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TRAINING | South Africa

South Africa 2013
This winter windsurfing in Holland has been really good. Actually the weather conditions where quite the same as we usually have in autumn. Lot’s of wind for days in a row and air temperatures up to 14 degrees C. I booked my ticket on the 23rd January  to Cape Town. Just a few days before leaving the weather conditions in Holland changed rapidly into a serious winter. Which resulted in lot’s of snow and cold air temperatures, so great timing. For this year I choose bringing a SUP to (JP Wide body 8’2), in order to spend more days on the water when not having any wind. This was a great choice because we’ve had some days without wind and just great waves. During a couple of SUP sessions we’ve had nice encounters with marine animals such as dolphins and lot’s of seals. In comparison to last year this year was much more windy, actually when the wind was kicking in I was mostly of the time stacked on a 4,5 or 4,2 and only just a few times on 4.8. So quite different. There was also lot’s of more swell, even at Langebaan, Langebaan is knowed for being a flat water spot, but because there was lot’s of swell on the ocean with the right wave direction. We scored awesome bump and jump conditions at Langebaan, having some airtime at Langebaan was really unexpected. After all Cape-Town has been treating us very well, providing us with lot’s of windy and wavy days. When we didn’t have wind Steven van Broeckhoven and me where visiting the gym on the regular base. When having waves we scored a couple of really awesome SUP sessions. Big Thanks to Steven en Sveta for staying with you and as well Sveta for the every day 5Star+ cooking we’ve been really spoiled.


Photos: Oliver Staufacher/ Hylke Bakker

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TRAINING | Oostvoorne

Practise at Oostvoorne
Fun day of windsurfing at Oostvoorne, strong winds and nice chops, made it a very nice day Freestyling on the lake.



Photos: Francesco Demper

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SPONSOR | Test

Physical test at Inspanningloont
Last Friday I underwent physiological tests at Inspanningloont and at SMA Utrecht. The test included a VO2 Max test, blood samples, lung function tests, cardiac scans and multiple other test’s. It was a fun and intense at the same time, as I needed to give it all. To sum it up, full body check with the ultimate goal getting more data information on how can improve my physical training. This will help to reduce injuries, stay fit and to be more than ready when I need to perform. Special thanks to Anne-Marie Boelens-Quist, Leendert van Gaalen and the team. For more information please visit the following websites: Inspanning Loont – SMA Utrecht



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PWA | SYLT – Full report

PWA Sylt report:
I had the feeling that this was the best competition of the year for Freestyle at least. From the 12 days days that I spend in Sylt we’ve had 10 days with wind, last year it was the opposite as there was no wind at all!  I’m glad that we got to compete a lot, instead of only doing one single elimination we now did one double elimination. During the single elimination the conditions where tough, but fortunately during the double elimination things got better as we had side shore wind from the South. I’m happy that I could sail a lot of heats, definitely not happy with my last heat. But final 9th place is not bad at all, happy to be in the top 10 again. What also helped me,  that I really know now where I have to work on for my next season. Hopefully we have more competitions in 2013 and combined with both good wind and water conditions too. I might consider attending in a couple of wave events.

Below you can read my daily report
DAY 1 report: Just arrived in Sylt together with my team mates Brian Metcalf Perez from the US and Steven van Broeckhoven from Belgium. Sylt is an Island on the border between Germany and Denmark. We drove really fast but at the same time we where all tired so we slept a lot yesterday. The forecast for the week looks really promising for every discipline as there will be a week of good wind here in Sylt. Tomorrow the skippersmeeting will be at 9AM. We might start with Freestyle.


DAY 2 report: Today was a big waiting game at the beginning. Around 2PM we started finally competing, I was facing a though draw although there are no easy heats. Actually everybody is sailing really good and with tough conditions out on the North-Sea anything could happen. First heat today was against fellow teamrider Ricardo Campello. 3x Worldchampion Freestyle and 2x Vice Worldchampion Wave. Ricardo is special, this one of the most gifted sailors and is good in pretty much every sport he does. Even when not competing in actual freestyle competition anymore I would still put my money on him making it into the top three. If there only were more wavy conditions at the tourstops. I knew I had to sail a very super good heat to beat him. When going out the conditions where really not in the favor of anybody. Light winds combined with current and not to much power in at least my sail to get going for bigger jumps. I decided to sail more like a safe heat. Just to fill up the scoring sheet, and after this to take much more risk. Ricardo made a super high AirShaka, as well a Backloop, boosting up his scores for sure. But eventually he missed out on a couple of moves. So I won the heat, didn’t expect this to happened. For sure Ricardo will be on warpath chasing trough the double elimination. Next heat I had to face Bjorn Saragoza from Bonaire who’s currently ranked 5th overall. Again a though heat, so I had to give everything. Luckily the wind picked up for my 4.8 sail. During the heat it was so hard to sail for me and for Bjorn too. We where both crashing all over the place. Just over time I nailed a Airchachoo, which could might give me the edge….? When heading to the beach Bjorn won with a 2-1 decision winning with 0,5 point. Which let me with thought, what if..For tomorrow we might first start with wave discipline and later on Freestyle, I hope the conditions will turn out good for me and I can setup a great performance!!


DAY 3 report: Great wave sailing action today. Outstanding sailors where: Ricardo Campello, Alex Mussolini, Victor Fernandez and World champion Philip Koster. Waverider of the day; Alex Mussolini, who was riding the waves like he was surfing at Ho’okipa beach in Maui.


DAY 4 report: Today we started of with the double elimination of freestyle. I did pretty good advancing 4 rounds, eventually Phillip Soltysiak was sailing against me which prevent me from advancing any further rounds. Philip was sailing well and I had a really bad heat so he deserved it! Right now I’m 9th. in the double elimination. So far my scoring was really good on port tack had some really clean Airchachoo’s but also really would like to a double in a heat (wind was to light), but I really need to step up the game with tricks on starboardtack. Tomorrow we might finish the Freestyle double elimination but if there’s enough they will finally start the Slalom. This what the PWA had to say: Double Elimination The first round of the double elimination went according to the form book and all of the sailors that expected to progress did, as did much of the second. The main talking point occurred in heat thirty-seven as Max Matissek (Fanatic / North) sailed against Tony Mottus (JP / NeilPryde). The two sailors endured an extremely close heat and the result came down to a 2:1 decision in the favor of Matissek. The closest heat in the freestyle though occurred in the next round as Andy Chambers took on Maarten Van Ochten (JP / NeilPryde / MFC). The pair landed some massive moves, including an outstanding air chachoo from Van Ochten, and by the end of the heat the scoring was tied. This meant that by way of a tiebreak Van Ochten progressed into heat forty-five, where he would face Phil Soltysiak (Starboard / Sailworks). The Canadian proved too much for Van Ochten on this occasion as Soltysiak marched into the top eight.As already mentioned in heat forty-five Phil Soltysiak was able to dispatch of Maarten Van Ochten, meanwhile, the B-side of the heat saw Dieter Van der Eyken (Starboard / Severne) continue his hugely impressive form as the Belgium brought an end to Davy Scheffers’ (Tabou / Gaastra) double elimination.


PWA Freestyle Sylt overall result:

    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. Youp Schmit NB 12/ Bonaire
    6. Philip Soltysiak CAN 9/ Canada
    7. Dieter van der Eyken B 35/ Belgium
    8. Elton Taty Frans NB / Bonaire
    9. Maarten van Ochten H73/ Holland

Photos: John Carter/ Matthias Mueller

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MOVIE | Wipe Out

Video Doubleloop wipeout
Sometimes you got to let go! Well this one was caught on camera by my buddy Paul Zeper and thank you Continentseven sharing the video.Double loop wipe out, www.continentseven.com

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PWA | FUERTE – Day 1 and 2

PWA Fuerteventura day 1 and 2
After a long day of waiting we started the single elimination in Fuerteventura. The scene right now in Fuerteventura is a little different than a couple of days ago. Like the past weeks we’ve been only using the smallest gear and there where plenty of waves all over the place. Right now everybody is on their biggest gear and the water is pretty choppy. Not really the typical Fuerte conditions. Yesterday my first heat was against Max Matisek from Austria. Max has been training and improving a lot this year so tough competitor like all the others. We both didn’t perform really well, actually I was crashing a lot and was getting really nervous as I wasn’t performing my heat as I would like to. In the end it was a close dissension but I advanced to next round. Now I had to face the Belgium Dieter van der Eycken. I started of good with Aifunnel, Burner puneta and Shovit spock. Suddenly I was crashing moves and forcing them with less style amplitude, Dieter was also not sailing is his best heat but still sailing good. The final result rather surprising to me. A very close heat but Dieter took the edge and worked his way up to 4th place in the single elimination. Tomorrow we will continue with the double elimination. So I hope the conditions turn up good and let’s wish for some waves for even more excitement on the water.



Photos: John Carter

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EVENTS | The Mission XL

The Mission XL 9th edition
The 9th. edition of the Mission. Great winds, big prices at the tombola and huge party. Great action for the audience, free lessons provided. Giving more people the chance entering the sports and lot’s of activities for the visitors. The weather forecast was predicting a storm for the whole weekend, eventually this actually never took place and on friday we’ve had 12-20 knots of wind. Perfect for a the annual slalom competition. The whole day there have been quite some intense racing and in the late afternoon a nice freestyle demonstration. During the freestyle show “battle of the giants” a big shower kicked in and the wind suddenly disappeared, so a mixed show of first power moves and later light wind show. Still giving away a great show for the audience. Later that evening the party started, the atmosphere was great. And during the tombola there was a big chance to win nice prices like wetsuits, boar bags, masts, booms and they even gave away a sail and a board. Aswell for Sunday the wind direction was slightly different, onshore and now even more strong with a average of 15-25 knots. All together a great event event for any windsurfer and non-windsurfer.

Representative for JP and Neilpryde were
Steven van Broeckhoven B72
Jacques van der Hout
Hans Kreisel.
Adriaan van Rijsselberghe (brother of Dorian Olympic winner )
Maarten van Ochten

Other pro’s at the Mission-XL

Gollito Ester
Hester Andriesen
Eva Oude Ophuis
Rick Jendrusch
Nick van Ingen
Dorian van Rijssleberghe Olympic Champion 2012!

Photos: The Mission

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EFPT | 9th. Place

EFPT 9th. place at European Tow-in
Qualification rounds: the Tow-in was a big spectacle every night, every rider in and out of Europe got two runs to put there best performance down. Only the best 3 of each could get their spot into the final. For the final top 10 there was a special place reserved for the very best 4th. position. Actually I never had the chance to practice Tow-in and I knew everybody had a good practice during the lack of wind at several Worldcups or European championships last year. A number of riders have been training this quite a lot during there winter training. I analyzed the previous rounds what to do and what defiantly not to do. Because with tow-in the wind is coming from whole different direction. During the qualification rounds I first went for a save Airfunnel. My plan was making a double rotation but this didn’t worked out yet. The rounds after my first jump every body was getting wild and the level of each rider went trough the roof. I knew I had to step my game for my second run run to qualify myself for the final. So I did. The jet ski was going super fast, the tears where in my eyes and when approaching the jump area I could launch myself in a good Burner 540. The  EFPT stated: “The lucky loser, who will join the nine riders of the three qualification runs will be  Dutch sailor Maarten Van Ochten, who’s burner scored 28 points and therefor kicked Tonky Frans out of that last place.. 

The fleet for tonight’s final will be: Steven Van Broeckhoven (JP/Neilpryde), Maarten Van Ochten (JP/Neilpryde), Julien Mas, Nicolas Akgazciyan (Starboard), Dieter Van der Eyken (Starboard), Gollito Estredo (North/Fanatic), Max Matissek (North/Fanatic), Kiri Thode (Starboard), Björn Saragoza (Starboard) and Taty Frans (Starboard). We are expecting an incredible final, which will start at 8.30 pm (Austrian time), like every evening” Yesterday night, the Chiemsee European Tow In Championship went into it’s last round. As the crowds filled the beaches, the ten qualified riders made their way to the launch area. It wasn’t long before Maarten Van Ochten opened the finals, with his first move. The atmosphere was electric and never before has such a large number of people been seen at a tow-in event. Everybody was expecting a lot of the sailors who made it into the final and their high expectations were fulfilled in every kind of way as the riders showed high air moves and powerful combinations that had never been seen before. EFPT: “in 9th place, the Dutchmen, Maarten Van Ochten (JP/Neilpryde) scored 22,75 points for a really nice burner. Maarten told us that it was the second time he had ever tried tow in. Well done”! 1st place and therefor the first European Tow-In Champion EVER is current Freestyle World Champion Steven Van Broeckhoven (JP/Neilpryde) who scored 37 points for the most perfect triple funnel with a sail duck at the end. Coming into the spotlight at full speed, Steven popped his board out of the water three times in a row, like a stone skimming the surface. He was extremely close to the judging platform, the spectators loved it, and showed their appreciation with huge applause. I’m glad taking 9th. place overall in the open European Champions Ships Tow-in 2012! Big congratulations to my teammate Steven van Broeckhoven who won the title.

Photos: John Carter / EFPT