After 5 month of intense work the Four Dimensions Team is happy to present the official Four Dimensions Trailer and Website. Andre Paskowski (Producer), Peter Svensson (Editor&Director) and Sebastian Dörr (co Editor) are currently working on the main Movie which will be ready in September 2009. The World Premiere kicks of during the famous World Cup Sylt. We will keep you updated!The Four Dimensions Official Trailer from Robert Bates on Vimeo.
See here the final of today´s race Nr. 6
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Pic: PWA/John Carter
Taty Frans - Pic: John Carter
Pic: John Carter
Pic: John Carter/PWA
The first leg of the PWA Freestyle Tour has just started on the Canary Island of Lanzarote. From the 30th until the 4th of July the men and women fleet will fight for the first victory in the freestyle discipline.
21 riders fought from th 18.06. till the 21.06.09 for the EFPT King of the Bay title. Steven van Broeckhoven showed up as the unbeaten hero of the 2009 season and proofed his incredible high newschool freestyle skills again. The this years EFPT title should go to Belgium. Read more...
High wind freestyle at its best on the final day of the Palekastro Freestyle 2009! Crete delivered excellent conditions throughout the 3 event days with 2 full double eliminations completed and Steven van Broeckhoven (F2) winning the 3rd event in a row.
We just found this funny clip on our harddrive, which we captured in South Korea.
Yesterday headjudge Tom Hartmann welcomed the riders at 9:00a.m. for the first skippersmeeting here at the Kouremenos beach in Palekastro. Unfortunately yesterdays’ wind didn’t keep its strength over the night, so the first start had to be postponed from 10:00 a.m. until some hours later conditions became sailable.
Round 3 of the PWA World Slalom Tour is all set to kick off in the beautiful Costa Brava region of Catalunya, Spain.
Kevin currently sits at fifth position in the PWA Slalom ranks. And with five (or six) more Slalom events to go, the doors are still open for a podium place in the endranking. We asked Kevin a few questions, right before the next event start at Costa Brava.
23 year old Steven van Broeckhoven from Belgium finished the last years EFPT tour ranked in 4th position. This season the top newschooler proofed at the first new-school EFPT event in Sardinia, that he is ready to win. He took the title and leads the ranking after the first tourstop of the EFPT. And he is ready for more: Today the Belgium with the sailnumber B-72 could win the first single elimination at the EFPT event in Lefkada, Milos beach.
When you think of wave riding, one of the names you think of is Josh Angulo. During the world cup in Cabo Verde 2009 he showed he is one with the waves, always sailing in the critical section, with vertical smacks in the pocket and big aerials. Angulo was captured by Umi Pictures in High Definition enabling us to show some of his rides in slow motion.
Paolo Migliorini, former Italian professional windsurfer felt in love with Brazil. He opened a windsurfingcenter in Sao Miguel do Gostoso. A place with almost everyday wind from October until March. We thought, we should not hold back this spot at the northeast coast of Brazil, south of Fortaleza, near Natal.
In the last years, the Bonaire local Taty Frans (NB-9) always was seen at the PWA Slalom events. He as well stood out with good results and spectacular jumping pictures. Why Taty did not show up at any of the 2009 PWA Slalom events so far and why he sailed from Bonaire to Curacao he will tell in this interview.
A short and cold session in Toronto with the Canadian freestyle windsurfer Philip Soltysiak.
The seventh edition of the Surf Festival on the German island of Fehmarn offered their 16.000 visitors, testers and professional surfers a diversified programm. One of the programm highlights was the "Race around Fehmarn", where Bernd Flessner could establish a new record.
ANTOINE ALBEAU AND VALERIE GHIBAUDO WIN IN SOUTH KOREA
From 6 to 10 May 2009 Ireland hosted the first leg of the UKWA wave tour. In the most extreme UKWA event to date, Jamie Hancock sailed to victory after a nail biting final against John Skye. Recently Jamie got second behind Ben Proffit at the second UKWA waveevent at Rhosneigr. Jamie is now leading the UKWA wave tour and Umi caught up with Jamie and asked him some questions.
Good luck for Robbie Swift and Ross Williams to share one umbrella
Day 5:
Olya Raskina (RUS 14) from Russia is a new face in the women windsurfing cirucs. With only 3 years and a half windsurfing, she can stick already many moves. She is improving fast and will enter the PWA tour this year. The movie was made by Svetoslav Bolgarchuk.
In an press release Mistral announced that they are entering into an exclusive collaborative arrangement with the surfing phenomenon Anders Bringdal – and as a result, a new generation of boards will be produced.
On the third day Jinha Beach awake to show its windsurfing potential. With sideshore wind and blue sky a total of seven eliminations could be finished. 3 men rounds and 4 women rounds.
Despite a promising forecast, as well the second competiton day of the PWA Ulsan World Cup was spent again with waiting for suitable conditions to arrive at Korea’s Jinha Beach.
Polish freestyle windsurferPiotr Konkel in Dahab, Egypt.
Celebrating its third anniversary on the World Tour, South Korea’s Jinha beach prepares for the arrival of the PWA’s men’s and women’s slalom fleets.
The last day of the event was sunny and without any wind. No more eliminations were sailed and the result remained the same. After four completed races over the six event days Ross Williams won the event by winning two of them. The other two eliminations were won by Antoine Albeau and Bjoern Dunkerbeck.
Video of the EFPT Freestyle Classix in Podersdorf (Austria) 2009 produced by our austrian friends
2009 Dwarf8 PWA Surf World Cup, Podersdorf, Austria – Day 4
Kuba Kawałkowski, freestyle windsurfer from Poland, sent us his new freestylemovie.
2009 Dwarf8 PWA Surf-Worldcup Podersdorf - Video Day 2
Erik Håkman from Gothenburg, Sweden finished his second part of his freestylemovie featuring himself and his friends from Bonaire.
2009 Dwarf8 PWA Surf-Worldcup Podersdorf - Video Day 1
2009 Dwarf8 PWA Surf World Cup, Podersdorf, Austria – Day Three
Steve Allen, multiple World champion and Australian champion in the racing disciplines of Slalom and Formula windsurfing, has influenced the sport of professional windsurfing a lot. He invented a combi wave move, the tabletop forward. After a more than 17-years long career, a very successful participation in a dancing show in Poland, the Aussie, who lives in Poland, came to a conclusion for this season: "I will buy my windsurfing gear."
Lake Neusiedl delivers classic slalom conditions to christen the inaugural day of racing in Austria.
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The stakes are high as Austria’s Lake Neusiedl prepares to host the PWA’s opening slalom event of the 2009 race season.
Pics: Fernando Sanchez ffotosports
The two Germans windsurfers Ole Wilms and Niko Goretzki from "Team Shorebreak" finished their video from Cape Town.
Nicolas Akgazciyan wins the double elimination and Normen Guenzlein the supersession
Today was the first day of the Freestyle Classix Contest in Podersdorf/Austria. The skippersmeeting was set for 9am. With a little delay everybody showed up and a few more details were clarified about the new freestyle format. As well the racedirector Tom Hartmann added a few more moves, like Aerial Duckjibe and the Cowboy.
Here is a short videoclip produced by our friends
A new format welcomes more than 40 competitors in Podersdorf / Austria
Jevgenijs from the Burusports-Team sent us a video with freestyle action from Latvia. It looks pretty windy on the Kisezers lake, which is close to Riga, the capital. Air temperature +5, watertemperature +7.
For 2009 the Surftest in Podersdorf changed its location to the "Nordstrand" of Podersdorf. The Surftest was organized by Boards & More, Naish Windsurfing, F2 Windsurfing and Sport Schneider, who all presented their newest windsurfing products. For 25€ testing fee the visitors could test two whole days and got free drinks in the Podo Bar. If you tested 5 different boards or sails, you even got a goodie bag and 10€ back. More than 100 testers joined the testevent and gave the event a nice atmosphere.
After three months of training and having a good time on Bonaire young freestyler Erik Håkman from Gothenburg, Sweden finished his movie featuring himself and his friends from Bonaire (Kiri, Payo, Björn, Taty, Youp, Jürgen & Ellen).
Kiri Thode was the eponym of the title, who always shouts "Look! Look! Look!" approaching a videocamera...
Robby Swift once was on the top in the freestyle discipline. He could win the 2003 Fuerteventura event and was one of the first sailors planning through massive shoveit spocks and combining a ponch with a flaka. Then he hurt his ankle in the following super x debut. Two futher injuries at the ankle followed and Robby had problems when landing hard freestyle tricks. He took a break and stopped his freestyle career and switched into Slalom and focused on wavesailing.
Philip Koester (E-44) is back from Maui, on his island of Gran Canaria. It was a great month. After a broken wrist at the Starboard photoshoot in Australia in the beginning of February, Philip could recover very quick.
Irish Wavesailor Mikey Clancy on his 70 liter single fin board with a 3,7 m sail. "It was super windy and I was stacked on my 3,7!", Mikey stated.
Carlo Durzu from Sardinia sent us his videolink freestyling at his homespot Murta Maria (Olbia).
Girmantas Neniskis sent us a short movie about a trip to Chile of the Lithuanian Extreme-sports team last december. "We had great weather, nice conditions, good practice. Also included are a few cutbacks of Victor Fernandez."
Gustav Settervik, webmaster of the swedish internetplatform
The PWA Slalom Worldcup will be started in less than 3 weeks with the first event in Austria at Lake Neusiedler! Kevin Pritchard, Gaastra and Starboard toprider, feels good and hungry to win. He alreday placed in third position at the Cabo Verde PWA wave event. But the Slalom is the discipline he wants to score high. Read more
Gerhard Polak, well known eventorganizer from the event in Podersdorf/Austria, founder of the EFPT and owner of the marketing agency DMG, in an interview about the new "Freestyle Classix" format and his view on event organisation in general.
14th of April 2009, we received following message from F2 shaper and production board speed record holder Patrick Diethelm concerning his end with F2:
The end of Karin Jaggi´s era with F2!!!
One Day in January
Friday morning 9 o´clock at El Cabezo beach in El Medano on Tenerife. All pre-registered riders showed up and were ready for the Spanish Windsurfing Championship 2009. Actually, everything on the Canary Islands is very slow and a bit too late. But because the forecast promised perfect conditions, the competition got started at 10:45 on the first day.
Slovenien Top-Freestyler Andraž Žan, has sent us an report about the DAHAB FREESTYLE WEEK, which took place from the 10th until the 17th of March. The Dahab Freestyle Week was a competition, organized by the Russian Center 5 Squares in Dahab. But read here the report of Andraz:
The organizers of the Fuerteventura Wave Classic just announced the release of an eventvideo for end of April.
Mattia Pedrani, 23 years old was born in Legnano, Italy. Although Mattia is a really tall and heavy (94kg) guy, he impresses with an awesome fluent freestyle windsurfing style. For good reason he is the current Italian freestyle champion and got ranked 13th in the PWA Freestyle overall ranking 2008.
Four time World Champion Windsurfer Allison Shreeve from Australia made an attempt to cross the notorious rough Bass Strait (the sea strait separating Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland). Named after a British explorer this strait is known for its currents and heavy winds, which caused already many lost ships.
11 days ago the first Fuerte Wave Classic 2009 came to an end. The conditions were extreme. Many pictures and videos delivered a proof and even local Jürgen Hönscheid wrote a little report, how risky the conditions in Puertito were. Check the link: A warned witness eye
During the winter, the "North Shore" of Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) delivers great big waveriding conditions. Ideally located for surfing and windsurfing, this part of the coast shelters some fabulous spots where powerful waves break that can frequently reach up to more than 4m height during this period. This island got choosen for the "Fuerteventura Wave Classic".
The 10th Vietnam Fun Cup – a windsurf Slalom race was again dedicated to children in need.
Josh Angulo returns the Cabo Verde crown to its homeland after defeating Kauli Seadi twice in the double elimination.
Unfortunately there were no suitable conditions due to offshore wind or too small waves to run a competition on Sal during the last two days.
With Ponta Preta still receiving a healthy dose of ground swell, day two of competition wasted no time in capitalizing on the situation. Breaking smaller than the previous day, sets were anything from shoulder to logo high, making wave selection absolutely crucial.
Mast high waves and relentless wind see Ponta Preta deliver world class conditions to crown Kauli Seadi single elimination winner on day one.
The Cabo Verde PWA World Cup 2009 – Event Preview
Peter Volwater, the flying dutchman, just recently changed his sailsponsor. He will sail from now on for the Maui based company Maui Sails. We asked him about his goals for the upcoming season and about his first victory this year at the Lancelin Ocean Classic in Australia.
Jonas Ceballos from Gran Canaria is well known for his incredible high jumping skills. While the last winter he really focused an serious training to compete on the PWA circuit better than ever before. Jonas started with a solid 13th position at Sal on Cabo Verde Islands, continued with a 7th position in Pozo and sailed extremely radical at Sylt finishing 3rd. These results secured him a 3rd position overall. Continentseven.com asked Jonas how he felt after this great final of 2008 and about his goals in the new season.
He is for sure one of the most successful sailors in the presence. On the one hand he is a hardcore competition machine, who works 100%, when the green flag is up and on the other hand a creative personality inside the sport of windsurfing, who created hi sown style over many years of hard training. Born in 1982 in the south of Brazil Kauli Seadi (BRA-253), who could win his third PWA title in the discipline waveriding in 2008, dedicates most of his time to windsurfing and surfing. We asked Kauli, a real winner, what are his goals for 2009, his plans in the near future and how he estimates the next steps in the development of twin fin boards.
© Left Pic: Stefan Csasky
OXBOW BIG BAY CLASSIC 2009
© pic: Darrel Wong Photography
Ben Severne is the head of
FREESTYLE Classix 2009 - a comeback of the classic freestyle
Karin Jaggi started windsurfing in 1988 on a lake close to her home in the Swiss Alps and she immediately felt in love with the sport. Her dream was to make once a living out of it. She made her way up from working in windsurfing centers, winning national titles to the highest level of winning worldtitles.
Continentseven Wave News about the Jaegermeister Wave Riderz Event in Holland and about the Italian Wave National Event on Sardinia.
Picture: @ El Gran Surf (www.elgransurf.com)
- RED BULL BIG DAYS 2008
Torben Sonntag from Northern Germany is one of the windsurfers, who could be on top in competition, but decided to start a business. He founded "Ohana Sports", a direct distribution for Windsurfig, SUP and Kite gear. And Torben Sonntag decided to advertise his products with super-sexy girls, who are placed on banners in the Internet. His headquarter is based in Kiel and if there is sparetime and wind, you will meet "wild Torben" in Klitmoller /Denmark, Capetown or on Maui. Torben also participated in the first ever edition of "The Stormchase" and the outcome was a sick part on the DVD sailing on Norderney together with Klaas Voget!
Vicky Sanchez has just jumped on the windsurfboard 4 years ago for the very first time and already nails sick moves like shakas, clew first spocks or switch moves. We got an exclusive interview from the Spanish supergirl to keep you informed what´s going on at the ladies freestyle front:
Jägermeister Wave Riderz – the return
The british wavesailor John Syke took the victory at the this year´s Tiree Wave Classic in Scotland. So far he had a great season, placed himself on the 5th position in the PWA final on Sylt. On Cabo Verde he finished 17th and in Gran Canaria, too. Winning Tiree was the highlight of the season.
Tom Hartmann (AUT-44), International Naish Teamrider, is resident in Vienna/Austria. Many weeks a year he lives in the watersport paradise of Mauritius, where he works on the perfect turns inside the waves of th eworl dfamous "One Eye" break. While the first week of September Tom Hartmann ripped the biggest swell of his whole career and got washed by a monster. He just made it to escape the monsterswell. Without the help of the a local boatcrew it could have ended pretty bad.
1st HAWEIDEN FREESTYLE BATTLE AND ISUZU WIND-/KITESURF CHAMPIONSHIP 2008
New speedrecord set by another french kitesurfer.
The 2008 Colgate World Cup, Sylt – Event Preview
Marta Hlavaty from Poland has won the this years Formula Worlds title in Portimao/Portugal. She could beat Allison Shreeve in a super exciting final on the second last competition day. Marta send us her lines on following questions about her big success.
Bjoern Dunkernbeck, who made his personal top speed in Luederitz some days ago and set a new open water windsurf record with 44.74 knots (83kph) on the 500 m, is already on the way to Sylt for the PWA Slalom 42 final. Just before he left Namibia he found some time to send some hot lines to continentseven.com:
NEW WORLDRECORDS ARE SET TODAY BY THE KITESURFERS
Antoine Albeau has won most of the races he competed in 2008. With a magnificant speed he could win 3 events on the Canaries, two PWA Slalom 42 competitons and the Speed Worldtitle. He finished second in Alacati and could win the PWA Slalom title before the season has been finished. But he got beaten in the last two events in Alacati and Karpathos by Bjoern Dunkerbeck very close and the Kitesurfers attack his 500 m record in Luederitz right now. We asked the French Speedhero about his current attitude towards opponents, speed records, Luederitz and Sylt.
CURRENT EVENTS
Formula windsurfing worlds 2008 Portimao / Portugal - 8. - 14.09.2008
Formula windsurfing worlds 2008
"I remember the first time I landed a Crazy Pete, I saw a possible combo on it, going on a Switch Stance Forward straight after that, but never had the courage to go for it, and never tried it really. And lately I saw so many freestylers, who can not stop inventing things. I realized it was still possible to freestyle in the air and had to come up with something new. So, this was the closest thing in my mind, and I still have more ideas to come up. I just need to step up on my fear to go for it.
The Spaniard Antxon Oetagui could win the EFPT title 2008 for the first time in his career, winning 2 tourstops, one in Greece and one in Turkey. The "worst" result was a 4th in the EFPT/PWA combi event at lake Neusiedler, where Antxon could keep all other EFPT sailors behind himself. He had to fight with some bad injuries while the past, problems at the ankles, but fought back this season. Hard training at his homespots on Lanzarote and endless hours of exhausting workout in the freestyle eldorado El Yaque brought him to the position, where he is right now: the number one sailor in Europe in freestyle windsurfing.
Continentseven.com asked Mike Piechura, the actual tourmanager of the EFPT (European Freestyle Protour) some questions according the 2008 season and how the tour will be continued in 2009.Read an exclusive interview to get a bit behind the scenes of the EFPT and the thoughts of a young and dynamic tourmanager, who is well known as DaMike in the windsurfing scene.
Antoine Albeau (FRA-192) has won the 2008 PWA Slalom 42 worldtitle, before the PWA circuit has been finished in Sylt. The French "Elephant" had won in the age of 36 years most of the competitions he took part: PWA events in Costa Brava, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, the Masters of Speed, the Speed Worldchampionships in Fuerteventura, etc.
EFPT Tour ends a bit earlier than expected with a rider on top who was leading the tour through the whole season till the end!!! Antxon Otaegui (JP/NP) takes the title for the first time to Spain and is the new European Champion in Freestyle Windsurfing.
Björn Dunkerbeck (SUI, Proof, North Sails) and Valerie Ghibaudo (FRA, Loft Sails) are the European Champions of Speed Windsurfing 2008!
Andre Paskowski just came up with his latest online video project STACKED. He followed Gollito and Victor and got filmed himself, too. The result is an extraordinary 10 minutes long movie. Andre found some time in his busy life for an exclusive interview with continentseven. We talked a bit about the video productions and his attitude towards production and sport.
Qingdao showed that it was not the light air, fairy puff venue that it has been mis-labelled for the past four or more years. In fact, was probably one of the windiest Olympics so far.
ISWC Speed Windsurfing European Championship Karpathos 2008 - 20. to 26.08.2008
HOOD RIVER, ORE.—Several of North America’s top freestyle windsurfers descended on the Columbia River Gorge in July for the 2nd Annual Gorge Freestyle Frenzy, the nation’s largest high-wind freestyle windsurfing event.
After a brief spell on F2, Philip Koester has signed back with Starboard. Svein Rasmussen, president of Starboard International, was so impressed by Philip’s performance in Gran Canaria he flew to the Canaries to personally congratulate and bring the 14 year old wonderkid back to the brand with the Tiki logo.
4th Starboard ProKids IFCA Freestyle World Championship 2008
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An extraordinary edition of Trentino ISAF Slalom World Championship for junior, youth and master, concluded after 5 days of regattas - the best that Garda Trentino and Torbole could give. On the water were 55 masters - aged over 35 years - 46 juniors between twelve and sixteen years and 46 youths between seventeen and twenty, from nineteen nations along with their trainers and companions.