Shortly after we attended a very successful RYA Dinghy & Watersports Show show we had a visit from the Beijing Sailing Centre to see The OTC and how watersports are ran in the UK. Kerry (school projects manager), Bryony (OTC manager) and Maurin (operations manager) were on hand to give them a tour of the Centre and Academy. As part of their visit they were very interested to be given in insight into the latest breakthrough of the watersports world, wingfoiling. As you can see in the photo’s, Maurin took the centres representatives through some ground handling of the wing which they all picked up very quickly but once getting on the water was mentioned I think a small laugh followed by a next time was their answer!!
It was a pleasure to host them for the morning and give them an insight into the how the UK watersports scene is and how much winging has influenced it.
Here’s some words from Sam who was part of the group visiting:
“By attending the RYA Boat Show we had a better understanding of various brand of dinghies and watersports equipment, The OTC visit followed and gave us a more wholistic view of British sailing, windsurfing, and water sports scene.
As we all know, wingfoiling has received increasing attention all over the world, including China, and we were lucky enough to give wingfoiling a try during our visit with Maurin. I believe that it will be the next trendy watersports in China, and we'd love to see OTC guys on the water in China sometime soon."
Good luck with your wingfoiling adventures guys and we would love to get some water time in China, just let us know when!!