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Victory for Amado Vrieswijk

May 7th, 2017

The first ever IFCA Grand Prix in Austria left us with all kind of different weather scenarios throughout the week. On the last day it eventually delivered suitable conditions to run the EFPT freestyle competition. With north-westerly wind, the bouy course was set in the morning and the horn for the first heat went off at 1.15pm. The sailors were on their 5.2s and bigger freestyle boards. The sli...

IFCA Grand Prix: Fleet 2 & the big final

May 6th, 2017

Day 3 started with high hopes to launch the freestyle competition at 6.00 am in the morning. Unfortunately the conditions left riders and crew disappointed, as the weather front seemed to have passed through in the night. Around midday we started into the second round of the tow-in championship. Big names like Adrien Bosson (North/Fanatic), Davy Scheffers, Steven Van Broeckhoven (JP/Neilpryde) an...

IFCA Grand Prix: Tow-in qualification fleet 1

May 5th, 2017

With a very light wind forecast for today, we figured that noon was the perfect time to send the first qualification fleet of the Chiemsee tow-in championship out on the water. For the past years, 30 riders could compete in three qualification rounds to proceed to the big final and claim 3.000€ prize-money. This year, the fleet was cut down to 20 guys, who were selected according to their tow-i...

IFCA Grand Prix Neusiedl am See – Registration day

May 4th, 2017

27 riders out of 12 different nations signed up for the first ever IFCA Grand Prix in Austria. After successfully finishing the windsurfing foil and slalom competition last weekend, the freestyle elite of Europe took over here in Neusiedl am See,  to fight for the total of 13.000€ prize-money. Just like the past years, Chiemsee provides the 3.000€ for the tow-in competition that will see a...

Surf Worldcup 2017 – Reinvention

April 28th, 2017

After running the famous Surf Worldcup in Austria for many consecutive years in Podersdorf, the venue of one of Europes biggest outdoor festival changed. So did the competition format. A kitesurfing competition was always part of the big happening at lake Neusiedl - this year though, the organisers decided to go for a windsurfing only event and an all new format: the IFCA Grand Prix, featuring sla...

Steven Van Broeckhoven – Five European Freestyle Titles and counting

November 21st, 2016

The exceptional European freestyle windsurfer once again managed to win the run for the European Freestyle Champion. The 31 year old Belgian who competed on the EFPT for the first time in 2008, still seems to be on top of his game. We caught up with the JP/Neilpryde rider to find out about his life and achievements as a professional windsurfer, his thoughts about the new live systems and his plans...

DAM-X 2016 Highlight Video

October 20th, 2016

Just a few days have passed since the last internationale freestyle competition of 2016 was staged at the Zeil- and Surfcentrum in Brouwersdam, Holland. We are looking back on one of the best EFPT events in the past years with great freestyle action, a flawless organisation and the crownings of the European Champions 2016, both in the mens and ladies division. More than 7.500 people visited the ev...

DAM-X: Van Broeckhoven and Offringa – King & Queen of Freestyle

October 16th, 2016

At the final day of the DAM-X event at the Zeil- and Surfcentrum Brouwersdam the wind unfortunately never kicked in properly so the official freestyle competition had been called off by race director Tom Hartmann just around 1.00pm. We are looking back on an amazing event with great conditions and one of the most spectacular freestyle shows of the year. 36 men and 10 women were battling it out in ...

DAM-X 2016 – Day 4

October 15th, 2016

With a very promising forecast of south-westerly wind of up to 20 knots the day was kicked off with the skippersmeeting at 9.00 am. However, due to a high cloud coverage and rain the wind didn't seem to come through properly. Since the conditions were improving more and more around lunchtime, the horn for the first heat of the day went off just around 1.00 pm. Unfortunately the ladies heat with Ma...

DAM-X 2016 – Day 3

October 14th, 2016

With an expected whole day of windsurfing competition ahead, the new single elimination was started at 9.00 am in the morning. The conditions looked lighter than yesterday, yet more than suitable to run the first rounds of the mens. Already in the first heats the level has been noteably high with some of the riders landing spock culos, double spocks and shaka flaka combinations. With a seven minu...
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