It is our pleasure to present to you yet another year of KIA Cold Hawaii PWA World Cup in collaboration with legendary BSP. This is the trailer for this year’s event. Greetings from them and us to you: lean back and enjoy.
The 2012 Bic Techno 293 World Championships have wrapped up on day 5, the numerous competitors had fun and raced fair! Present stars of Techno are future stars of windsurfing. Some of them won their first world title here in Medemblik.
A preview from a few Hatteras windsurfers, Andy McKinney, Ken Ahrendt, Brian Klauser and Sarah in Hatteras about the American Windsurfing Tour East Coast Stop Sept. 12-15th.
Trying to capture all the action with 450 competitor on 3 courses, can be quite hard, but the producers of the 293 World Championships are trying. On the third day they asked the competitors to describe this place in 3 words.
This one has already made it around on facebook a bit, if you missed it here it is. Watch the Santa Cruz Goya Windsurfing Festival, as produced by Hawaiian Extreme Sports TV and filmed by Maui Nerd Productions.
EFPT Sigri came to its conclusion yesterday in less than ideal conditions with light winds and no one hitting the water. But there was action on Day 2, check it out. Davy Scheffers came out on top to win the event.
Watch the first day of the competition in Sigri, with some sick freestyle action!
A first look at the AWT Pacasmayo Classic, and what to expect. The event begins August 17th and runs until the 26th.
After a few days wait we have the full video from the AWT Quatro Punta San Carlos Desert Showdown 2012. Enjoy the sweet wave riding!
Dutch windsurfer Dorian Van Rijsselberge won Gold in London 2012. Watch this interview with him after the medal race.
The Point-7 team continues to gain strength in all disciplines. They 3 of Black Team riders inside the Top 10 overall PWA World Rankings. Josh Angulo and Pascal Toselli in the slalom and Nicolas Akgazcyian in the freestyle.
Enjoy this wrap-up video they shot in Fuerteventura during the PWA World Cup featuring all of their riders.
Enjoy some highlights from the final day at the 2012 PWA Freestyle Grand Slam in Fuerteventura, with interview with some of the pros, and some action.
Aruba Hi-Winds 2012 has come to an end. After six days of races with good wind conditions, all categories in the windsurfing discipline have completed 15 slalom races and 4 long distance races. The overall winners in their respective categories are: in the Pro/Men Diony Guadagnino (VEN) who just ended ahead of Josh Angulo with 0.1 point in slalom. Miguel Bruggeman (VEN) in the Juniors, Carolina Comino (VEN) in the Women and Hender Acosta (VEN) in Sports class. In Grandmasters Ricardo Albisu (ARG), in Masters Nathaniel McFarlane (ARU), in Big Kids Mark Tjon (ARU). For more information about winners and standings, please check out the Results page.
In the Freestyle Kiri Thode (BON) won in King-of-the-Huts, Ethan Westera (ARU) in the Prince-of-the-Huts and Steven Max(ARU) in Kid-of-the-Huts.
At Boca Grandi meanwhile, kiters have been busy with their Freestyle competition as well; after the three days of jumping, the winners are: Sergio Coello (VEN) in Pro/Open, Hernan Arends (VEN) in Men and Janka Madrzykowska (SVK) in Women.
During the weekend, Long Distance Races were held for both windsurfers and kiters. Overall winners in long distance are Josh Angulo in windsurfing and in kiting Hernan Arends in Men and Nicole v/d Velden in Women.
The evenings were filled with live music performances by bands like Honeypot, Mystical Connection, Datapanik and Orange Grove.
At the Awards Ceremony at Paseo Herencia, awards were given out, nice prizes were raffled and there was the first showing of the traditional Event Film,which can be seen on the Home page of this website.
Finally some figures: there are a total of 78 participants in windsurfing, 55 in kiting. There were 23 non-sailing participants who registered to share meals and parties. The total registrations amounted to 156, a figure comparable to that of last year.
Organizers are already planning ahead to the next Aruba Hi-Winds which will be held in the first week of July 2013.
Follow the Loft Sails international team during the PWA Slalom event in Fuerteventura 2012 – Ben Van Der Steen, Patrick Diethelm, Antoine Questel, Maciek Rutwoski and Ludo Jossin. Ben Van Der Steen took second place.
Some footage of the July 2012 PWA World Cup that was held on the Canary Islands in “El Medano”.