sábado, 30 de noviembre de 2019
Teaser 2: Maui and Sons Pichilemu Women’s Pro by Royal Guard 2019
Nuggets: Where did the shaka come from?
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2019
Week in Review, Nov 16: Ezekiel Lau Eyes VTCS Title
Teaser 1: Maui and Sons Pichilemu Women’s Pro by Royal Guard 2019
#Windsurf ANDY LAUFER FULL POWER AT LUDERITZ
ANDY LAUFER FULL POWER AT LUDERITZ
Watch Andy Laufer going flat out at the Luderitz speed challenge 2019 filmed by Miriam Rasmussen Windsurfing! Andy Laufer says – “Some nice and different angles filmed by Paul. Speed is up to 100 km/h, chasing the world record in hurricane winds. The slingshot just after the start is one of the most important parts of the run. You have to accelerate to at least 95 km/h within the first 200m in order to get a decent run. This corner is sooo much fun, your board and your whole equipment tend to lift off all the time. You need to have at least 15 kgs of lead on your back to counteract this pressure. If you manage to convert all the pressure from the corner into speed, the rest of the 500 m run is quite simple. Just keep the speed in those wind holes and hope that you even get a stronger gust just before the finish line. At the end – don’t forget your braking parachute :)”
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jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2019
The Best Routes From Our CLIMBING WORLD TOUR || Cold House Media Vlog 100
#Windsurf STARBOARD SUPERCRUISER FOIL & FOIL X BOARD
STARBOARD SUPERCRUISER FOIL & FOIL X BOARD
When Starboard released what they called, “Our easiest foil ever”, the “SuperCruiser”, we heard that there was actually a top secret new design of foil board in the works too. Starboard’s head of brand and design, Tiesda You, gives us the lowdown on both their new 2020 Foil X board and SuperCruiser foil.
Words Tiesda You // Photos John Carter, Eric Collard & Adrien Grelon
Tiesda You – “Long story short from Starboard side, the SuperCruiser foil is actually one of two parts, the second part being our brand new 2020 Foil X board. Combined, you have gear people can foil on and performance so cool that relatively advanced foilers like myself, Svein Rasmussen or Albert Pijoan, no longer use the Race foil! So everyone beside Gonzalo will be super stoked on the SuperCruiser foil + Foil X board. The board is very radical, measuring just 190 cm long! Combine it with the SuperCruiser foil that gives you lift before Formula boards get planing and the low aspect wing that keeps you flying at low speeds, you basically can foil in very light winds and do foil jibes all day long. However, get this, beginners can learn on this very same gear!
A friend of mine in Thailand, who is starting to plane on a Rio with straps and harness, he’s learning to foil on this same Foil X + SuperCruiser combo. So yeah, learning on a 190 cm long board! The trick is that it’s very thick, packing in 140 litres. That’s why it’s called the Foil X. We can’t call it by length, as in the 90s, or by volume as in the 00s, or by width as in the 10s. None of them work for this concept of a board… so we called it Foil X. So what’s exciting, I feel, is that here we are for the first time in windsurfing, where you can purchase one gear to learn on, and keep the same gear as you get better and better and become an advanced foiler. There are actually few sports that I can think of where gear mattered as little relative to your level. It’s kinda like football: you buy the ball and the rest is for you to improve your skill. Most importantly, the gear you use is the same gear your friends can use if they want to try foiling. Coming back to the SuperCruiser foil, it started when Tris Best of the OTC in Weymouth told me last summer that he’s starting people out on Slingshot foils, not Starboard, because they were smoother with an earlier take off and worked nicely at low speeds (Tris, I was offended!). At the time, our easiest to use foil was the Freeride with its 1100 cm medium aspect front wing. It was in the right direction, but not enough. That was the first hint that was dropped my way. Then, I went to Hood River and spent a day foiling with the guys there including Tony Logosz of Slingshot. He was showing me the other side of foiling: small sails, low speeds and 100% fly time, while all I’ve been doing the last two years was performance foiling with foils like our GT, GTR and Race.
We compared his foils with our wave foils, and they had the same geometry. I quickly put our wave foil into a Starboard Foil 111 board, used a small 4.4 Severne wave sail and discovered that whole new side of foiling.
I tried our Wave Pro 1500 foil, which was nice and very manoeuvrable. It’s a thicker wing and has a deep concaved shape, but the Wave 1700 was better. Its flat shape makes it steady and more suitable for wind foiling. The wings are thin too, so you have more speed and glide. You want that efficiency feeling that a thicker wing doesn’t offer.
Back in Thailand, I CNC’d new fuselages to try different lengths, replacing the Wave foil’s 67 cm fuselage with 87 cm and then 92 cm options, with various front wing and tail wing positions. The 87 cm ended up being the nicest overall. We then replaced the 65 cm mast with an 85 cm mast; 65 cm is almost too short for wind foiling. Short masts are not scary because when you foil out, you come down from a lower height, and it’s nice and stable. The downside is that in anything but the flattest water, you foil out too often. We could have gone with 75 cm, but with 85 cm, it’s a mast you can keep as your level improves. All in all then, the finished SuperCruiser consists of the 85 cm mast that gives you lots of performance and tolerance in ‘wavey waters’, and the 87 cm fuselage that gives you stability to make foil jibes and manage pitch comfortably. The large surface area of the low-aspect front wing, 1700 cm2, allows you to take off quickly, but it’s still a thin and flat wing to give you speed and stability.
I’d recommend the SuperCruiser foil with the 2019 Foil 111, Foil 100 or 2020 Foil X board and paired with a small sail. The largest sail we use with the SuperCruiser is the 6.7 Starboard Flight. Shorter boards like the Foil X are recommended because they complete the whole experience by being light to manoeuvre and they’re easier to pop out of the water to take off, but classic freeride shapes work just fine too.
PRICES:
SuperCruiser foil – £949.
Foil X 145 – £1399 Starlite, £1875 Flax-Balsa.
Foil X 105 (Flax-Balsa only) £1849.
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Empieza La Temporada Alta De Escalada En España | EpicTV España #2
Driftlands, Borrowing Cars and Frustrations | Drift Queen S2E6
WSL PURE | One Ocean pres. by Outerknown
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2019
#Windsurf LEVI SIVER | PERSPECTIVE TAKE TWO
LEVI SIVER | PERSPECTIVE TAKE TWO
FIRST TAKE
Water shots are a labour of love – a lot of swimming, wiping out and near misses for the low chance of nailing it. Paul Karaolides of Fish Bowl Diaries gets the pay off as he scores this killer shot of Levi Siver at Ho’okipa.
Photo Paul Karaolides / Fish Bowl Diaries.
TAKE TWO
It’s not often we get to see the land perspective of a water shot as well, but thanks to the skills of Sofie Louca of Fish Bowl Diaries we have the pleasure of seeing Levi Siver tweaked to the max with the land angle of the facing page.
Photo Sofie Louca / Fish Bowl Diaries.
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#Windsurf DEFI WIND GRUISSAN 20TH ANNIVERSARY
DEFI WIND GRUISSAN 20TH ANNIVERSARY
The Défi Wind Gruissan is all about challenge with the Tramontana couting as one of the most powerfull wind in the World and a 40km long race course. 3 jibes only and miles and miles of full speed reaching along the beach are waiting for over 1000 windsurfers. Pros and amateurs starts together on the same starting line. Imagine: over 1000 windsurfers starting together and blasting to the same buoy… 10 km further!!! Every windsurfers should experience this at least once in their life. Come on and join the 20th anniversary party in France from May 21st to 24th. Online registrations will open from February 20th on www.defiwind.com
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DAY 6: DELPHINE COUSINE QUESTEL & PIERRE MORTEFON CROWNED 2018 SLALOM PWA WORLD CHAMPIONS
After an intense final day the 2019 Slalom PWA World Champions have been crowned.
Finals day at the 2019 Bureau Vallée Dream Cup proved to be a day to remember with New Caledonia producing another day of world class racing. Over the course of the day there were several dramatic twists and turns, which saw the Men’s title race go down to the final elimination of the event – such was the closeness between Pierre Mortefon (Fanatic / Duotone / Chopper Fins) & Matteo Iachino (Starboard / Severne) – while Delphine Cousin Questel (Starboard / S2Maui) gained the top 3 result she required!
Women’s
Delphine Cousin Questel (Starboard / S2Maui) saved her best performance of the week until last to deservedly clinch her 4th world title ahead of Marion Mortefon (Fanatic / Duotone). The 28-year-old started the day in third place, but after winning both of the opening eliminations Cousin Questel already had the world title wrapped up with a race to spare after Maëlle Guilbaud (Patrik / Loftsails) finished 8th in Elimination 10. Cousin Questel had a bit of a turbulent week by her usual standards, but still won 5 out of the 11 eliminations completed over the last 6 days to be crowned the 2019 Women’s PWA Slalom World Champion.
Marion Mortefon (Fanatic / Duotone) did everything she possibly could to deny Cousin Questel the title by winning the final event of the year, but even that wasn’t enough in the end. However, the 27-year-old can still be delighted with her performance this week which earns her her first victory on the world tour, while she also finishes the season as the vice-world champion, which is her best result to date!
Lena Erdil (Starboard / Point-7 / AL360 / Chopper Fins) completes the event podium, but finishes just 0.2 of a point behind Cousin Questel despite winning the final elimination of the week. With Erdil slipping to third in the event rankings that means that she just misses out of the overall podium as Maëlle Guilbaud finishes in the overall top 3 for the first time in her career – after finishing 4th for the event,
Meanwhile, Lilou Granier (Starboard / Phantom Sails) finishes 5th for both the event and in the overalls, which means the 19-year-old finishes the season as the 2019 Youth’s PWA Slalom World Champion.
Men’s
You couldn’t have written the script for how the Men’s world title race would unfold between Pierre Mortefon (Fanatic / Duotone / Chopper Fins) and Matteo Iachino (Starboard / Severne) as the battle took several dramatic twists and turns.
Iachino started the day with a 2.7 point advantage, but he soon saw that lead evaporate into a 5.7 point deficit after the completion of Elimination 9. The Italian looked to have made an excellent start to the first semifinal, but he soon lost speed on the opening reach and rapidly dropped back through the pack after unbelievably hitting a sea snake. Iachino tried to stage a come back but just missed out in 5th place.
On several occasions yesterday, Mortefon had failed to make Iachino pay for his mistakes, and while this was misfortune rather than a mistake on Iachino’s part, Mortefon rubbed salt into the world by clinching his second bullet of the week to take the world title lead!
With a little bit of breathing room at the top of the event rankings, it looked as though Mortefon may have the title race under control, but that soon all changed as the 30-year-old was eliminated from Elimination 10 in the semifinals, which gave Iachino a glimmer of hope to get his own title bid back on track having already qualified for the Winners’ Final. Iachino would go on to finish second behind – Ross Williams (Tabou / GA Sails) – who won his first race of the season – while Iachino closed to within just 2.7 points of Mortefon – to ensure that the race to be crowned the 2019 World Champion would go down to the wire.
With both men successfully negotiating their way into the final of Elimination 11 the stakes couldn’t have been higher. For Iachino to snatch the title he would need to finish at least 3 places ahead of Mortefon, while Mortefon knew finishing within two places or better would guarantee him a first world title. Heading down the opening reach it looked as though Iachino was better positioned, but Mortefon would come round the first buoy and cover Iachino. The Frenchman accelerated away much quicker, while Iachino went backwards, which was another defining moment in the title race. Mortefon kept his calm over the remainder of the course and crossed the finish line ahead of Iachino to leave the result in no doubt and after so many years of being second or third in the world, the 30-year-old finally has his hands on the most coveted prize!
This loss will hurt Iachino having come so close to his second world title, but you can guarantee he’ll be back even stronger next season and with a bit of time he can still be hugely proud of his efforts this year as he finishes the season as the vice-world champion.
Antoine Albeau (JP / NeilPryde) finished 3rd in the opening race of the day, but then lost his 100% Winners Final record as he missed out on the top 8 in the last two races. Albeau still completes the event and overall podium to cap another excellent year on the world tour.
Enrico Marotti (JP / NeilPryde) enjoyed a simply amazing final day with the Croat qualifying for all 3 Winners’ Finals today where he recorded a 5th, a 3rd and a 2nd to cap a fantastic week. The 28-year-old gains one place from the overnight rankings to finish in a 4th place – which is a personal best!
Marotti relegated Maciek Rutkowski (FMX Racing / Challenger Sails) to 5th place for the event, but the Pole signed off the week in the best possible fashion by winning his second race on the world tour, which sees him ranked 7th in the overalls.
The event top 10 is completed by Jordy Vonk (Fanatic / Duotone) – 6th – Ethan Westera (Tabou / GA Sails) – 7th – Ross Williams (Tabou / GA Sails) – 8th – Julien Quentel (Patrik / GUNSAILS) – 9th – and local boy Basile Jacquin (I-99 / Point-7), who also wins the Youth’s PWA Slalom World title for the second consecutive year.
We’ll take a full look at the overall rankings for the year in the event summary next week.
To stay up to date with all the latest developments from New Caledonia — including the live stream, elimination ladders, entry list, images and live ticker simply click HERE and scroll to the bottom of the page.
Overall Ranking 2019 PWA World Tour – Women’s Slalom1st Delphine Cousin Questel (FRA | Starboard / S2Maui)
2nd Marion Mortefon (FRA | Fanatic / Duotone)
3rd Maëlle Guilbaud (FRA | Patrik / Loftsails)
4th Lena Erdil (TUR | Starboard / Point-7 / AL360 / Chopper Fins)
5th Lilou Granier (NC | Starboard / Phantom Sails)
Result 2019 Bureau Vallée Dream Cup – Women’s Slalom1st Marion Mortefon (FRA | Fanatic / Duotone)
2nd Delphine Cousin Questel (FRA | Starboard / S2Maui)
3rd Lena Erdil (TUR | Starboard / Point-7 / AL360 / Chopper Fins)
4th Maëlle Guilbaud (FRA | Patrik / Loftsails)
5th Lilou Granier (NC | Starboard / Phantom Sails)
Overall Ranking 2019 PWA World Tour – Men’s Slalom1st Pierre Mortefon (FRA | Fanatic / Duotone / Chopper Fins)
2nd Matteo Iachino (ITA | Starboard / Severne)
3rd Antoine Albeau (FRA | JP / NeilPryde)
4th Jordy Vonk (NED | Fanatic / Duotone)
5th Julien Quentel (SXM | Patrik / GUNSAILS)
6th Ross Williams (GBR | Tabou / GA Sails)
7th Maciek Rutkowski (POL | FMX Racing / Challenger Sails)
8th Tristan Algret (GPE | Starboard / Severne / Chopper Fins)
9th Enrico Marotti (CRO | JP / NeilPryde)
10th Marco Lang (AUT | Fanatic / Duotone)
Result 2019 Bureau Vallée Dream Cup – Men’s Slalom1st Pierre Mortefon (FRA | Fanatic / Duotone / Chopper Fins)
2nd Matteo Iachino (ITA | Starboard / Severne)
3rd Antoine Albeau (FRA | JP / NeilPryde)
4th Enrico Marotti (CRO | JP / NeilPryde)
5th Maciek Rutkowski (POL | FMX Racing / Challenger Sails)
6th Jordy Vonk (NED | Fanatic / Duotone)
7th Ethan Westera (ARU | Tabou / GA Sails)
8th Ross Williams (GBR | Tabou / GA Sails)
9th Julien Quentel (SXM | Patrik / GUNSAILS)
10th Basile Jacquin (FRA | I-99 / Point-7)
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