Club Competition 11th July 2010.

On Sunday morning the competitors gathered for this years Stewartby Waterski Club Competition.

The morning started off very windy with not much sun, we started as usual with the slalom competition. The water was rough & the wind blowing hard, for the first round the score was close in the novices between Louise Danbury & Alex O'Dell with an excellent first time effort from Jacob Jenkins, but in the second round Alex put in a excellent score to take the win. The Slalom was won by Paul Preston who still has quite an edge on the others. Alex Allison came 3rd this year closeing the gap on me in 2nd.

Wakeboard was next as the weather began to improve, the juniors was won by Harry Eaton with an excellent display. Adult wakeboard was won by Alex Allison, Paul Preston was a close 2nd and would have won had he landed his raleigh, but instead he felt more than the pain of not winning.

Last was the Kneeboard with Alex O'Dell winning the Juniors with a great display of spins & slides. Adults was won by Liam Dyke who had put together a good set of surface tricks. I did try this myself but its been a long while since I last went on a kneeboard and I was just pleased to manage a jetty start without embarrassingly crashing.

The numbers were down a little on last year but I think the quality was higher. It was a good competition and was fun to enter & watch.

My thanks go to all who helped.

Barry Dyke.

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The results are as follows:-

Novice slalom

1st, Alex O'Dell

2nd, Louise Danbury              

3rd, Jacob Jenkins

Slalom

1st, Paul Preston

2nd, Barry Dyke

3rd, Alex Allison

Junior Wakeboard

1st, Harry Eaton

2nd, Alex O'Dell

3rd, Katie Jenkins

Wakeboard

1st, Alex Allison

2nd, Paul Preston

3rd, Liam Dyke

Junior Kneeboard

1st, Alex O'Dell

2nd, Harry Eaton

3rd, Jacob Jenkins

Kneeboard

1st, Liam Dyke

2nd, Alex Allison

3rd, Andy Warwick

Overall Trophy Alex Allison

Overall Slalom Paul Preston

Most Improved Jacob Jenkins

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Turps Team Challenge, Gosfield Lakes 3rd October 2010.

This year we again sent a team to Gosfield lakes to try to defend the trophy we won last year. This year we had two new team members who stood in at the last minute due to illness & injury to our usual team members. Our thanks go to our Chairman Andy Warwick and Pete Bews who Joined Will Bews & Barry Dyke in the team.

Unfortunately this year we were not successful with the trophy being won by one of the home clubs teams of young skiers who skied very well in some fairly poor conditions.