The Watersports Academy

The Sandbanks Hotel and Funsters Entertainment offer a full and varied programme of activities to suit the whole family, offering first class entertainment during your stay with us.
 
Childrens Entertainment
For children we have Funsters Cool Kids, with mini disco’s, limbo competitions, treasure hunts, crazy games, funkiest funster, visiting shows and gunge fun and so much more, [...]

As the sun came up for another beautiful bank holiday weekend, the class to be taught by professional trainer Jim Collis started to set up their equipment.
 
 
The comment was made, “It’s not often we get three out of three: Sun, wind and high tide!” - the day was set to be perfect.
Jim Colliss - possibly [...]

In September Andy Ward, from Parkstone, will attempt to kite surf across from Alderney to Poole, this trip across the the English Channel is 70 nautical miles and across busy shipping lanes.
 
To be successful in his cross channel attempt in September Andy is not only relying on the correct wind speed and force, but also the reliability [...]

The Watersports Academy hosted a day-long charity fundraising event on Sunday 3rd May, raising over £1,000 for Windsurf 4 Cancer.
This watersports multi-event day had experts and novices sailing from ’sunrise to sunset’ - yes, we were up at 5:30am on Bank Holiday Sunday! - plus fun racing events throughout the day, a delicious BBQ [...]

In September Andy Ward, of Parkstone, will attempt to enter the record books as he kite surfs across the English Channel, 70 nautical miles across the busy shipping lane from Alderney in the Channel Islands to Poole in Dorset.
 
Father of three, Andy, has been kite surfing for three years, and is hoping to raise funds [...]

The Watersports Academy under 16 windsurfing club in association with Animal clothing had its registration day last weekend for the 2009 season, with a record number of children signing up.
 
The All Stars are a club associated to the RYA to get young budding windsurfers out on the water. It concentrates on two area’s racing and [...]

Riki Flutey, England rugby team’s centre, recently visited The Watersports Academy in Sandbanks. Riki and his family were taking a short break in the area and he couldn’t resist an opportunity to learn a new water sport. 
Riki, already a keen surfer, was excited to try out kitesurfing after watching locals flamboyantly sailing in Poole Bay. [...]

When ASR Limited packed up and went home last November, they promised to return in April to continue with the project. True to their word Andrew Moores, who is heading up the work and project supervisor Rex Pollock has returned, ahead of their colleagues to assess the current weather and to prepare the site for [...]