Well, it's been about two years since we've updated our website, which makes it two years too long!  So after much prompting from friends and family for updates on our tandem adventures, we've decided to once again start posting all the funny, interesting and informative tandem tidbits we are involved with or come across.
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So what have you missed out on over the last two years?  The breaking up and making up of team Chuckany in 2009, one missed ISA World Title shot, 5 ITSA WTT stops (2 big wins, 4 podium finishes), landing our first ever financial sponsorship (thanks Key Manufacturing!), whirlwind adventures in France even with a concussion, a 4th and 5th place finish at recent ISA World Titles ('10 Lacanau, France & '11 Trestles, CA, respectively), the cover of Hawai'i Magazine's March 2010 issue, several appearances on CBS' hit remake of Hawaii Five-O, Chuck's successful entrance into competitive SUP racing, and a lot of laughter and silly antics along the way.

And now with the 2011 ITSA WTT off to an early start in January, congratulations go out to Clement Citran and Dhelia Birou of Biscarosse, France for their record two ISA World Titles in a row.  Bravo!  :)

ITSA lift submission has just closed for the 2011 season and our contributions this year are the Pendulum, Atlas and Space Needle.  Can you guess which lift is which from the pics below?  We curiously await their rankings on the new lift chart and in the meantime have a renewed focus on training again.  Woohoo, Happy New Year!

- Tiff
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Another version of the ITSA Lift Chart was released earlier this month and posted online at http://www.itsatandem.com. However, no formal communication was sent out to ITSA members that a change had been made.  Changes were instead announced a week before the third stop on the WTT in Seignosse, France (no international teams participated in this event).

The changes to the ITSA Lift Chart are as follows: addition of #15 Neck Roll (every lift above it through the #32 Foot to Head moved up in difficulty by one position due to this addition), #38B One Arm Kennedy (formerly #32), #41b Cobra (formerly #42), #42 Butterfly (formerly #41 ), #43B Flat (formerly #44), #44 Scorpion (formerly #43B). 

- Chuck & Tiff

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The preliminary 2008 ITSA Lift Chart was finally released on March 6, 2008 to competitors in the Noosa Festival of Surfing just one day before competition started.  As of today, it still has not been posted on the ITSA website (www.itsatandem.com), but an email distribution was sent out on March 8, 2008 to members of the Tandem Waveriders Organization (www.tandemwaveriders.com) in California and Hawaii.

Deadline for 2008 new lift submission was originally September 30, 2007, but was extended to February 29, 2008 to allow for more input from teams.  Our following lifts were accepted: Neck Roll (#26bis - somehow Rico forgot put it on the lift chart, but it is now recognized by the ITSA), Halo (#33), Side Y (#35), Front Arch Split (#40), and Butterfly (#41).  Rico/Sarah of France submitted the Contortion (#42bis - replaces original Contortion, which has been downgraded to #31) and Scorpion (#43bis).

Please keep in mind that this is not the final version of the Lift Chart for 2008 and that more changes are being made by ITSA Co-President, Rico Leroy.  Release date TBD.

- Chuck & Tiff

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