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Tiree this year was great fun cruising with Alfie Hart (camera man) in his beloved Toyota Hiace with friend Gefen. Every year I tend to head up to Tiree with someone different and each year is equally hilarious in a different way. Friends hey, ahh wow.... great times.

Although despite spending my time with a cameraman I didn't necessarily benefit from the associated exposure by being present in every one of his films (although he did say he's waiting for me to come up to Pembrokeshire before the footage gets released). 

However, whilst I wait for the opportunity to give Alf a massive Chinese Burn and ask where all my footage is, there are a few gems coutesy of John Carter. As well as the following shot in the Tiree write up from Windsurf Magazine, I'm expecting an Inner Hebridean style article to rear it's head at some point soon, according to the prophet JC.

The article concerns a few days before the event of exceptional conditions and radness.

If you live in, or are visiting Bournemouth, and you want to find out what's hot and what to do? Why, of course - you get your hands on the Bournemouth Mini Guide. Over 30,000 of these were printed out as part of the council's marketing campaign and thanks to a little insider help from Gregg Dunnett, I managed to get a windusrfing shot slam inside page 3.

This spring offered the usual abundance of swell down in Cornwall. In between sessions, Steve Thorpe director of K4 Fins, managed to get out the pole cam and get some footage of Andy King and myself for a time cathching some waves at Godrevy doing our best to rip up the waves (something made a darn sight easier with K4 Fins driving you). So Quatro Quad 85l with K4 Fins, with my 5.3m - it was a great session. And I think, quite a fun video came out off the back of it. Cheers Steve.

The yearly trip to Brandon Bay, Ireland is a repeatedly welcome part of the season. The mixture of good company, beautiful scenery and great windsurfing conditions awaken the brain for the start of the summer. This year's event didn't have the swell we were after but ticked the box in every other way. Here's a photo from the magazine coverage of the event. A nice shot of Chris Murray and myself simultaneously top turning during a competition heat.

Following on from the Tasmania article published in Boards Magazine, we also managed to get what I think was a really nice article in Boardseeker Magazine. A sort of travel / windsurfing lifestyle slide of photos from the trip - really making the most out of Becky Finn's incredible photography. 

It's well worth checking out Becky's photos and seeing the article for yourself here: http://www.boardseekermag.com/features/windsurfing-lifestyle/james-cox-in-tasmania.html

Part of the winter training trip for 2010/2011 was spent in Tasmania on an incredible trip with wife and friends Hugo, Becky, Paul and Tracey. I love going to the Southern hemisphere and Tasmania arrived with a real feeling of euphoria.

As part of training we toured around trying out new locations and getting in some quality surfs, windsurfs and dives. The 7 page Boards magazine article published the following June told the whole story. As part of the Lifeboat Tea advertising schedule, the article was also followed by an excellent Lifeboat Tea advert.

Following the release of the 'Winters Day' video short, the article was released on Boardseeker magazine as a feature released to over 10,000 windsurfers worldwide. You can check out the article here:

http://www.boardseekermag.com/features/windsurfers/james-cox-winters-day...

Deepest, darkest winter 2010. Not long after the snow showers ravaged the UK we put together a movie to be published on Boardseeker and Mpora. Currently at over 15,000 views it seemsed to go down pretty well. (Well done alfie, the footage of me chopping wood gave people what they needed). 

Publication: Boardseeker Magazine
Date: November 2010 

Here are a couple of teaser links to post event writeups of the Puravida Wave Classic. The first covers some wipeouts, the later is an image gallery.

Gwithian gallery
Gwithian bites back

 Well done to mother nature for getting things right on the money at the Pura Vida Wave Classic last weekend. I'm still basking in the glory of some of the best windsurfing I have had at a UK competition, and I'm sure the 50 strong fleet would agree with me on that one.

We had solid logo (to mast on occassions) high waves and Force 7 down the line winds at Gwithian for a couple of days in a row. It was so much fun, it restored my faith in getting on the road to search out this stuff, which I intend to do much over the winter period.

Despite being ill and feeling out of breath the whole time, could have been the excitement, I managed to squeeze a joint 5th place after getting knocked out by Andy King and Phil Horrocks (2nd and 1st place respectively).

There was a lot of broken kit but everyone survived intact.