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Fresh Faces: Lennart Neubauer – GRE 734

July 3rd, 2016

Every season we are happy to welcome new talents from all over the world at our tour-stops. It always has been a central aim of the EFPT to give young riders the chance to gain experience in freestyle windsurfing contests and to be able to compete alongside their idols - the pro riders. Some rookies stand out with their skills, their dedication and their professionalism at a young age. One of the...

Chiemsee Tow-In Show – The Big Final

May 8th, 2016

The ten riders who made it into todays final fleet qualified over the last few days in three intense qualification rounds as everyone was fighting for a place amongst the last top ten who would battle for the top positions in the Chiemsee Tow-In show as well as 3.000€ prize-money. The finalists were a bunch of highly credited riders including several times world-champion Gollito Estredo (Nort...

Chiemsee Tow-In Show – Fleet 2 & 3

May 7th, 2016

Due to the windy conditions on our first competition day we had to postpone one of the qualification fleets and had to run fleet two and three today. The full beach and the sunny weather provided the perfect scenery for the twenty riders who were eager to get into the final tomorrow. Fleet 2 was on the water at 3.00pm with some of the best tow-in riders including 2015 EFPT Tow-In Champion Adam Si...

Chiemsee Tow-In Show – Fleet 1

May 6th, 2016

After an amazing launch for the Surf Worldcup here in Podersdorf with stormy conditions, the region around lake Neusiedl presented itself in a whole different light today. Lots of sunshine and calm weather implied a great start for the Chiemsee Tow-In show with 3.000€ prize-money up for grabs. For the first time in years the waiting list to get into the 30 riders who would be allowed to compete...

Chiemsee Tow-In: showdown in Podersdorf

May 5th, 2016

2016 is the last time that the famous Surf Worlcup will be staged in Podersdorf, Austria before moving to a new venue in 2017. The windsurf week starting from the 4th of May through to the 8th of May had an explosive start with the PWA freestyle competition that was held in winds gusting up to 40 knots on Wednesday. Whilst many riders have been taken to their limits in partly extreme conditions, t...

EFPT tow-in champion Adam Sims: the past season & an outlook for 2016

April 29th, 2016

In 2015 Adam Sims (Sailloft/Patrik) from the UK secured the first overall EFPT Tow-In Champion title that was ever awarded. With a minimum of 3.000€ prize-money to count into the overall ranking of the year, the results of two tow-in events were counted: Podersdorf in the beginning and Holland DAM-X towards the end of the season. The Brit who had a great competition year in 2015 managed to secu...

DAM-X: Brouwersdam confirmes to hold the big final of the EFPT in 2016

April 14th, 2016

We are more than happy to announce that the DAM-X at the Zeil- and Surfcentrum in Brouwersdam will go into the second round in 2016. After a successful launch of DAM-X in 2015, where the organisation team around Pieternel van der Linde and Uwe Jendrusch combined a European Freestyle Pro Tour stop with a great side-program for amateure windsurfers, the sequel will be staged from the 12th through t...

Winners: EFPT Sailor and Rookie of the Year 2015

January 3rd, 2016

For the fourth year now the EFPT Sailor of the Year has been elected. After a selection of European Freestyle Pro Tour riders done by the EFPT crew eight freestyle windsurfers made it into the public voting that has been online on efpt.net. You can read more about the eight nominees here. After the first week it looked like EFPT Champion 2015 Amado Vrieswijk (Severne/JP) would win the race, yet th...

EFPT Sailor of the Year 2015

December 16th, 2015

For the fourth time in a row the European Freestyle Pro Tour is looking for the EFPT Sailor of the Year. Some of the most impressive riders of this season have been nominated by the EFPT crew and eight made it into the final public voting on the efpt.net webpage. After Adam Sims (Patrik/Sailloft) from the UK in 2012, Vladimir Yakovlev (JP/Neilpryde) from Russia in 2013 and Adam Gavriel (Patrik/Sa...

EFPT final 2015 – the movie

November 30th, 2015

A successful season 2015 came to an end for the EFPT with an awesome final stage in Six Fours les Plages, France. Besides some impressive tow-in action and a great freestyle competition, the European Freestyle Expression offered an amazing atmosphere like every year. One more time the Pertusato crew has been responsible for the video production and just released the sum-up clip, or should we rathe...
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