It’s been along time since I have written on the blog but I’m going to start back. Recently I have joined a camera club in my local village. I am in no way good but I am learning a lot. Here is a few of my images I have recently taken hope you enjoy..
New from hudy this double sided compact parts carry case is ideal for all r/c users. Can’t wait to get my hands on this one.
Some pics here to shown the power of the wind and rain from the storm we are encountering
Excitement builds as a storm brews!
Most of the journeys, although long, have gone smoothly so far, although some of the competitors’ equipment is still delayed in transit, but on-site the event crew are ready for whatever nature throws at them.With a host of World Champions amongst the fleet the standard will be as off-the-scale as the forecast conditions. With winds of up to 60 knots and storm swell of up to 9.9m forecast, the stage is set for a spectacle unseen before in the windsurfing world. First possible start is on Monday 28th 09.15 local time.
LONG HAULS
The biggest shock will surely be for Brazilian waveriding genius Marcilio ‘Brawzinho’ Browne, who has arrived weary-eyed following a mammoth journey from the balmy waters of the Pacific Ocean’s Marshall Islands? Flying via his Hawaiian home, the 23-yr old former Freestyle World Champ claims that he’s ‘…just hoping not to freeze!Great Britain’s Robby Swift’s epic voyage involved flying via Panama, Texas, California, Maui and Germany – with a total flying time of 39 hours! Swift and his boards made the final-leg flight to Dublin although his gear is still to materialise in time for the Monday morning kick-off.Also arriving from Chile was current Vice-World Champion Victor Fernandez who’s prepared for whatever nature throws at him with sails from 3.4 up to 4.7 and two storm-ready Quad fin boards of 75 and 86 litres, plus a stash of his sponsor ION’s neoprene and on-land clothing.
SAFETY FIRST
Moroccan windsurfing legend, Boujmaa Guilloul has adrenaline and fun in his mind of course, but even this master of high wind jumping is exercising extreme caution. Speaking during a flight delay in London he remarked that ‘this is a unique chance to take part in such big and exclusive event – I’ve been looking forward to it so much since I first heard about it and I would love it to be my favoured strong wind conditions – but my slogan is Safety First!’2009 Wave World Champ, Josh Angulo, is no stranger to brutally cold winter windsurfing and has travelled with all his specialist icy weather equipment. ‘I guess if I were to have a slogan for this event it would be RESPECT…Respect for all the hard work that’s gone in to this project, respect for Ireland and its people and, of course, respect for nature! My expectation is to score some Irish Juice!’
KEEPING THEIR COOL
The final entrants are all European specialists familiar with rough weather and freezing temperatures. Germany’s Dany Bruch, who competed at the last PWA World Tour event in Brandon Bay in 2002, is frothing about his return to Ireland. The Tenerife-based Pro, currently ranked 5th in the wave rankings, is heavier than some and has only a 3.7sqm sail packed as his smallest size to cope with the potentially 70mph wind.Bruch’s countryman, Leon Jamaer is also one to watch as the clouds darken and conditions intensify. The young rider from the Baltic sea is an up-and-coming star in the sport and was backed by the public voting that picked the main players to excel in wild wind environments. Fresh from a trip to Cabo Verde, Jamaer – who broke the PWA Top-10 in 2012 – was delighted to receive a text informing him of the ‘Mission GO!’ during a University lecture.Similarly, Kenneth Danielsen (DEN) will show his proficiency in the midwinter tempest approaching. Hailing from the North Sea Danielsen joins the Storm Chase from sunny Cape Town and had to borrow a winter wetsuit before catching a flight to Dublin. The Dane’s aim is clear: ‘my expectation is to score some of the most extreme conditions I’ve ever sailed in!’Finally it’s the French that represent another force of strong wind windsurfing. Marseille’s Thomas Traversa, winner of the penultimate PWA Wave event of 2012 in Denmark, is a featherweight talent but a master of heavy-weather sailing.
IN MEMORY OF MIKEY
Traversa is joined by fellow Mediterranean ‘maniac’ Julien Taboulet, who has tamed some of the gnarliest high-wind and big-wave spots in the world. Apart from scoring solid conditions, Taboulet, and the all of the event crew and cast of challengers has more on his mind than just competition. ‘I really hope that we get some huge waves and good riding conditions to honour and remember our good friend Mikey Clancy – RIP forever brother’. Taboulet’s sentiments echo the entire global windsurfing community after Clancy, Ireland’s most-promising Professional Windsurfer, passed away in January of this year. Much missed by all of his family, close friends and Professional peers, Mikey Clancy became a windsurfing icon for his exploits in the crazy conditions of the Irish coastline and in PWA Tour events and for truly encapsulating the spirit of windsurfing in storm conditions.
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reigning champion Phil Taylor was dumped out of the PartyPoker.net European Championship at the quarter-final stage by Brendan Dolan.
Taylor was never in the lead during the contest, which he eventually lost 10-6 at the RWE Sporthalle in Muelheim, Germany.
The 15-time world champion showed some uncharacteristically lax finishing early on, allowing Dolan to build a commanding 5-2 lead.
Taylor managed to slice the deficit down to two after 12 frames, but he never looked in control of the match: he was benefitting from Dolan’s mistakes, rather than upping his own game.
Dolan sapped the fight from Taylor in the 15th, checking out 82 to move 9-6 up, before a double-eight finish in the 16th won him the match.
In the other completed quarter-final, Wes Newton beat Andy Hamilton 10-7
Katie TaylorFour-time world champion Katie Taylor’s wait to box at an Olympic Games ended on Monday when she progressed to the semi-finals in style, guaranteeing Ireland a medal in front of boisterous fans who raised the loudest roars of the Games.
Taylor, a sporting hero in her country who was at the forefront of the campaign to get women’s boxing into the Olympics, was at her clinical best, demolishing world championship bronze medallist Natasha Jonas of Britain 26-15.
While British fighters have boxed in front of partisan crowds every day so far, Jonas’ supporters were outnumbered and outsung by the rambunctious Irish, dressed in green jerseys and sporting the national tricolour flag.
An Olympic official said the decibel level during the Taylor fight hit 113.7, the highest at the Games so far – surpassing the cycling finals at the velodrome and not far behind the 140 decibel roar of a jet engine.
“I’ve never experienced an atmosphere like this before. I knew it was going to be great but it took me by surprise a small bit. It’s a privilege to box for them, as well as my country,” Taylor told reporters.
“It was always going to be a tough contest, Ireland against Great Britain. I couldn’t let her beat me.”
When Taylor’s name was mentioned for the first time a full 90 minutes before her fight, London’s boxing arena shook with a roar that one Irish fan said could even be heard at the nearby wrestling arena.
Inside the arena, fans witnessed the best atmosphere at a fight yet as the neighbouring rivals exchanged chants of ‘Team GB (Great Britain)’ and ‘Ole, Ole, Ole’, a chorus usually reserved for Irish soccer matches.
“I’m not going to make any excuses, she’s still the best, she comes out on top every time,” the defeated Jonas said.
“There is nothing else I could do. I could have maybe thrown the kitchen sink at her, I could have maybe driven a bus into her.”
Taylor is carrying the hopes of a nation that has not won gold since Michelle Smith’s three swimming victories in 1996, and even those were tarnished by her suspension in a doping controversy two years later.
The boxer looked every inch a gold medal winner in waiting. She was briefly troubled in the second round but extended her advantage in a final two-round battering that saw Jonas receive two standing counts, thanks to a couple of thunderous right hands that any Olympic competitor, male or female, would have struggled to stand up to.
After Sunday’s momentous session of bouts when women boxers competed for the first time, storming the last all-male bastion of sport at the Summer Games, Taylor said they were showing the world exactly why they have now been included.
“People didn’t really realise the standard of women’s boxing. I think we’re shocking the world here this week, they can’t believe the standard and it’s opening their eyes,” she said.
Taylor, also a five-times European champion at lightweight, next faces Tajikistan’s Mavzuna Chorieva after she surprised twice world amateur championship silver medallist Dong Cheng of China, securing her country’s first medal in the process.
Adriana Araujo of Brazil and Russia world number two Sofya Ochigava, also impressive in a 22-4 victory, will contest the other lightweight semi-final.
Earlier, three-times world flyweight champion Ren Cancan from China recorded a comfortable 12-7 win over Russia’s Elena Savelyeva, who became the first woman to win a bout at an Olympic Games on Sunday.
Britain’s Nicola Adams, twice a runner up to Ren at the world’s, also progressed along with Marlen Esparza of the United States and Indian national treasure Mary Kon who, by qualifying for the semi-finals, are guaranteed a medal.
In the middleweights, British world champion Savannah Marshall’s Olympics were ended by Kazakh Marina Volnova.
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