Look up windsurfing on wikipedia.com and you’ll find Kevin Pritchard listed under ‘International Stars’ and that’s because Kevin is, without doubt, one of the best all-round sailors in windsurfing having won a countless amount of champion titles since he turned professional at 18. One of the highlights of his career has to be in 2000 when he won his first PWA World Wave championship and at the same time defeated Bjorn Dunkerbeck who was 11 times world champion.
Reading through Kevin’s interview you get a small insight into who he is and also his quirky sense of humour but above all else it’s awesome to see yet another windsurfer express satisfaction in how they’ve lived their life thus far as well as the importance of family and their support.
Andy Lachauer is a new name to bursting onto the PWA Freestyle scene, he just scored a top ten finish in Austria. Enjoy the movie form his Lake Arenal, Costa Rica.
Andre Paskowski’s edit of World Cup Action from Podersdorf 2012. Includes action of the PWA and the EFPT tow in! One of the best seen so far!!
A short film from Felix Spencer shot over two days of the Summer in WA.
Alex Halank is a ten year old windsurfer from Canberra, Australia. His dad taught him to windsurf at seven. If you’ve ever wanted to see in the future of windsurfing here it is. You can find out more about Alex on his website @ alexhalank.com. Enjoy the video!
The 2012 PWA Korea Slalom event is over. The wins go to Micah Buzianis and Valerie Arrigheti.
The 2012 PWA Ulsan World Cup Overall Standings : Men’s Slalom
1st Micah Buzianis (JP / MauiSails)
2nd Antoine Questel (Starboard / Loft Sails)
3rd Ross Williams (Tabou / Gaastra)
The 2012 PWA Ulsan World Cup Overall Standings : Women’s Slalom
1st Valerie Arrighetti (Tabou / Gaastra / Mystic)
2nd Karin Jaggi (Patrik / Severne)
3rd Delphine Cousin (JP / NeilPryde)
You can check out the full results on the PWA Website.
Ant Baker from the Baker Academy takes you though the 3 easy stages of the Body Drag.
With much speculation over how and why such a unexpected decision to remove windsurfing as an Olympic sport has been made, Boards set about finding out the details from someone directly involved in process.
Head over to Boards for the full Interview.
Adam Lewis and Dany Bruch training in Tenerife (Cabezo and Harbour Wall).
From Jamie Hancock on vimeo
Filmed in and around Cape Town. A short promotional video from this last winter. Was a good season in Cape Town with plenty of waves but less wind than usual. After hurting my ankle in November, almost half the 4 month trip was cut short from tearing my ligaments. Fortunately I had a decent month towards the end with a fully healed foot and some solid forecasts.
Most of the time we were testing and shooting the Gaastra / Tabou 2013 gear but this is some of the footage on the current 2012 boards and sails. Now working on a full video from the rest of the trip with the 2013 gear which is coming this summer, and is awesome. Most of the footage was filmed by my girlfriend, Rebecca Ashton.
I had to steal this awesome pic from Josh Sampieros facebook group post in Appeal against kite surfing in the Olympics put windsurfing back in! However true it is, I would still like to see windsurfing as an Olympic disciple. So please head over and sign the petition ISAF: Keep Windsurfing as Olympic Discipline.
A 18 minute Windsurfing Action Documentary about Cape Town in 2012. It catches up with top pros, including Steven van Broeckhoven, Ricardo Campello, Davy Scheffers, Andy ‘Bubble’ Chambers, Jamie Hancock and Olya Raskina. So check out and enjoy some insane freestyle and wave action!
After 4 months off due to injury, Gollito had just a month to prepare for the PWA event in Podersdorf. He won the event in style, check out this awesome vid of Gollito
