The 3rd day of the AWT Maui Makani Classic is live right now! The action right now is the youth fleet, who can definitely shred. Check it out right now!
Due to Hurricane in New York, Livestream.com is having issues and we are unable to be live at this time. However we are recording and you will be able to watch these heats on demand later today. 🙂 Contest is on!!! – From the AWT
EPIC, EPIC, EPIC!!
That really is the only way to sum up yesterday’s events at Ho’okipa beach park for Day 3 of the AWT Maui Makani Classic! Everyone on the beach felt that history was being made as they sat on the hill and looked down at what most were calling the Greatest Show on Earth!
Waves was the call for the final day of the 2012 Sylt World Cup. Iballa Ruano Moreno and Philip Koster win the wave double eliminations on the final day of the 2012 PWA World Tour.
Results of the men’s wave double elimination:
1st Philip Koster
2nd Alex Mussolini
3rd Victor Fernandez
4th Ricardo Campello
Result of the women’s double elimination:
1st Iballa Moreno
2nd Moreno Daida
3rd Laure Treboux
4th Karin Jaggi
With sylt being the last event of the season the The 2012 PWA World Champions are now decided:
Iballa Moreno – Women’s Wave
Valerie Arrighetti – Women’s Slalom
Sarah-Quita Offringa – Women’s Freestyle
Antoine Albeau – Men’s Slalom
Jose ‘Gollito’ Estredo – Men’s Freestyle
Philip Köster – Men’s Wave
The night session just finished in Sylt. Four competitors stepped up to the to keep in the night super session for the €4000 prize purse.
The first heat pitted Dany Bruch verse Victor Fernandez, both competing neck to neck throwing some big jumps. Victor landed a nice double racking up some serious points, but wasnt to be out done, and attempted a big double stalled forward. The continued to push the moves in the dark. Victor stopped sailing with a few minutes left after injuring his ankle, but he still had enough points to qualify for the next round.
Ricardo Campello Tweaked Push Loop in the Dark
Next heat, the light was even darker as Alex Mussolini started strong with some super nice back loops. A few minutes in Ricardo Campello began to dominate, and showed some serious stones, hucking moves like a crazy man. And even showing off for the crowd for no points with a nice wave 360. He continued to throw move after move on both tacks. The highlight was an ankle dry double forward.
Victor was unable to advance to the final due to the injury. Dany Brunch advanced as the next highest score, unfortunately he was unable to find nice ramps, and only scored a few jumps. Campello on the other hand made use all of all the ramps that came his way out and way in. He trough a nice tweaked push loop and than close tot he end, a double forward on starboard tack! Campello took the win, and the largest share of the purse. Big shout out to these four athletes that wowed the big crouds in almost no light!
(Cover Photo of Dany Brunch With a nice one handed back loop)
The Jaguar NeilPryde Racing Series landed in Torbole, Lago di Garda last week for its first Italian stopover. Forty-three windsurfers from Italy and Hungary competed with the universal one-design RS:One, an ISAF-approved class. The 2011 PWA Freestyle World Champion, Steven van Broeckhoven, and the Hawaiian wave rider Tatiana Howard were also part of the guest list.
The RS:One Class features a new, attractive, and dynamic race format: one sail, one board. Everyone on the same equipment, allowing male and female racers of all ages to compete together.
Courses were set in front of the Torbole Circolo surf club, just meters from the crowd, providing a unique spectator experience and allowing for some exciting close-quarter competition on water.
Racing in four divisions – female, male under 22 years (Espoir), male over 22 years (Senior) and male over 40 years old (Master) – the event comprised of two days of races with thirteen qualification heats, two fiercely contested finals held in challenging conditions with fluctuating winds.
Being a one-design class, all RS:One equipment was supplied by NeilPryde, giving an equal chance to all competitors no matter sex or age. The winners of each division and overall Super Final winner shared the prize money of US$3,000.
The Jaguar NeilPryde Racing Series will continue its journey to Nice (France), and Rio (Brazil).
Saturday Results:
Female:
1- Ginevra Gabrielli
2- Diane Detre
3- Matilde Forlin
Men Espoir:
1- Jozef Masseroli
2- Michele Nogler
3-Jacopo Renna
Men Senior:
1- Andrea Ferin
2- Fabian Heidegger
3- Fabio Calo
Men Master:
1- Ezio Ferin
2- Alexander Leupold
3- Massimo Masserini
Sunday Results:
Female:
1- Diane Detre
2- Ginervra Gabrielli
3- Verena Fauster
Men Espoir:
1- Josef Masseroli
2- Michele Nogler
3- Filippo Facchin
Men Senior:
1- Andrea Ferin
2- Fancesco Prati
3- Michael Scalet
Men Master:
1- Ezio Ferin
2- Alexander Leupold
3- Alessandro Tomasi
Super Final winner:
1- Josef Masseroli
Photo Credit: Roberto Vuilleumier
Story Credit: Neilpryde.com
Day six was the first day without wind at the PWA Sylt World Cup and this meant that the slalom fleet spent a frustrating day on hold, the day was called at 4:30 when suitable conditions had not materialized until than. So far today hasn`t been better, the Slalom fleet is on hold, waiting for better conditions. But that doesn`t mean nothing`s been happening. Tomorrow is the World premier of Andre Paskowski and Jose ‘Gollito’ Estredo (Fanatic / North) at the 2012 Windsurfing Film Festival held at the cinema in Westerland, Sylt. The PWA grab a quick interview with Andre head over and read it now.
On the third day the slalom sailors finally took to the water, as winds ranged from 8 – 20 knots. Antoine Albeau (RRD / NeilPryde) enjoyed an excellent day as the Frenchman won back-to-back bullets to enhance his title challenge. It was a completely different story for the current leader of the slalom tour though, Bjorn Dunkerbeck (Starboard / Severne / Mystic / Dunkerbeck Eyewear / Chris Benz), as he missed out on the first winners’ final and then suffered an untimely catapult in the second final of the day. Dunkerbeck will will be hoping for a miracle if he hopes to maintain his title.
Today saw the freestyle and wave sailors hit the water as the action continued in Sylt for the Third day. The morning saw relatively flat water and cross shore winds, which transformed Sylt into a freestyle arena as the double elimination began. After three hours of freestyle, the fleet has been narrowed down to the top eight men in the world. At this point the decision was made to change disciplines as the waves continued to grow in size enabling the completion of the women’s wave single elimination and the start of the men’s double elimination. The real news of today though belongs to Iballa Ruano Moreno (Starboard / Severne), who secured the 2012 PWA Wave World Championship title and also won the women’s single elimination.
The mens double elimination was called for the day due to light winds. Check back tomorrow as the action continues.
Day 2 just wrapped up at the 2012 PWA Sylt World Cup, and Philip Koster came out on top beating Victor Fernandez. The Heat was exciting with Victor Fernandez dominating early on, with great wave rides, but in the last minutes Koster came back with a nice wave 360 and one handed one footed back loop to take the lead, and win the single.
ON the losers side, Ricardo Campello dominated over Alex Mussoline. Ricardo’s aggressive style had him throw many more jumps, including his signature onehanded one footed forward, he’s currently the guy doing this. Ricardo jumping ability put him in the lead over Mussolini who showed some nice wave rides, with tackas and a nice downwind 360.
1st Philip Koster
2nd Victor Fernandez
3rd Ricardo Campello
4th Alex Mussolini
Check Back tomorrow for even more action and check out PWAWorlTour.com for a live stream and mroe detailed reports.
The final event of the season is underway, as freestyle, wave and slalom sailors compete in Sylt. The Freestyle single elimination is complete, congratulations to Gollito who took it.
1st Jose ‘Gollito’ Estredo
2nd Kiri Thode
3rd Steven Van Broeckhoven
4th Tonky Frans
Check back here for updates, and head over to http://www.pwaworldtour.com/
Day fopur saw the completion of the double elimination with Thomas Traversa (Tabou / Gaastra) took on the 2011 and 2012 PWA Wave Champion, Philip Köster (Starboard / NeilPryde / Maui Ultra Fins). Traversa took an early advantage scoring a nice wave with a super nice frontside, into backside followed by another frontside hit, as Kosters wave closed out. Traversa than scored his second wave, hitting hard with some backside smacks, than finishing it off with a smooth frontside. Kopster worked his way up wind, to score the wave of the heat, starting with a wave 360, followed by some front and backside hits, to score a 7.88. Traversa scored one more wave and edged out the current World Champion by 0.87 points.
Thomas Traversa had this to say after winning “I’m super happy, I managed to find one really good wave and then a couple of ok waves. The wind was very, very, very light, but for once I had the advantage of being light. It feels crazy and unreal at the moment.”
Top 5 of the 2012 PWA KIA Cold Hawaii World Cup:
1st Thomas Traversa (Tabou / Gaastra)
2nd Philip Köster (Starboard / NeilPryde / Maui Ultra Fins)
3rd Victor Fernandez (Fanatic / North)
4th Ricardo Campello (JP / NeilPryde / MFC)
5th Kauli Seadi (JP / NeilPryde)
A quick update on the AWT. The Hatteras wave Jam wrapped up on September 15th. The final heat came down to an epic battle between Camille Juban, Fabrice Beaux and Morgan Noireaux. It was a super close contest with Juban’s Goiter (photo above) giving him the edge over the smooth sailing Beaux and slashy Noireaux. Over on the women’s side Miho Tanaka took the crown by narrowly defeating Fiona Wylde, Ingrid Larouche and Sam Bittner. After all the action everyone headed over to the Koru Beach Klub for amazing final send-off party. Beer flowed and North Carolina BBQ was enjoyed.
Read the full report and see the gallery on the AWT website.
The next and final AWT to event to take place is the Maui Makani Classic, October 25 to November 3rd.
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Hey, hope everyone is liking the blog. Sorry for the lack of updates, I’ve been busy traveling in Brazil, left Icaraizinho and amazing spot but ran into some difficulties with Club Ventos, which still need to be sorted out. I’ve got to check out Jericoacoara, a very cool town and spend some time on the water. I should be back to regular updates in a week, and soon after that launch the whole new site!!
Hope everyone has been having a good summer, and enjoying all the videos posted here!
Lawrence ‘Wind Dude’ Stewart
Camille Juban wins the AWT Pacasmayo Classic in front of Fabrice Beaux and Alex Vargas. Continue reading for more detail, the final results and some awesome pictures from the final day.
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