An awesome video, and final part of the Tiki Documentary Series. Starboard take s a look at their Champions, Past and Present, including Kevin Pritchard, Scott McKercher, Philip Koester, and and Iballa Moreno. The riders shares there stories of competiting, and the road to gaining titles, mixed with amazing action shots from some of the best riders in the World.
Pro windsurfer and sailor Anders Bringdal from Sweden gives you a view of what it’s like to ride with him at over 95 kph down a narrow channel in the Namibian desert.
Andre Paskowski brings us this super slow motion clip of Golitio, a Left Over from Rewarded.
Check out the Full Version of Rewarded.
Almost everyday a record has been broken in Nambia, the windsurfers keep smashing the 500M record. On Wednesday November 21, Antoine Albeau was timed at 52.05 knots improving his own record, as he had already set on November 13.
Anders Bringdal followed with a new Swedish Record which is also Production board World Record, 51.45 knots!
Jurjen Van Der Noord the Dutch Record Holder also went over 51 knots today, joining Anders Bringdal and Cédric Bordes, with 51.26 knots!
With more than a week left there`s no telling what happened, and the big man Bjorn Dunkerbeck just joined the contest and we can expect some big numbers from him, but will he or anyone beat Antoine Albeau’s 52 knots?
A nice little freestyle video coming out of Naxos Greece featuring Teo Bathrelos. Enjoy!
The Simmer Competition Race is designed and manufactured for high performance competitive racing- slalom and speed. It presents the cutting edge in race sail design, with the optimal symmetry between aerodynamics, material selection and design. A symmetry defined by our goal, to create the best Competition Race sail in the world.
The Godzilla is a high performance light wind freerace / GPS board designed for the real world rider. The concept is basic: control = speed. Its available in 150L and made for sails from 7.0 – 11 m. This is the kind of board you need in your quiver to get out on those days when your friends are sitting on the beach.
With all the attention turned to speed sailing in the last few days here`s a video from Simmer featuring There Monster GPS / Slalom board.
The 2013 Lord of the Wind Showdown will be hosted by Rotary Cabo Este, at Los Barriles, Mexico, from the 11th-13th January 2013.
The Lord of the Wind Showdown pits windsurfers against kiters in course races, downwind slaloms, freestyle windsurfing contest, big air competition and the Lord of the Wind Downwinder. The warm waters of Baja, along with the consistent winds, makes this event a must for the windsurfing or kiteboarding competitor.
The registration for the contest closes on the 9th January 2013.
After racing, on the 12th January, come down to the beach and party with a great Mexican pig roast followed by the legendary bikini contest and bands rocking into the night. On the 14th and 15th January, demo days will have 10 major manufacturers showcasing their latest equipment and offering riders the opportunity to test ride their newest, greatest equipment.
Check out the 2012 Lord of the Wind Video above to get stoked for the event!
Ghosts of Speed asked some fast guys how they tune racing sails for speedsurfing.
This clip is a technical extra content for the coming documentary Ghosts of Speed.
You can geta copy of the whole movie here gosmovie.com, which is set to come out this December.
A nice video coming to us from the summer in lake Garda Italy. You will want to crank the quality up to HD on this one.
This project, launched in 2010 by the will of two families of Malcesine (VR), is aimed at young people to give them the opportunity to understand what opportunities can offer on the lake where they live at the level of sports, especially windsurfing. Its no secret that Lake Garda, one of the most famous spots in Europe, during the summer windsurfer swarm from all over Italy and Europe, while local young talent are defiantly too few. Luca and Matteo, which the project is dedicated to, were two young surfers of Malcesine who made their beloved sport in their country.
Riders: Michele Benamati, Federico Guarnati, Tommaso Rosà, Arnold Pere, Sebastiano Vannini, Omar El Haddadi, Fabio Calò, Tommy Carletto, Filippo Marcolini, Piergiorgio Fravezzi, Giampi Banterla, Meiky Vieczorek.
we throw it back a little old school this afternoon with this video.
The Fuerteventura slalom and speed trials of 1986 at Sotavento was a pinnacle event in breaking the fastest speed previously set by Crossbow. The sailors who broke this speed became known as the Crossbow killers. Sailors of the day were Fred Haywood, Pascal Maka, Eric Beale on the mens side with Patti Whitcomb and Britt Dunkerbeck on the ladies side.
The event was sponsered by Nabisco and organised by Julian Kendall.
The tandem speed was also the most impressive with Greisseman and Bertin hitting just over 35 knots.The forty knot barrier was well insight!!
Thanks to Paddy Paine for making this video and other early Speed Trial Videos.
Julien Mas at his homespot, Lac du Monteynard an artificial water reservoir in the French Alps, showing a windsurfer can come from anywhere. Watch and enjoy the video that was brought to us by Maël Borfiga!
This video is a little bit old, from 2009, but it came to our attention on World of Windsurfs facebook. Check out the awesome Tahitian edition of Anset Windsurfing Challenge at the infamous Teahupoo break.
Víctor Fernández does a nice upwind 360 in Hookipa
