by Howard Rowson
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9-9-2009 16:41:43 | |
GPSTC Guru Hardie has invited us "poms" (is that the correct spelling?) to join the GPS Team Challenge with a UK / Eire team, or several teams.
The competition is already global with teams outside Aus, from NZ, Japan, Croatia and Slovenia
Looks great fun and good competition, and a great way to get windsurfers into GPS sailing, and speed.
Have a look at the GPSTC, see what you think, we can use this topic to disguss teams etc
We probably have 'til the end of the year to get organised before the start of the 2010 GPSTC season (I presume it runs from Jan-Dec)
http://www.gpsteamchallenge.com/
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by Alastair Nichol
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10-9-2009 01:47:42 | |
| Sounds like a great idea and i am sure a few of the lads here in Ireland would want to have a go. Count me in :-))
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by Howard Rowson
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10-9-2009 09:39:13 | |
You and I Alastair, the "Celtic Dragons"
Come on folks, GPSTC is not about super fast speed strips and fast 2sec and 10s speeds, those occurences are a rarity. It's all about team spirit and a healthy competition base, good fun, and a less dawnting entry for newbies into GPS and speed.
Looking at the scoring criteria, really lends itself to any stretch of water around and in the UK and Eire.
Granted WK is good for 10s , 2sec and alphas, but dire for NM and 1hrs (too many gybes) and only fires up a few times a year for proper speeds.
Please lets have your thoughts / ideas and suggestions for team regions and names.
Cheers
H
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by Adam Gustafsson
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10-9-2009 10:44:16 | |
| I'm happy to be part of anyone's team if they tell me what i have to do LOL
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by Nic Dodd
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10-9-2009 19:11:27 | |
| Might be able to tempt some of the St Johns boys to play: Mad Dave, Bryn are you up for it? Actually a Cornish Team is more tempting - Adam, Simon, Johnny Vapor...
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by Bryn Dampney
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10-9-2009 19:29:14 | |
| Yeah i'm up for it! Maybe a South West team would be the go...
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by Alastair Nichol
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11-9-2009 01:30:45 | |
Yeah the Celtic Dragons sounds good howard :-))
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by Howard Rowson
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11-9-2009 08:46:56 | |
Keep it coming folks!
The Country (ies) could be split, based on regions
South West
South
South East
East
North / North West
Scotland ?
Wales ?
RoI
Channel Islands
If there is sufficient uptake from each region, more than one team might be appropriate, introducing a little more inter region competition.
Trying to avoid the cliche of the North South divide, perhaps that might have to be an option, based on uptake.
This is fully inclusive for all GPS Speedsurfers in the UK and Eire, Inland & Coastal spots
Riks Rippers
Portland crew
Ray crew
WK crew
Your thoughts?
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by Steve Thorp
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11-9-2009 16:54:04 | |
| Interested, but my only board is 40 wide and I'll only be doing the quick days..
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by Darren Mathers
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11-9-2009 23:51:29 | |
Apparently some guy from West Kirby is back from America and is well up for it LOL Oh yeah thats me....
Anyone got a cheap fast board.... ???? even if its damaged I'll fix it....
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by Steve Thorp
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12-9-2009 00:06:51 | |
| Ah Mr Mathers, he of the toothless grin circa 96 Fuerte? welcome back!
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by Joseph Presti
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12-9-2009 01:38:17 | |
| Yes guys and gals please join us, the more the merrier!! It is firstly about fun and building relationships, or you can be as serious as you want!! The 1 hour, The Alpha & Distance have equal weighting and importance as the speed categories. We've had people pushing the distance categories up to over 400km in a day!! And it takes the individual stuff to a team perspective. Thanx
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by Alastair Nichol
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16-9-2009 23:24:28 | |
Been asking a couple of the lads over here and there is definetly 3 of us that want to take part so we have a team from Ireland. How do we set up the team on the website so we can log sessions?
Alastair
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by Joseph Presti
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17-9-2009 00:03:11 | |
Alastair,
You need to dowmload a copy of the registration form from here, http://www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28011 each team member fill one out, nominate a team name, fax details to me (61) for Australia or attach a pdf and email to: hardie6210 at yahoo dor com dot au Upon receipt I will create a team, and register all team members passwords will be sent to your email addresses, you can then log on with your password and start posting!!
Joseph Presti (Hardie)
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by Joseph Presti
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17-9-2009 00:04:11 | |
| hardie6210 at yahoo dot com dot au (not dor)
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by Alastair Nichol
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17-9-2009 02:44:57 | |
Hi Joseph,
I will let the guys know and get the regisration forms back to you
Alastair
IRL-250
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by Ben Hitchcock
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19-9-2009 10:18:36 | |
It's great to see other countries getting on board.
I need to build a map before we can let you loose though, and to do that I need to know which regions you think would give a good division between people in the same country.
Are the regions you selected earlier in this thread what you think would work well? If so then I'll build the map.
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by Howard Rowson
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19-9-2009 11:08:25 | |
Hi Ben,
I'm suprised mate, there appears to be very little interest from Uk sailors - I'm not sure why at present, perhaps due to the persistant high pressure over the UK, therefore most speedies are not checking here as regularly as when there's wind and sessions are being posted.
Only Alastair over in the Republic of Ireland has organised a team so far :)
Thanx for your input JP, I think we need a little more time and encouragement over here, perhaps I should n't have mentioned starting in 2010 rather than right here right now.
cheers
H
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by Mark Bailey
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19-9-2009 14:54:32 | |
| Howard, count me in. I mostly sail speed at WK but also post on Riks ladder. I emailed Rik last week to see what his thoughts were but he's away in Ireland at the moment and I haven't had a reply. Should hopefuly hear back from him soon. Ta, Mark
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