PWA Fuerteventura Freestyle Worldcup 2010 personal report

08 August 2010

Fuerteventura Freestyle Worldcup 2010 personal report by Rossi

Few days ago, the Fuerteventura Freestyle Worldcup 2010 took place at the beaches of Sotavento. All the big names were here – in total 44 competitors – up to go for 2 double eliminations.
Already at the arrival, I heard that there are some crazy new trick combinations out and that the guys are ripping! I arrived pretty late, but still had some time to get used to the conditions – it was pretty flat in the beginning and very strong winds throughout the competition.

My first opponent was my good friend Mattia Pedrani from Italy – as I wrote in the previous news post, I had a really good heat and the wind might have been a bit light for Mattia – I could pull off most of my best moves like a planning Double Eslider, a Burner and a Gozzada 900. That was enough to win against the Italian and set me to the next round against Gollito Estredo. My moves weren’t all there this time, but I’ve heard it was close until he pulled off some crazy Spock into Culo combination in the last 2 minutes of the heat…
Next day, in the Double Elimination I lost against Max Rowe from the UK, he was on a way bigger sail than me – pulled off some great moves – I fell too often and was missing one move on the inside, didn’t have enough points to win this heat.

We saw a great final of the first Double Elimination with Kiri Thode winning his first Elimination against Gollito Estredo – amazing moves – high Skopus and Kiri had super aggressive Spock into Culo combos…

Next single I could beat young gun Daniel Hasulyo from Hungary and lost against Quincy Offringa right after, which set me against Bjorn Saragoza in the Double Elimination on the next day.

I was against Bjorn some time ago already and he’s one of the best freestylers around, he has all the moves his training partners Tonky, Taty and Kiri are doing. However, I had another awesome run with a lot of double combos, Burner and a Shaka Diablo in the last 10 seconds – the decision was very close, it took long until the judges had a result and finally they announced I won against Bjorn!

Next up was the same opponent I lost in Podersdorf to, Dieter van der Eyken – a very young sailor from Belgium – this time the luck was not with me, crashed too many times and lost.

However, great competition, great organization, good winds and lot of people watching how spectacular windsurfing can be!

 

Watch the video of the final day in Fuerte to see yourself! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS3dOnddcug

 

I am for now still here in Fuerte, trained a bit on new moves – We’ll leave here on the 10th and try to be in Sweden / Motala for a Surffestival and a first Trickademy “learnival” next weekend… see you there!

 

Good winds
Rossi

Colombia - Windsurfing into the Unknown Movie trailer out now!

07 August 2010

Finally the website and the trailer of Colombia - Windsurfing into the Unknown - project is online!

Colombia is a great country with lots of wind, waves, sandy beaches, sun, friendly people and pretty good infrastructure. Camilo Galeano, a good friend of mine directed this movie with him, Philip Soltysiak and me as riders - and I think it came out great!

The movie will come soon, free for download - so stay tuned!

check the website to see the trailer!

 Colombia - Windsurfing into the Unknown website

 

 

PWA Freestyle Fuerteventura day 1

31 July 2010

First heat went well!

Conditions were difficult, very gusty conditions made it very hard for all the sailors to do manoeuvres, nevertheless, the day saw amazing action with sick moves on pretty small sails.

My heat against my good friend Mattia Pedrani (I-00) from Italy, went well, besides other moves, I could score a very nice Double Eslider and Gozzada900. Next round saw me against Gollito Estredo (V01) the current world champion in Freestyle – not much to do against him, even though my friends said it was close for some time, as he had a bad heat,…

9th place in the single elimination is a good start – we’ll see who comes to me in the double and if I can continue with good moves. The forecast looks like a full power week end, there’s steadily increasing wind (maybe bit more sideshore, so hopefully not so gusty anymore) and also bigger waves to come… stay tuned and make sure you check www.pwaworldtour.com and www.continentseven.com for updates!!

 

All the best from Fuerte
Rossi

 

PWA Podersdorf 2010

07 May 2010

Been at the PWA Freestyle Surf Worldcup in Podersdorf / Austria for the past 6 days. Was a great event once again!

However it was very light wind in the beginning, it looked like we wouldn't even be able to get a result done. The last chance was our last competition day, so the Race management set the skippers meeting to 5:30 am (!!). Luckily the wind was with us - on the limit, but it was there! - we did a whole single elimination!

Wasn't that good for me, i ended up on the 17th place, got kicked out by super good and young rider Dieter van der Eyken. The wind was very light during the whole competition, was on my 5.8m² Loft Wavescape and my Exocet I-Style 101.

Here the result:

1st place: Taty Frans
2nd place: Seven van Broekhoven
3rd place: Gollito Estredo
4th place: Kiri Thode

We had and still have the Tricktionary II book and the Tricktionary DVD available at the Tricktionary/Hangloose/Windsurfing Journal stand. The Tricktionary DVD also at the Continentseven stand - even though it's the kiteevent now, you can still check out our products there! ;)

Check out some photos from the event:

All the best
Rossi

Lago di Garda training 2010

26 April 2010

Just came back from a few days of freestyle training at Lake Garda / Italy.
Now, in spring, it's great there, the water is warm enough to go without shoes already and the ora (thermal south wind in the afternoon) is pretty strong...

Had some great days and the chance to train with Mattia Pedrani - best sailor there and a good friend... was good fun..

Here some photos from the Lake (by Sandra Schennach):



 

More Articles...