Gran Canaria Wind and Waves Festival 2012 – Day 02

A nice video from the Moreno Twins of the Women’s single elimination on Day 2 of the Gran Canaria Wind and Waves Festival.

Red Bull Storm Chase: Voting Open!

Sailors from around the world have registered, but only 10 will be able to compete in the 3 worldwide missions. The jury headed by Robby Naish has shortlisted 50 registrants. Now it’s time for you to decide who will be part of Red Bull Storm Chase. Vote before July 15th.

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PWA Pozo World Cup 2012 – Day 1

Wind where lighter on the second day head judge Duncan Coombs made the decision to run the women’s single elimination ahead of the remainder of the men’s. Even with the lighter winds, the women were still reaching for their 3.4-3.7 sails in order to survive the powerful winds of Pozo.

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PWA Pozo 2012 – Day 1

The 2012 PWA Gran Canaria Wind&Waves Festival opened yesterday. The sailors were greeted with strong winds and waves. At 14:15 the first men´s heat got started and the girls got released for this first day of competition.

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New Move – Bobby Skipper

Looks like Italian freestyler Mattia Pedrani has created a new move. Its basically a bob and a clew first willy skipper combined.
Mattia: “Necessity is the mother of invention. So what do you do when you’re bored cause the wind is too light to go for big tricks…well, you improvise. That’s what this is. Mix a Bob and a Clew First willy skipper and that’s what you get. The BRAND NEW BOBBY SKIPPER. I had this idea by myself, I started trying it from scratch, crashed the first 8 times and then got it on film. So I claim it as mine. For sure some smartass is gonna pop up sayin his cousin did it planing 10 years ago, but I don’t really care…whatever, keep talkin, just like Germany is doin with Balotelli =).”

Proffitts Pozo Training Diaries – part 7

Proffitt brings us a big one this week!! We have 3 batten sails, Wipeouts, wipeouts and more wipouts, Push forwards, Doubles and some sick wave action. We also have wipeouts.. cant remember if I told you that. We have crashes and lots of blood.. haha.. I am not joking there is some funny shit in this one!! I’m still laughing from putting it together!! haha..oh yeah and more crazy dogs!! Enjoy!

Adams Lewis Joins Diethelm Boards

Adam Lewis, one of UK’s most progressive riders and a rising star has just signed to Patrik Diethelm Boards, leaving his current sponsor Quatro International. He will be riding for Diethelm in time for the PWA Canaries events. He joins the current UK Freestyle Champion, Adam Sims in what looks to be a bit of a next generation UK dream team according to Patrik Diethelm and Karin Jaggi.

“We are stoked to welcome what we believe is one of the most talented and promising young wave riders in our PATRIK team. Adam Lewis stands out on the water with radical action but also represents our values perfectly. He is extremely professional, dedicated to perfection and performance and at the same time very easy to talk to. In combination with Adam Sims promoting and selling our boards in the UK as well as competing himself on the PWA freestyle world cup we truly have a dream team joining our family that has without a doubt a bright future ahead for them and us”. Karin & Patrik.

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Ricardo Campello Training at Pozo

Ricardo Campello training hard at Pozo the day before the 2012 world cup began.