Mon, Sep 21st 2009, 11:53
White Air 2009 Extreme Sports & Music Festival was a huge success this weekend with beautiful weather and a feast of sporting and music action for all to enjoy.
White Air 2009 Extreme Sports & Music Festival kicked off on Friday in spectacular style with a sea front fly past by the Red Arrows ... an awesome aerobatic display. Soon after Secret Wars Graffiti kicked off competitions at the skate park. Amateur and pro riders got used to the park and practiced their moves prior to the start of competitions over the weekend ... plenty of inliners, skateboarders and mountain boarders set the pace.
There was something going on every minute of the day ... trials, displays and freestyle competitions. On the water a gentle Easterly dominated the first day and the swell remained small allowing plenty of people to 'have-a-go' at paddle boarding, kayaking and wakeboarding.
In a dramatic enactment of an armed hostage release situation the Royal Marines, on site for three days at the White Air Extreme Sports and Music Festival 2009, landed two Zodiac boats onto the beach with a Lynx Mark 7 helicopter hovering right over the crowds to provide air fire support.
High divers plunged into 3m of water from a 30m tower and wakeboarders were towed by jet ski's over a 6ft foot ramp right on the shoreline.
The main stage on Friday opened at lunchtime with This City, Lyrebirds, Flood of Red and Doll & The Kicks. British Sea Power followed the legendary Lemonheads with lead singer Evan Dando on top vocal form playing some of their hits from the 90's and new tracks from their current album 'Varshons'.
Day two of the White Air Extreme Sports and Music festival opened to glorious sunshine and light winds in Brighton so everyone seemed to head straight for the beach to make the most of the on-the-water 'have-a-go' sports and cool down with paddleboarding, kayaking, windsurfing and wakeboarding.
This year pro-rider Stew Mackie was teaching novices and experienced wakeboarders with one to one instruction on land and as a double tow on the water, while Sam Carne and Luke Thomas wowed the crowds on the beach with their awesome jumps and tricks taking advantage of unusually calm waters.
The Professional Windsurf Association sailors arrived on site with Alan Jackson and Jamie Hawkins, the UK 2nd and 3rd UK Slalom series being joined by Mat Pearch, Chris Martin, Robby Swift, Ant Barker and Guy Cribb.
Over on land Andrei Burton, current world record holder of the most trials bike 180's in a minute - 34 if you're counting - managed to successfully set another record with his drop from a 10ft platform proving that the current 2nd in Europe and Britain is still cracking out the challenges.
Further up the beach and really setting the pace the Thundercats were running 'have-a-go' sessions giving people the chance the try this amazing hi-speed adrenalin sport and feel what it's like to hit speeds of up to 59mp and pull 6 G's around corners on the water.
Other fun challenges included a time trial Orb slalom, where you have to navigate a small course in a massive 4m diameter ball, more usually seen rolling down grassy hills, and the RAF press-up challenge sited next to 'brushboarding', simulated surfing on a series of rotating brushes .. not as easy as it looks.
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