[ad_1] On Monday 4th of September Boards & More announced that Fanatic Windsurfing and Wingfoiling products will now be marketed under the Duotone brand name. From now on Duotone will appear as the overall brand name for Kiteboarding, Windsurfing, Wing Foiling and Foiling. Fanatic SUP will reamin. Read an interview with Till Eberle, CEO of Boards & More, Craig Gertenbach, previously Brand Manager at Fanatic, Raoul Joa, Division Manager for Duotone Windsurf and Klaas Voget, […]
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[ad_1] Source: Boards & More Boards & More announces that Fanatic products from the Windsurfing and Wing Foil segment will now be marketed under the Duotone brand name. From now on Duotone will appear as the overall brand name for Kiteboarding, Windsurfing, Wing Foiling and Foiling. Since we founded the new Duotone brand for our Kiteboarding products in 2018, the brand achieved incredible strength, competence and acceptance among our customers. Till Eberle, CEO Boards & […]
[ad_1] Full Week of Racing Silvaplana delivered proper conditions throughout the whole week. On the first day, the competitors engaged in a downwind slalom with 4 races for both fleets. The following day the wind took a break and it resulted in a racing-free day. Fully recovered athletes were prepared for a promising Day 4 of the iQFOiL U21 World Championships. A full day of racing with close rail-to-rail battles, many crashes and 5 completed […]
[ad_1] Swiss waterman Balz Müller again pushed his limits to the max while spending a few weeks in Pozo Izquierdo. He has travelled to the high wind “Mecca” for the first time and felt in love, when testing the 40+ knots conditions with his windsurfing and wing equipment. When the wind was lighter, he showed incredible skills on his wind foiling gear. Balz created a list of new move combos upfront and tried to land […]
[ad_1] The Men’s division Luuc Van Opzeeland claimed the World Title in front of our Starboard Team rider Sebastian Koerdel, who finished in 2nd place in the Men’s division. Nicolò Renna from Italy completed the podium in 3rd place. Our Starboard Dream Team rider Sebastian Koerdel managed to navigate through the event with very consistent results and became the Vice-World Champion. Sebastian about his Vice-World Title: “The event was physically very demanding. Especially with the […]
[ad_1] Josep Pons, who moved from the mediterranean island of Menorca to the Canary island of Gran Canaria, is living the windsurfing dream. He works as professional windsurfing coach, shapes windsurfing boards together with his mentor Carlos Sosa from CS Custom Boards, the former shaper of Björn Dunkerbeck, and competes on the PWA World Tour in the wave discipline. Josep, who is one of the oldest competitors on the PWA tour is is incredibly fit […]
[ad_1] Victor Fernandez has just finished the edit of his latest video full of windsurfing action from his summer in Gran Canaria. The Spaniard always spends a large part of his summer in the Canary Islands to train and push his limits. This year he was 1,5 months on the Canaries and he scored some good sessions at Pozo Izquierdo, Ojos de Garza and Juan Grande.Victor told us that June was a pretty windless month […]
[ad_1] Let’s bring back the Super X in windsurfing. If we remember correctly SuperX had its premiere in 2003. 20 years later Liam Dunkerbeck and Marino Gil Gherardi were using the marks from the slalom course in Fuerteventura to speed around the marks on freestyle equipment and execute some moves in between. All comes and goes. Windsurfing Super X Revival a video by Johannes Hertel This might also interest you
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[ad_1] Last winter a perfect swell hit the islands of Cape Verde. This swell produced some of the biggest waves in several years and no wonder Thomas Traversa and friends had the perfect timing for the trip. All the forecasts arrived and we were lucky to be in the right place at the right time to score what was a perfect trip. We were joined by Kai Katchadorian who lives for these sessions. Thomas Traversa […]
[ad_1] Bad news for Philip Köster: The five-time windsurfing world champion had to undergo surgery due to persistent severe pain in his left foot. This is already Philip’s second severe injury, after the torn cruciate ligament and meniscus injury which happened in 2016. In May Philip Köster injured his left foot during a training jump in Gran Canaria. According to the initial diagnosis, it was a chipped metatarsal bone and did not require surgery. But […]
[ad_1] “YLEM” Episode 2: The second episode of Antoine Martin’s YLEM series is about his journey to Fiji, showing the life of a wave pro Antoine Martin on tour. From the daily island life to the competition, where Antoine pushed his personal limits of wave windsurfing at Cloudbreak, one of the most radical waves on planet. The documentary shows action from lay days to contest days, from travel days to waves of a lifetime. And […]
[ad_1] Oda Johanne is back in the game! Oda Johanne is back in the game and what a comeback she had! After a bad injury last year, Oda had to step back from competition to recover. Now she is back and in good form! Oda made it straight into the final in the single elimination when she won against Vice World champion Maaike Huverman in the semi-final. In the final, she met her teammate Sarah-Quita […]
[ad_1] Sarah-Quita claimed the victory on the fin! What a race! Our Starboard rider Sarah-Quita Offringa claimed another World Cup trophy to her collection. She managed to keep the foils at bay and be the fastest woman on her Starboard iSonic. Sarah-Quita bet on her fin set up and counted on strong winds. We could see down moments when she missed the finish line due to spinout and struggles during the lighter days. The last […]
[ad_1] Adrien Bosson won the single elimination ahead of Antony Ruenes and Yentel Caers in third. Afterwards the double elimination of the men started and they were able finish the first two rounds. The completion of the men’s single elimination On the third day of the freestyle competition the men’s single elimination got completed in excellent 4.4m – 4.8m conditions. The heat length got extended to 9 minutes and 4 moves out of 8 attempts […]
[ad_1] Congratulations to Sarah-Quita Offringa, who wins the freestyle single elimination to currently lead the event in front of Oda Johanne Brødholt, Maaike Huvermann and Lina Erpenstein. Top 4 women of the single elimination: Lina Erpenstein, Oda Johanne, Sarah-Quita Offringa, Maaike Huvermann (from left) The day started quite promisingly with the wind in the right direction and sunny skies but the wind became funky with the pushing tide. However, shortly before 6pm the wind switched […]
[ad_1] The wind on the first day of the Fuerteventura World Cup Freestyle competition was nuclear. After the registration, the single elimination kicked off with a bang in very windy conditions with gusts up to 40 knots. In the beginning it was easier to find a ramp for an air move on the way out than finding a flat spot on starboard tack on the way in. But once the tide dropped as the afternoon […]
[ad_1] It’s the first day of the PWA Fuerteventura Grand Slam 2023 Freestyle single elimination. 8 ladies from 6 different countries and 32 men from 15 different countries are competing in Sotavento. The single elimination is just underway in quite rough wind and wave conditions. It’s easier to find a ramp for an air move on the way out than finding a flat spot on starboard tack on the way in. The level is very […]
[ad_1] The raceboard world championship took place from the 12th of June through to the 17th of June 2023 in Hannover, Germany. With over 160 competitors from 21 different nations, it demonstrated that raceboard windsurfing is not dead! Starboard ambassador Maksymilian “Max” Wojcik from Poland claimed the first place, riding the Phantom 377 Official press release: ” (…) The competition was characterized by fierce battles in all divisions, with the ultimate outcome being decided in […]
[ad_1] Dream Team rider Helle Oppedal from Norway wins the Formula Foil World Championship in Torbole, Lake Garda. The Formula Foil World Championship has been staged the second consecutive year at the Circolo Surf Torbole . With 25 races in five days, it had been a busy week for the competitors. Helle claimed the victory in front of her sister and trainingspartner Tuva Oppedal. Helle about the event:“It was an incredible event with 25 races […]
[ad_1] Short report from Head of EFPT Adam Sims: How was the organization of the foilstyle event? We had a great event in Vieste, it was one of those forecasts where you simply could not tell if it was enough for freestyle or not. With the inception of foilstyle some years ago it took some years to get here to the first international competition; one attempt at our event in Geneva a couple years ago […]