All the best Tim! Have an awesome time.

Doesn't he have a relie by the name of Rowan Pumpa?
Jeez that guy can ride a dirt bike.

Good winds Tim.

Great work Tim, all the best! GO AUSSIE!

Top effort Tim.

Once you show them your speed skills, the whole kiting world will be asking "where the fark is Port Parham"

Believe in yourself & your ability.

Fossil

good luck.

keep that aussie head up high

Thankyou guys for your support, I will do my best at trying to take the record of the french . Its taken me 3 years of preparing and training for this event and I reckon Iam ready . We will have HD video and pics for all you guys to check out the action.



I will be taking my custom xellerator catman pro board and my balsa core board I made for Parham .

good luck mate!!!!!

Tim,

Did you know another Aussie - also Tim - went to Luderitz last year and he is the current "official" national speed record holder for kite sailing (33.94knots)? I accidentally stumbled upon this information this morning:

http://www.sailspeedrecords.com/kite-sailing.html

Interestingly Tim Turner doesn't seem to be a member of www.gps-kitesurfing.com

The overall national Aussie speed sailing record (for any vessel) is held by "Macquarie Innovation" at 50.07knots.

www.sailspeedrecords.com/national-speed-records.html


(all of the official speed sailing records are avg. speeds over 500m)

http://byadrienfreville.wordpress.com/

Luderitz speed challenge photographer

www.speedkiting.org/site/

speedkiting is a good site to get some info about it all

www.luderitz-speed.com/

the main site to keep up to date on all the action



The boat to beat

Genetrix said...

www.dailymotion.com/video/x6s9av

Ouch!!!
I was always wandering why these guys ride without helmets and wheather wearing a helmet actually helps or it just amplifies the blow to the head if it hits the water at high speed.
Maybe they know something about helmets that we don't (but should) know?

Genetrix said...


The trench 3/4 finished

The mud pit in the pic makes the Pazza speed strip look excellent

Fossil

We are finally in Luderitz and got my first practice in yesterday, very interesting place thats for sure.

DaGodfather said...

Genetrix said...

We are finally in Luderitz and got my first practice in yesterday, very interesting place thats for sure.

Fantastic, what's it like?

Yeah really interesting, wind seems ok but the trench looks suicidal . Hopefully seb changes it abit before the event.

9 Oct 2010 : It's Official - 3 New National Records on the 1st Day of Racing!!
The 1st National Speed Record was broken within minutes of the start of the Luderitz Speed Event 2010 on what was expected to be simply a training session in anticipation prior to the big winds forecast for next week.

Kite surfer Gavin Broadbent smashed the existing New Zealand national record within 13 minutes of the opening of the first day of the 2010 Luderitz Speed Challenge on Friday 8th October at 2nd Lagoon, Luderitz Bay, Namibia. After only 3 runs his official average speed over 500m was recorded at 44.51 knots – the previous record being 40.68 knots.
70 minutes later, also on his 3rd run, Swedish Windsurfer, Anders Bringdal broke the Swedish National Windsurfing record. The existing record was 41.96 and his official recorded speed was 42.9 knots.
Australian Kite surfer Tim Pumpa was the 3rd competitor of the day to set a new national record – Best Kite Speed record for Australia with an official speed of 40.72 knots. The previous record was 33.94 knots.

All new records are still to be ratified by the World Speed Sailing Record Council (WSSRC).e wind forecast for Friday is 30 knots. This will mark the 1st day of racing for the 2010 Luderitz Speed Challenge.

Good work Tim.

I hope you go faster this week.

Danny