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2022 Wingfoil Racing World Cup in Jericoacoara, Brazil

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Re: 2022 Wingfoil Racing World Cup in Jericoacoara, Brazil

Postby leepasty » Sat Dec 31, 2022 7:34 pm

Raffety Read made the gold fleet, but if you are talking about the GWA World Tour I guess it’s because we have no national tour and zero sponsors for Watersports.
If wing racing goes Olympic the Rya will take it on and form a team and then there will be British guts at the front but for expression Watersports there is zero funding

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Re: 2022 Wingfoil Racing World Cup in Jericoacoara, Brazil

Postby Matty V » Sun Jan 01, 2023 1:28 am

UKWA ran a full uk wing tour…

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Re: 2022 Wingfoil Racing World Cup in Jericoacoara, Brazil

Postby leepasty » Sun Jan 01, 2023 10:36 am

Matty V wrote:
Sun Jan 01, 2023 1:28 am
UKWA ran a full uk wing tour…
Hardly a full uk wing tour
They did 4 slalom events on the south coast,

Nothing for course race, freestyle or surf in the uk

And nothing in the east, west or north of uk, hopefully more events in 2023, there’s a race event in Cornwall in may 😀

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Re: 2022 Wingfoil Racing World Cup in Jericoacoara, Brazil

Postby Matty V » Sun Jan 01, 2023 5:23 pm

Wasn’t the wave masters in Ireland a pretend wing event?

4 events is better than nothing and more than what you suggested? It’s also more than the bksa managed? One hastily scheduled event in Portland for kite freestyle.

As for multiple disciplines? You think it needs fragmenting even more? Look how fucked kiting is now, one wave event /holiday to Ireland, one freestyle event and handed all the racing to the RYA.

No wonder the UkWA fucked it all off and did their own thing.

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Re: 2022 Wingfoil Racing World Cup in Jericoacoara, Brazil

Postby leepasty » Sun Jan 01, 2023 6:00 pm

Matty V wrote:
Sun Jan 01, 2023 5:23 pm
Wasn’t the wave masters in Ireland a pretend wing event?

4 events is better than nothing and more than what you suggested? It’s also more than the bksa managed? One hastily scheduled event in Portland for kite freestyle.

As for multiple disciplines? You think it needs fragmenting even more? Look how fucked kiting is now, one wave event /holiday to Ireland, one freestyle event and handed all the racing to the RYA.

No wonder the UkWA fucked it all off and did their own thing.
I’m not saying anything against or bad about the ukwa I think it’s great they put slalom events on. (I would have come to some if they weren’t so far away or had better forecasts)
Unlike bksa who should be ashamed at what they put on in Ireland!
I simply answered the original question which was ‘why no uk people on world tour ‘which is no events.

This is the same for kiting unfortunately and when I question the authority’s they say there is no funding for Watersports in the uk.

I asked ukwa if they will run wing freestyle and wave events and they said they are not interested in running judging based events.

It’s a shame as without a good uk comp scene how can people step onto the world stage?


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