Sometime its hard to see what’s around you, it took a visit to Belgium to realise that there’s more to gps than just speed. But what a week for speed this has turned out to been, not one but two guys have passed the magical fifty knot barrier. Sebastien Cattelan will always be the man that broke the fifty, but he could only keep hold of the record for 24 hours.

The speed community is a strange one when it comes to competition, there can’t be many sports where sportsmanship hasn’t been over taken by the duels on the water. Every step learnt is shared and improved on; Sebastien hardly had time to celebrate before passing on the speed crown to fellow kite surfer Alexandre Caizergues after his 50.57 knot run. With the barrier down I’m sure we’ll see new names signing up to the 50-knot club.

The search to improve our chances of speed success in the UK took me to Belgium this week. Patrick van Hoof had arranged for us to have the Belgium timing equipment to run along side our drivenbywind set-up, hopefully with the two sets we can run both the 500m and nautical mile courses. But while the journey time has been slashed with the new high-speed trains, it still left me with a few hours to see the sights.

I think we’re all the same, never looking at our own street, but further down the road, and I guess Patrick wouldn’t have been on the tourist route if he hadn’t wanted to show me his country. But that got me thinking, I’m always travelling the country and for sure passing our heritage without even knowing it was there, so on my way down to Weymouth I though I’d give a look behind the road map on my gps sat nav.

Looking in the attractions setting, it was only a fifteen-minute detour to take Stonehenge into my journey. I don’t think anyone is really sure why its there, but where you imagine how hard it would have been to drag the stones across the country suddenly nothing is impossible.

Finally in Weymouth the course couldn’t have looked any better, but the slip of the tongue had given me a little too much to do. Windsurfing and kitting the course was cool, even if I did get battered by the kite a few times, just hope we keep the boat upright next week.

Anders Bringdal set a new record for Weymouth, but its was the kids that stole the show. Just watching them through the lens lets you know the its they who will be bringing down barriers in the future that at present we can barely imagine.