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Green Light for the FPT Cape Town Airstyle Contest! What to expect?

February 9th, 2024

It's ON! The green light for the 2024 FPT Cape Town Airstyle contest has been given for this Saturday. The single elimination of the competition will be ran at the Milnerton Aquatic Club with a first possible start at 13:00 local time. The double looks to be run on the next strongest day of the forecast, which currently looks like Thursday the 15th of February. With a mix of freestylers and wave s...

The 2024 FPT Calendar

February 5th, 2024

With the first event of the season about to start in Cape Town, the Freestyle Pro Tour is excited to announce its 2024 competition calendar! The successes of the 2023 season are built on, while brand new events are also added to the line up in this all-round freestyle windsurfing tour that reaches outside of the European continent as well. With guaranteed action thanks to the three disciplines, Fr...

LIFE with Felix Volkhardt

February 1st, 2024

Watch Felix Volkhardt's (Severne/Maui Ultra Fins) latest video titled "LIFE.". The german freestyler, who won his first national event in 2023, celebrated his win in California together with Alex Mertens (Duotone). After a summer of filming and sailing, the put together a 15 min clip with his reflections on what windsurfing means to him. We caught up with Felix in an interview below, make sure to ...

Lovely Holiday – Freestyle action from Brazil with Oda and Sarah Quita

January 27th, 2024

Beatrice and Magdalena are BACK! The "British" duo of Oda Johanne Brodholt (Severne/Starboard) and Sarah Quita Offringa (NeilPryde/Starboard/Maui Ultra Fins), actually from Norway and Aruba respectively, have graced us with Episode 9 of their series, Lovely Holiday. With some excellent synchro freestyle and foil surfing, the coffee-loving freestyle fanatics never fail to entertain us. https://w...

BITTERSWEET – A Windsurf Story from Brazil

January 25th, 2024

The freestyle community has plenty to choose from this month when it comes to windsurfing videos! After a couple exciting releases to kick 2024 off, the spotlight is now taken by the 2023 European Tow-In Champion George Grisley (Duotone), who just released his first short film titled "BITTERSWEET". Set in Jericoacoara in Brazil, one of the best places in the world to practice freestyle windsurfing...

2023 Nations and Brands Rankings

January 14th, 2024

With 2024 kickstarted, the FPT is looking back at the freshly passed season through the lens of the Nations and Brands rankings. The Dutch dominated during the 2023 season, coming out on top in the Nations Championship. The battle for the constructors was tight, especially due to the Foilstyle discipline, but it was Starboard and Severne who take the top spot respectively for boards and sails. Lea...

UTOPIA 1 – Raphael Bauer’s new windsurf travel series

January 11th, 2024

Every year the freestyle world sees the same migration. Like breeding birds, many leave Europe to fly to warmer and windier climates. One of the most popular destinations is Jericoacoara in Brazil. Raphael Bauer (Starboard/Severne), a young french freestyler made the trip as well and decided to share his travels with the rest of the community. In "UTOPIA", his new travel series, he shows the viewe...

Vote for the best move of 2023!

January 5th, 2024

With 2023 officially over, the FPT Awards are in full force. The public vote for the best move of the year, in both the men and the women, is live now on our instagram. Riders from all over the world sent in their best move of the year to compete in a knockout elimination for this prestigious title. The best thing about it is that every fan of freestyle windsurfing can make a difference! Head over...

2023 Tow-In Recap by Andreas Roessler

January 1st, 2024

Neusiedler lake local Andreas Roessler (JP/NeilPryde) just released his 2023 season Tow-in recap on his youtube channel. The Austrian rider made a name for himself this season with countless memorable runs, yielding him a 7th place in the rankings. Taking a lot of risks and truly embodying the concept of "sending it", he ended up diving underneath someone during Syncro runs at his homespot as well...

Yentel Caers clutches the 2023 EFPT All-Discipline title!

December 29th, 2023

Belgian Yentel Caers (JP/NeilPryde) manages to claim the all-round 2023 EFPT title over the 2023 Freestyle European Champion Lennart Neubauer (Starboard/Severne/Maui Ultra Fins) by just 15 points difference! Caers has shown his exceptional versatility, competing in all three disciplines: Freestyle, Foilstyle and Tow-In this season. Becoming the first ever European Foilstyle Champion, next to winni...
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