For many members of the Fanatic team Cape Town/South Africa is the number one choice when it comes to to winter training destinations. Beside the great windsurfing conditions this city at the very end of Africa has a lot to offer.
Manu Grafenauer and Mart Kuperij from Enjoy the Soup followed Cape Town veteran Klaas Voget, Max Matissek, Max Rowe and South Africa rookies Alessio Stillrich and Adrien Bosson on their adventures in and around the Mother city.
FROM CAPETOWN WITH LOVE is a fourteen minute short film full of crazy windsurf action, laughter, bullshit and an inside view of the daily life of the pros during their stay.
Prepare for some sick windsurfing action, Waveriders switching places with their Freestyle team mates and proving how demanding the sport really is, as well as Freestylers try to push their level in the waves. Great wipeouts, loads of fun and a lot of team spirit.
ENJOY.
Dutch pro wavesailer Amanda Beenen shares her impression of Capetown in 2014, and takes her first crack at editing and filming.
Fabian Weber and a crew of German friends in South Africa for some Wavesailing.
Since a few years a small group of friends around Fabi Weber travels down to South Africa to have fun on and off the water…
The weather was generally a bit different than the last few years. The evenings were usually quite fresh – so we have had to wear a sweater and sometimes a light jacket over it. Only the last two days we sat topless at night on the terrace. The South-Easter was only tow times really good that we could rig 4.2 and smaller. I think I was riding 80% on 4.6qm. The wind was mostly very offshore, even in spots which are normaly sideshore. Whitsands extremely gusty. We were one time at the Cape .. But three times in Elandsbai … Global warming? Maybe, maybe not! It was just different … Since we all had our SUPs with us, we were not sad and got some good swells. I think we all got our money. Oh, and the extremely low price RAND has made the trip quite cheap!
In this second episode of the pod series with Markus Rydberg, he went down to Cape Town, South Africa, to practice some port tack sailing for the up coming season.
Markus Rydberg: “I spent the first month of this year in Cape Town, South Africa. It is a really cool place with good windsurfing conditions and awesome nature and I hope to go back soon! ”
Filmed by: Christopher Friis, Mads Bang, Markus Rydberg, Amanda Beenen and Matthew Pearce.
Edited by: Markus Rydberg.
Music: Mapei, Don’t wait.
Stay tuned for the next episode that’s currently in the making
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It seems everyone is in Cape Town right now. Henerik Jamaer brother of pro Leon Jamaer is no exception, check out this clip as he tears up some sweet South African Waves.
Check out this little clip of Philip windsurfing during our photo shoots in Cape Town and Maui.
Another clip from Cape Town, South Africa. Ross Williams testing and developing the Gaastra 2014 R&D sails.
Jamie Hancock, Ross Williams, Phil Horrocks, and Alex Mussolini using some of the 2014 Gaastra sails during a winter trip to Cape Town, as part of the Gaastra 2014 photoshoot.
Andrea Mariotti has a passion for South Africa, this is his newest clip, where her shares his passion for the spot, not only in windsurfing, but some of his special moments. You can check out his clip from last year in South Africa, .
MY CAPE TOWN is a product of over two months of on and off filming in the beautiful surroundings of Cape Town, South Africa in the summer of 2013. The video features the 22 year-old Danish wave sailor Christopher Friis.
We were aiming at capturing the unique golden African sunset which gives this amazing look in the video. The filming was very demanding as the light was only right for about half an hour a day, but the result is worth the extra effort. – Christopher
Steffi Wahl finished 5th overall in the PWA rankings. She headed to Cape Town for the warm winter, and here is her latest video a wrap of of her 2012 winter in Cape Town. With her consistent results from 2012, and smooth turns, she is a women to keep an eye on in this years PWA Tour.
Some sweet footage from Henrik Jamaer, as the sun sets in Cape Town South Africa.
A scenic clip from Cape Town, South Africa featuring Fabian Weber, Florian Selder and friends. The group welcomed in 2013 with warm and windy south easterlies almost everyday. Some of them made a safari, went skydiving, did a hiking trip to the Draken Mountains where they slept at 3000 m over sea level or went out for a lot of SUP surfing!
Chris ‘Muzza’ Murray scored some sweet conditions on his trip to Cape Town, check out the action.
Rising Belgian wave sailor Jonas Handekyn tearing up Cape Town this winter, he was there training like a lot of top riders. Watch the clip to see some of his massive backloops, takas, and more.