Cardiff kicked off the SWA series with style. With beginner tuition, racing in all divisions, a very entertaining light wind freestyle competition, brilliant 'pimps, whores and Labradors' Saturday night party and much much more, Cardiff has set a very high standard for the rest of the events in the SWA Calendar of 2004-2005.

Friday: 

Saturday: 

• Everyone wakes up surprisingly early and heads down to the reservoir.
• No sign of wind but we rig up the beginner kit anyway.
• By the time everything is rigged up the wind had filled in nicely and the beginners launch onto the water.  Everyone else chips in with instruction and helpful tips for them. 
• By the time more kit is rigged up, the wind has picked up and intermediates and advanced head out onto the water.
• By early afternoon racing is in full swing and everyone is enjoying getting wet.
• With only a couple of hours until the party, kit is quickly packed away and everyone bundles into their mini-buses, vans and cars heading back to Cardiff to get changed into their fancy dress outfits for the party.
• Cardiff locals watching the rugby in a sports bar in town get a shock when over a hundred students dressed as pimps, whores and Labradors (and cow/Dalmatians - think some people got a bit confused with the party theme) enter.
• Everyone dances the night away until we are chucked out in the early hours. 
• Many congregate in a kebab shop halfway back to their houses.

    

Sunday: 

• After a short lie, everyone heads to the reservoir and soon beginner racing and a freestyle comp for all is in full swing.
• As always the Boardwise van is on hand to provide a fantastic range of demo kit to try.
• Marked on style as well as technique, there were some very entertaining entrees and moves in the Boardwise freestyle comp.  E.g. the winner, Mikey P of Southampton Uni, is decked out in skin tight shiny blue trousers, a furry full length coat and aviators.  
• Cardiff excels with the prizes; from Naish harnesses to luggage bags and hoodies to dvds.