Club Vass instructor Tom Parrish headed to Brazil for the winter of 2012 with many other pros like Max Rowe, Oscar Carmichael, Arianne Aukes and more. Check out this clip that captures his action in Jericoacoara and around there.
Registration for the 13th annual Defi Wind is now open. The event see over one thousand competitors and is the World’s premier, and largest participation long-distance windsurfing event and festival. The event runs from May 9th to 12th 2012 in Gruissan, in the South of France.
Head over to defiwind.com for more.
Taty Frans and MauiSails Rough cuts brings us this combo, a Ponch followed by a upwind 360.
Professional windsurfer Eleazar Alonso (E-41) at home Pozo. The clip is sweet and action packed, enjoy.
There’s been a flood of videos from Brazil lately as everyone has been headed home and the season largely wraps up there. French freestyle Romain Pinocheau put this teaser together from his Brazilian winter trip, the full movie is coming soon.
Roberto Hofmann is a strong voice for windsurfing, teaching hundreds of new and upcoming talens each year, but also commenting to the hundreds of thousands of fans as he hits the road with the PWA every year. He competed on the Professional Windsurfing Tour between 1990 and 1995, so racings in his DNA, and in 2012 won several important races in Italy and the IFCA Slalom Worldchampionship in the G-Master category.
Read more about Roberto over on star-board.com
Hot Sails Maui continues to grow there team. and recently announced the signing of Irish ripper Katie McAnena to the international team. In the last year she’s been all over with appearances in the AWT, BWA, IWA and PWA tours.
More about Katie at the Hot Sails Maui Blog.
From Italy a nice little edit about Marco Livraghi at Lake Garda. Marco’s passion and freestyle talent is showcased nicely.
Looking for a new radical wave board? Keith Teboul pro shaper of Quatro talks us through the 2013 KT Quad, designed for side to side offshore and pure down the line wavesailing.
Friends from all over the World including UK, Ireland, and Europe paddled out on February 2nd 2013 in Memory of the late Mikey Clancy. Mikey’s Friend Katie McAnena captured and put this together.
The Loft Sails are happy to announce that Israeli freestyle expert Yarden Meir joins our international team for 2013!
Yarden was ranked 11th PWA in 2011 after 6 events that year, but last year he was not able tocompete due to an injury that kept him out of the competition season. He is back in 2013 with Loftsails, and targets the podiums on the PWA. Yarden is currently training in Vietnam for 2 months and preparing a new action movie.
Best of luck to Yarden in the 2013 season !
Hawaiian water women and Founder of The Butterfly Effect brings us this great teaser video produced by Maui Nerd Productions.
Rising Star and Hot Sails Maui rider Rafael de Windt hows us what it is like to sail with him at home in Curacao. This movie is title “Bon tardi”, which translates to good afternoon , because every time Rafael goes windsurfing it’s in the afternoon due to his studies.
This video how to comes from Greek pro Stam Promponas, who shows us how to Ponch.
Start with speed
The key to the Ponch is to put the sail in the right position before the jump. It can be broken down into two steps, 1, put the sail to the front hip, 2, hit the chop.
Get out there and have fun!
Another move from MauiSails Rough Cuts and Camille Juban, This time the Table Top.
