Real world champ
Emerging female role
models in windsurfing
INTERVIEWS, WORDS AND PHOTOS:
SIMON WINKLEY
LAST SEPTEMBER I RAN A RYA START
WINDSURFING INSTRUCTOR COURSE
FOR OCEAN ELEMENTS IN VASSILIKI
26. PROFILE
WITH A 7:1 FEMALE:MALE RATIO (SUCH
Ant Baker
Whether
your kids are already packing their own smartphones
just hogging
COURSES or USUALLY
HAVE WAY MORE
screentime on yours, keeping them busy with some family-friendly
apps is
GUYS THAN GIRLS).
As a a must.
member of the
Here we round up some of the best apps for young children
–
a
mixture
of
educational
RYA Sport Development Team I am
and just-for-fun. By Nik Taylor
aware of the importance of increasing
female participation in sport so I was
keen to document this course as a
means, perhaps, of inspiring other
women to take up windsurfing or to
ut linguistic differences will find this app perfectly hits the
become an instructor.
sweet spot of both fun and educational. It's from Duck Duck
Moose, an app publisher that pretty much does no wrong
when it comes to apps for young ones, and it teaches maths
42. NON-PLANING WINDSURFING
skills for children from the age of four upwards. Games
By Tez Plavenieks
involving counting, adding, subtracting and the like have
rewards
that enable kids to build their own town. An
50.
TRAVEL
engaging
crop of animal characters will keep their interest
Bonaire
up.
08. COACHING
Simon Bornhoft
Sago Mini Monsters
Available on: iOS (free), Amazon Fire (£1.99)
One for the little artists, Sago Mini Monsters is aimed at pre-
schoolers. Its simplicity is addictive: players create their own
monsters by painting them and then adding features, clothes
and the like. They then get to feed their creation before
taking a snapshot so they can store their favourites.
56. PROFILE
Ruaraidh Somerville
36. COACHING
Simon Winkley
ED: TEZ PLAVENIEKS
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uk
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SURFING
ADS: ANNE EGAN
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