we throw it back a little old school this afternoon with this video.
The Fuerteventura slalom and speed trials of 1986 at Sotavento was a pinnacle event in breaking the fastest speed previously set by Crossbow. The sailors who broke this speed became known as the Crossbow killers. Sailors of the day were Fred Haywood, Pascal Maka, Eric Beale on the mens side with Patti Whitcomb and Britt Dunkerbeck on the ladies side.
The event was sponsered by Nabisco and organised by Julian Kendall.
The tandem speed was also the most impressive with Greisseman and Bertin hitting just over 35 knots.The forty knot barrier was well insight!!
Thanks to Paddy Paine for making this video and other early Speed Trial Videos.
It’s not to often we bring you slalom clips, but here is a nice one from Kurosh Kiani in Alacati.
After yet an amazing windsurfing world cup in the town of Alacati, I stayed for some more days to enjoy the calm winds and conditions of this amazing spot, and to try out my new Fanatic Falcon boards. On this particular day the wind was light but enough to have a great time cruising around the bay.
Big thanks to my buddy Sean O´brien for shooting couple of clips of me again. – Kurosh Kiani
Slalom highlights from the PWA World Cup Sylt 2012! It’s all about speed! .Antoine Albeau is looking strong and disaster for world champion Björn Dunkerbeck.
The anual JP product photoshoot for 2013 was blessed with good conditions for all products. Here are the highlights of the action from the all-star international JP team with Jason Polakow KA-1111, Kauli Seadi BRA-253, Steven van Broeckhoven B-72, Ricardo Campello V-111, Robby Swift K-89, Youp Schmit NED-27, Andy “Bubble” Chambers K-540, Shawna Cropas HI-925, Olya Raskina RUS-14, Maxime van Gent NB-22, Bryan Metcalf-Perez US-505, Morgan Noireaux HI-101 and many more
Bjorn Dunkerbeck suffered a mast break during the Slalom heats yesterday which definitely set him back. Heres the crash, first in normal time than slow speed, and you can really see where the mast snaps.
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.
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.
Josh Angulo, multiple time World Champion in windsurfing, joined the Point-7 Black Team in 2012 for the slalom tour. In this short video, Josh talks about finding his passion again for windsurfing and his motivation to climb the rankings once again.
Shot on location during the PWA World Cup events in Ulsan, South Korea and Costa Brava, Spain.
Probably most of you associate Pozo Izquierdo with nuclear winds, waves and unsane jumping… well just five minutes north from Pozo Izquierdo we have a small bay which is protected from the swell and which receives about the same wind we get at Pozo.
A beach perfect for some slalom, speed sailing, freestyle, and for learning.
Here is a video of Juan Enrique enjoying the conditions with some slalom/speed sailing.
Some video highlights this year’s Women’s World Championship and European Men’s Windsurfing Slalom Championships. This years event is taking place in Roses, Catalunya, Spain.
Pierre Mortefon and Pascal Toselli put in some serious training before the Defi Wind event. Powering through some super fast gybes, drag racing and even throwing some loops. Enjoy the super exciting slalom action in this clip.
Watch this interview with Micah Buzianis the winner of the second PWA Slalom tourstop at Jinha Beach in South Korea.
On April 19th the first event of 2012 PWA Slalom Tour will take place in Italy. All racers been training hard all winter and spring, getting their gear tuned and set for specific conditions of each event. Micah Buzianis joined MauiSails team in January this year and been training hard with Phil McGain here on Maui. They spent many hours on the water, testing various gear settings and spending time on race simulation.
An interview with six-time Australian and Oceanic windsurf Champion Sean O’Brien.