Hinrich Lüers and Janne Thomsen Luers have won the freestyle competition of the Surf-Festival Vollerwiek, in Germany.
With great weather conditions, 30 windsurfers showed their freestyle moves and racing skills in medium wind speed conditions … Details
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The Wellington Wave Champs 2010 was held at Plimmerton in some pretty extreme conditions at times. The surf was large for plimmy with shoulder to head high waves breaking on the shore and it was windy. The gusts in excess of 40 knots with most sailors battening down the hatches on flat 4.0s.
It was the first time we have seen all the top Wellington sailors together at one time. Tim Haxell who has been in awesome form recently, Tom Taylor the former international freestyle wizard now back living in Wellington, Tim Bamford just  … Details
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The Surf Center Arte Vida, in Tarifa, and NorthSails Spain have worked together with Xavier Mandico, a blind sports man who has developed a program for blind windsurfers.
Using a radio set Xavier is connected to a second windsurfer and is therefore able to do what he always wanted to do: Windsurfing!
Now he is planning the next step:Â Â …Â Details
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The aim of the German Speed King is a fair and open challenge for any windsurfer who enjoys speed surfing and who is equipped with a GPS. Just choose your spot, go on the water, send your data to the event page and you’re in.
This year more than 60 participants were involved in this event, that took place from 09/14/2009 to 08/22/2010.
Torsten Mallon achieved …Â Details
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