There’s something about wipe outs, they’re fun to watch. This one comes From Maui Sails as Camille Juban launches into a huge backloop but bails out.
Generally windsurfing wipe outs don’t hurt that badly, water is pretty forgiving. If you add a ramp things get a bit harded, check out this wipe out at the Wesh Center Crew, Leucate.
Morgan Noireaux is a master of the air taka, watch a great example here, but this one, it’s huge, but doesn’t go as planned
Antoine Martin took at a spill at Jaws the other day, he popped back up at the rocks.
The first event of the 2013 AWT is just under two months away. Here’s a crash compilation they just released from the 2012 Maui Makani Classic. Enjoy the pain!
Jamie Hancock and Timo Mullen had a session at Supertubes in Kimmeridge and give you a lesson on how not to share a wave. Although they do spend awhile taking turns smacking the lip down the line, a little error makes for a bit of a fail. We agree, so check out this clip.
Balz Muller sends us this crazy clip from Lake Urersee, Switzerland, where gusts were hitting 70 knots. If you are going to watch just 1 part of the clip make it has crazy wipe-out starting around 22 seconds in.
Ben Proffitt had a pretty bad crash while trying to pull off a tweaked pushloop at Coronation Beach, Geraldton Western Australia Yesterday, February 18th. Ben Proffitt is the UK Wave Champion, top PWA windsurfer and in recent year teh announcer for PWA’s live stream. The crash resulted in a pretty serious should separation check out the x-ray below.
Best of luck to Ben, and we hope he has a quick recovery!
Wipe outs are always a bit entertaining, this one is from Camille Juban and Maui Sails rough cuts, watch as he goes for a Forward off the Lip.
This is our first ever photo Friday. This week we have photo’s from Ho’okipa, Pozo, and a few awesome shots of Ricardo Campello in Chile.
Our goal is to make this a weekly feature every Friday. Please contribute your photos!
An aerial into a crash by Gustav Häggström brought to us by MacG Productions.
A group of young Polish riders brings us this exciting action packed clip. it features Maciek Rutkowski, Mroczynski, Przemek Sieminski and Michal Pietrasik sailing a big storm in Poland. Enjoy the Gnarly crashes, and their go for it attitude.
A mysterious land somewhere in central Europe is home to 4 young windsurfers with very different backgrounds. They all share one thing though: the passion for the best sport in the world – windsurfing. And however shit the conditions might be on their homespots, they will still go out there and go for it as hard as possible. At the end of the day there’s nothing better than a session at home with just the few of your closest friends out, sharing some moment’s you’ll never forget… – Maciek Rutkowski
Another nice wipe out, from Francisco Casas Garcia in Pozo Izquierdo. Francisco start with a nice stalled forward… than, well just watch the clip!
Swedish rider Gustav of team Filtrate Sweden showing how to snap a windsurf mast. A pretty gnarly wipe out in the waves, fallowed by a rinse cycle resulting in a broken mast.
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.
