Worldwide Kiteboarding Competition Back Again

The 2010 Luderitz Speed challenge will take place between 4 October and 31 October in Luderitz, as it has been for the past three years. Many world records have been broken during the first 3 Luderitz Speed Challenges, and it’s played a vital role in kiteboarders attaining top rankings in Speed Sailing.The event has proved [...]

EBY Volleyball Club Wants You!

The EBY Volleyball club is looking for new members to join; no experience necessary. The club began in 2007 and has grown since then remarkably. Currently it boasts approximately 30 members, two men’s teams and one ladies team. In 2007 both men’s and ladies won first place in the Mine Championships held in Swakopmund. In [...]

Change of Pace

On Friday the 19th February many Luderitz schools took part in an interschool sports day, held at the soccer stadium. Learners from Brightstart Montessori, Helen Van Rhijn, Diaz Primary School, Nautilus Primary School, Luderitz Christian School and Luderitz secondary school all competed, most of them after training hard for the last few months. The day [...]

Injured Kitesurfer Recovering Slowly

A kitesurfing com¬petitor, French man, Jerome Bila, injured his back during the Speed Challenge 2009.
The accident oc¬curred once he’d finished his run on the speed strip, when his kite lines got tangled with another competitor’s. Fortunately the other person involved was not injured. He went to hospital in Johannes¬burg for an operation on one [...]

Everybody Was Karate Fighting

Saturday the 7th of November was a big day for those that attend the Karate Club in the Trans Namib Hall. Sensei Bonnie, together with his Senior Sensei, Sensei Freddie, were grading the members in order to see if they were ready to move up a level or an entire belt.
The grading began at [...]

LATEST CONTENDER FOR LUDERITZ’S SPEED CHALLENGE?

 
Windsurfing has been seen along the South African shorelines for many years and in recent times Kitesurfing has come along, and now our beaches are constantly in an array of colours and full of action thanks to these sports! Especially here in Lüderitz when the speed challenge comes around!
Our talented sailors have not often headed [...]

A Day In The Life Of A Snoek Fisherman

By Padriac Gerety
I awoke at 4:30, my body protesting the lack of sleep. I was up at this uncivilized hour, long before the sun lazily crept above the horizon, because today was the day of the long awaited Snoek Derby.
Though tired, I was excited because despite my inexperience, Captain Plaatje of the Fulmar agreed [...]

Karate Zen Lüderitz Club

On Saturday, 25 April, the Luderitz Karate-Zen Club had a grading at its dojo in the TransNamib complex in Luderitz. Presiding over the grading were Sensei Bonnie Kabozu, founder and instructor of the club, and Sensei Freddie Mwiya, who was visiting from Oshakati. This was the first grading of 2009. All 25 students trained vigorously [...]

Lüderitz Soccer Academy

Luderitz soccer academy is a soccer development program which will strive to develop the soccer skills of both boys and girls in the u/11, u/13, u/15 and u/17 age groups. It will be open and available to the whole community of Luderitz.
Currently there are no sports development programmes for children in the town of Luderitz. [...]

Anything That Floats

Saturday the 28th February marked the day of the annual ‘Anything That Floats’ competition. Held at Lüderitz Yacht Club the event was a chance for the nautically inclined members of the community to come together and show off their bizarre floating contraptions.

THE RULES
The premise behind the event was simple; contestants had to create [...]