Wavesailing action from the Guadeloupe Windsurfing Tour. Camille Juban won the 2013 St. Anne Wave Classic, here is the event video.
Moulay a windsurfing paradise in Morocco with sun, sea and wind. Tom Brendt of Fanatic Windsurf Camps shows you the conditions that can be had in this wave paradise. He’s running two clinics there this year 2013, April 4th-9th and September 18th-23rd.
For More info check out tombrendt.jimdo.com/
The 10 riders battle wind speed hit over 70 knots and surf over 20 feet in Brandon Bay Ireland. After the first round 6 riders, Marcilio Browne, Dany Bruch, Victor Fernandez, Robby Swift, Julien Taboulet and Thomas Traversa advance to the second mission.
This video comes from French Guadeloupe, a spot called Batri. Bati hosted the GPE Windsurf Tour 2013, which had excellent conditions, and allowed a double elimination to be run, check out the some of the action in this clip, featuring Tainos Soukouss.
The windsurfing scene continues to grow in Japan, just check out this video from the Kakegawa Championships. The event took place on the Kikukawa Coast, and had Slalom, Wave and Freestyle action.
The 2012 Paracas Worlds took place from Decemeber 17th – 22nd, on the Bay of Paracas, which is located about 250kms South of Lima, Peru.
Congratulations to Paulo Dos Reis (BRA 3333) who takes the title of 2012 Formula Experience World Champion. FE Masters Champion is Marcello Morrone (BRA 3), FE Youth Champion is Gabriel Bastos (BRA 127), FE Women’s Champion is Bruna Mello (BRA 49) and Alessio Botteri (PER 20) is the undisputed FE Junior Champion.
Read additional racing info and check out pictures from the event at the official Formula Experience website here.
Here is the final video from the Phantom 295 event that was recently held at the King’s Cup Regatta in Phuket. The recap video shows all the best bits from the week including racing, beach activities, and much more.
Slalom highlights of the recent Wind Slalom contest held in Camocim.
Freestyle highlights of the recent Wind Slalom contest held in Camocim.
Strong winds gusting to 22knots delivered an exciting finale to the Phantom 295 Windsurfing event at the Phuket King’s Cup Regatta. Three races (7, 8 and 9) were held back-to-back on Kata Beach.
Head over to Starboard and find out all the winners of the Kings Cup.
Julien Taboulet is certainly pushing the park side of windsurfing with kickers and sliders at his centre in Leucate. Here’s the final video from the recent competition to become the King of the Wesh, enjoy!
Here is a nice clip produced by Eric Bellande of the 2012 Luderitz Speed Challenge in Namibia.
The Luderitz Speed Challenge is all done, with so many record Being broken and incredible times posted! Antoine Albeau broke the World Record eight times over the competition’s four weeks period, ending with the fastest time of 52.05 knots, setting the new World record. Albeau was joined in making history by the fastest female of the event, Zara Davis of Britain, who posted a windsurfing world record speed of 45.83 knots (made on Production board).
12 national multi-discipline records were broken during the course of the event, which is incredible when one considers that 13 nations were represented. The records were as follows :
All in all seven riders hailing from five different countries went over 50 knots. These were:
These unprecedented performances were made possible not only by the incredible skill and athleticism of each contestant but also by their belief in the event and their willingness to give of their experience to improve the sailing conditions. All the windsurfers agree that this year’s results can definitely be improved, and who wouldn’t, when you consider A.Albeau went three knots faster than he did in 2008, in less wind! The riders are presently leaving Namibia with ideas for modifying their gear in order to return for more action in stronger winds in 2013.
King’s Cup Day 4 started with great planing conditions thanks to strong but gusty winds up to 25 knots. At times, the wind was even a bit too strong for some. With 4 races completed that day and 6 in total, it was the most successful day yet and the Phantom 295 riders got to experience the equipment in all conditions.
Head over to Starboards website for a full report on day 4 with pictures.
With demanding and shifty conditions from 6 knots gusting to 12, the organizers managed to run two races before the wind died out in the afternoon. Hong Kong sailor Michael Cheng Chun Leung (HKG) is currently leading with an impressive 1-3 combo, but he had to make a run for his money to stay ahead of Chang Hei Man (HKG) 4-1 and Marina Alabbau Niera (ESP) 2-4, separating the top three by only 3 points. Read the full report of Day 3.
Day 2 at the Kings Cup in Phuket started out with very heavy rain and a possible start looked doubtful as there was little to no wind. Luckily some swell rolled in as the competitors had fun taking part in some SUP sessions and a bit of Beach Volleyball.