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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...

Final day at the EFE: A new European Champion

November 1st, 2015

The horn of the first heat of the double elimination here at the European Freestyle Expression in Six Fours les Plages went off around 12.00am. The forecasted wind filled in even faster than the day before and delivered suitable conditions for the competition. Many riders were longing to improve their positions of the single elimination and were highly motivated to fight their way up in the ranki...

The EFE 2015 – Competition Day

October 31st, 2015

With an amazing forecast for the day the skippers meeting was schedulded for 9.00am to guarantee to possibility to use the whole day for the freestyle race. The offshore easterly wind started to fill in around lunch time and the first heat of the day could be launched at 12.30 am. The changing conditions were quite difficult with rather light and gusty winds in the competition area that was locat...

The EFE 2015 – Day 2

October 30th, 2015

Just as expected we started off day two at the European Freestyle Expression with beautiful calm weather - the perfect conditions for a tow-in competition to impress the big audience at the beach of Six Fours les Plages. 14 riders signed up to stomp some big maneuvres at Brutal Beach and give everyone an idea what's possible in freestyle windsurfing nowadays. Every rider got two runs: one straigh...

The EFE 2015 – Day 1

October 29th, 2015

After four successful freestyle events in 2015, the EFPT set up stage at Brutal Beach in the South of France for the final tour-stop this year. It has been a tough battle for the top positions in the overall ranking throughout the whole season with big names like Amado Vrieswijk (Severne/JP), Adrien Bosson (North/Fanatic), Yentel Caers (JP/Neilpryde) and Steven Van Broeckhoven (JP/Neilpryde) regul...

DAM-X: Competition Day

October 11th, 2015

On the final day of the DAM-X event here at the Zeil- and Surfcentrum in Brouwersdam the wind finally kicked in already early in the morning. For several hours the conditions were suitable for 5.2s. Just around midday the wind dropped to then leave everyone praying for it to come back in the evening. It did. In the end and just before sunset we could award an event winner who hasn't been on a firs...

DAM X: Day 4

October 10th, 2015

Since the wind forecast didn't look too bad for today and the hopes were high to continue with the next round of the single elimination the skippers meeting has been schedulded for 10.00 am. With clearing up weather the wind slighty increased until midday and then unfortuantely dropped off completely. Race director Tom Hartmann used the time though to prepare the whole crew and the contest area f...

DAM-X: Day 3

October 9th, 2015

After two exciting tow-in qualification rounds yesterday, the last 12 riders of fleet number three were battling for the three remaining spots in the grand final this evening. Tow-in round three saw some of the best tow-in competitors in Europe and a few rookies that still showed a mega impressive performance. 15 year old Wave Antonia (Starboard) and Richard Richie (Starboard) from Curacao had no...
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