A few Dates have just been confirmed for the PWA World Tour. The Wave event in Pozo Gran Canaria is confirmed for July 2nd to 8th, and the Freestyle and Slalom Gran Slam in Fuerteventura is confirmed for July 20th – 30th. Although the Gran Canaria event is still not fully confirmed as well as the Tenrife World Cup.
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.
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.
The Santa Cruz Goya Windsurfing Festival is in the books and will be remembered for years to come as an epic contest. We had amazing wind and waves over two days of competition. What a great way to kick off the 2012 AWT tour. Davenport Surf and Sail hosted an incredible closing party where all the winners and $5,000 prize money was awarded. Thanks to everyone who helped out and supported this great event. See you all at Pistol River next month.
Head over to the AWT website for full results.
Enjoy the videos from the event!
Video: AWT 2012 – Santa Cruz – Day One
Video: AWT 2012 – Santa Cruz – Day Two
Please head over and sign the petition to help reverse ISAFs idiotic decision to replace windsurfing with kiteboarding in the 2016 Olympics.
The following is from the American Windsurfing Tour website:
A weak storm front rolls through the Santa Cruz area killing the wind for day 1 of the AWT’s Goya Windsurfing Festival… but don’t fear, the forecast looks great for the rest of the weekend. Skippers meeting will be at 9 am Friday so everyone will be ready for a big day at Waddell
Don`t forget to follow the AWT for more updates, pics and videos!
The Red Bull Storm Chase is back. This time it’s Global, with 3 gnarly storms, and 10 riders competing in the most insane windsurfing event ever! Registration for the 2012 Red Bull Storm Chase is open! Voting for the 10 favourite riders is from July 2nd and July 16th. From August 1st until November 30th the event is on!!
TThe first PWA event of the season just wrapped up. Bjorn Dunkerbech edged out Gonzalo Costa Hoevel and Antoine Albeau for the win in mens slalom. Karin Jaggi took first for the women. Head over to the PWAWorldTour.com for full event results, pictures and video.
More disappointing news from the PWA, coming just a few weeks after announcing the cancellation of the Aruba Slalom event, the PWA has now cancelled the entire event. The following is the statement from the PWA, citing the financial situation for cancellations.
“The present economic situation, brought about by the closing of the Valero Refinery, has greatly affected Aruba. As a consequence sponsors for the event recently informed us that they are forced to cut down funding support for events and projects on the Island because of the present insecure financial situation. Government budgets have been cut drastically and as such the needed budget for the PWA event cannot be supplemented from that source either.”
Hopefully this trend does not continue, and events return in the following years.
The American Windsurfing Tour has just added one more stop to the tour, Peru for the Pacasmayo Classic August 17th-26th, 2012!
You can visit the event website www.pacasmayoclassic.com for more details.
And don’t forget to follow the AWT at http://americanwindsurfingtour.com.
Head over to the Beach telegraph for a detailed report from the 2012 Carbon Art Rodgers Dental New Zealand Wave Nationals.
Head over to Boards magazine to catch up on whats been going on in Egypt.
The ocean and beaches are definitely important to us as windsurfers. Positive H20 is organizing an Earth Day weekend Kahului harbour clean up. If your in the area of Kahului, Maui, HI on Saturday April 21st, give them a hand. Here is the Facebook Event, or you can just click the title of this article to get there.
The event is put on by Positive H2O “a movement for clean water that brings together a community of athletes, conservationists, non-profits and corporations to create purposeful solutions that facilitate positive change on a local to global scale.” (+H2O Facebook page). It was founded by some big names in windsurfing, Jake Miller, Pascal Bronnimann, Keith Teboul and Levi Siver.
Check out there website at positiveh2o.com/ show them your support!
From the 27th of April till the 1st of May the world´s best men freestyle windsurfers will fight for the title at Podersdorf in Austria, the first PWA freestyle event of the 2012. Continentseven will be there for the second time offering free clinics in cooperation with the two windsurfers and professional windsurfing teachers Colin Dixon (UK) and Marco Wedele (G) free clinics on the beach. So if your near the Neusiedler, Australia area they`d love to have you.
The full schedule can be found here on Continentseven.
Head over to Boardseeker for this awesome gallery of this years event, a few short words also included.
