WindsurfingUK Issue 9 December 2018 | Page 6

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 20. PROFILE WITH A 7:1 FEMALE:MALE RATIO (SUCH Bob Ingram Whether your kids are already packing their own smartphones just hogging COURSES or USUALLY HAVE WAY MORE screentime on yours, keeping busy with some family-friendly apps is 38. them PROFILE 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 Adam Sims 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 skills for children from the age of four upwards. Games involving counting, adding, subtracting and the like have rewards that enable kids to build their own town. An 46. TRAVEL engaging crop of animal characters will keep their interest Magheroarty 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. 76. PROFILE Emma Wilson 30. COACHING Simon Winkley ED: TEZ PLAVENIEKS [email protected] uk WIND SURFING ADS: ANNE EGAN [email protected] Subscribe in print go to: www.windsurfingukmag.co.uk/windsurfing-uk-subscriptions/