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.
This years INtuition Bournemouth to Brighton Blast was a glorious day out in the sunshine with Force 6 winds, weaving amongst the Round the Isle Of Wight Yachts on the busiest day in Solent history, blasting miles off shore at almost 30 knots and setting record times to complete the distance of over 175kms.
The “Alacati / ASPC King of the Bay” ends with a Spanish Victory
According to the plan the double continued today...
EFPT King of the bay
Rrd is proud to announce that the Rrd International Windsurfing Team keeps growing with the signing of former World Speed Record holder Finian Maynard and british Waverider John Skye.
The 2008 PWA Costa Teguise World Cup – Day Six (Final day)
The 2008 PWA Costa Teguise World Cup – Day Five
Jose Estredo continues his rampage to steal the event lead from Marcilio Browne while Sarah-Quita Offringa remains rock solid in first place for the women, following the second full double elimination.
The 2008 PWA Costa Teguise World Cup – Day Three
The 2008 PWA Costa Teguise World Cup – Day Two
Lanzarote PWA Freestyle Event - 23. - 28.06.2008
Situated on the east coast of Central Lanzarote lies the popular tourist resort of Costa Teguise. The area is famed for its superbly consistent trade winds that blow throughout the summer months, attracting windsurfers from all over Europe.
Antoine Albeau and Karin Jaggi slay the opposition to claim the top spots at slalom’s second stop on the World Tour.
The word of the day was “SICK”. Everyone who saw these last heats of the Double Eliminatons will leave the place stoked like hell.
Looks like that events in Greece just need the first day to be done. Like in Vassilki the greek wind kicked in shortly after the registration and delivered sick conditions in the north of this fantastic island.
Laure Treboux (SUI-4) just came back home to Lausanne from Egypt/Dahab and enjoys it. Soon she will change again her "home" for the whole summer. The first PWA Freestyle event will take place in Lanzarote on the 23rd of June, then Pozo, on Gran Canaria, for some freestyle and wave action and then she´ll end up in Fuerteventura for the 3rd freestyle event.
Nico Akgazciyan wins the third EFPT tourstopp
Kevin Pritchard (US-3), Slalom and Wave Worldchampion, is on the step to fly to Europe. He will leave Maui tomorrow and head to Barcelona. On Tuesday the 10th of June the second Slalom 42 of the event will be started. Kevin tells us some secrets how he could be on top of the Slalom ranking after this season.
Marcilio "Brawzhino" Browne (BRA-105) from Brazil, Fortaleza, could win the 2007 freestyle title at the last event on Sylt. Just four years after his debut on the PWA tour in 2003. The 19 year old Brazilian, who sails extremely well in Freestyle and Waves, had a strong start in the 2008 season. He found himself on the podium placed second in the first PWA freestyle event of the season in Austria / Podersdorf and took some timeout from sailing and training for an exclusive interview with Continentseven.com.
EFPT - VASSILIKI FREESTYLE // 5-8.6.08
ClubVentos (the windsurf center of Jericoacoara), has just revealed the outcome of their mega-expedition in December 2007. Their Beach Search with riders like Kauli, Kevin Pritchard, Brawzinho, Robby Swift and Paskowski took 10 days, and they covered 300 km of Brazil’s hidden beaches; in search for their second windsurf vacation spot.
The wait is almost over, as the 2008 slalom season embarks on its debut event in Ulsan, Korea from the 12th through to the 17th of May.
STARBOARD presents FREESTYLE PRO KIDS EUROPE
Podersdorf/Austria starts the 2008 PWA Freestyletour
MULTIVAN SURFFESTIVAL FEHMARN 2008
EVENT NEWS
Dario Ojeda (E-211)
The Toro Andaluz ends with the victory of Normen Günzlein
Tarifa Double Elimination finished
Day 1:
First single Elimination done
The 2007 Cabo Verde event set the bar to an all-time high for PWA wavesailing, so it was a full house once again for the top names in the sport on the island of Sal for the 2008 event.
A strong forecast for early in the event stayed true and a good swell with mast-high waves reeled down the racetrack at Ponta Preta on day 1.
RIDERNEWS
C7: How did your wintertraining look like so far?
DAY 3 - The final 8 players are carved-out
The this years Cabo Verde PWA wave event is already on for two days and Kauli Seadi could win the single elimination in front of local Josh Angulo. Let´s view back what happened so far. On the registration day, the 7th of March, the world's top 22 wave sailors have all signed-up for the main event. The trials contest was also finished in 1-3 foot surf at 'Little Ho'okipa'.
The final 10 riders advancing from the qualifying competition were:
Antoine Albeau set the new all–category world sailing speed record at 49.09 knots or 90.91 Km/H.
MARTIN VAN GEENHOVEN is new Hifly teamrider
Sarah-Quita Offringa (Starboard/Neilpryde) from Aruba is one of the youngest but for sure hardest ripping sailors on the PWA tour. She starts into her 3rd PWA season soon and will try to get the Freestyle title. Sarah-Quita, who stays for training in Aruba while wintertime, found some time, to give continentseven.com some exclusive answers. Check them out!
1st EL YAQUE NATIONAL OPEN in Freestyle and Slalom
Rrd recently announced the addition of new teamriders. Amongst them are Alex Mussolini, Kevin Mevissen and Cheo Douglas Diaz. They are well known on the PWA & EFPT circus and have big goals for 2008. Robero Ricci has defenitely upgraded his windsurfing team within some weeks. With this group of talented hot guns he will catch some more coverage for sure and maybe places on the podium.
We are pleased to announce the formal signing of World Wave Champion Kauli Seadi to the NeilPryde Pro-Team. Kauli has signed a three-year deal with both NeilPryde and sister-company JP Australia to cover the complete package of sails, rigs and boards.
It was one of the most unexpected sponsorchanges in 2008. Kevin Pritchard (US-3) was not only a teamrider of Maui Sails but he was also involved in business- and developmentquestions. The way back to his former sailsponsor Gaastra Sails looks like a U-turn but could be at the same time a sign for titles. Together with the Gaastra team Kevin could already win 4 World Titles in the past.
Kauli Seadi (BRA-253) changed board and sail brand
Lately the "Driven by Wind" event at the "Ray" got in the news more often. Right when the event got started Finian Maynard scored over 44 knots (44,32).
RIDERNEWS WINTER 2008
Severne Sails just introduced its new racing sail range, with the two lines: CODE Red (4,6m-11,7m) and OverDrive (5,5m-11,0m)
Taty Frans from Bonaire is one of the most radical sailors in his disciplines. In 2007 he surprised with sick Slalom action, nailed by far the wildest jibes and jumped more than 10 meters wide while a PWA Slalom race in Pozo, Gran Canaria. As well he scores extremely high in freestyle and counts to the group of people, who can be on the Freestyle podium in 2008. Taty is a great overall sailor, who can impress in waves as well or sailing on the Formula board on the island neighbour Curacao.
Taty gives Continentseven an exclusive view behind the curtain:
The dutch pro windsurfer Peter Volwater (NED 24) sent us his story about the 2008 Lancelin Ocean Classic Race, about seaweed, about starting problems, about dangerous ropes in the water and about his catapult on the beach before his finishing sprint.
Many rumours are out there about Kauli Seadi. Continentseven.com asked the current PWA wave champion what´s going on and it looks like that nothing has been changed so far concerning new sponsors.
Lancelin Ocean Classic 2008
Laure Treboux (SUI-4) born in Lausanne, Switzerland is one of the sailing women, who set a new standard in the lady´s freestyle discipline. After two years of competing on the PWA Tour she changed her board- and sailsponsor. For 2008 she will be equipped with Fanatic boards and sails from North and she seems to be really motivated to push herself to an even higher standard.
Tine Slabe, Slovenian freestyle champion and well known EFPT and PWA rider had a dream It was the organization of a luxery boat trip across the Dalmatian Sea. Together with 7 windsurfing friends, media and boatcrew he started the trip in November 2007. Here is his report.
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The best conditions of the day were at the beginning of the session from 11am until 1pm with winds of 35-knots with higher gusts of 40-knots and a good angle of 125. The 'big' winds that were predicted throughout the weather circles for the later afternoon unfortunately did not materialize and the normally fluid southeast was tempestuous and moody with wide scopes of change in the wind strength measured at the start, middle and finish by the race crew.
Andre Paskowski (G-2) left F2 after 12 years. Here are the first statements of the current EFPT champion2007 sailing now on Fanatic boards.
"The great escape" by Kevin Pritchard & Robby Swift and as host Finian Maynard.
The pros top tips on air travel with windsurfing gear
Provisional schedule for the 2008 PWA World Tour
Lancelin Ocean Classic 2008, 10th - 13th January
Antoine Albeau (F-192) takes the Formula windsurfing Worldtitle 2007
Antoine Albeau three times on top again
Albeau three times on top
Antoine Albeau (F-192) takes the lead after day one
Patrik Diethelm and Antoine Albeau break the windsurfing production board and French windsurfing record.
Jericoacoara never seems to stop. Here is the third episode of Jeri Diary, the video diary from ClubVentos.
The PWA presented some changes in the Slalom 42 and Freestyle rules.
Saintes Maries de la Mer in southern france will open its Speed Canal again.
The chase for records and the 50knots barrier will take place with a selection of competitors on a 1000M canal in Les Saintes Maries de la Mer, France. The event is slated to take place throughout the entire winter months of 2007/08 for a period of 5-months. This is the ideal time to harness the energy generated by the famous South-East and Mistral winds and the location is proven with eight outright world records in the past 20 years.
November 9th 2007: Lars Gobisch from Kiel surprisingly punished event favorite Klaas Voget. “A massive wave caught me unprepared that I lost all my stuff! After a long swim I was actually too exhausted to attack further on,“ explained Klaas right after the finals.