Hi Everyone,

Great to see the enthusiasm from the new names keen to give the regular competitive crew a run for their money!

As a recap; Saturday will see unseeded riders out against one another for the privelidge of going through to the final rounds on Sunday. Fun and enjoyment again is the emphasis so the newcomers must not feel any presure, feel free to be as relaxed or serious as you like!

On Sunday the heat will be turned up a little as the riders who prove themselves on the Saturday meet the more experienced riders to determine our State Champions and establish an official State Ranking. A reminder that this State Ranking will be used to determine qualifiers for events next season such as the Gravity Games, the Freestyle Nationals, and finally the seeding for the next Freestyle State Titles.

It's going to be a great spectacle both days so we encourage other recreational kiters to come down to Woodies and give the competitors support and all-up enjoy a weekend of kiting at the beach!

We'll have the BBQ running all day Saturday and Sunday to keep competitors sustained and will most likely have drinks, causal dinner, and presentations at the Jervoise Bay Sailing Club on Sunday evening. Other WAKSA members are welcome to partake of the BBQ also.

Entries will close on Thursday 23rd at noon. The entrants list so far is below, and can competitors please make sure their WAKSA membership is up to date.

Open Mens Seeded
Adam Ratajewski
Dan Anderson
Dale Stanton
Simon Wichterman
Jake Gordon
Ryland Blakeney
Simon Walker
Wayne Hancock

Open Mens Unseeded
Lance Gelden
Rohan Armitage
VB
Rob Brown
Dan Roberts
Dan Jones
Hamish Penno
Heinz Raecke
Steve Tonini
Jose Pont
Jens Moller
Marco (Swiss guy possibly)
Phillip Rowlands

Youth Seeded
Simon Wichterman
Toby Penno

Youth Unseeded
Elaine Streuli
Sam King
Matt Wesson
Tom Johnson
David Russell-Cargill
Bradley Bougourd

Women Seeded
Jess v d B
Shannon Matthews-Ducker

Women Unseeded
Elaine Streuli
Chrissy Gaudieri
Sue Anderson
Caroline Bradley
Esther Oud
Danica Wichterman
Claudia Dohr

Masters Seeded
Paul Comerford (VB)
Graham Baker (Choicey)

Masters Unseeded
Nick Streuli
Matt Hale
Neil Peterson
Steve Tonini
Jonathan Keys

We will post what time to arrive at Woodies in order to complete paperwork and briefing closer to the weekend when we have a more accurate forecast. I would expect it to be between 10am and 11am.

We will update this thread from now on, see you all there!

Jess and the WAKSA crew

is 12 am noon or midnight

Are you still taking candidates? If yes I'm in (non seeded),

Jose Pont
0424327641

Hey can you let us know how the comp is being judged / a general format of the comp.. ie how many riding at once / how its scored / where the trick boundary is etc

Thanks

Hi Guys,

Apologies that the competition rules and judging format are not up yet. I'd hoped to have them up earlier this week for you all to familiarise yourselves with, then ran into trouble locating electronic versions. They will be available by the end of the day.

Looks like we have wind!

Jess

can we run a judges heat?

does it matter if your aksa or do u have to b waksa
thanks

sic thanks

hi jess, are we going to be able to use the kickers in the comp, if so i can bring poly down, ry has one down there already so with 2 we can have one in each direction and i think brownee is going to bring the slider.

i just read this on the WAKSA link

The selection of equipment is at the riders discretion but moves will be judged with degree of difficulty being a major factor eg if a rider has a board with no handle they will score higher for board-offs in freestyle.

can anyone please explain the logic behind this rule
a board off is a board off (and some board offs are easier with out the handdle anyway)

Damo,

Instead of reinventing the wheel regards judging we just took it off the KPWT website (as was used in GG and similar to PKRA).

Being a judge feel free to discuss it with the others and we can always modify anything you disagree with and let competitors know in the briefing.

Jess

they are NOT on - they are going off
WHAT A TOTALLY AWESOME DAY
The dunes full of spectators, the beach packed with even more and the reliable old Doc kicking in early enough to get the comp underway about as early as would have been organisationally possible.
For those looking at coming down tomorrow here's how things stand :-
SUNDAY will see the finals of the juniors ; all rounds of the masters and all but Round 1 of the open mens.
It will be one hell of a days kiting.
JUNIORS - all power to you guys - the competition was super HOT with every competitor giving it his/her utmost best shot. If this is the future of WA kiting then bring it on! Every single one of you deserved a medal today for sure. Serious competitive kiting with plenty of action - it was fantastic to watch you guys - every single one of you busting fully powered up moves. Well done - every heat very impressive.
WOMENS - very keen competition. Sent out in the cranking (up to 30kts) late avo breeze for the final rounds took courage and skill & thats what we saw. No holding back from our WA girls thats for sure. Congratulations to Jess who took out the title in a tough won set of very closely contested rounds.
OPEN MENS - if the first unseeded round is anything to go by we are in for an unbelievable day tomorrow. Every single heat of round 1 was an intense gladatorial battle of BIG gutsy moves. Cant wait.
MASTERS - our (waksa's) one apology for the day. With the promise of running at least the preliminary rounds today every masters entrant stayed till stumps only to have the full series of masters rounds put off until tomorrow. Sorry guys but 'we did the best with what we got'. Every decision made was made with as much consideration of everyone involved as possible.
Look on the bright side - ALL OF YOU have now got tomorrow to look forward to

If they have not collapsed from exhaustion already I hope someone in the scoring loop will post official results & names of qualifiers going thru to tomorrow
IMHO - I reckon everyone, on & off the water, was a winner today.

My pick for Kiter of the Day - Elaine Strueli, my friend & hero, kicked the proverbial big-time in the juniors & proceeded thru in the Womens to some unbelievable level (round 3 I think ?). All that from an almost novice, melville kiter, young lady who thought she was coming down poke her nose into 2 round 1 appearances.
U R da girl Elaine

Yer thank you everybody for the great day i no all of us juniors really enjoyed the event and probably everybody else and i hope today is as good if not better!!!!!

Official Placings for the event are:

Open Mens Placings
1. Dan Anderson
2. Adam Ratajewski
3. Dale Stanton
3. Wayne Hancock
5. Simon Walker
5. Simon Wichterman
5. Hamish Penno
8. Phillip Rowlands
8. Paul Comerford
8. Lance Gelden
8. Steve Tonini
8. Andy Gordon
8. Jose Pont
8. Dan Roberts
10. Rohan Armitage
10. Rob Brown
10. Marco Conrad
10. Heinz Raecke
10. Javi
10. Dan Jones
10. Pavel Trcala

Youth Placings
1. Simon Wichterman
2. Brad Bougourd
3. Toby Penno
3. Matt Wesson
4. Sam King
5. Elaine Streuli
5. Tom Johnson
6. David Russell-Cargill

Masters Placings
1. Paul Comerford
2. Jonathan Keys
3. Neil Peterson
4. Nick Streuli
4. Phillip Rowalnds
4. Geoff Penno
4. Steve Tonini
4. Graham Baker
4. Matt Hale

Women's Placings
1. Jessica van den Berg
2. Esther Oud
3. Sannon Matthews
4. Caroline Bradley
5. Elaine Streuli
6.Danica Wichterman
7.Sue Anderson
8.Claudia Dohr
Apologies for not being able to fill Sue, Danica, and Claudia in right away, the women's completed draw sheet didn't make it home in my bundle of things so will check with Alex.

For those in equal positions with others, please do not read into anything regards who is listed first here; whoever was first up in the draw is listed first and so on down the draw. No favouratism I promise :)

Well done to all competitors, officials, unofficial officials, judges, and everyone who chipped in to help. Especially thank you to the competitors for your patience waiting for it to be your turn and for being understanding that due to the lack of wind today we could not complete a proper double elimination in the Open Mens, Youth, and Masters.

I will post the overall resulting WA rankings once I have confirmed exactly who are not WA residents.

Thanks for the enthusiasm and see you next year!

Jess

thanks for a great day to waska and the volunteers for making a great event for competitors and spectators, so annoyed i had to work sun and miss out.

Cool, I finished in the top ten..........