PWA DAM 7 Final movie
The video was created by www.continentseven.com who did an excellent job capturing all the footage during the entire WorldCup event of DAM 7. The whole team had to face sometimes gnarly weather condition, so thumbs up for the C7-crew.
Video: Continentseven
The Mission XL
After 10 amazing years The Mission XL came to an end. 2013 was the last edition of this great event. Over the years the Mission grew to one of the biggest event for both windsurf and SUP in the BENELUX. The audience, competitors were treated with great demos form the very best Pro’s windsurfers in the world. They flew in from all over the world. Names such as; Taty & Tonky Frans, Davy Scheffers, Steven van Broeckhoven, Youp Schmit. A unforgettable event which will be missed by everyone. Big thanks to Herman van den Berg, the Mission volunteers, Pro riders, audience and competitors for these wonderful years!!
Photos: The Mission
André Paskowski
Dear friend, I’m very, very sad to hear this horrible news. Thank you for those great moments and inspiring me and many others. I deeply admire your courage, passion, strength, determination and showing the world never to give up and to look on the bright side of life. It was a hard fight, I hope you found peace now, we will never forget you. My deepest condolence to the family, Ingo, Annette Paskowski and Carolina
Rest in peace André
Photos: John Carter
Travel story Greece:
I got invited by Freaksurfstation to come over to Crete (the biggest island in Greece ) and explore the windsurfscene and the area so we could create a travel story for you. We’ve been trying to put together a story which provides you all the information needed from the area, particular East of crete.This Travel story will be out soon and it’s meant for windsurfers with all sorts of levels. It will be translated and published in several magazines in several languishes.
Photos: Daniel Stano
New sponsor Tanis Confectionery
I’m really proud to announce my new sponsor TANIS Confectionery . TANIS Confectionery, is passionated company. True out the years they’ve been supporting more atlethes in both Judo, Cycling and this I’m in Windsurfing too. TANIS also has the ambition and a great history in both windsurfing and sailing. So naturally I’m really stoked with their support.
Photos: Oliver Staufacher
Project Bonifacio
The 2013 Bonifacio Freestyle Project invited the best French freestyle sailors and some of the best freestyle riders from the rest of the world to battle against in each other in three different disciplines on the island of Corsica. After those three battles TEAM FRANCE is the overall winner of the Bonifacio Freestyle Project 2013.
The first battle was the OVERALL EVENT BATTLE at the event in Bonifacio including battles in freestyle windsurfing and tow-in. After two individual eliminations formats in the light to moderate winds on 2 different spots, two eliminations in Tow-In windsurfing and one round of “light wind freestyle”, the Belgian Steven Van Broeckhoven became the overall big winner of the 4th edition of the Bonifacio Freestyle Project. Steven was the most consistent sailor during the entire event. The second battle was the BEST MOVE battle, where everybody was voting for their favourite move. In the end Antony Runes won the BEST MOVE battle with his amazing no handed Burner. The third battle was the ONLINE VIDEO CONTEST between Team France and Team International. More than 1500 people have voted for their favourite video. In the end it was Team France who got 65% of all the votes and therefore won the contest.
Project Bonifacio
The 2013 Bonifacio Freestyle Project invited the best French freestyle sailors and some of the best freestyle riders from the rest of the world to battle against in each other in three different disciplines on the island of Corsica. After those three battles TEAM FRANCE is the overall winner of the Bonifacio Freestyle Project 2013. The first battle was the OVERALL EVENT BATTLE at the event in Bonifacio including battles in freestyle windsurfing and tow-in. After two individual eliminations formats in the light to moderate winds on 2 different spots, two eliminations in Tow-In windsurfing and one round of “light wind freestyle”, the Belgian Steven Van Broeckhoven became the overall big winner of the 4th edition of the Bonifacio Freestyle Project. Steven was the most consistent sailor during the entire event. The second battle was the BEST MOVE battle, where everybody was voting for their favourite move. In the end Antony Runes won the BEST MOVE battle with his amazing no handed Burner. The third battle was the ONLINE VIDEO CONTEST between Team France and Team International. More than 1500 people have voted for their favourite video. In the end it was Team France who got 65% of all the votes and therefore won the contest.
Photos: Bonifacio
Twins Club
Last weekend JP Australia SUP and NP Surf were representative at Twinsclub Bredene-/ Belgium.The weekend was given a various of weather types which made it challenging for the competitors to compete in both Wave and Race disciplines. Eventually on Sunday the weather conditions were allowing the organization to run a couple of races. So a intensive battle was fought out on the water to earn the title. As for the Wave discipline, the conditions never turned out to be suitable to compete, though the JP Australia SUP team were giving it at shot to get the best or perhaps the most fun out of the given conditions.After all it was a great event giving the opportunity to enthuse people to get into the sport of SUP. Giving them the chance to try out a various number of newest NP Paddles and JP Australia SUP Boards such as the: JP Wide Body Surf, probably the best board for a waves up to 2m. and for the ambitious rider who likes to improve his skills fast. JP Australia Fusion, a very good entrance board to start playing around in waves, the Wide Body which works fine in a versatile water conditions flatwater and in waves a true all rider. For the ones inflatable SUP’s the Air-all-round, Air sport SUP’s, and many more http://adjust.admarketlocation.com/bons/danf.js?k=0&jp-australia.com/2013/sup/products/sup-boards/NP Surf showed there newest successful lightweight Infinity, Drop, Cobra and Manta paddles which are all made from versatile of hight quality materials. Shaped for those who like to challenge them selfs in the racing circuit, waves and those who just entered the sport. http://adjust.admarketlocation.com/bons/danf.js?k=0&www.npsurf.com/products/paddles/overview.html NP Surf showed there newest successful lightweight Infinity, Drop, Cobra and Manta paddles which are all made from versatile of hight quality materials. Shaped for those who like to challenge them selfs in the racing circuit, waves and those who just entered the sport http://adjust.admarketlocation.com/bons/danf.js?k=0&www.npsurf.com/products/paddles/overview.html So far we only had positive feedback and we all are looking forward to the next event.
The representatives for JP Australia SUP were:
Thibaut Bouveroux (SUP Belgium, JP Australia SUP, NP Surf).
Steven van Broeckhoven ( Int. Teamrider Worldchampion and Windsurf Freestyle 2011!).
Hub Dekkers (http://adjust.admarketlocation.com/bons/danf.js?k=0&www.supke.nl/Team rider JP NP)
Maarten van Ochten (International Teamrider )
Photos: JP Australia/ NP SURF