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For all those young kids with game!

Matt Pritchard visits UK to promote Tabou & Gaastra

Matt Pritchard has been busy promoting the all new 2006 Gaastra Range and the 06 Tabou boards since finishing competition in the Canaries. Gaastra rep, Nick Green, looked after Matt on his short visit to the UK by first enforcing the tired lad to a motocross session in the Yorkshire Hills. However Matt was the man and he went full speed at everything and was styling it over the jumps looking down at the rest of the crew.

Then it was off to Nobles in Leicester where Matt talked a customer into buying a new Tabou Rocket 61 in the first 5 minutes of him being in the shop!

Matt also signed a few boards and kept the Nobles crew up to date with what’s coming from Gaastra including showing his pre-production Manic 2006. But as soon as he had arrived, he was gone, this time to Germany and then finally home to his beloved Maui.

Parents: get your kids’ school involved with THIS!!

Would your kid fancy hanging out with top UK Surfers and riding around on Cornwall’s fastest rib! Of course they would! Read on to find out how they can + learn all about the SAS.

Cool things on the Web!

Using the buttons on your keyboard, you can brake, accelerate, jump, gybe, loop and flaka your way around a Super X course. A great distraction from that pile of paperwork!

Go to www.fanatic.com and click on ‘GAME’ in the right hand column


	Funboard Challenge III: One hour to learn! We took three girls (aged 8, 10, 10) and their respective parents (ages undisclosed) to a tidal lagoon in North Wales to try windsurfing for the VERY FIRST time.... More

The No-handed Flaka courtesy of Andy ‘Bubble’ Chambers

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Not too sure whether this was intentional or the best blag of the season but it sure looks cool!

“Back to Fuerte!”


		Name: Lucy Robson Age: 24yrs Home town: Brighton

So you want to throw away a permanent position in a prestige lawyer’s office to go windsurfing for a year? Explain yourself girl!!


	F2 Speed Challenge



	Nick Scott (winner of the UK Speed Challenge) competes with the best at the ISA Speed Champs in Fuerte Nick: ‘We only had two one hour sessions both on a course with meter high plus waves and fluky wind which was blowing at 150 plus degrees to the course. I broke a boom on the first run down the course on Sunday which was over a mile from the kit store tent so that was a wash out. Then on Friday I broke another boom on the way back up the course out to sea and had to be rescued. However on the Tuesday I did get up to 38 knots on a 500m course but the event didn’t run because they have to have a 250m course and the wind wasn’t working in that area!!’ Better luck next time Nick!! Wells-on-the-sea (17 July): Supported by Quayside Windsurfing, the last Speed Challenge was won by Tony Morris in the light Sunday afternoon winds.

NO wind windsurfing holiday?

Devon rules the US of A!

Devon Boulon from the US Virgin Isles has won the US Racing Nationals held this July in the Gorge AND the North

American Continental Champs held at Squamish, British Columbia in Canada. Both events were a roaring success with hundreds of competitors competing in Formula and Slalom.

Top 5 results:

North American Formula Champs
1st Devon Boulon (USA)
2nd Jesper Vesterstrom (Denmark)
3rd Sam Ireland (Canada)
4th Wilhelm Shurrman (Brazil)
5th Seth Besse (USA)

US Nationals
1st Devon Boulon
2nd Jesper Vesterstrom
3rd Sam Ireland
4th Phil Magain
5th Wilhelm Shurrman
6th Seth Besse





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