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The Aruba Extreme event took place a few weeks ago and the official wrap up video is done and put together by Pertusato Films. Check out the action from this next generation of freestyle riders.
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!”
Young freestyler Steven Max scores with a sick session at Surfside Aruba.
Kaj Van Der Lubbe and Felix Martina take on Aruba’s wind and water with their new MauiSails set!
Aruba Hi-Winds 2012 has come to an end. After six days of races with good wind conditions, all categories in the windsurfing discipline have completed 15 slalom races and 4 long distance races. The overall winners in their respective categories are: in the Pro/Men Diony Guadagnino (VEN) who just ended ahead of Josh Angulo with 0.1 point in slalom. Miguel Bruggeman (VEN) in the Juniors, Carolina Comino (VEN) in the Women and Hender Acosta (VEN) in Sports class. In Grandmasters Ricardo Albisu (ARG), in Masters Nathaniel McFarlane (ARU), in Big Kids Mark Tjon (ARU). For more information about winners and standings, please check out the Results page.
In the Freestyle Kiri Thode (BON) won in King-of-the-Huts, Ethan Westera (ARU) in the Prince-of-the-Huts and Steven Max(ARU) in Kid-of-the-Huts.
At Boca Grandi meanwhile, kiters have been busy with their Freestyle competition as well; after the three days of jumping, the winners are: Sergio Coello (VEN) in Pro/Open, Hernan Arends (VEN) in Men and Janka Madrzykowska (SVK) in Women.
During the weekend, Long Distance Races were held for both windsurfers and kiters. Overall winners in long distance are Josh Angulo in windsurfing and in kiting Hernan Arends in Men and Nicole v/d Velden in Women.
The evenings were filled with live music performances by bands like Honeypot, Mystical Connection, Datapanik and Orange Grove.
At the Awards Ceremony at Paseo Herencia, awards were given out, nice prizes were raffled and there was the first showing of the traditional Event Film,which can be seen on the Home page of this website.
Finally some figures: there are a total of 78 participants in windsurfing, 55 in kiting. There were 23 non-sailing participants who registered to share meals and parties. The total registrations amounted to 156, a figure comparable to that of last year.
Organizers are already planning ahead to the next Aruba Hi-Winds which will be held in the first week of July 2013.
The South Caribbean is gearing up in full swing for the Aruba Hi-Winds 2012, to be sailed from 3rd-9th July. The 26th anual edition of the Aruba Hi-Winds will be bigger than ever.
There will be a week full of windsurfsurf disciplines like the usual Slalom, Long Distance and Freestyle competitions. All this is split into several divisions: Pro/Open, Women, Masters, Grand Masters, Juniors, Sports, Big Kids, Super Kids and New Kids.
For more info check out hiwindsaruba.com/