French freestyler Nicolas Akgazciyan bring us his latest clip of his trip to Aruba in February 2013. Here are a few word from Nicolas:
“In mid September 2012, I had a bad ankle injury and it took a time to come back on the water. So after a long period without freestyle sessions and cold weather, I choose to move again to Aruba island, to practise my freestyle moves and prepared the next season, it’ll start the 26 april in Austria. I await that Europe ‘s cold winter will leave. In the meanwhile I have some nice footage of a dream place with warm colours! I hope, you ‘ll enjoy it ! See you on the water!”
Amado Vriedwijk won the Aruba Xtreme Games this year, winning two of the three eliminations. Taty Frans beet him in the third elimination haveing missed the first and second eliminations on Maui for a Photo Shoot.
Result Aruba Xtreme Event (after three eliminations)
1. Amado Vrieswijk
2. Youp Schmidt
3. Rafael de Windt
4. Steven Max
5. Ethan Westera
6. Taty Frans
Fanatic rider Leoon Jamaer scored great conditions in France, and produced this awesome clip, check it out.
The talented female freestyle for Norway Oda Johanne training in beautiful Bonaire.
Antoine Martin took at a spill at Jaws the other day, he popped back up at the rocks.
Epic conditions at Ho’okipa on April 6th. Mast and mast and a half high waves hit North Shore of Maui. A lot of the big riders were hunting for wavesd at Jaws, which did turnout as expected, but still saw some action. At that time Ho’okipa was left nearly empty, with only a few guys out. This video captures Ferdinando Loffreda, Morgan Noireaux, Nat Gill and Bernd Roediger.
The first event of the 2013 AWT is just under two months away. Here’s a crash compilation they just released from the 2012 Maui Makani Classic. Enjoy the pain!
Jamie Hancock and Timo Mullen had a session at Supertubes in Kimmeridge and give you a lesson on how not to share a wave. Although they do spend awhile taking turns smacking the lip down the line, a little error makes for a bit of a fail. We agree, so check out this clip.
Young French rider Benoit Gaudiot, at just 14 has broken 40 knots, his goal for next year, to break 45 knots. The future is looking promising for him as this young speedster stands 6 foot tall and tips the scale at 80 kilos.
Ton’s of great shots this week, and only a small handfull of what has been coming out of Ho’okipa. This weeks cover photo went to Amado Vrieswijk who won the first single elimination at the 2013 Aruba Xtreme event. Submit your awesome photo’s for next week, and let us know in the comments who you like best.
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“A place where the wind lives” is windsurf freestyle clip featuiring Dahab rider Mohamed abu Aid spring 2013 Dahab Blue-lagoon filmed by Ivan Popretinskiy.
A culo by Adam Sims that didn’t make the cut for his upcoming movie.
Robert Heffel produced this real nice clip form the Paradise of Maui’s North Shore. Action is featured from riders like Kai Lenny, Jason Polakow, Boujmaa Guilloul, Iballa Moreno, and more!
Some super sweet heli footage from Mauritius, on the clean waves. Around the 7 minute mark is when the action starts, the first half is Russian language interviews, but there are subtitles.
Check out Canadian Freestyler Philip Soltysiak’s latest web update from Dahab Egypt. He’s there getting ready for the first event of the PWA season in Podersdorf, Austria, training with Steven Van Broeckhoven and Max Matissek.
Check out his full storey and a couple pics on Philip’s website.
