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PWA | SYLT – Day 1

PWA Sylt 2010 Day 1
The PWA Grandslam Sylt is the Final and 4th. Freestyle event for 2010. Grand slam, means that there will be competed in three disciplines: Wave, Freestyle and Slalom. According to giving weather conditions the race crew will decide which discipline will be run. After I’ve had slept for hardly two hours registration took place at 11AM here in Sylt. When arriving at registration there was already a big line. Almost all topriders from all disciplines (Slalom, Freestyle and Wave –Men/ Women) had to register too. After registering it was time for some autographs photos and putting all event stickers in the sails. At 4pm the yearly big opening ceremony started, on the big boulevard of Sylt. This was mainly about introducing riders from each country to the crowds. As for today I decided going to bed very early as I really had to catch up with a lot of sleep.


Photos: John Carter PWA

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PWA | FUERTE – Interview

Interview by Funsporting
10 Fragen an Windsurfer Maarten van Ochten, Nach einer verletzungsbedingten Pause ist Windsurfer Maarten van Ochten 2010 wieder voll da! Mit FUNSPORTING spricht er über die Kids von heute, Computer, Surfen und über vieles mehr! Was wärst Du heute, wenn nicht Windsurfer? Maarten: Eigentlich wäre es dann genau so, wie es jetzt ist, nur stressfreier. Ich würde natürlich auch windsurfen, aber eben nur in der Freizeit… Ich studiere parallel in Amsterdam, muss auch im August mal wieder zurück, um Klausuren zu schreiben. Es ist schon anstrengend, das so zu managen, aber ich möchte mir gern dieses zweite Standbein aufbauen. Man muss ja leider realistisch bleiben…

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PWA | FUERTE

Check out the latest JP Australia-/ Neilpryde Team movie, which has been captured during the PWA Fuerteventura World Cup.

Video: Robby Swift and Heidy Clawson

 

 

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PWA | FUERTE – Summary

PWA Fuerteventura 2010 Summary
Yesterday we’ve had the closing ceremony from the PWA Fuerteventura freestyle World Cup. Again Fuerteventura was providing us with very windy conditions for almost the entire week. Thumbs up for the organizers who did a great making this event possible. The competition; for me this was a big disappointment and I definitely wasn’t performing my best during a number of reasons. Before the start of the competition I was already not in my best physical shape. Facing a strong flue before the event kicked off. The first two days of the competition went quite okay, getting kicked out the first round field terrible.

As always I was really keen working my way up in the elimination ladder during this contest. During the start of the second double elimination I had to sail against Italian pro rider Mattia Pedrani I-00.During this particular heat I over rotated my ponsch and hit my big toe again really hard. Mattia was sailing a very solid het and won the heat. Having a bad ranking in this Worldcup has big consequence for my overall ranking. Now dropped from the 5th. place to the 14th. place in the overall ranking. The good news: yesterday I’ve had taken an X-ray photo to make sure nothing was really broken. Fortunately no fractures! Big relief! Now I hope I’ll be back on the water in a couple of days. Learned a lot over here and got some more experience in the pocket for next years Worldcups in Fuerteventura. Now it’s time to focus for the upcoming PWA Worldcup in Sylt! Big congratulations to my friend Steven van Broeckhoven B-72 who became 3rd. after sailing really strong yesterday. Also Big congrats to Jose “Gollito” Estredo V-01 winning his fourth Overall title in Freestyle.

PWA Fuerteventura 2010 results
1. Jose “Gollito” Estredo V-01
2. Kiri Thode NB-6
3. Steven van Broeckhoven B-72
4. Tonky Frans NB-7
5. Taty Frans NB-9

PWA Overall results 2010
1. Jose “Gollito” Estredo V-01
2. Kiri Thode NB-6
3. Steven van Broeckhoven B-72
4. Tonky Frans NB-7
5. Nicolas Ackazyian F-400
14. Maarten van Ochten H-73

Photos: Jhon Carter PWA

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PWA | FUERTE – Day 3

PWA Fuerteventura 2010 Day 3
Today was a doomed day for me, first I was sailing a really bad heat defending my 9th place.The conditions where quite hard, every time when I wanted to executed my moves the wind picked up in force or there was no wind at all. Finally had a couple of crashes which I could discard, but my moves were simply not as clean as my opponent.Than we started the second single elimination, somehow I had tough seating again and went out against nr. 7 Dutch fellow Davy Scheffers H 311. Davy was sailing a really good heat, according to judges a top 5 heat. So congrats to him. For me that means I’m out the first round, I really hope we can start the new double elimination really soon and maybe a third double elimination. The forecast looks really good, strong wind conditions and hopefully also some waves. For now I’m going to concentrate for the double elimination in order to fight back!



Photos: Tom Brendt



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PWA | FUERTE – Day 1

PWA Fuerteventura 2010 Day 1
Today was the kick-off from the 3rd Freestyle PWA Worldcup tourstop. The wind came up quite late, but just after 4PM the first heats where finally running. I had quite a tough seeding against Wave World champion Philp Koster G44! When the heat started the wind was really gusty so I decided to go for a safe heat. I decided taking my JP Freestyle 98L pro and my Neilpryde Firefly 4.9. This was the right choice, on the outside I had quite a few power full double moves like; Airflaka into flaka, Ponch into Flaka, Shaka into flaka. I sailed a solid heat and advanced to the next round. If the forecast is good tomorrow we will go and finish the first single elimination and if the wind stays good, we most likely also starting of with double elimination. So more news tomorrow and I going to do my honest best to continue a good performance!

PWA Worldcup report:
The sailor of the day was tour regular and current top five ranked styler, Maarten Van Ochten (JP, NeilPryde, MFC) who would have been forgiven for feeling a little bit nervous going into his heat against the 2009 Pozo wave champion, Philip Koster (Starboard, NeilPryde, Dakine). All eyes had been on Koster during practise to see how he would perform in the discipline of freestyle, especially in the lighter winds which the contest was being held in. Koster looked like he had plenty of moves in the bag, but they were no match for the seasoned freestyle pro, Van Ochten who pulled off a more diverse range of technical moves in the six-minute heat. There’s no doubt Koster will fight back in the double, especially if the forecast comes to fruition.

 

Photos: John Carter PWA

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PWA | LANZAROTE – Final

Maarten van Ochten
Maarten van Ochten

PWA  Lanzarote 2010 final Day
Allready my last report for this Worldcup competition. Today we started of with strong winds good for a powerfull warmingup with my Neilpryde 5,3 Firefly and my JP Freestyle Australia 98 Pro.Just when the wind kicked in the crew decided to fininsh of the single elimination. As we still needed to finish the winners and losers final for both men and women.The wind kept building and so did the waves too. I was excited and prepared for action as I had made loads of progression in jumps during the winter-/ spring. The moment that we just started to run the double, the wind was still playing games, which kept whole competition on hold.


After a break from about two hours, the wind improved and fortunately we could go on with the double elimination! Luckily we finished a couple of rounds in the double elimination. Event summary; like most riders, I would have never thought Lanzarote providing low wind conditions. Last year we’ve been experiencing loads of waves and strong winds. I was quite surprised and so did all the other riders too. Most of us were not expecting light winds and choppy waters, but rather big waves and strong winds. Though I’m glad we got a result which counts,  finishing on a 9th. place for the PWA Lanzarote Freetstyle 2010. Needless to say I’m very stoked hitting the top 5 overall in the World. Dreams do come true.


PWA Freestyle overall result after two events:

    1. Jose Gollitio Estredo V-01/ Venezuela
    2. Kiri Thode NB 61/ Bonaire
    3. Steven van Broeckhoven B 72/ Belgium
    4. Tonky Frans NB 7/ Bonaire
    5. Maarten van Ochten H73/ Holland

Photos: Andras Marton

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PWA | LANZAROTE – Day 3

PWA Lanzarote 2010 Day 3
Today the weather started off really cloudy. Right after the skippers meeting around 10AM the wind was still kind of light and never picked up. Until 5:30PM, fortunately this allowed us watching the soccer match Brasil VS Holland. Holland was only represented by a hand full of riders. Most of the crowd were a supporting the Brazilian riders. Watching the match, covered in orange flags exciting experience.To sum it up, it was kind of a thrill, especially when Holland took the victory. This was a mind blowing experience for let’s say 90% of the audience who were cheering for Brasil!


After the great match was finished and a lot tear drops later, the wind started to fill in. The PWA crew decided to start off immediately finishing of the first single elimination for the men and women. In the end after lot’s of re sailing it was enough to finish one heat. For now we still have to finish the single elimination for both men and women. The wind forecast doesn’t look really good for tomorrow (loads of cloud cover and north westerly winds). Let’s see if we atleast can get an result for both men and women.



Photos: John Carter PWA