The Centre
At SeaSports our focus is on offering you the very best available; our instructors equipment and facilities are of the highest standard, and we pride ourselves on attention to detail and excellent service. Our instructor ratios are kept very low ensuring that you get maximum attention at all times.
All our instructors are experienced Industry Qualified and CRB Checked. With emphasis on learning, development and fun in a controlled and safe environment. All in an easily accessible and beautiful location.
The Team
All our staff are passionate about their own diciplines and enjoy working as a part of a fun and focused team. All Staff are CRB checked and 1st aid qualified, as well as being governing body qualified.
We are Sue and Tim Cox and the team;
Tim Has a shockingly long history working in the watersports industry - Windsurfing Advanced Plus instructor & Intermediate Trainer, Senior Sailing instructor, Advanced Dinghy, Multihull & Keel Boat instructor and Coach Assessor. Advanced Powerboat instructor, and Power boat Trainer, Personal watercraft instructor and 1st Aid instructor. (Also good at growing hair!)
Sue Has a long history of business, looks after the bookings, office & personnel side of things. Ensures that you, the customer are happy, and runs the hire side of the business. Oh yes and teaches windsurfing when ever possible. Also likes to ask lots of questions!
It Can Sometimes Be Difficult to Talk About Yourself! - So we asked a local windsurfer made good to give us some thoughts:
John Hibbard, UK National Champion,
Britain’s Most Extreme Champion and World Tour Competitor comments on the arrival of SeaSports Southwest:
"It’s great to finally have watersports tutition and hire available in Teignmouth. It will make getting in to watersports that much easier. I wish it had been around when I was learning. I learnt to windsurf on the river Teign when I was 14 years old. At that time there were no coaching facitlites availble locally so I learnt most of my skills from magazines and from watching others as well as a lot of trial and error. I attended Teignmouth Community College and always dreamt of setting up a watersports facility in the town. In the end though my attentions turned to competitions and I set off in search of a life as a professional windsurfer. 10 years since learning in Teignmouth I have achieved my goal and become the National Champion as well as winning the covetted title of Britain’s Most Extreme sportsmen!
I compete all over the world on the Professional Windsurfers Association (PWA) World Tour, with my best result so far being 5th at the Samsung Mobile Championships in Belgium. I always look forward to coming back to my roots and windsurfing in Teignmouth. It’s a great place to try windsurfing and having SeaSports SW in the town can only be a good thing, and maybe in a few years time another Teignmouth windsurfer will be joining me on the PWA world tour." Cheers
John
