Some fun sliding around at Julien Taboulet’s Wesh Centre, in Leucate France.
Graham Ezzy hits a big Hookipa lip, and crashes hard, losing the gear in the process and having to swim for it.
But falls are not fails– at least, not always. Falls, crashes, and wipeouts make learning possible and therefore are the opposite of a fail. Knowledge comes from the Falls.
Graham has some views about The Importance of Crashes, Falls and Wipeouts, you can read onhis blog.
Simmer Style and its history date back to the very foundation of hi-performance windsurfing on Maui in the beginning of the 80’s. Today, more than 30 years later, Simmer Style has become a truly complete company, offering everything you need to ride the Simmer Style way anywhere one can find wind. Top performing sail designs for every possible environment, superior masts and booms of the highest quality and performance, a wetsuit line-up that stands toe to toe with anything in the industry, super comfortable harnesses, innovative accessories, and last but not least, our newly launched board brand.
Even thou we have grown from a small sail loft on the North Shore of Maui to a international company the foundation of the brand is still the same, a selfless love of windsurfing. No hype, no big show, just go out there and hit the wind and waves as hard as you can and let the sailing do the talking.
That´s what we are all about.
Aloha!
-Simmer
Check out the best from Starboard in there 2013 Movie, from the epicenter of windsurfing, Maui. Featuring The Starboard Dreamteam including current PWA Wave World Champion Philip Koster, Kevin Pritchard, Scott McKercher, Timo Mullen, Chris Muzza Murray, Conner Baxter, Iballa Ruanno Moreno, freestylers, Taty Frans and Kiri Thode. This video features some of the best wavesailing, slalom and freestyle action, so definitely check it out. The slalom / racers included also from the Dreamteam are Cyril Moussilmani, Alice Arutkin and Arthur Arutkin.
Starboard and Dany Bruch are proud to present the Black Box, this time it’s the real-world conditions revolution!
check out this trailer from slalom sailor Ben Van Der Steen who spent over a month in Tarifa training and getting tuned up for the upcoming Slalom season.
Andy Lachauer is a German rider sponsored by JP/Neilpryde check him out in his latest freestyle clip from Sardinia.
Gnarly winds, gnarlier temperatures, and big backloops. This clip from Klitmoeller features riding from Max Droege, Leif Bischoff, Leon Jamaer and Henrik Jamaer.
A short clip from Phivos Tsoupras who spent close to 3 weeks in Dahab with his Brother. Due to an arm injury he was forced to take it easy, anyways check it out.
Robby Naish is windsurfing royalty. A pioneer of kiteboarding and world record setter, his name is internationally renowned and he is the first person to have gained long-lasting fame in the sport.
Naish, who began surfing and sailing in his early years and then started windsurfing at the age of 11, won his first windsurfing world title in the Bahamas to become the youngest world title-‐holder in the history of the sport at age 13.
He successfully defended his crown the following year in Sardinia, Italy and made it a hat trick of world titles when he triumphed again in Cancun, Mexico in 1978, and again in Florida in 1979. For the following decade, he dominated windsurfing competitions worldwide, travelling extensively and competing in more than 20 countries each year on the professional tour.
An excellent slalom and course racer, his Hawaiian upbringing from the age of five has provided him with a special affinity and talent for wave riding. He made a clean sweep of all four titles in the inaugural Pro World Tour in 1983 - clinching the overall, the wave riding, the slalom and course racing championships - and repeated the feat in 1984. Over his windsurfing career, Robby earned himself a total of 24 world championship titles and over 150 event victories.
In 1995 Robby founded Naish Sails Hawaii, a company designing and manufacturing windsurfing equipment, which is sold world wide under the Naish brand. In the late ‘90’s Robby was a pioneer in the new sport of kiteboarding, a discipline in which he won the slalom world title in 1998. The following year, he won the kiteboarding world titles in both slalom and jumping. The Naish brand quickly became a world leader in the development of kitesurfing equipment.
In 2006 Robby was again influential in the growth of the new sport of stand up paddle surfing, and again the Naish brand has been at the forefront of the development of SUP equipment. Today Naish is the premier stand up paddle brand in the world and offers the most complete range of stand up paddle boards on the market.
The season has open for Hungarian windsurfers. check out this session at Blue Lake, Hungary, located close to the Austrian border. The clip is by Bertalan Csik.
A freestyle pushloop by Philip Soltysiak. Shot late 2012 in Jeri.
Check out Fred Debuire`s latest sessions, including some wavesailing and SUP, a portion of the Video was shot with a remote control drone hovering overhead. The drone captured some great shots, if you want to find out more about the drone you can head to westdrone.com (it`s French, so a little google translate might be in order).
Diony Guadaginino travels to Peru for the Pacasmayo Classic and to explore the beautiful coast line, full of endless waves, beaches, and the longest break in the World.
Taty Frans spin loops the Starboard Phantom 295 during a recent photo-shoot in Maui. For your information, the Phantom 295 is almost 3 meters long, 16 cm thick and fits a 50 cm fin… yet Taty spins it around like the smallest gear!
