SWA: The countdown begins...

As the nights steadily get longer and the weeks slide ever closer to the beginning of September, Universities throughout Britain are gearing up for another freshers week, another scholastic year and another set of bright eyed and bushy tailed freshers eager to be led astray…

Certain students heading back to University, however, will have more on their minds than just the usual work, partying and freshers week. These, my friends, we call the super-students. These dedicated members of the sport Windsurfing are getting set for another year's Aussie Kiss: the biggest event of the Student Windsurfing Association's calendar and one that never fails to deliver the goods.

This year the SWA's Festival of fun is also set to usher in the new Starboard & Tushingham's Year of the Beginner 07-08, the festival will be the first in a whole series of events aimed at giving beginner windsurfers the biggest leg up possible into the heady realms of intermediate and more advanced windsurfing. Add to that the second year of the SWA/Naish women's series, the SWA/RRD&Ezzy; Wave series and the ongoing SWA/Boardwise Freestyle series, and you can see why anticipation is even higher than usual in advance of this autumn.

Steadily growing with experience and support (the SWA are proud to announce our latest sponsor Boohai clothing), the Festival held in October each year marks our increased development and unremitting dedication to grass roots windsurfing. Highlights of the event this year will be record numbers of beginners and intermediates hitting the water under supervision from qualified instructors, an advanced fleet coached by Jim Collis, Olly Woodcock, Hugh Sims-Williams and Andy King, a women's clinic to promote female windsurfing, freestyle and speed competitions, fundraising for Surfers Against Sewage, CO2 emissions offset through the company Climate Care and the traditional Saturday night party featuring three live bands.

Held at Roadford Reservoir and Bude Holiday Park on the weekend of 26-28th October please contact me using the details below if you would like to take part or come along to this fantastic event.

The SWA would like to thank its dedicated and excellent sponsors and associates for their consistent support: Boardseeker.com, Boardwise, Naish, Starboard & Tushingham, Bic Sport, RRD & Ezzy, JP & Neil Pryde, Boohai, Surfers Against Sewage, Climate Care, Windsurf and Boards.

Industry contact: sarah.cotton@studentwindsurfing.co.uk 07828927283