From the MauiSails rough cuts, pro wavesailor Camille Juban with a very nice clew first cut back.
From MauiSails rough cuts, pro freestyler Taty Frans with a nice shove it.
Alex Blackmore at only 9 years old has joined Team QSW. QSW is one of the largest and most successful independent windsurf teams in Europe, with six riders competing in everything from the BSA Slalom Series to the BWA Wave Tour.
After just one season with Point-7, and finishing 6th in the PWA Slalom rankings, Josh Angulo has announced he will be departing from Point-7 and the Black Team. This is Josh’s 4th change in 5 years, having most recently left Gun Sails. In an interview on ContinentSeven Josh said “From my understanding, the team budget they do have is preferred to be spent on a younger team. I believe they have some new “young guns” that they will by announcing soon that have joined the team.” So it sounds like money the major factor.
We are unsure whether we will see Josh return to the PWA tour in 2013, but a good chance we will see him at a few contests, when asked of his plans he stated, “It’s hard to get rid of that “competition bug”.”
Josh is a very busy guy, becoming to father to his 3rd child, a recent move to Boston, flying back and forth from Cape Verder to the US, and running the Angulo production board brand.
You can read the full interview with Josh over at ContentSeven.
Jacopo Testa (ITA-2610) and an Air Kabikuchi in Brazil.
You don’t have to speak French to get whats going on in the first seconds of the video. Paul Benjamin grabs a wave session on December 17th.
The Jaguar NeilPryde Racing Series finished the year in style, at the Rio de Janeiro Extreme Sailing Series™ event. Sixty windsurfers from Brazil and France competed on the universal, one-design RS:One, an ISAF-approved class.
It’s in French but here’s a look at the 2013 AHD AFS-1 board. The AFS-1 is a hydrofoil windsurfer (probably the only production hydrofoil windsurfer) that aims to provide speed 3 times faster than the wind speed in greater than 7 knots of wind. If you’re interested you can pick one up for a mear $7450 USD, alternatively you can get a whole new quiver.
A nice edit of 30 friends, including girlfriends & children sharing the awesome way of life in Mauritius, incuding the lagoon, Manawa and One Eye.
A nice little POV video from the South of France at Carro. We like the slow motion bail out at the 2 minute mark!
French Magazine Windsurf Journal grabbed an interview with Antoine Albeau after the Luderitz Speed Challenge.
We’ve been bringing you lots of trailer for the Ghosts of Speed Movie, but here’s the final official trailer with the DVD now available and in time for Christmas! Ghost of Speed is a modern concept documentary, starring some of the fastest windsurfers in the Netherlands and showing watersports action and the beautiful scenery of The Netherlands.
Speedsurfing can be seen as the Formula 1 of windsurfing. This spectacular high-speed discipline is becoming more and more an important discipline in windsurfing and has developed into an incredible extreme sport.
To grab yourself a copy head to gosmovie.com and check the webshop for the DVD.
Check out Maui Monthly’s November issue (#91) from MauiSails. Stories from Maui, Baja, Mexico and the USA, theres even a chance to win a brand new 2013 MauiSails sail.
Windsurfing has been through ups and downs in recent years. End of the world predictions were almost truthful for Olympic windsurfing this year. There was a lot of discussions about why windsurfing should stay at the Olympics. Most probably the strongest argument in any discussion was the fact that BIC Techno 293 OD is the biggest windsurfing class in the world at the moment and future stars would be left without the future if windsurfing is not in RIO 2016.
Nice video of Vincent Mellouet at Majanicho and Fuerteventura last February and March!
