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Team Trampa Top BKSA Redcar

26/05/2010

Hello there peeps

  Just got back from the first round of the bksa kiteival at Redcar and a brilliant time had by all. We headed off from Essex where we were picked up by Fab (the Italian stallion) and arrived at our destination in the very early hours friday morning. This year was very different than the previous event at Redcar as we was blessed with absolutely stunning weather transforming the town from a grey seaside town into the costa del geodie.

The wind decided to play ball with us friday afternoon and Ash, Jack, Steve and myself headed out to warm up for the following days heats. All the boys were rocking pulling off huge styled out tricks and we were all buzzing off each others energy, unfortunatly the following day we wasn't so blessed as the wind was pretty weak, but they managed to run all the heats leaving Ash,Jack and Steve in the final after Ash putting in a fantastic run against myself in the semi's. The lads gave it there all in the light conditions and no one could have predicted the result, but we were all stoked as we knew Team Trampa had taken the top four.

Later on we hit the town and started the celabrations which ended at stupid o'clock for Fab and myself. Feeling the burn the next day we headed off to prize giving to find out the result where Team Trampa hit the podium with Ash Garwood getting 3rd, Steve Smith taking 2nd and the albino yetti himself Mr Jack Elston taking the top spot.

A big thankyou to our sponsers Trampaboards and Ozone kites, also a huge well done to all the organisers of the event and another big thankyou to Fab from the Westfellas for getting us there.

   cheers Floyd

1st Place for Yannick Schwickert at German Kite Land Board Masters

28/04/2010

Congratulations got to Yannick Schwickert for finishing 1st in the German Kite land boards Masters in Munsterappel this last weekend.

The following words have been taken From Yannicks own website which can be seen at    www.yannickschwickert.de

2010 Season begins in Muensterappel

Last weekend was kickoff for the German kite land boarding tour 2010 at the kite area in Münsterappel.

Unfortunately, the weather forecast was not looking too enthusiastic for this event.
Low winds of 1-2 bft. were predicted but in exchange the temperature was suppose to rise up to 23°C on both days.
Together with our new team rider Pascal Schmidt and his father Maik, I set off to the kite area in Münsterappel to have a look at the terrain and to perform the license check-up.
Saturday began just as predicted, low winds and warm temperatures. Still, the organizers decided to launch the race contest.

Finally, the new Prodigy size 10,5 m² was allowed to show what it’s made of. Also ready to launch were Peter, Matthias and Christian who have chosen the Montana size 12,5. For three individual races we had to compete with the size 19 Speed, of which the second race went successful for me even by using a smaller kite. In this race I was able to cross the finish line first. For the other two runs I had to admit defeat due to low winds.
Sunday began just like Saturday with low winds but we still decided to go for two racing runs. By achieving similar results to the day before, I was able to get 3rd place in the overall ranking. Peter and Christian were able to achieve 7th and 8th place.

Because the wind was getting up, the decision was made to start the freestyle contest. Constant changing conditions however really gave all participants a hard time to show their moves.

Our youngest team member Passi achieved a great result and got the same ranking together with Nico Fehrenberg on 12th position. Matthias and Peter achieved 5th and 8th place.
Fighting my way upwards I found myself competing against the German champion of 2008, Joey Oldenbürger for the final run of this race. At the end I was able to win this race and finish on 1st place.

Looking back now it’s been a great weekend with lot’s on sunshine and a nice sunburn. I’m already looking forward to the next contest.

Greeting,

BKSA final round @ Redcar 8th-11th October

08/12/2009

Trampa Rider Ash gives us the lowdown on the final round of the BKSA.

Wednesday
After a busy morning of haircuts and lots of packing me, jack and Floyd all met ready to be picked up by Ben + Helen the ozone/trampa camera Team. Soon after they arrived we had packed the car full of our kit and were on our way.

After a long and cosey drive we had arrived at Redcar to what seemed to be a ghost town as no locals seemed to be doing anything. After we had settled in our accommodation for the weekend we went for an evening meal at a local Indian. After stuffing ourselves full of Indian and wine we headed back for an early night.

Thursday
we woke to a typical chilly Redcar morning with a light on shore breeze and headed over to Ben and Helens for bacon sandwiches to set us up for the day. We then headed over to the beach for our first glance and it didn’t disappoint, the sheer size of this beach was stunning strait from the start and we could see that we were in for a brilliant weekend. It didn’t take us long and we were on the beach for a chilled out afternoon session in a clean on shore breeze of 15-20 mph winds testing out our skills to the max with our ozone kites, with me, Floyd and jack all punching out some awesome moves ranging from big kite loops to mega spins and smooth technical board off’s. We met up with appo during this session with him showing off the 2010 rang of ozone manta 3’s with some impressive floaty jumps.

After an awesome warm up session, a bit battered and bruised we headed off the beach and back to base camp for a Ben and Helen pasta special and a few drinks to end the day.

Friday
we rose on Friday all aching from the day before and set for the beach for morning registration. With the wind slightly lacking, we all waited around and were chatting with other competitors from the series, among them was fellow ozone rider AJ Philipsen. After he had enlightened us of past ventures we all pumped up our ozone instincts and set off for a light wind session. The judges then decided to run the juniors first with riders: Sam lawman, Ted Polkey, Greg Chiltern, Jack Daykin and Robbie shire-maident. After an impressive show of skill from all riders in very little wind Greg, Ted and Sam all took to the podium. It was then decided that all other comps were to be cancelled due to a deep lack in wind, which was our day over so we then retired to the caravan for cheese and red wine.

Friday evening however had a lot more fun install for all competitors as the BKSA had managed to set the red bull bbq in the local skate park. It was amazing to see every one giving skateboarding ago and getting stuck in, this was the first time that every one really had the chance to talk to each other which we all thoroughly enjoyed.

Saturday
After waking up with a slightly sore head from the night before, myself, jack and Floyd headed over to Ben and Helen’s caravan for an Ash Garwood special fry up as today is competition day or so we thought. After stuffing our self’s full of sausages and bacon we headed over to the beach to catch up with our fellow competitors and judges to discuss the day’s conditions. After a long wait and many hours of playing football to pass the time we all agreed to boycott the competition due to a deep lack of wind.

Saturday evening was prize giving, so due to the competition not being held the points were equally given out between the competitors leaving the results unchanged. It was a shirt and tie event so in true trampa fashion myself, jack and Floyd came dressed to impress in our ozone trampa goodies. After many drinks and the prize giving I had found myself in 3rd  place over all with Aj 2nd and Lewis 1st, which for ozone and trampa I think is an awesome result. We then decided to party the night out hitting a few bars and some interesting looking kebab shops, with a long walk ahead we got back just after 2 and hit the sack.

Sunday
On Sunday we woke to a cold damp atmosphere with a light breeze of 10 mph we headed over to Ben and Helens for a morning cuppa and to discuss today’s action plan for getting home. As it was predicted decent winds for the day we headed over to the beach for a best trick competition. As the winner was to get £100 It was game on from every one, the wind started off low but gradually picked up and came through with a stiff 18 mph breeze my favourite conditions for my nine. Everyone was putting on a brilliant show with tricks coming from all directions. Floyd was bashing out some mega 1080 spins, jack with some awesome tweaks and myself with some big board offs. We all gave it our best and AJ gave us one of the biggest kite loops I’ve ever seen on land, with everyone all tricked out the judges announced the winners.   Land board: James Tideswell AKA Floyd for a massive 1080 slap down.                               Free style Buggy:  Dave Roberts for a massive 1080 kite loop!!

I think everyone will agree that this has been an amazing weekend with some great people, a big thanks to the BKSA for running the first ever completed competition series I’ve ever entered, and also I can’t forget my sponsors for the financial support and the amazing gear.

And a big thanks to Ben hole for filming us and taking us to Redcar without him we would not have been there.

 

All the best and fly safe

Ash Garwood
www.flyozone.com www.trampaboards.com www.essexkitepark.com

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