Southampton University Windsurfing Club

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Coming soon….can it possibly be as good as last year?!?

It’s that time of year again. Only the biggest, most important, messiest weekend the SWA has to offer! The legendary boat party is back for 2012 so bring your tents, beer jackets, long boards, fancy dress and a substantial amount of KEEN for some amazing SWA madness.

There will be:

- Beginner, intermediate and advanced racing,
- Massive party on the Friday,
- Even bigger BOAT PARTY on the Saturday,
- Turfdog Freestyle Contest,
- BUCS points for your uni,
- Demo kit for all levels,
- Muchos RED BULL loving!
- Guaranteed forecast!

And this is only the start.

Fancy dress theme this year is “Party Like Its ……..”

Get your keen on for the final SWA event of the year!

Competition entry on the BUCS site is live, ask your president.

Payment for the party tickets is through the SWA website. The rest will vary from university to university – ask your President. Prices are below, although your president may tell you it’s less, as much of this may be subsidized or even paid for by your Athletics Union.

Building and food: £60.40, Camp and food £55.40, Pure camping: £12.40

XSWA camping is now available through the SWA website. You will need to buy camping and party tickets separately. XSWA, if you can persuade your club presidents to persuade your AU to book you in at Calshot with the rest of the group, then you may have the option of indoors and food too. Only camping is avaliable through the SWA website though, under XSWA Event Payment.

Payment deadline is Thursday 12th April (for your President so yours will be BEFORE this – ask your President)

This Thursday your very own SUWC VP has put himself up for public humiliation with the aid of SUBLDS which for those of you who don’t know is the Southampton University Ballroom and Latin Dance Society. The event is called Strictly Southampton, a bunch of the Dance Societies best dancers have tried to teach various club’s committee members a dance which we will be performing for your entertainement. Mike will be dancing the Rumba, tickets are £7.50 and will be on sale at the meeting tonight. An after party will occur in Jesters afterwards with tickets going for £2.

In the words of ex-VP Grog: Watching a dance show £7.50, going to the after party £2, laughing at Mike Ellis make a complete arse of himself PRICELESS!

Hello Windsurfers!
The highlight of last week had to be the incredible social we hosted on thursday! So many people worked really hard to put that on so a massive thank you to everyone who was involved in that. James and Lucy we love you especially for volunteering. The night was a huge success, a hideous number of shots were consumed on the door and the BBQ kept everyone’s munchies at bay until we were ready to go and unleash an incredible amount of SUWC love on the jesters dancefloor (yes you know who you are…all 10 of you!).

Contents

Beginner Trips
Intermediate trips
Membership
AUSSIE KISS 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Beginner Trips

The beginner trip is already full this week so well done to those of you who were quick and signed up in the meeting.

However if you want to change email Jamie at joaten@hotmail.co.uk and he’ll have a go at swapping things around for you.
2. Intermediate trips

There is wind this week and its got our advanced windsurfers all excited however they have no transport this week and so can’t get to the coast. If you have got a car and fancy a sesh in some glorious wind and waves then please let Ollie (op1g10@soton.ac.uk) know cos he’d love to arrange some car sharing. Especially if you’re going to the East Witterings which look awesome this week.

3. Membership

If you haven’t paid SUWC membership and still need to (particularly if you’re going to Aussie Kiss) then get in touch with Kai (kb17g09@soton.ac.uk) he’ll let you know when and where you can catch him before the weekend.

4. AUSSIE KISS 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, its the weekend you’ve all been waiting for!! Aussie Kiss is nearly here and we’re so excited!!
On Friday we’re planning on meeting up at 6pm on concourse (outside stags). Please try and turn up on time as we’ll aim to set off as soon as the last member arrives. If you’re not sure what to turn up with on that fateful evening then here’s a rough guide:

Fancy dress – x-ray theme so you’ll need to get to work on a skeletal creation some time this week.
BOOZE (and a fair amount of that will want to come on the mini bus with you, but please bring it on board as subtly as possible (paps by decanting into coke bottles or keeping in plastic bags etc) as we aren’t technically allowed to drive busses full of drunk windsurfers about…)
Munchies! Snacks and meals for the weekend. You will be given breakfast both days just for being awesome but when it comes to lunch and supper you need to fend for yourself. Don’t stress about this too much though, bring what you can and there will probably be an opportunity to go visit a supermarket once we’re down there. We often cook in the caravans on the Saturday night but this year there are unconfirmed rumours about the possibility of a hog roast that evening (rumoured to be £5/person) so we might be able to get involved with that. Don’t worry about food on Friday night, we’ll stop off at a service station and utterly dominate its food court.
Sleeping bag
Towel and Wetsuit

There will be a kit sale at some point over the weekend. So if you’ve got something you want to sell then get in touch with James and he’ll let you know if we can squeeze it on the bus with us.

We are currently juggling transport logistics for getting down to AK. If you are planning on driving your own car down OR if you are able to drive a mini bus please get in touch with James at jk10g10@soton.ac.uk or call him on 07792349503, that would be great.

If you have any other questions about AK2011 then just give James a shout (his email address is in the paragraph above) cos he’s super excited and wants everyone else to be too

Thats it for this week. I hope all those dedicated partiers had a great time getting covered in foam in their neon finery at Sobar last night supporting the surf soc, but most of all I hope that this weekend is MASSIVE!!

Lots of love from your super keen sexretary,
Clare x x

Cheers to everyone that came to say hi at the bunfight today, managed to sign lots of you up to the emails which should be going out shortly. To all that signed up to try it you might like it you should have received an email already with details, have a great time on the water!

To anyone that didn’t sign up throw your email in the box to the right >>>

Grog has put up a writeup for the club trip to Vass this year. Check it out here to read about the adventures of Tamps!

Helloo! I hope you all had a fabulous summer!
Soon everyone will be decending on Southampton for boring things like lectures BUT ALSO WINDSURFING shenanigans!!!
GET OUT YOUR DIARIES for we have lots of funfilled adventures to embark on:

Bunfight wed 28th sept
TIYMLI thurs-sat 29th 30th sept 1st
DUct and Fuct 5th OCt
Fundraiser Full Moon 13th oct
AK10 22nd-23rd Oct
Extreme Sports Ball 3rd Nov

Bunfight in 8 DAYS!!!
For the bunfight we NEED LOTS OF PEOPLE to chat up freshers- what a win.
Its a wednesday and obviously I will be there all day as will most committee member as itsour main way to get money for the club, which is needed. Everyone else wouod be great to come along and help.

If you could all email/text/ring me to say hen you are available to come and help that would be great.
Last year we had to get there at 9am to set up if I remember correctly, this year they have not yet told us but I’m sure with time they will…

indsurfing love. Over and Out

Serena

I will be adding more to our windsurfing diaries but thats it for the moment, let me know if anything is missing.

We have added some new photos to the website, check them out here.