Welcome to team15. A nationwide network of clubs where the coolest windsurfers aged 15 and under get together every week to have a great time and learn new skills.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- Cool Club
- Cool Pro
- Cool Coach
- Cool Clubber
- Cool Archive
- Robby Swift
- Tash Sturgess
- John Skye
- Nick Dempsey
- Christine Johnston
- Andy Funnell
- Olympian - female
- Olympian - male
- Keith Atkinson
- Karin Jaggi
- Aqua Sports
- Croft Farm Flyers
- Lakeside Loafers
- East Klibride
- Team Astbury
- Rother Valley
- Surfstore
- Hythe Hotshots
- Covenham Cyclones
- Trevor Jones
- Tamsin Hurley
- Chris Wood
- Geoff Pook
- Paul Wright
- Bob Shillito
- David McKay
- Mark Brooks
- Lucy Dunnett
- Kate Strange
- Chris Highem
- Steff Thompson
- George Shillito
- Alex Smith
- Chloe Bennett
- Ali Masters & Dave Wood
 
 
T15 Clubber: George Shillito
Age: 14 years old
Born (date/ location): 5 May 1989 - Bristol
Now lives in Wokingham, Berkshire
Weight 57kgs
Height 168cm
Sail number None
T15 club
Axbridge Animals

George is a Cool Clubber due to his marketing success for team15 and for the Axbridge Animals in particular.

George managed to get 6 of his friends (both boys and girls) initially interested in team15 and encouraged them to come along to a team15 session. Now all six are
keen T15 members.

 

George promotes T15 at any opportunity and acts as unofficial social secretary. He also provides many of the demos at the club sessions so is a great role model which is giving him the necessary experience to become an assistant instructor.

Thanks for being such a good team15 marketeer George and it sounds like you are well on the way to making a career out of windsurfing...

How old were you when you started windsurfing?
8 years old.

What made you want to start windsurfing?
You have to be a windsurfer to be a member of our family!

What equipment do you sail?
Mistral Escape – for racing, my dad's old short board on the sea and an Arrows Zest 5.4 sail

Have you joined in with T15 inter-club events yet?
Yes.

What is your best windsurfing moment?
The day in the photo, experimenting with chop hops on the sea.

Who or what has inspired you the most?
Mark Hosegood (Sparky) our local dude! and the instructors at Club Vass

Current move you are trying to master?
Carve gybes, waterstarts and bigger chop hops.

Any windsurfing ambitions?
Race in super cross

Other hobbies?
All water sports, skiing & hockey.

Any hidden talents outside of windsurfing?
Sleeping, eating and partying

Favourite band/artist at the moment?
RUN DMC

Best TV show?
Extreme channel - if only we had Sky!

Best movie ever seen?
Blues Brothers, Ice Age, etc, but this isn't meant to be an essay so I'll stop

Read anything interesting lately?
Yeah, Eagle Strike was pretty good, oh and my Carve mag

Alive or dead, who would you most like to meet – and why?
Loads of people, but I've can't think of one at this particular moment

Any idea what job you would like to do when you leave school?
Make some sort of career out of windsurfing or watersports, instruction maybe.

What do you like best about T15?
Hanging out with my friends and it gives me an excuse to go windsurfing every week

We are the Champions!
West Kirby Warriors
T15 Champions 2008

Congratulations!

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Free National Sail Number
Make race scoring easy
& obtain your unique number.
It's yours for life
& a free benefit of RYA membership

Contact
tzaneen.mears@rya.org.uk
to be allocated your official number.

Once you have the number
the actual sticky-back digits
can be ordered from
UKWA

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Team15
Coach Courses


T15 Coach-Red courses
will now be known as
Racing Instructor Courses
 T15 Coach-Freestyle courses
will change to T15 Freestyle Coach!  

Check below for course dates.
Have you registered yet?
Click here for pre-requisites.

Courses are currenlty being
organised by RDOs.
More dates soon.



If your T15 club
can get together 4 instructors

we can run a 
course at your club!
Contact:
gina.lindholm@rya.org.uk


(scroll down for other courses you have missed)


For information
(previous courses in 2008)

Mount Batten Centre - Plymouth
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend course: 27/28 September 2008
Closing date: 5 September
Cancelled: lack of candidates

Lakes Leisure - Windermere
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend course: 30/31 August 2008
Closing date: 15 August
Fully booked

James Hamilton Heritage Park - Glasgow
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend course: 30/31 August 2008
Closing date: 15 August
Cancelled: lack of candidates


Gwent Adventures - Wales
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend course: 9/10 August 2008
Closing date: 25 July
5 candidates on course


Grafham Water Centre - Cambridgeshire
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend course: 5/6 July 2008
Closing date: 30 June
Spaces available
6 candidates on course

Wimbleball Lake - Somerset
Course type: Racing Instructor
Midweek course: 3/4 July 2008
Closing date: 30 June
4 candidates on course


Roadford Lake - Okehampton
Course type: Racing Instructor
Midweek Course: 4/5 June 2008
Organised by South West Lakes Trust
Fully booked


Carsington Watersports - Derbyshire
Course type: Freestyle
Weekend Course: 3/4 May 2008
Fully booked


Carsington Watersports - Derbyshire
Course type: Racing Instructor
Midweek Course: 1/2 May 2008
6 candidates on course


Mountbatten Centre - Plymouth
Course type: Racing Instructor
Weekend Course: 12/13 April 2008
Cancelled: lack of candidates

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ADOPT-A-BEACH

The Green Blue is an environmental awareness initiative by the British Marine Federation and the Royal Yachting Association. One of its aims is to educate and promote the sustainable use of coastal and inland waters by watersports participants.

Some of the initiatives have a relevance to windsurfers - especially in achieving cleaner seas and beaches.

Adopt-a-Beach is definitely relevant to T15ers, which is a Marine Conservation Society project supported by the Green Blue.

Check out what parts of the Green Blue are relevant to you