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The EFPT Aqualeto Cup held in Russia has come to its conclusion. After six days of competition the organisers and competitors were blessed with two windy days on days five and six. During the light wind days Tow-in windsurfing was taking place and wowing crowds. Check out this video from Aqualeto featuring some tow-in action and a press conference with the competitors.
Two weeks ago Ben Newson went on a solo mission in Australia to find some good conditions. Ben tried again to set up his camera on the beach and capture a bit of footage to cut together and make a story of the day. He set the focus roughly where he thought he would be sailing and press record. The camera is supposed to record for 30 min intervals but seems to stop around the ten minute mark give or take a bit. This meant a lot of running up and down the beach to reset the button.
Enjoy the video.
A nice Ponch from Mikrh Vigla shot from above.
Antoine Albeau and Julien Quentel in Tahiti during the winter of 2012, experiencing everything this Island paradise has to offer. Windsurf, Sup, Surf and hanging with Tahitians’ friends, enjoy the clip from Eric Bellande.
Danish slalom windsurfer Kurosh Kiani put together a nice clip from the PWA Korea slalom event. Here’s what he had to say:
Its 2013 and the PWA world tour slalom season has commenced. This time we kick off this years world tour in Korea. In this episode of my series, I have expanded to a longer clip with some impressions of the competition, the equipment, the people and the place. My focus in this episode is set on the choice of boards for the season.
Being a bit tired of being at the same beach for 10 days, I this time ventured outside of our event location and checked out other locations in this amazing country.
There is no doubt Bonaire has created some amazing freestylers at a young age including Taty Frans, Tonky Frans and Kiri Thode. Now the 14 years old, Cheppi is busting out the moves with the big guys, landing lands Spocks, Flakas and Skopus.
A couple of weeks ago Alex Mussolini and Thomas Traversa went to Portugal to enjoy some great conditions and hang out with some talents as well!
A backside 360 from Jonas Handekyn, shot with a GoPro and Backy Mount.
Kevin Pritchards latest production featuring Graham Ezzy.
No matter where I am, there are 2 constants. Writing and the sea. I feel uncomfortable inland and away from the coast. Or when I’m not writing.
A month before I turned 18, I left Maui and pro windsurfing for 4 years and never really came back. While I studied Literature at Princeton, my heart anchored in New York.
Before, when I left Maui, often for months at a time to compete on the world tour, I had the feeling that I was away and would return home to Hawaii. I’m not sure where home is now.
I’m homeless.Since graduating from Princeton in 2011, I’m based on Maui, but I’m also back to Manhattan constantly. So many of my classmates have wound up in the city that I run into friends walking down the street or in random cafes getting a morning coffee. That happens on Maui too. But you expect it on an island in the middle of the ocean.
I write and i windsurf because i feel a need to. Sometimes both are miserable. But i still need to do them. Like breathing. Sometimes your nose is stuffed and you’re sick and you wish you just didn’t have to breath so that you could sleep but you have to breath. That’s what writing and windsurfing are for me.
I guess writing and the sea have become a sort of home for me. I’ve spent over 1 year– over 8765 hours– of my life at sea. Virgins to the sea can’t read the wind in the whitecaps. I suppose it’s like that more and more. So the sailor’s who’ve circumnavigated the globe see things in the sea that are invisible even to me.The sea is an ever changing chaos. Riding waves, especially massive waves, is a meditation on reacting unconsciously. If you think, you’re too slow and will get beat down. Writing, surprisingly is the same. The blank page stares back at the pen. Challenging it. Think about it too much: writers block.
The wave and the page offer infinite possibility and potential.
These two massive chaotic sources of unknowns have become a sort of home where I can be myself, whoever that is.
I don’t know if writing and windsurfing have any grand meaning or add an value to the world. But they are my home for now, the only home I’ve got. It’s what I do.
Ever wanted to know how to do a wave TAKA? This video is a perfect example from Morgan Noireaux at Ho’okipa!
Watch the 13 year old French young gun Loick Lesauvage at Ho’okipa in April 2013.
Storm surfing on Lake Urnsee in Switzerland, on May 18th, 2013. Winds were gusting up to 77.3 Knots, that’s hurricane forces.
