Canterbury Windsports Association

Canterbury Kite Champs 2010

John Thyne

This year the prevailing southerly winds in Canterbury had us take the competition out to Lake Ellesmere Domain. For both days we had great riding & winds gusting from 10-30 knots. This made for high adrenalin competition in all classes, with 35 competitors. The teenagers were the show stoppers this season with Anthony Hopkins, 15 years from Linwood dominating the competition & taking out the Canterbury title plus the Junior titles. Brianna Boyd also from ChCh won the title for the Canterbury Womans division. It was great to get such a high level of talent from all over New Zealand attend, especially Marc Jacobs, NZ Champion! Organised by 'Canterbury Windsports Association' committee members Blair Cooke & Tim Stockman, this annual event never fails to get a good result here in Christchurch, which was also the location for the very successful 2009 Kiteboarding Nationals.

Thanks to those people who came from far & wide, plus our sponsors- Winnie Bagoes Ferrymead, NZ Kiteboarder Magazine, Custom Print, Groundswell, Underground, DaKine, KITESPORTS, OZONE, Cabrinha, Ocean Rodeo, 7th Wave, Sub20, Decay, & The Canterbury Windsports Association.

RESULTS:

OPEN: 1.Marc Jacobs 2.Geoffrey Waterson 3.Hugh Pinfold

WOMANS: 1.Su Kay 2.Brianna Boyd 3.Anderson Romero

JUNIORS: 1.Anthony Hopkins 2.Jackson Mills 3.Lukas Walton-Keim

CANTERBURY OPEN: 1.Anthony Hopkins 2.Jackson Mills 3.Alex Bowater

CANTERBURY WOMANS: 1.Brianna Boyd 2.Sandra Upston 3.Kim Bunt

CANTERBURY JUNIORS: 1.Anthony Hopkins 2.Jackson Mills 3.Alex Bowater

MASTERS: 1.Scottie 2.Hugh 3.Matty C

CANTERBURY MASTERS: 1.Scottie 2.Matty C 3.Karl Soulos

WOMANS MASTERS: 1.Su Kay 2.Sandy Upston 3.Ariana

ONE OFF BEST TRICK: 1.Alex B(KGB) 2.Marc J(flat 3) 3.Julian S(2x kites)

BEST TRICK WOMANS: 1.Su Kay 2.Ariana 3.Anderson

BEST TRICK JUNIOR: 1.Lukas

BEST DRESSED MENS: 1.Cookie 2.Julian 3.James

BEST DRESSED WOMAN: 1st Equal.Sandy/Ariana/Kim

Myself & young Harrison really enjoyed getting out in the boat & rescuing all of you who needed it during the light winds on the first day. Daniel Romero, you made H's day flying off the back of the boat...Nathan on Cookies jet ski, worth it's weight in gold getting people back to shore time & time again. The fancy dress kiting & then wakeboarding was fantastic! Great party Sat night at Winnie Bagoes...cheers Kim & Scoota for having us over for the prizegiving. Thanks all the helpers, you know who you are:-)

Lets do it all again next year!

Cheers, Tim

Here's a gallery of shots from both days from TalkieT (thanks).

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Estuary Kite Launch Area ACCESS

John Thyne

The CCC Park Rangers have asked that each vehicle closes the swing gate after it passes through, and that the last one out closes it and locks up, in order to keep the vehicles of non-windsports users out. They say the kite launch area and car park is on private land, and that we're privileged to be there, so please let's give it a go to show them we care. Signage will be established to clarify this, and we're considering a self closing mechanism on the gate to make life as easy as possible. So please let's give it a go to show them we care.

Here's the plan in full: A core group of trusted CWA kiters know the padlock code and open up when kiting is on; the gate is closed as we pass through; the last one to leave closes and locks both the cable and the gate, for which you need the code - if you don't then get to know your fellow CWA kiters, or ask me. Otherwise it's left to security who arrive late at night, and in the meantime the vandals have a field day. Thanks, John.