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Crew songs

Posted: November 19th, 2008, 12:15am CET by admin

From the end of year party, the crew's outstanding performance on stage drew a lot of attention and lots of people wanted to get a hold of the lyrics. Well, there's a taster below, or download all the songs! Pics hopefully coming soon.

Live to Sail

Juiced 4.5 Conditions At New Road

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 7:50pm CET

Strong NNW wind blowing at New Road (paved lot). Nice ramps on both tacks. Come out and join me.. The temps was around 38-40 degrees all day today, but that didn't keep me off the water. I arrived around noon to solid 4.5 conditions.

and chilly temps

.....and blowing sand across the parking lot

SWEEEEEEEEEEET!

Small Kit! 4.5 is my favorite sail.

Amazingly, the UV rays where so strong that I felt comfortable enough to go out for the first session w/o gloves. It actually wasn’t too bad, and I stayed out for about 45 minutes, before coming in to put on a pair of gloves. In case you’re wondering, I wear a Neil Pryde dry suit, along with a superfreak booties, NP mittens, and a full hood.

The character of the water was a lot saner than the jump-a-looza session Sunday. Lots of space in between the ramps to get comfortably dialed before bearing up to hit a ramp at full speed.

It was honking today!

On the drive home thru Deleware, it began to snow a little. Gotta love it

reminds me of that scene in the Wizard of Oz. so sleeeepy..

No one else came out to sail today, so no action photos. I did however shoot some mast mount video today, here you go:

Live2sail

TEAMVOSA

Mida rohkem seda uhkem...ruumi veel on..natsa

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 4:39pm CET

Issanda loomaaed on suur ja lai.... TÄPSEMALT

Live to Sail

Go-Pro Video from Saturday at Tower Road

Posted: November 18th, 2008, 12:44am CET

I'm super stoked at how this video turned out. I used my new "Clew-View" mount. This was an experimental session, and the video far exceeds my expectations. I'm so used to the mast mount and the helmet cam as the only two POV perspectives. But with the clew-view, I feel the action is better represented, and I'm excited to get it out on the ocean!

The added weight was not an issue. After a bit, I didn't even know it was there.

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how Kazuma shaped my custom surfboard part 5 + SUP shirt initiative

Fetched: November 17th, 2008, 4:37am CET by cammar

Part 5 of the Kazuma series. After this, we'll move to the shaping room.

Surfing has been absolutely epic here in Maui. The lack of wind and the not too big size of the swell has brought some real gems to our reefs. Tons (literally!) of perfectly shaped A-frames. Let's celebrate that with a few blurred shots (haven't opened the manual of the new camera yet... too busy surfing!).

After a couple of fantastic regular surfing sessions I had to switch to standup (much easier on my back). Still heaps of fun, but one thing has been bugging me. About 80% of the pack of standup surfers (that now outnumber the regular ones in some breaks) is absolutely unrespectful of the etiquette and hog the waves leaving little chance to regular surfers to have their share of fun.

I thought about having made some custom lycra shirts to wear when to go SUP surfing. On the back:
"Regular surfers can drop in on me (as long as it's safe)"
On the front:
"I'm not going to take advantage of my unfair advantage in catching waves"
or, if that is too long:
"Unfair advantages bug me".

That would give a strong message to the other standup surfers, don't you think?
Please post a comment if you have ideas for other sentences or if you want to join the initiative and share the cost of it.

I also opened two threads about this on the Standup Zone forum and on the Hot Sails Maui forum.

See you in the water. Surf with aloha!

PS. Thanks to Maui Ultra Fins who decided to renew their banner (check the new twin fin one) till the end of the year. I'll use that money for the lycra shirts!

The number of blog readers keep growing, but the banner's price just went down (they follow Wall Street): 40 bucks a month!
Here's the stats of the last two weeks.

Live to Sail

Lewes, De. The Secret Spot

Posted: November 16th, 2008, 9:05pm CET

Today James Roe and I scored fabulous conditions on the Deleware Bay! The Secret Spot was firing! I've dubbed the session "The Jump-a-palooza" at the Secret Spot!
The wind was WNW which is pretty much side shore at this venue. The ramps on the outside where perfect for busting out big floaty jumps.

We hit the water around 9.30, I rode my 91 ltr and a juiced 5.0. Sailed that for about 30 minutes, then it got really windy. Time to pull out the 77ltr board! Rigged down to my 4.5. I was LIT! In the gusts, could of been on a 3.6! Beautiful sun light off the water on the reach back to the beach. Pretty magical and was great to share the experience with someone else.

Pulled from the go-pro footage

Man, the junps on the outside where some of my biggest ever on the Deleware bay. That aint too hard in side shore 4.5 conditions at a deep water venue! Huge!
small kit

mast mount

I took a few minutes out of the action to snap a few shots of James. He was on a 4.2

Driving home thru Deleware

Red Sky at night............

COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE HENLOPEN TO FENWICK ISLAND DE OUT 20 NM-
330 AM EST MON NOV 17 2008

Tuesday and Weds look great:

...GALE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE TUESDAY
NIGHT...

TUE
N WINDS 20 TO 25 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 KT...INCREASING TO 25
TO 30 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 KT IN THE AFTERNOON. SEAS 3 TO 5 FT...
BUILDING TO 4 TO 7 FT IN THE AFTERNOON. A CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW.

WED
NW WINDS 25 TO 30 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 KT...DIMINISHING TO
20 TO 25 KT WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 KT IN THE AFTERNOON. SEAS 4 TO 7 FT.

looking forward.........
Warm Day At New Road

Posted: November 15th, 2008, 11:36pm CET

Wow, it was just bizzare warm today, pushing 70! Wore the wetsuit.
Lots of sailors there for fun 5.0 conditions.

If anyone is interested in buying my van, get in touch with me soon, cuz I'm either gonna sell it to a sailor who can enjoy it, or I'm trading it in on a 4x4.

The water at new road today, dare I say it, was nice to look at. I think in the dead of summer, all sorts of algae, and other stuff, sort of discolors the water. But in the fall, and today, the water is a lot cleaner, and down right pretty.

Tons of floaty port jumps, and full on raging!

Here is slide show of some jumps that we zoomed on:

Andy Pierce was ripping today. Bob, sorry you where under the weather today, and look forward to sailing with The Zamboni again, soon!

Nice Andy!

James Roe has a beautiful gybe. And he was hitting some nice jumps too.

Here's a few more of Andy

Few more of Andy. Great to sail with you again today Andy. Hope we can do it again real soon.

After the first session on the bay, Janis and I checked out Tower road, and it appeared that a fair bit of decoupling was going on, so I think I made the right call. Still, that stinking feeling that I was missing some thing special on the ocean nagged at me all day.

I used the “clew-view” mount for the go-pro today. It seem to work ok, although half way thru the session, it swung down below the boom. That should be ok, just providing a different view. I’m looking forward to reviewing the footage, and check back later for the action.

This mid gybe shot is pulled from the video file.

Toward late afternoon, Jules and his wife Donna showed up too. Wind wasn't as steady as early in the day, but still fun.

Jules, Janis loves the colors on that sail! Is that a Naish?

Linda is a sailor we met who is down from Jersey. Great to meet you Linda!

Forecast for tomorrow is for the wind to clock around to the west-northwest. I’m targeting a secret spot sesh if that happens, with a fall back to New Road if it has too much west in it.

Road Trip '08

First Florida Sesh

Posted: November 15th, 2008, 11:27pm CET

I woke up this morning amped - we had a killer adventure the night before (which you'll find out more about later), and I was stoked for my first florida paddleboard sesh.

That lasted about five minutes after I got wet. Florida, you see, is not Maui. The wave faces are choppy. The wave period is short. All the paddleboarding I'd done in Maui (and in the lake near my office last week) was for naught - I felt like I was a beginner again. The sunken tail, one-stroke board 180 I had thought I had mastered? Pssshh. I could barely stand on the board.

My frustration lasted for about ten minutes before I said "Screw it, I'm getting a sail." \

That changed EVERYTHING. The wind was VERY light and very offshore, and the waves were breaking pretty close to the beach, so I didn't get many rides as I really wanted to only take the set waves that would give me a chance to ride then pop out before getting caught in the dead zone of the shorebreak. The few rides I did get, though, were top notch, according to my buddy Brent who was surfing.

Post-sesh, we grabbed some IHOP, then headed back to the resort to get Brent windsurfing - he'd taken a lesson a few years ago, but hadn't sailed since. It's a tribute to his athleticism that he was basically sailing on his own after just a few minutes of instruction. I bounced between boards and sails (Aerotech Phantom 6.8, Severne Element 7.5, Sailworks NC4 8.5, Kona 11'5, Kona One, Starboard Serenity, Exocet S-Cross 145...) the wind picked up enough to send us all running for shortboards, but the wind died just as a I got the 8.5 rigged and on the water.

Oh well.

UK Windsurfing Association

ISAF chooses RS:X as windsurf class for London 2012

Posted: November 14th, 2008, 4:05pm CET by admin

From the RS:X Class website: The ISAF Council has just voted to select the RS:X for both men’s and women’s events at the 2012 Olympic Regatta. The chairman of the ISAF Event’s Committee, Bjorn Unger, proposed to the council that they take 8 sets of equipment (all those apart from…

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new camera?

Fetched: November 13th, 2008, 8:17pm CET by cammar

I'm going to update this post with a photo that Alex took with his XTi and 300mm lens. Looks a lot nicer, doesn't it?
Anyway, this is Andres who just shaped himself a brand new twin fin with the colors of his Smack.
Sometimes it's good to have somebody in front of you, since you're forced to do a tight turn...

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Taking advantage of Costco's crazy return policy (3 months! It used to be 6, but somebody must have taken too much advantage of it...), I bought (or temporarily borrowed if you like) a new camera.

It's a Canon Rebel XSi and it came with two lenses, one of which goes up to 250mm .

I know nothing about photography other than pushing the button of my trusty little Sony and I'm having a hard time (of course I didn't even open the manual). The first two shooting sessions were quite disappointing as I will explain hereafter.
First, let me mention the main (and only so far!) advantage I found in it: continuous shooting rocks!
Here's Patrick Bergeron in a sequence of a nice aerial yesterday (Tuesday) at Hookipa. I was impressed by how well he sailed also because, truth to be told, he didn't sail well at all the day before! I guess we all have our good and bad days...

Here's instead the disadvantages I found (so far) of an SLR camera:
1) heavier and bigger. You can't really keep it your backpack.

2) more expensive.

3) sure the quality of the photos is better (supposedly), but the size of the photos is way bigger. The shittiest smallest quality with the Canon means around 800k per photo. With the Sony it's around 300k. My disk space is limited and I don't want to bother with external disks or have to change my PC...
I take photos for my blog (and for the fun of taking them). On it you can't even notice the difference in quality (or can you?).

4) There's no way (or at least I didn't find it yet) you can use the LCD display when you shoot. This is Glenn.

I'm not used to the viewfinder and I wear glasses. It wasn't too bad... just harder to keep the horizon line horizontal, since often it ends up in the very top of the mini screen and I just don't see it!

In addition to tilted, the horizon line also appears a bit distorted (kind of concave) to me.

This is another little sequence. US1111 (still can't remember who's that...) is pretty well on focus in the first shot. I'm using the sport settings with super short shutter times (like 1/1000) and autofocus and the lens has Image Stabilization.

Now, can anybody tell me why in the second shot US1111 is not in focus anymore? Is that because I moved my hands? I'm not using a trypode (and I really don't want to).

In the third shot it's a little better on focus...

Oh, and the zoom of the 250mm is not even as strong as the 12x of my little Sony...
And in the fourth shot is mysteriously back on focus (kind of)...

Most (MOST!) of the photos were kind of blurred. Even this close up of this cute Spanish girl! When I saw this photo, I almost brought the camera back ahead of time... cute Spanish girls cannot be blurred!!!
That's actually going to be my answer to the customer service employee's question:"and... what was wrong with it?"

What can I say... I have a lot to learn and I should be reading the manual instead of posting bad shots...
Patrick again.

Philippe. BTW, sequences are nice but they take forever to load on blogger...

In the end, it looks like moving from longboard to shortboard surfing. A hell lot of disadvantages for a very little reward. But it's just day two...

Here's a couple of shots from today, instead.
The wind was light, gusty and offshore, very difficult sailing (at least for me, as usual). The new NW swell started to show up late in the afternoon. This guy caught the biggest set of the day.

Buzzy Kerbox took advantage of the offshore wind and got covered.

Oh look, a swiss beauty! Not particularly missing Guernsey, I's say...

Indoor shots are pretty good instead. How's that grab?

Allright, NW swell on the steep rise. The NW buoy shows 13 feet, 16 second from around 315 degrees at 7pm. I have no doubt where I'm gonna surf tomorrow morning: NOT at Hookipa!
Here's a well done video forecast

As they mention, the Triple Crown will start tomorrow morning at Haleiwa. If you don't live in Hawaii, check the live webcast online.

If you live in Maui, instead... see you guys in the water!
Don't forget the wax! The bikini one, I mean!

TEAMVOSA

Maailmameister puhkab "natsa"

Posted: November 13th, 2008, 1:24pm CET

Golito oma "kaldalembeste-kõhuli-selili-rannaliivale" trikkidega natsa eksis...
(äkki nüüd läheb paksuks ja hakkab rummi jooma nagu meie ? )
TÄPSEMALT...
Et millest me siis räägime...

Live to Sail

The Weekend Is Shaping Up Nice!

Posted: November 12th, 2008, 9:13pm CET

Not much action around here for the past 7 days. Fortunately, the coming weekend is shaping up for a great couple of days of sailing. My only concern is the wind is forecast to come from the south, and the temperature differential with the water may pose an issue in terms of decoupling. Never the less, I'm all over the forecast and, if its blowing, I'm going.

Probable venue likely to be Assateague, or Tower Road, which is a fun venue for bump n jump conditions.

James Roe during an October session at Tower:

From back in June

Last minute tune up at Tower before Loopfest!

Tower comes with a caveat: "often comes with strings attached"!

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Hookipa aerial fest

Fetched: November 12th, 2008, 6:03pm CET by cammar

Another day of strong offshore winds. I tried to sail, but no way I could enjoy it. So I happily derigged and went to Hookipa where the pros were having good time (when not falling in the jibes or catapulting in the gusts or having the sail ripped off their hands when water starting...).

Sailor of the day: Kevin Pritchard.
When I took this picture I thought:"I better use less zoom with Kevin... he's starting to go out of the screen!"

On the next wave I used less zoom and he did another big aerial, this time one footed, perfectly landed on the wave face. He may not know how to spell poll ;-), but sure enough he knows how to rip in offshore conditions. Remember that crazy aerial at Cabo Verde?
10 from the italian judge.

I took tons of photos, it was hard to select a few more main page deservers.
Levi destroying a lip.

Keith got confused. He thought he was surfing and he got barreled.

Mark Angulo (the photographer survived).

Florian Jung.

John Skye had a session at Sprecks earlier. Looks like he didn't get too tired...
Hey, he has a blog too!

In this slide all the other worthy photos.
Unfortunately there's an annoying song as a soundtrack (you can mute it on the top left), that's why I didn't embed it.
That's the end of slide.com for me. Anyone feels like recommending a good slideshow site?

Big waves on the horizon. Next swell is going to pretty damn big, but pretty damn west too... 300-315 uncle Pat says. God bless the West Maui Mountain...
Goya demo day

Fetched: November 12th, 2008, 6:03pm CET by cammar

Well, you should have been there... too late now!

Anyway, these are (part of) the boards that you could have tested this afternoon at Kanaha. Francisco, Lalo, Keith Taboul, Jason Diffin all there to help you with your setup.

Problem was: too much wind!
Check the Iwindsurf.com graph: 20 to 35... my kind of conditions!

I tried the 2009 72 and 66 custom wave series and liked them both a lot. The 66 in particular was my favorite, seen the nuclear wind.
Anyway, thanks guys that was fun.

Not much to brag about this (supposingly) great wavesailing week. A new swell filled in today, but with the wind like this, so strong, offshore and gusty, it was really hard to enjoy the wave riding... at least for me!

Is there anybody in Maui that still gets excited about strong wind forecasts?
Strong wind in Maui sucks, because it's gusty. Unless it's onshore or side-on, in which case it's not gusty, but it sucks anyway, because it creates tons of chop. So, there's no escape: as I said, strong wind in Maui sucks.
That's why I get excited instead when the forecast is for light or no wind (as long as there's waves).
Like the one coming up: Wednesday light wind and starting Thursday no wind (or light Kona) for quite a few days. With a large WNW swell arriving at the same time (the two things being extremely related, since the captured fetch will get close enough to the islands to bring BIG waves and shut down the wind), that means epic surfing.
Yu and Hu!

I hung out with the boys (and the girls!) at Kanaha the whole day, so another day with no photos. But I'm going to start using a rich reservoir of great photos taken by Chico. There's some real gems. I'm going to publish them one at the time whenever I need to. Windsurfing mag showed some interest in a couple of them and there's a possibility that they will publish them. So I'll leave those out.

BUT, all of a sudden the pasta with artichokes I'm cooking while posting is coming together, so I don't have time to select the photo.
In other words, come back later to this post for that...

And all of a sudden after dinner it got late and my wind-abused body needs to rest. The photo will have to wait... 'Night.

20nudos - Windsurf

Archivado de mensajes en los Foros - por 20nudos 05.11.2008 @ 08:05

Fetched: November 12th, 2008, 6:03pm CET

Debido a la lentitud que estaban sufriendo los Foros y a los últimos problemas que se estaban generando al intentar escribir en los mismos, se ha realizado un archivado de todos los mensajes publicados antes del 1 de enero de 2008 y que no tengan respuestas posteriores a dicha fecha.
Este archivado está disponible en la página de entrada a los Foros y los mensajes contenidos en cada uno de los subForos solo pueden ser consultados y ya no podrán publicarse respuestas en los mismos. Con ésto se intenta conseguir que los Foros activos funcionen con mas fluidez.

Espero no haber ocasionado molestias a los miembros y que podamos seguir usando los Foros activos durante mucho tiempo.
Gracias a todos los que avisasteis de los problemas...
Rafa ya ha recibido su regalo - por Cesar 29.10.2008 @ 09:19

Fetched: November 12th, 2008, 6:03pm CET

Rafa también ha recibido su regalo, uno de los entregados con motivo del 5º aniversario de 20nudos; este es su mensaje y las fotos que nos ha enviado:
"Muchas gracias Cesar por este magnifico regalo y por tu labor en 20nudos que cada día une a mas gente en esto del windsurf. Y buen viento para todos."
Finaliza el campeonato 2008 PWA - por 20nudos 14.10.2008 @ 12:14

Fetched: November 12th, 2008, 6:03pm CET

Finaliza el Campeonato del Mundo de Windsurf 2008 PWA con 6 españoles entre los 3 primeros puestos de cada modalidad. Enhorabuena a todos/as.

Resultados:
OLAS MASCULINO
1. Kauli Seadi
2. Víctor Fernández
3. Jonas Ceballos

OLAS FEMENINO
1. Daida Ruano
2. Iballa Ruano
3. Nayra Alonso

SLALOM MASCULINO
1. Antoine Albeau
2. Björn Dunkerbeck
3. Kevin Pritchard

SLALOM FEMENINO
1. Karin Jaggi
2. Valérie Ghibaudo
3. Sarah Hebert

FREESTYLE MASCULINO
1. Jose “Gollito” Estredo
2. Marcilio “Brawzinho” Browne
3. Kiri Thode

FREESTYLE FEMENINO
1. Sarah-Quita Offringa
2. Daida Ruano
3. Laure Treboux

Así mismo, también los fabricantes se han llevado sus premios:
Tablas:
1. Starboard
2. Fanatic
3. JP-Australia
4. F2
5. Mistral

Velas:
1. NeilPryde
2. North
3. Gaastra
4. Simmer
5. MauiSails

mas información en: pwaworldtour.com
Tricktionary II - La biblia suprema del windsurf - por Cesar 14.10.2008 @ 09:13

Fetched: November 12th, 2008, 6:03pm CET

Hace unas semanas Michael Rossmeier, co-autor junto a Sandra Schennach del nuevo Tricktionary II, me envió un ejemplar para que lo comentará en la web (muchas gracias Rossi). Aunque todavía no lo he leido por completo (me entretengo releyendo algunas maniobras varias veces) creo que puedo comentarlo e intentaré que sea de la forma mas objetiva posible:
El libro está editado de forma impecable, con tapas duras que le dan consistencia (podrás guardarlo en tu biblioteca particular) y con un tamaño que recuerdan las revistas de windsurf que todos conocemos, tanto nacionales como extranjeras.
El contenido del libro es muy extenso, dedicando una gran cantidad de páginas a las maniobras de freestyle y de olas, sin olvidar las mas básicas para los principiantes, lo que le hace bien merecedor del sobrenombre "la biblia suprema del windsurf". Podemos encontrar un extenso glosario de términos utilizados en el windsurf, mayoritariamente en inglés, aunque algunos puedan ser traducidos, además de la descripción de los diferentees estilos o modalidades de nuestro deporte, la variedad de clases de tablas y velas que podemos encontrar y algunos buenos consejos para los que quieran iniciarse en la competición.
La detallada descripción de las maniobras es inmejorable, siendo comentadas paso a paso y documentadas gráficamente por las secuencias de fotos superpuestas que nos ayuda a visualizar los movimientos y la técnica empleada en cada momento para conseguir completar cada maniobra con éxito; como complemento aparecen los errores mas comunes y el grado de dificultad al que nos enfrentamos en cada maniobra.
Todas las maniobras fotografiadas son ejecutadas por el propio Michael Rossmeier o alguno de los windsurfistas invitados, como Remko de Weerd, Andre Paskowski o Víctor Fernández, entre otros.
Por cierto, la traducción española ha sido realizada por la canaria Nayra Alonso.

Aquí os dejo con un enlace al video presentación del libro.

Como complemento al libro está previsto que aparezca en breve el "Tricktionary DVD". Según comentan los autores, aunque son dos productos totalmente independientes, están realizados pensando en complementarse mutuamente.

Podeis encontrar mas información sobre el libro y el DVD en su web www.tricktionary.net donde también podeis adquirirlo; su precio, 34,90€ + 8€ de gastos de envio, creo que es muy ajustado.

Personalmente lo considero una muy buena inversión, más ahora que se acercan fechas señaladas para hacer algún regalo o, ¿por que no?, autoregalárselo.
Altamente recomendable
Ranking mundial de RS:X - por Club Náutico Sevilla 05.11.2008 @ 12:10

Fetched: November 12th, 2008, 6:03pm CET

MARINA ALABAU ALCANZA EL VIGESIMO MES CONSECUTIVO AL FRENTE DEL RANKING MUNDIAL DE LA CLASE RS:X

*La regatista del Náutico Sevilla es líder desde febrero del año pasado

*Su compañera Blanca Manchón ha ascendido hasta el Top ten de la ISAF

La regatista del Club Náutico Sevilla Marina Alabau se mantiene al frente del ranking mundial de la clase Neil Pryde RS:X, según los datos facilitados en el mes de octubre por la Federación Internacional de Vela (ISAF). De esta forma, la reciente diploma olímpico en los Juegos de Pekín lidera el escalafón mundial de dicha disciplina del windsurf por vigésimo mes consecutivo, desde que lo alcanzara allá por febrero de 2007. Con anterioridad, la doble campeona continental ya estuvo comandando el ranking en 2006 durante cuatro meses (de marzo a junio). Y lo mejor es que esta cifra récord podría incluso seguir aumentando en las próximas fechas ante las escasas pruebas previstas hasta finales de año, a lo que hay que añadir el obligado paréntesis que realiza la flota internacional tras acabar el último ciclo olímpico, el pasado agosto en China.

Marina Alabau, imagen de Andalucía por la Consejería de Turismo, Comercio y Deporte de la Junta y patrocinada por Grand Krust Movistar, Proyecto Líquido y Roxy, acumula un total de 5.187 puntos, por los 5.030 y 4.983 de la polaca Zofia Klepacka y la ucraniana Olga Maslivets, sus más inmediatas perseguidoras. Y es que a sus 23 años ha completado una temporada casi perfecta en la que, al margen de ingresar en la Real Orden del Mérito Deportivo como Medalla de bronce, sólo ha dejado de subír al podio en los Juegos de Pekín, donde fue cuarta. Con anterioridad, la sevillana se colgaba la medalla de bronce en el Mundial de Tapakuna (Nueva Zelanda) y renovaba título europeo en las aguas francesas de Brest, además de ganar la Regata Internacional de Auckland (Nueva Zelanda) y la Delta Lloyd Regatta de Holanda, siendo segunda en el Trofeo Princesa Sofía de Palma.

Al margen de Alabau, la actualización del ranking mundial de la clase RS:X depara otra alegría para la flota de vela ligera del Club Náutico Sevilla, potencia internacional de tablas. Así lo demuestra la décima posición de Blanca Manchón, que ha rentabilizado su victoria en la Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta británica del pasado septiembre, disputada en la sede de los próximos Juegos Olímpicos de Londres 2012, con su regreso al Top ten internacional.

La que fuera quinta clasificada en el Mundial del mes de enero y séptima en el Europeo, actual imagen de Andalucía y patrocinada por las firmas Oxbow, The Loft, mdh, Neil Pryde, Kaenon y Gatorade, ocupa la décima posición del escalafón de la ISAF con 4.439 puntos. Blanca, de 21 años, ha recuperado cuatro posiciones en lo que ella misma ha confesado es el inicio del largo camino hacia los Juegos de Londres y la recuperación del lugar de privilegio mundial que ostentara con la clase Mistral, olímpica hasta Atenas, donde la sevillana logró diplomarse con sólo 17 años tras haberse proclamado antes campeona del mundo y subcampeona continental.

WaterTurtle

Big Wave Action

Posted: November 12th, 2008, 3:22am CET

My first reaction when I saw this picture was "Holy $%@#!" Look at the thickness of the wave and how it doubles on itself as it pitches over.

This picture is courtesy of Reuters and found here at dailymail.co.uk along with an article about it. This apparently took place at a secret outer reef off Australia.

And here is a short 4 minute interview (along with some brief action clips including him windsurfing) with big wave waterman Laird Hamilton, who has been promoting his new book.

UK Windsurfing Association

GPS Speed 9th November

Posted: November 11th, 2008, 11:26pm CET by admin

The wind was strong throughout the day. With the strongest wind later in the afternoon. The course was running pretty much perfect. Gusts at the weather station were hitting 50 mph.

Pete young achieved the fastest average with 38.42 knots, with Kev Greenslalde being 0.6 of a knot behind in second…

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last race of the year

Posted: November 11th, 2008, 10:37pm CET

Its been a painful month for windsurfing here in Holland but finally after nearly 3 weekends of trying, we got off a decent slalom series last weekend in Tjeukermeer. In typical Dutch style, the weather was cold, rainy and just plain awful. Well it could have been worse as the previous w-end we got of 1 race and sat in our cars for the rest of the afternoon waiting for the rain to stop and the breeze to fill. It never did!
At attempts at staying warm were futile despite a 5/4 steamer, booties and a wool cap!

Despite the lack of feeling in most sailors' fingers, we did manage to race nearly 9 heats of full on dutch slalom. The course was a bit of a drag race but once I got things tuned up I was near the front again. I didnt quite have the top speed as the leaders but alot has to do with what gear you have. I was switching back and forth between the large and medium F2 slalom boards- always seeming to make the wrong choice as the wind went opposite accordingly to what I chose. But for the most part, the 7.3 north warp was the ticket. Local Frisian sailor- Klaas Sybrand Jissin was tearing it up around the course with unstoppable speed off the line pulling away from Adriaan van Rijsselberg and Teade de Jong.
Unlike Formula racing where the race may last 20-30 minutes, the slalom race is almost over before it begins. Getting a good start is the only option for success. There are no alternative options to bail out and bang the right corner if you get stuffed off the line. With that said, its sometimes easier to forget about the count down and rather keep close to your opponents in the pre start- never letting them get more than a few meters away!
Mark rounding are another big way to gain or loose positions if you are rounding in a tight pack. Coming out with speed is the key- so that means being aggressive in your carve so you exit with plenty of power in the sail. I find it helpful to get my center of effort low and when I pop the sail around I can really give it a good pump to get going again. Of course, any mark rounding is usually a lesson in obstacle avoidance as there is usually 1 or 2 sailors struggling to find their way around the mark.
At the end f the day, it was all good fun- despite never having had picked the right equipment but thats all part of the game.
Sometimes you win. Sometimes you loose but always gybe like it was your gybe last ever!www.stevebodner.com

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10.11.2008 Ristna,Fanatic freewave 88;Severne Blade 4,7m2

Posted: November 10th, 2008, 8:32pm CET

Marguska ja mina,taas Ristnas,plaan sõita esmaspäev ja siis põhieesmärgina teisipäev. Kohal peale meie veel kaks lätlast ja "Väike-Priit"! Kuid mul õnnestus sõita ainult esmaspäeval,sest...ahnus ajab upakile!oli ju ilusaid laineid,kust pärast rahulikult-korralikult midagi ette võtta,aga eiii,vaja ikka veel kusagilt mingi ropu kujuga ramp leida! ... Läksin lainelt aerial`i üritama,jube vale nurga alt ja liiga suure kiirusega.Viskas kõvasti ja maandusin valesti! Lätlane ütles kah,et "tema aru ei sanud,kas see oli aerial või deadman,aga algus oli ilus ja lõpp oli väga kole!" Total duck-dive ja pahkluu sidemed õhtal,täna ei mahtunud jalg enam saapasse,eks näe mis homne päev toob?! Loo moraal:kui kogemusi ja ajusid napib,siis " Seda asja me nii ei jäta! Lainel näeme,raisk!"

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ISAF chooses RS:X as windsurf class for London 2012

Posted: November 10th, 2008, 7:31pm CET by admin

From the RS:X Class website: The ISAF Windsurfing Committee decided this morning by a vote of 7 votes to 2 to support the selection of the RS:X as the equipment for the 2012 Olympic Regatta.
The final decision will be made by the ISAF Council at the end of this week.
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JP rips the J (Jalama)

Posted: November 10th, 2008, 5:21pm CET by Tim

Live to Sail

Windsurfing Assateague

Posted: November 9th, 2008, 4:40pm CET

In my opinion, when the wind is side or even better side off, the best wavesailing on the Delmarva. Sandbars untouched by the beach replenishment programs that so frequently has made other venues further north less viable.

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a great wavesailing week: day 1

Fetched: November 8th, 2008, 7:15am CET by cammar

Best shot of the day, once again, Mr. Levi Siver.
He landed this goiter at full speed, perfectly planing and very smoothly on the wave face. 10 from the italian judge.

A classic Mark Angulo moment.

Looks like Laurent.

Camille.

As you probably figured by now, the forecasted NW swell hit. Here's the Surfline NW buoy readings:

It should be tad smaller tomorrow (due to the shorter period), but at the same time also a bit more consistent and from a slightly more northerly direction (today it was barely over 300 degrees).

Now a few shots to show how crowded and intense Hookipa was.
Mark Angulo bottom turning, Keith Taboul emergency water starting, a guy just barely making over the wave on the right and a photographer... and that's only what you can see in this very zoomed photo!

In this one instead (looks like somewhere else, doesn't it?), I counted 30 sailors. Why are all outside? Because they're waiting for a set! And when the set will come, all 30 of them will be on it!!!

I don't particularly enjoy watching someone's butt (unless it's Anne Marie or Nori of course) when wave riding, so I sailed somewhere else at sunset and scored some of the smoothest waves ever... the trick is to pick the last one of a big set!
Like snowboarding on powder... just a little better! (I think it's more fun to ride something that moves and changes constantly...)

Jace Panebianco was in the water filming for the Windsurfing movie 2 (stay tuned for an interview) and that didn't help. In fact, that's when even the nicest guys drop in.
Take Levi, for example. Usually super respectful of the priorities, today I saw him dropping in a couple of times...

Keith.

KP.

Another classic Mark Angulo moment.

Francisco Goya is very busy testing twin fin prototypes. He told me:
"There's a lot of people that trust me. I can't make twin fin boards with my name just because the market wants so. I really need to like them... and now I'm starting to!"

Might be Lalo.

Laurent.

Finally, after all these boring windsurfing photo, what you guys really come on this blog for...
Oh what a lovely couple of siamese twins! Any spare room in that sweater?

Last, but not least, I'd like to thank Summer of Kuau Mart who gave me a huge portion of noodles and meat balls.
Summer, you made my dinner...

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GPS-Speed Meeting Sunday

Posted: November 7th, 2008, 6:38pm CET by admin

The speed sailors are getting in on the action this weekend, Simon Hinkley emailed around earlier, so for all those who would like to try out a GPS and see how fast you can go, this is a great opportunity. It looks like a good turnout and if you post…
Slalom and looping this weekend

Posted: November 7th, 2008, 1:30pm CET by admin

There’s a great forecast for the weekend, and if the inland events don’t appeal there are two on the south coast this weekend as well: Poole slalom are running tomorrow (Saturday), with a possible appearance from Ant Baker testing some slalom gear. There is also a (very unoffificial) looping session at Camber…

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how Kazuma shaped my custom surfboard part 4

Fetched: November 6th, 2008, 8:06am CET by cammar

Part 4 of the Kazuma series. Mostly about how the shaping machine works.

PS. This is a really good wave sailing forecast... it's gonna be pretty damn good for a whole week starting tomorrow. I'm gonna hit some lips...
Also because Jeff gave me a mast to test. He wants to know how tough it is and I'm the man for that kind of job... one the best wipeouters of the island!

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