I like to see an intimidating amount of girls in kitesurfing.”
Nancy Tyrie also had something to say about ladies on the water. “There are so many boys that windsurf and they get brilliant sponsorship and everything and there’s a small amount of girls. But those girls are really kicking arse. There’s like five girls that are amazing, say and everyone else is probably down on my level, but those girls are wicked.”
I went to check out Animal Windfest 2009 for Cooler magazine – so the full interviews and results from the weekend can be found by clicking here -> KAPOW!
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Our good friends Los Campesinos! have created for us another beautifully packed little slice of musical pie. And we here at Caked think that the title of this song could not be more accurate.
There are a lot of good friends in this video!
You can stand in one place with your toes in the sand all day and never be in the same sea. What better place is there to think?
By Alex Davies
So a hen party is all L plates, strippers and tequila, right? No, no, no. Turning tradition on its head, a group of us donned our overalls with bride-to-be Sophie, for a day of muddy quad-biking fun
With a sat nav and some multi-map directions in hand, ten of us took to the road last weekend and ventured to Charlwood near Crawley. The itinerary seemed pretty simple – quad biking, archery and some off-road jeep driving to celebrate our friend‘s approaching nuptials. Naturally.
A quad of girls take on the traditional hen do - extreme style.
After being separated into groups by Rob, the lovely chap who runs the Crawley branch of Quad Nation, we began a round-robin of activities.
Surrounded by mud, horses and a whole lot of field, my group started with the jeeps. Now, reverse steer 4×4 jeeps do exactly what they say on the tin. If you steer right, you will go left. Cue a few near-misses, a crash into a lamppost, and a hairy encounter with a curious horse. Lack of power steering also makes this a pretty challenging sport to master, but good (and patient) guides meant it was absolutely hilarious and worth persisting with.
4x4 reverse steer jeeping
Next, we turned to the archery. My Mum actually does an archery course and I now appreciate how tired she is after each class. Although there’s not much movement involved, holding the weight of the bow combined with some strenuous pulling of the string gives you a pretty decent arm work-out.
Tips: stand side on, hold the bow so that you create a straight line with your arms, pull back the string as hard as you can (don’t touch the arrow), aim lower than you think, then let go. I was no Robin Hood but still managed to hit the target once or twice (which isn’t a given as some of the group will testify!)
Archery...a sport loosely associated with love, in a way
And then finally, we came to the quad bikes. The most fun part of the day, I am now obsessed with owning a quad bike (you can ride them around Croydon, can’t you?) They’re not too difficult to drive once you’re in gear, as there’s only really a brake and accelerator to think about. The centre has open fields and rougher woodland for you to test out the vehicles, so you can fuel your adrenalin rush with a good degree of speed while still staying safe in a marshalled group. Happy days.
Bride on the run?
Fun and challenging, the day was pretty amazing albeit bloody exhausting. The friendly and trained staff make sure that you’re safe but offer a great experience.
Quad Nation has venues throughout England, Scotland and Wales. Prices start from £40 per person, and vary depending on group numbers, activities, etc.
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The first full issue of Caked is coming soon.
Watch this space…
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Exciting times are upon us wind fans!
In a couple of weekends time Animal Windfest is rocking up to Sandbanks in Poole. (Friday 11 – Sunday 13.)
Three action packed days are on the cards bringing some of the best windsurfers, kitesurfers and wakeboarders to the south coast.
There are many different kinds of events across the weekend including JP- Neil Pryde UKWA Slalom racing, BSUPA Round Brownsea Island Race, Animal Masterblaster Racing and South West Junior Beach Volleyball Tour finals, as well as opportunities to get involved yourself in kitesurf coaching and training, for example. Not forgetting the good old knees up in the evening, including the Animal Windfest Ball on Friday 11.
Stars appearing at the event include Timo Mullen, Susi Mai ,Tom Court and Caked favourite Kirsty Jones.
We’ll be bringing you the skinny on the whole god damn thing as well as chats with various masters of the wind and a whole bunch of pictures.
Hello there!
As today is my birthday I have sacked off the normal Sunday playlist and instead I offer you a listen of one of my favourite albums. It is in my top five all time favourite albums list.
ENJOY!
Bic Veloce (PHOTO: Sofie Jenkinson)
CLASSIC BOARD: Bic Veloce (1996 – 2000)
LENGTH: 3.28 m
WIDTH: 0.68 m
WEIGHT: 11.5 kg
VOLUME: 185 l
CLASS: Freeride allround
There are actually five issues of the Veloce board, including the 3.10m/151 l board and this one, the 3.28m/185l board.
The Veloce is qutie a trusty board and pretty stable. We usually chuck the beginners on it with the smallest sail to hand and watch them drift. Here is Andy below, both times on the Veloce but with quite different sails:
Andy tries out the Veloce with a 5m sail
Andy sacks off the 5m in favour of the awesome training rig. Love those colours.
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Yello!
Here we are again, another lazy Sunday afternoon and we have another Sunday playlist for you:
So, what’s been going on?
My Dad has just come back from two weeks windsuring in Greece. Levos to be precise. Here he is (not in Greece):
Dad on dry land. He can now helicopter tack you know. (PHOTO: Sofie Jenkinson)
Out there he learnt how to helicopter tack and worked on his rusty waterstarts (as we usually sail in shallow waters in the UK) on his advanced windsurfing course and completed his RYA Level 2 in dingy sailing. He went with a company called Neilson and they offered everything from friendly regatta’s, to windsurfing tuition, to wakeboarding and various class of sailing boat. He also bought these bad boys:
Gill kneepads: It's time to kneel. (PHOTO: Sofie Jenkinson)
Which I think could be useful for me while I’m windsurfing until beachstarting and water starting can be achieved without the current side order of expletives. For Dad, of course, they also provided much kneeded (HA, sorry) knee support after his recent knee op. But I am pretty keen to have less cuts and bruises on my pins and so I reckon a pair of these could be the way to go.
Plus I think they suit me, what do you think?
The knee bone's connected to the leg bone. (PHOTO: Sofie Jenkinson)
[For more info on the kneepads and for stockists visit the Gill wesbite.]
I am revealing myself to be somewhat of a wimp here, but the way I see it is – the less injure myself the longer I will be out on the water for.
Of course they’d also be pretty useful for other activities as well, if not more so, such as sailing – when you get tangled around the mainsheet and are scrambling around trying to duck the boom. Happy days!
