Meet windsurfer Julian King

 Allow me to introduce myself, I am Julian King, an ex semi pro windsurfer and a budding property developer. I'm 27 years old and have a burning passion for the sport of windsurfing closely followed by surfing, wakeboarding, snowboarding and skiing, basically anything on a board or that involves water!

I spent many years as a youth on the UKWA Formula Windsurf tour racing on many beach fronts around the U.K and Northern Europe but Daymer Bay and Polzeath is where you can find me most of the year round practicing when I can get away from the office in Birmingham.

I spent 3 years studying Real Estate Management at Oxford Brookes University where I met Jay Ramage, another member of team Channel Charge team and often joked about crossing the channel! It wasn't until we went on a skiing trip in 08/09 to Verbier where we decided that we could and would actually do it.

We then discussed it for 12 months and invited Fergus Backhouse, Charlie Toogood and Al Hill to join us and formed Channel Charge 2010. We are now fully underway with our campaign raising money for Help for Heroes, working out logistics, exercise and sorting out how best to make the challenge happen. You can view our website www.channelcharge.com for more details and to make a donation.

Interested in hitting the water yourself? Take a look at Mark Warner's windsurfing holidays.