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Fetched: October 6th, 2008, 5:50am CEST
Kauli Seadi slashes a path through to the wave elimination final, securing him his second consecutive Wave World Title on the penultimate day of competition in Sylt.
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Fetched: October 6th, 2008, 5:50am CEST
Return of the king: Antoine Albeau executes his first race win with machine like precision in typically volatile Sylt conditions.
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Fetched: October 6th, 2008, 5:50am CEST
Subject to WSSRC ratification, Sebastien Cattelan (FRA) has finally broken the magical 50 knots barrier, the holy gral of speed sailing in Lüderitz Friday. Accompanied by several high 49 knots runs from himself, Alexandre Caizergues and Jerome Bila (all France) he was the only sailor finally getting to 50.26 knots. Special attendance was paid to the required water depth, and the organizer in cooperation with the WSSRC commissioner present clearly ensured that the rule was strictly applied.
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Fetched: October 3rd, 2008, 9:32pm CEST
Down here at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in the south of France, we’re keeping a careful eye on the record attempt at the Luderitz Speed Challenge that started on September 15th in Namibia…Still on standby, the Masters of Speed team has just decided to wait til the 13th October, the official closing date for the Luderitz Speed Challenge before making any kind of decision on what to do at the canal.If the record still stands at 49.84 knots at the end of the Namibia event, the canal at Saintes could well open its doors in early 2009 to try and break the 50 knot mark before the kitesurfers can do it…But if the kitesurfers do manage to beat 50 knots before then, the decision will probably be to close the canal definitively and never organise another speed record attempt there again…Let’s hope that this somewhat extreme position will still allow for those three windsurfing speed giants, Antoine Albeau, Finian Maynard and Bjorn Dunkerbeck, at least one more crack at it and a chance to see them in action once again !
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Fetched: October 3rd, 2008, 9:32pm CEST
Josh Angulo’s Wednesday win in Sylt in the second Slalom 42 round was a noteworthy enough event for his sponsor Maui Sails to want to tell everyone all about it !!!Proof of the quality of his sailing on this video shot by the Maui Sails team during the final race, featuring some great over-enthusiastic commentary from Angulo’s mucker Phil McGain, from in front of and behind the camera…Some great footage that shows exactly how difficult the conditions were, with these top pro windsurfers nailing some superb jibes on 7.0 m2 sails in more than 30 knots of wind !
Watch the video (Flash Media Player)
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Fetched: October 3rd, 2008, 9:32pm CEST
When he won the second round of Slalom 42 racing over in Sylt, Josh Angulo showed that he is as talented a slalomer as we knew he was a waverider. CV-1 tells Windsurfjournal.com all about it !“This Wednesday was a big personal challenge, requiring my head and body to work in perfect harmony with water conditions that were difficult to say the least…I had great support all through the day from my mate Phil McGain, helping me with my rig tuning and other things, specially just before going out for the final.But I always felt as though I could do it, that I could win, so I went for it full-on !”
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Fetched: October 3rd, 2008, 9:32pm CEST
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Fetched: October 3rd, 2008, 9:32pm CEST
Having recently set up home in the south of France, Anders Bringdal has found himself much closer to another important windsurf person living nearby, in the shape of shaper Marco Copello !The two know each other very well and this summer Copello shaped a couple of new speed boards for Bringdal, one at 42cm wide, the other 50cm, all this to help his mate compete at the speed event in Sotavento on Fuerteventura in the Canaries…For the time being that’s where the project stays, some prototypes for Bringdal, but there’s obviously every chance that S-10 will be back on the blower to Copello regarding some future developments…
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Fetched: October 3rd, 2008, 9:32pm CEST
During August, Italian windsurfer Federico La Croce had the opportunity to visit the island of Masirah in Oman, Middle East, to sail the spot at Khasiit…Only known by a handful of riders, it’s a spot that’s drawing more and more windsurfers to it because of its metronomically regular wind and superb waves that give you the smoothest of take-offs…And to help you visualise the spot, what better than a great video like this one showing the superb conditions that put you in mind of Baja California in Mexico…
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Fetched: October 3rd, 2008, 9:32pm CEST
Like lots of other manufacturers this year, Starboard have released a range of twinzer boards, the Evil Twin series, available in 74 and 80 litre versions.With just the two boards in their range this year, you could be fooled into thinking that Starboard were just dipping their toe in the market before extending their range, but that would be to reckon without mastermind Svein Rasmussen, who has just announced a doubling of the range with two new models this autumn at 70 and 87 litres !
Still very compact in outline, the Evil Twin 70 (225x55cm) and 87 (233.5x60.5cm) will be available in Wood and Wood Carbon options, and should be available in the shops as from November…
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Fetched: October 3rd, 2008, 9:32pm CEST
Josh Angulo steals the show on competitions's fifth day, winning the second round of racing, and claiming his first ever elimination victory. The crowd were also treated to the start of the wave single elimination, which saw seven heats completed in testing onshore conditions.
Watch the "PWA Sylt 2008 - Day 6" video on WJ TV Subscribe to WJ TV flux - The Windsurfing Channel on iTunes Store
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Fetched: October 2nd, 2008, 4:44am CEST
In May, Starboard lobbed a brick in the pond with their proposal for a Formula One Design as a new option for the Olympic Games in London in 2012… On "official demonstration" during most of the year’s big international competitions by their "in-house" Olympic sailor Allison Shreeve, Starboard has positioned itself as the main competition with the current RS:X board, and while the final decision rests with the ISAF at their November meeting, there seems little chance of them dropping the current board after just one Games…Strengthened by a successful Olympics and 4 years of running the Olympic class, NeilPryde have published their own arguments in the shape of a file to be sent to the ISAF and to be available in the public domain.No less than 59 pages of interesting and persuasive arguments, tracing the history of the RS:X board, its development and expansion throughout the world in the last few years, with more than 2000 boards now sold worldwide and almost double that of rigs !
Download the presentation RS:X Beyond 2008 (Pdf)
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Fetched: October 2nd, 2008, 4:44am CEST
We spoke about this at the beginning of the year, that after several years of using the Slalom 42 formula, 4 sails and 2 boards that the riders have to register before the event and use during it, the PWA World Tour will be switching to a new format regarding the registering of equipment in 2009…A big difference in fact, and with some implications, riders now having to register at the start of the season a quiver of 6 sails and 3 boards that they must use for the whole competition year, so for all the PWA rounds 2009 !Still being written but definitely in use for next year, part of the idea behind the new rule is to limit the riders baggage requirements on extended away trips, a factor that has become more and more of a problem each successive season.The idea that was floated to allow riders the chance to take 4 boards to one event each year was not in the end taken up, and from now on the discipline will be called simply Slalom, replacing the old Slalom 42…
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Fetched: October 2nd, 2008, 4:44am CEST
In a little over 15 days it will be the end of the Luderitz Speed Challenge in Namibia, with hopefully some of the windsurfers making it back for the final days after their PWA event in Sylt, Germany…Although American rider Rob Douglas got things off to a flying start with his 49.84 knots and the new all-category world sail speed record, some of the riders’ GPS readouts from their own GPS while racing, make you realise just what potential kitesurf has got in the discipline.So, for starters, Rob Douglas’ GPS showed a Vmax (vitesse maximale/maximum speed) of 54.3 knots during his winning run on the 19th September, but not as strong as Sebastien Cattelan a few minutes later, originally given as 50.10 knots, then corrected to 49.59, but with a Vmax of 58.3 knots !!!It may still be the case that GPS readouts are to be treated with extreme caution, in any case it all adds spice to the end of this week, which is once again forecast to have good strong winds blowing in to Luderitz…As for Rob Douglas, he’s in no doubt that the 50 knots over 500 metres will be well and truly taken before the end of the event !
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Fetched: October 2nd, 2008, 4:44am CEST
Laying waste to the savage North Sea conditions, Antxon Otaegui rose up through day five's freestyle single elimination to defeat Jose 'Gollito' Estredo in the final, and take the lead in the Sylt freestyle ranks.
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Fetched: October 2nd, 2008, 4:44am CEST
Swedish windsurfer Andreas Olandersson is one of the top European freestylers, a regular crowd pleaser on the European Freestyle Pro Tour and some regular top 5 finishes to go with it !And when he’s not sailing on his local spots in Sweden, S-66 usually winters in South Africa to prepare himself for the season and a round of the PWA world cup, the big one at Pozo Izquierdo.Before setting of for South Africa again in a few weeks time, to the Cape Town area, Olandersson has sent us this cool little video of his best sessions of 2008, a video that shows once again that it’s perfectly possible to be a good freestyler and just as useful ripping up the waves !
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Fetched: October 2nd, 2008, 4:44am CEST
Here’s an interesting initiative, from Australian windsurfer Sean O’Brien, a brand new concept called "Follow The Winds" that should see the light of dayvery soon, it’s hookline being "Follow the winds and follow your dreams".The Follow The Winds concept is to put on-line a website choc full of photos and videos, all related to the individual life and riding styles of a group of pro windsurfers including Arnon Dagan, Dennis Littel, Jesper Vesterstrom, Ross Williams, Steve Allen and Wojtek Brzozowski, all brought to life with reports on their daily routine, their latest trips and latest competitions…Where the idea becomes more original, is that the project is targetted at the un-converted (to windsurf) youth, to try and show what it’s like to be a pro-windsurfer, and that it is actually possible to live your dreams…A very ambitious project, Follow The Winds aims to follow this magnificent through to this autumn in Brazil for the two rounds of the Formula Windsurfing Grand Prix World Tour at the end of October and end of November, and hopefully to be back with a repeat running in 2009…
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Fetched: October 2nd, 2008, 4:44am CEST
Among the registered riders for the PWA wave contest in Sylt, one very famous name is missing, the very notable one of Australian rider Scott McKercher.World Waves Champion in 2004, KA-181 has decided to retire from the hectic world of full-on competition at the end of the summer and will almost certainly only be seen again at the occasional big event such as Cape Verde…Aged 38, McKercher has been suffering from a hip injury that has got worse and worse with time, giving him considerable pain with the rigours of endless seasons of intense activity. But, far from stopping windsurfing completely, McKercher will still be very active in the windsurf world from his base in Australia, where he will be hard at work on development of Starboard’s new wave boards, plus the SUP boards that he’s been busy riding for the last few years.And those enticing exotic trips will still be on the agenda, even with KA-181 leaving a huge void on the PWA World Tour, renowned for his supreme talent and his good humour alike…
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Fetched: October 2nd, 2008, 4:44am CEST
Day four's forecast delivered the goods, allowing the remainder of race one to be completed in 7-15 knot wind.Finding form in the testing North Sea conditions, Sylvain Moussilmani seized victory, in turn handing him the early event lead.
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