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Tourcalendar 2021 Updates

May 5th, 2021

We’d like to share some informations with you regarding the 2021 tourcalendar. Whilst we do our best to work around the difficult situation worldwide, with restrictions seemingly changing on a daily basis, there hasn’t been a way to find a solution for some upcoming events and they will have to be either postponed to a later date or a date in 2022. EFPT Vieste With new local restrictions bei...

Andreas Rössler – Winner at the 1st EFPT Rookies Camp

May 2nd, 2021

The first ever EFPT rookies camp in Austria with headcoach Julian Wiemar, took place just before the Surf Opening 2021 kicked off. With the COVID situation still being quite serious in this area of the country, the organisation certainly had its challenges, but we are very proud about the fact that we were able to run it after all. JP/NeilPryde stepped up and provided a brand new JP Freestyle Pro ...

Vrieswijk claims victory

April 26th, 2021

After eight full hours of competition, the single and the whole double elimination had been finished on the last day of the Surf Opening in Neusiedl am See! The north wind kicked in just like forecasted around lunch time and the first heats were up and running. Single elimination: Jacopo Testa (AV Boards / Point-7), is finally back on tour after several years of absence and how good it has been ...

EFPT Surf Opening: Day 3

April 24th, 2021

The penultimate day at the Surf Opening in Austria has been ‚tow-in day‘. With beautiful weather the five remaining finalists had been determined and the final had been staged right on time with one of the breath taking sunsets, that lake Neusiedl is known for. At 3.00 pm local time, tow-in fleet number two was on and the fleet was strong: Amado Vrieswijk (FutureFly/Severne), Yentel Caers (JP...
Felix Volkhardt EFPT

EFPT Surf Opening: Day 2

April 23rd, 2021

Day two had been started early with really high expectations. The north-westerly wind had been forecasted from the morning onwards, so the riders and crew were called to the even-site at 6.30 am by race director Danny Kater. The race course had been set and ready for a start at 09.00 am. With beautiful weather hopes were high that the wind would fill in early and stay throughout most of the day. ...

EFPT Surf Opening: Day 1

April 22nd, 2021

Today has been the day that had been anticipated by professional freestylers, EFPT crew and online spectators likewise: the first international freestyle event after a break of over 1.5 years kicked off in Neusiedl am See, Austria. All eyes were on the new EFPT, with Adam Sims holding the reigns and the reloaded Surf Opening with Georg Kloibhofer as head of organization. With the whole world being...

JP/NP & THE NEXT GENERATION

April 17th, 2021

JP-Australia and NeilPryde are stepping up and offer a brand-new JP-Australia freestyle board for one of the participants of the first EFPT rookies camp in Austria & send Yentel Caers as an additional coach for day 2. JP-AUSTRALIA AND THE NEXT GENERATION JP-Australia has a long history in supporting the next generation freestyle windsurfers by founding and running their JP Young Guns camps t...

Livestream in Austria

April 15th, 2021

The first international freestyle of the season will be brought to you LIVE on efpt.net and our partners websites by the team of AALVAA media. Since the public won't be allowed to attend this event and spectators presence will most likely be restricted at most of the tourstops this season, this tool will become more important than ever and we are excited to have the organizers of the Surf Opening ...
Tigo Kort

Who is Tigo Kort?

April 9th, 2021

Time to introduce one of the most promising new talents on the European Freestyle Pro Tour. Entering the EFPT juniors U16 division first time at Brouwersdam in 2018, Tigo made an impression together with fellow local riders like Bodhi Kempen, Meijer Tijmen and Tim Gerdes. In 2019, the improvement was already obvious when the young freestyler claimed second place at the U16 division at the EFPT Lan...

EFPT Rookies Camps

April 6th, 2021

From 2021 onwards, the EFPT will organise and host rookies camps prior to as many EFPT events on the calendar as possible. The past years and the high attendance of juniors entering the the U16 and U18 division, made it even more obvious that there are in fact numerous young freestylers out there. However, we would not only like to address the kids/juniors who already entered an EFPT competition, ...
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