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Las Dunas Costa Brava: Caers & Neubauer claim even victories

May 26th, 2019

The ultimate day here at the EFPT Las Dunas Costa Brava has been all about the double elimination in howling winds with more to 40 knots at times. The riders started off on their 4.4s but had to rigg down to their 4.0s and below fairly soon. What seemed like a beautiful illusion at the start of the week, became reality today and provided the perfect playground for the remaining freestyle competiti...

Yentel Caers & Lennart Neubauer on top

May 25th, 2019

After a long waiting period over the last days, the sailors have been craving to finally start with the freestyle competition. The prayers for wind have been answered today and Costa Brava delivered amazing freestyle conditions from noon until the late evening. On an action packed day, the juniors single elimination had been finished as well as the the single elimination of the pros. The riders in...

Las Dunas Costa Brava: Who is Mathis Mollard

May 24th, 2019

After having an action packed day yesterday, filled with tow-in qualification fleet 2, the junior tow-in and the big final, today started super easy with not much schedulded program other than hoping for the wind to increase. With overcast weather, the tramontana unfortunately didn’t push through and the competition had eventually been called off at 4.30 pm. On this lay-day here at Costa Brava ...

Las Dunas Costa Brava: Tow-In Final

May 23rd, 2019

Day 3 at the Las Dunas Costa Brava, here at the Camping las Dunas, kicked off with the second tow-in qualification fleet, to determine the five remaining riders that would compete in the final. The agreement involved, that in case of no wind, the tow-in result would be official and would also count in the tow-in overall ranking of 2019. With a decent forecast for the weekend not all riders joined ...

Las Dunas Costa Brava: Day 2

May 22nd, 2019

Light offshore winds, flat water and clear skies provided a perfect arena for the first tow-in qualification round. The ten riders of round one, spun through some training runs to adjust the course and to warm-up and the competition was launched just after 11.00 am. With the best score counting out of three runs, the five riders with the highest points would advance to the final on Friday. [c...

Las Dunas Costa Brava: Registration Day

May 21st, 2019

After an amazing launch of the Las Dunas - Costa Brava event in 2018, the organisation team around the Fase Wind Center and Camping Las Dunas, brought this five star event back to this amazing coastline for the second consecutive year. With very unlucky conditions in 2018, the event had been moved to an earlier date this time and marks the official start of the EFPT season 2019. With six full com...
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Surf Worldcup: EFPT Tow-in Show – A Recap

May 5th, 2019

After a ten days event-period and five days of tow-in shows and exciting freestyle windsurfing supersessions, it’s time to look back on the action that has been displayed at the Surf Worldcup in Neusiedl am See, Austria. With a unique show-format that has been adapted to the wishes of the event-organiser, 13 riders from eleven countries have been invited to compete for € 5.000,- prize-money. ...

Meet the team: Rafa Cervero Climent

April 3rd, 2019

It's 'meet the team' - time again. Before we kick off the season with the first EFPT event in Austria end of April, we would like to introduce you to yet another member of our dream-team: Rafa Cervero. After competing in the EFPT and PWA for several years, Rafa switched to 'the other side' and is now one of our best freestyle judges. Age: 38 Nationality: Spanish Special Skills: I am really sens...

The FQS Qualifiers

February 27th, 2019

In 2018 the Freestyle Qualifying Series (FQS) was established in a cooperation between the EFPT and the PWA to unite the freestyle windsurfing circuit and to create a more comprehensive and professional format. For 2019 the PWA freestyle fleet will be reduced to a 32-man fleet from the prior 48-man, which will allow the contest to be switched to two-men heats earlier, or if the forecast is approp...

Meet the team: Davide Zilli

February 5th, 2019

Time to introduce another member of the EFPT team. Davide Zilli just returned from his trip to South Africa. Living the absolute dream of every windsurfer Davide lives at one of the best spots of the world and is lucky enough to travel to other amazing destinations in his free time. This team-member combines pure passion for the sport, great windsurfing skills and organisational talent that is sec...
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