NWF !!

Night Windsurf Festival! / National Windsurf festival! On Friday, Saturday and Sunday the 7th,8th and 9th of September Windsurfers from all over the UK met up on Hayling Island for one of the biggest windsurfing events on the calender. Its a great event to met up with everyone, get on the water whatever the conditions and have a party! We were also blessed with the sun witch obviously makes the whole thing a lot better than sitting around in vans in damp rigging jackets! Through out the day brands such as fanatic and north show of all there latest gear and let people take what ever they like out on the to test, try or simply have a nice time on! Along side all the brands there were many races, fun races, whacky races and freestyle competitions going on through out the day and I was entered the mens pro freestyle however we had no wind on the saturday so we did some qualification rounds behind the jet ski for the big show at night, 'The Night Tow in'. Here's a couple of shots from the day Time Tow in,

With Sam Ross as head judge and the likes of Max Rowe and Collin Dixon judging the day time comp I qualified for the night tow in. There was 6 of us in total that qualified, Myself, Oscar, Max, Phil,Bubble and Simsy! The Luck was on our side and as the sun dropped so did the wind, Giving us Mirror flat water to do our tricks on. Only When I went down to the beach just before we went out did Sam Ross say, '' Ric, your going first'' At this point the nervs kicked in knowing that not only did i have to get the sail up with eating it and get my feet in the strap in the dark but i had to do the opening move in front of a lot of people! i like to think in my head that it was around a 1000 people watching, could have been 500 or 1500 though it dint matter! As i Came round to do my move I knew exactly what move I was going for and that I was doing it two handed to play it safe and I landed it smoothly giving me a huge adrenaline rush hearing everyone clap and cheer! By the end some of the Guys were bouncing there moves into doubles and going big! The level truly went through the roof!