takoon uk

I'm just passed 68 years old and started kitesurfing at the sports embryo-stage about 12 years ago to fill a gap because I had to stop competitive sailing racing dinghies through walking disability. As each of the last few years have passed I've had to trim my kitesurfing to suit my disability so joining-up with Takoon and the UK team will be a way of sharing my experience and experiences. I'm not an accomplished rider in the sense of freestyle tricks concentrating on riding the waves and huge swells we get here on the west-coast of Wales but I am very competent and experienced always looking for a novice I can help or even a not-so-novice that needs help.

My first kites were foils from Canada, Concept-Air turned some ram-air ski-kites into the very first marine foils that were very difficult to fly and get of the sea but they did work, then came Windtools attempts at marine foils and eventually the first inflatable kites. I used Wipika Free-Airs for a time but kept going back to the foils because you didn't need to pump-Em-up and of-course I had become wired to those foils. Eventually came Naish Aero's one and two then Wipika Matrix and eventually the very first 'Bo'. I had one of the very-first Takoon Nova, the memory of the huge difference that Nova made to my kitesurfing will stay for-ever. Eventually I moved to Slingshot and the Link which brings us to my move back to Takoon.

I'm flying the Takoon Chrono in 12, 10 and 8, Maybe a 15 later this year.

I mostly ride at Newgale Beach in north Pembrokeshire, moving to Newport Beach, Broad-Haven Beach or Tenby South Beach as the wind changes, anyone who want's to test fly the Chrono is welcome to make arrangement with me via my mail-address takoon@big-blue-beach.co.uk

For the benefit of those who don't know I'm waiting to go into hospital to have my second hip resurfacing procedure, the first was two years ago and made a a huge positive difference to my comfort. I'll be recovered and back in the sea by late spring assuming everything works smoothly.