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The Tourcalendar of 2020

January 18th, 2020

The season will be opened once again in the end of April at the famous Surf Worldcup in Neusiedl am See with a € 10.000,- freestyle event. The final agreement is still to be made and negotiations are ongoing with the organiser who is very keen to bring back Europes finest to this freestyle hotspot in Austria, after running a tow-in only show in 2019. After a month break, next up will be the EFP...

Meet the team: Emilio Galindo Barquin

December 16th, 2019

It’s off-season and time to introduce you to another member of our team. The EFPT family has been currently growing over the past years and we are proud to have been able to convince Emilio Galindo Barquin, a full-time PWA judge and Spanish Champion in freestyle and wave, to join our judging board. What we already do know is, that Emilio is great at his job – what we didn’t know is that the...

Starboard steps up to make EFPT carbon neutral

November 11th, 2019

2019 has been a year for the EFPT with many tourstops in different European countries. More than 70 riders out of 19 different countries joined us this year and were travelling to those events by airplane, ferry and car or a combination of several ways of transportation in order to get to the spots. With the climate change being more present in the media than ever and with a growing awareness of ...

Francisco Goya and the brands philosophies

October 29th, 2019

As a professional windsurfing tour, we are not only working for and together with organisers and riders, but also the windsurfing brands. We are more than lucky to have an ongoing support by most of the big names in the industry and we are excited to see representatives join us at our events from time to time. This year we had the honor to welcome Francisco Goya at one of our EFPT stages, where h...

The DAM-X Aftermovie

October 23rd, 2019

Ten days passed since we crowned all our new champions at the final tour stop of the EFPT in 2019. Throughout the whole season we have seen incredible performances, promising new faces, exciting battles and great comebacks. We are lucky to be able to hold our final year by year at this renowned spot - the Brouwersdam. Apart from our own media team, Visualchefs have been producing daily clips focus...

Crowning of the 2019 Champions

October 13th, 2019

We are looking back on yet another amazing season with the European Freestyle Pro Tour. We ran four freestyle events, all of them with incredible action and two tow-in events with a show that has been wowing the local crowds as well as the online audiences. It has been great to see that apart from the pro men, EFPT junior competitions could be run at three out of the four events, with an incredib...

DAM-X Tow In: Fabrizi claims victory

October 12th, 2019

After finishing a whole single and double elimination for both the pro women and men division, as well as several junior double eliminations, the program for the penultimate day of the DAM-X was tow-in. 16 Riders signed up to compete in two qualification rounds, for the eight spots in the final. With €3.000,- prize-money, this event will also count for the overall tow-in ranking of 2019. Leadin...

DAM-X Day 3: Vrieswijk, Neubauer & Huvermann on top

October 11th, 2019

We’ve seen some incredible battles on todays freestyle playground in front of the Zeil and Surfcentrum Brouwersdam. Comeback of the double elimination has been layed down by French rider Adrien Bosson (Duotone/Fanatic) who won six heats, taking out Aron Etmon (Starboard), Marco Lufen (Duotone/Fanatic), Davy Scheffers and Mattia Fabrizi (Patrik) to then take revenge on Taty Frans, who stopped him...

DAM-X Day 2: The first victors

October 10th, 2019

With sunny weather and a decent forecast, day two at the DAM-X event saw an early start for the remaining heats of the single eliminations of the respective divisions. The Brouwersdam had been delivering the whole day and no time was lost in also heading straight into the double eliminations. Pro division First heat on the water saw Steven Van Broeckhoven (Starboard/Gunsails) taking on Balz Mül...

DAM-X Day 1: Action!

October 9th, 2019

25 pro riders, 16 juniors and 8 pro women signed up for the fifth DAM-X event at the Zeil- and Surfcentrum in Brouwersdam. The riders that made it to the Netherlands from 13 different nations. The Brouwersdam is one of THE freestyle hotspots in Europe and several World and European Champions ‚grew up‘, where the final titles of the EFPT are awarded year by year. Pro Division With a decent fo...
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