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Kiteboaring
Champ
Best Overall |
2006 Nitinaht Wind Fest
Kiteboarding and Windsurfing Competition & Demos
Hosted by Nitinaht Visitors Centre and
Nitinaht Xtreme Adventures
Special Thanks to
Grant MacPherson,
Mark Sprungman ,
Rob Robson and our
Sponsors
Without them the event would not have
been possible! - Jude
Check out NWF 2006 footage "You Tube"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrT9fLEvb8U
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Freestyle Champ
Womens
Kiteboarding |
 Prize
Winner
Trip to Dominica Rep.
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Prize Winner Guitar
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Freestyle Champ
Mens
Kiteboarding |
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Windsurfing |
Windsurfing
Best
Overall Champ
Mark Sudul |
Kiteboarding |
Kite Boarding
Freestyle Champion
Mark Bavis |
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Windsurfing
Freestyle Champion
Jeff Sutherland |
Windsurfing
Sportsmanship Award
Pete Nori |
Kite Boarding
Best
Overall Champion Andrew Scott |
Kite Boarding
Boarder
X Champion Chris Hunter |
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Windsurfing
Slalom
(P) Champion
Pete Nori |
Windsurfing
Course
Champion
Pete Vandenbos |
Kite Boarding
Boarder
X Champ (W) Kendra
Harris |
Kite Boarding
Distance Champ
Chris Glazier |
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Windsurfing
Slalom
(A) Champion
Wayne Mayes |
Windsurfing
Most
Stoked Award
Mark Fletcher |
Kite Boarding
Sportsmanship
Award
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Kite Boarding
Freestyle (W) Champ Mary Leclerc |
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Windsurfing
Best
Wipe Out Award
Tom Vandall |
Windsurfing
Freestyle Champion Stephanie Fletcher |
Kite Boarding
Best
Wipe Out Award Robbie |
Kite Boarding
Most
Stoked Award
Dwayne Strong |
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Kiteboarding
Big Air
Women's
Kendra Harris |
Kite Boarding
Big Air Champion
Don Armstrong |
Kleco! Kleco! to our Support and Sponsors:
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nitinaht.ca |
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Lake Cowichan
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BOSUN'S LOCKER |
Ditidaht First
Nation |
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2 Dog
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elevationkiteboarding.com |
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More sponsors......
Lake Cowichan Concrete
Sky Pilot
Starboard
Nitinaht Wind Surfer Resort
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Hey here's a quick report on what happened with the
kiteboarding side of things last year at:
Nitinaht Windfest, Aug. 12 and 13th
Judi and Dale set up a great home base/registration motor home and a DJ booth to
go with the killer 10,000 watt sound system that came with a sound guy, Lee. He
sorted it all out and made all the technology work smoothly to keep DJ Alex
going non stop. Mark Sprungman organized a huge amount of prizes and swag to
give away. Dwayne used his superior nautical skills to help set the Boarder
Cross course. Everybody helped out to put everything together and before we knew
it we had an event.
About 35 kites started the Long Winder Kite
Course on Saturday afternoon, and we got a finishing order something like
this:
Long Winder Kite Course
1)Chris Glazier
2)Don Armstrong
3)Mark Bavis
4)Colin Green
5)Mark Vincent
6)Chris Hunter
7)Billy Kipling
8)John Read
9)Adam Steele
10)DanCaley
11)Andrew Scott
12)Dale Moffat
13)Ed Peden
14)Ben Chambers
15)Brad Paul
16)Kevin Bonogofski
17)Naish mysto guy
18)Dwayne Strong
19)Kieth Borg
20)Laurie Astle
21)Mark Leng
22)Lindsey Browes
(apologies if we missed you, or spelled your name wrong)
Boarder Cross was up next. It went off. The action
was intense with 2 advancing from each heat of 4. Unfortunately, a little too
intense, we had a bad accident in which Phillipe from Airtime (one of our fine
sponsors) sustained a finger injury, we all hope he has a speedy recovery!
Competitors voted to carry on, with a bit more caution, so the action continued
right up to the final. I was absolutely amazed at the caliber of riding, with
tight starts and turns, thrills and chills. Final positions:
Boardercross Men's Division
1)Chris Hunter
2)Dan Caley
3)Andrew Scott
4)Billy Kipling
Boarder Cross Women's Division
1)Kendra Harris
2)Marie Leclair
Saturday evening: Great party with DJ Alex, great food from the BBQ and a
classic tuna-on-a-kiteboard by Dwayne and Billy. Marie won the beer draw. Gary
got the trip to the DR.
Sunday morning we were treated to a super cool Native dance - the real deal, and
we all learned a bit of history about the beach we come to play on. Both kites
and windsurfers got their freestyle events finished early in the afternoon. On
the kites, we had unreal riding from Ben Chambers with his handle-pass kite-loop
attempts, Stephano Rista landing a back mobe in his first heat, 2-dog and his
unhooked speed loops, Andrew Scott and his seriously powered f-16's and Chris
Hunter's smooth consistent style. And let's not forget Marie's handle-pass right
off the start in her heat. And 13 year old Zach Astle's ripping- loops, spins,
grabs, rallys...
Freestyle Men's Division
1)Mark Bavis
2)Andrew Scott
3)Chris Hunter
4)Dan Caley
Freestyle Women's Division
1)Marie Leclair
2)Kendra Harris
Big Air Men's Division 1) Don Armstrong ,
with a nice down-loop for hang-time
Big Air Women's Division 1) Kendra Harris
All in all, the whole thing went way better than any of us had hoped. The
Boarder Cross shows serious potential to grow into a series or circuit or
something, I wish you guys could see how good it looked. All the best to
Phillipe in his recovery.
Thanks to:
all the competitors for bringing their stoke
all the sponsors
all the volunteer help
Lee the sound man
dj Alex
Mark Sprungman for getting the ball rolling
Dale and Judi, without them it would not have happened
the people of Nitinaht Village, for letting us play in your backyard
Grant MacPherson
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