Wakestyle National Titles?

Next years freestyle national titles being held in Alva Beach, Ayr, offers a unique situation to all kiteboarders. The event committee is super keen to make this event a multi discipline event including the freestyle nationals with a race element and the possibility of a wakestyle discipline.

I have been given the role of organising the freestyle and wakestyle events from a competition point of view, ie, format, judging criteria, etc etc. I believe the freestyle side of the house is quite simple, we just continue following the previous years framework which is closely paralleled with PKRA events. It is the wakestyle event I want to see be a huge success. This will take the riders out there who are dominant wakestyle riders putting their hands up and getting involved.

For this to work I need to know now if riders would come to Alva if presented with the opportunity to be crowned the first ever wakestyle national kiteboard champion?

The format will include obstacles and flatwater tricks, similar to a comp pass behind boat or cable runs. The rider will have two tacks and negotiate rails, kickers and flatwater based elements. The judges will come from elite wakeboarding ranks, and will be judged as legitimate as possible.
Please let me know via this forum or by email your thoughts. I need to know soon as it will need to obtain funding etc. The more riders support this the easier it will be to get this off the ground and make it mainstay for future kiteboarding titles!

Cheers Chris Wardell

Hmmmm me and Cam already had ideas about running a wakestyle national titles with sliders and kickers. I'm all for the idea, however I'm not sure that running it at the same time as the freestyle titles is a good idea, also I'm not sure whether Alva is a suitable location for it.

even better would be to do a kicker and slider 'tour' and go all round aus and make it more a fun thing and the winners can be chosen at the very end and how ever you like, best overall , best trick, best stack. etc

the cost to enter will count towards the cost of transporting the sliders everywhere. But you can ride as much as you like and follow the tour or wait till it comes near you.

That sounds more fun and a better way to crown a "national champ" to me.

Scoop, you are spot on here!

This is a great opportunity to test the waters so to speak and offer those riders a choice!

You can ride in both or for that matter all three (including race)!

Having a rail tour is not off the table, it will take local spots taking the bull by the horns and building stuff locally and holding the event with local support. Similar to what is happening now with park riding. This year alone will see three distinct park events, Core Jam held in WA, the Mackay rail jam just gone and the Rail Rodeo to be held in Brissy later this year. If riders support these events then the next step is to separate the disciplines and have an elite level comp once a year fro wakestyle?

The plan is to have a few more clinics run around the country similar to the Mackay event, so we can teach more riders about park style and hopefully grab more attention and support. This will give riders a choice, freestyle is very competitive and difficult to stay in the game competitively speaking.

Keep the input up and lets see where this can go?

such a sic idea.

Good ideas bruce, me and Cam have thought of this a few times already. Another option will be running the Nationals in Brisbane or somewhere over the East coast (such as elliot heads) as me and Cam will have our own set of obstacles which may infact be better than core and will be our own to use and transport where we like.
Using the stuff from core is a good idea, but seeing they are not ours to use (they are Tobys) and we will not have permission to use the waterways it might be a hard task. Also there may be another core jam in an undisclosed country shortly after the core jam in WA so people possibly won't be hanging around long either.
I'm guessing it will come down to whatever me and Cam build for the RailRodeo later this year (october 16th) as I can't see anyone else putting together some massive structures for no money. Our stuff will be fairly portable so moving it to great locations shouldn't be to hard a task.

dont know about the distances between cam and rowdys place to alva but wouldnt it just be easier to run them at the rail rodeo to save having to move the sliders and kickers around too far?

Jack and Rhys are on the money haha.
Don't get me wrong I'm mega pumped that you want to run the Kiteboard (wakestyle) nationals and combine it with all the other stuff happening on those days (race, freestyle etc.) but I think you may be underestimating the whole task at hand. I have visions for awesome rails and stuff that is really going to make this an event to remember. Building this stuff, transporting it, moving it into the water and making it all happen is an event in itself. It isn't something that is just going to run along side everything else on it's own.
I think running it either around a similar time of year to the Rail Rodeo in Brisbane or possibly transporting the stuff either as far north as Elliot heads or as far south as Old bar (if the locals are keen) is the best option for both organisational logistics and competitors alike.

Those of us who where moving stuff in Makay at the slider jam know its a task where you need alot of hands to make it work. If you could only get the financial backing from someone to build them all out of ally and other light weight materials, you then would have a set of obstacles to use anywhere you want. Who knows someone who wants to sponsor a touring slider comp???

good idea but u would have dangle riders coming in and moaning about there placment because of there lack of wakestyle

OLD BAR X3

should make it narrowneck..

alright enough of all that!

lets get back on the topic boys, its time for some constructive posting