23 November 2009

Being on Maui, working on some top secret projects... ;)
Yesterday it was pretty windy and no waves, so me and Leo Ray were in Sprecks doing some Freestyle... it was nice cause i could test my new Loft Wavescape 4,2 - amazing... :)
Here some photos from that day (the freestyle shots... the rest are wave-shots from Hookipa few weeks before...)




Today the swell arrived - and was pretty big already at times (at least for me) - Upper Kanaha was great fun on 4,7

I just found out what a huge difference the trim makes on waveboards!! Last week with waves, i thought how the hell can those guys put soo much pressure on the rails and do such tight turns... was just impossible for me... Well i thought it's cause i am just not used to it...
Today i read my book - the Tricktionary (see www.tricktionary.net ) - You should know, the wave-part was written by John Skye (John's really good now - wow!), he's a real wave-pro, doing this for many years, he knows exactly those tips and tricks that you otherwise have to learn over the years.
So i put the fin 1.5 cm forward - tadaaaaa... WOW - my board is now feeling soo much better in turns!!

My tip: Really test with the trim of your equipment!! Or let somebody experienced adjust it for you once. Try to do the manoeuvres you can do best and try to feel how the boards performance changes with just little changes you do to your boom height, mast foot position, footstrap position, fin position and size,...
Sometimes it isn't your fault that a manoeuvre doesn't work, it's just more difficult because of some wrong setting!!


Christmas is close, if you want to order books or DVD's from our website, please do it soon! Otherwise it's not sure international orders arrive on time for Christmas!
Check the Tricktionary November Newsflash: HERE

29 October 2009

On our trip to Maui, we always had a stopover with 12 hours, over night in San Francisco or Los Angeles... so we decided to stay a few days and visit my good friend Peter Kerle, who's living his dream now in Santa Cruz, USA.
It was a nice 3 day stopover, we saw some nice surfspots, the town Santa Cruz and San Francisco, went down 17mile drive to Big Sur and enjoyed the nature there...

We could even sail together for the first time after years - we were on Tricktionary promotour at the Helm Windsurfshop in San Francisco, when the guys sent us down to 3rd Avenue,... the wind kicked in and we had a little freestyle session. Nice spot for Freestyle by the way!!

Now on Maui - Windy but no waves for the first two days... so i was out for some Freestyle in Sprecks... nice spot - my first time there...

Check out the Santa Cruz trip photogallery:

21 July 2009

After a long time - finally news!!

The PAL Version of the Tricktionary DVD arrived from production!!!
Photos of THE ARRIVAL: HERE

The Tricktionary DVD is in stock and is shipped to ANY DESTINATION WORLDWIDE!!!

Tricktionary DVD, technical data shortcut: 3 Double Layer DVD's, more than 150 moves, a huge but still easy menu-system, around 400 minutes of instructional video in a nice printed dvd box will help to improve your learning process a lot!

More news, trailer, samples and much more coming soon...

Orders taken at www.tricktionary.net

All the best
Rossi

 

08 February 2009

We are right back to Cartagena de Indias in Colombia. Some wintertraining and a lot of work to finish the Tricktionary DVD...

On 6th of February we had a phenomenon they call Mar de Leva here. That is when huge waves arrive here in Cartagena... That really happens rarely together with wind, so we were double lucky to have the waves with 4,7 weather. Below some photos of the session...

Although there is windsurfing almost every day here, we are working hard on the Tricktionary DVD - i will post some preview next week on www.tricktionary.net .... stay tuned!

All the best
Rossi

Here some photos of the big day here in Cartagena: