Tag: Adam Sims

STARBOARD STEPPING UP TO TURN THE EFPT CARBON POSITIVE

March 19th, 2021

After starting the carbon offsetting cooperation with Starboard in 2019, we are excited to announce that with their support we will be able to make the whole European Freestyle Pro Tour not only carbon neutral for 2021 but to even turn the tour carbon positive! 75 TONS OF CO2 = 75 PLANTED MANGROVES IN 2019 In 2019 Starboard HQ introduced the EFPT with the idea of turning the whole tour carbon ne...
Adam Sims Fuerteventura

Adam Sims Shredit

August 4th, 2020

Have you ever wondered how one of the favorite training playground for the international freestyle elite would look like without the crowds? Check out Adam Sims (Sailloft/Patrik) latest Shredit - a GoPro only edit of his training period in Fuerteventura this July. Adam stated: 'Epic conditions on Fuerteventura after 3 months lockdown. Early season with restricted travel meant that it was a ghos...

What is Aircamp?

February 29th, 2020

The first rule of aircamp: always talk about aircamp. To everyone. Watch this short movie by Mothy Media starring Dudu Levi (Gunsails/Starboard), Julian Wiemar (Severne/Starboard), Adam Sims (Sailloft/Patrik) and Julian Dorer ripping in South Africa and find out about the remaining three rules of aircamp. That's what we know so far aircamp is big, aircamp is everywhere, everybody can join aircamp ...

Mondial du Vent – Day 1

April 18th, 2018

At 10.00 am this morning the last part of the registration was finished. 21 riders signed for the first freestyle event of the season at the beautiful beaches of Leucate. The five French riders including top sailors Antony Ruenes, Nico Akgazciyan and Sam Esteve (JP/Neilpryde) and the young guns Nil Bacon Aubert (Severne/Starboard) and Romain Le Gouez (Northsails) are ready to take on the remaining...

The first freestyle event of the season – MdV Day 1

April 17th, 2018

It is this time of the year again and the freestyle windsurfers reconnect after weeks and months of winter training at some of the best spots worldwide, to match each other at the first freestyle event of the year. This season is launched with the EFPT stop at the Mondial du Vent in Leucate, France. The event gained recognition over the past 20 years by providing a perfect organisation, an amazing...

Adam Sims – Taking event videography to the next level

June 25th, 2017

Adam Sims, pro windsurfer from the UK, is the man behind the EFPT video-production, which was first launched in 2017. Being a freestyle competitor and passionate videographer for many years, the Sailloft and Patrik Diethelm team-rider knows exactely what it takes to produce an action loaded clip, that would not only fascinate the windsurfing community, but also the world beyond it. We caught up wi...

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...

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...

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...

Martini EFPT Croatia – The event movie

August 15th, 2015

The Martini EFPT Croatia took place from the 7th-10th of August 2015 on the beautiful peninsula of Peljecak, Croatia at the Surf Klub Tri Strijele in Perna. 16 riders participated in the third stop of the European Freestyle Pro Tour to join the ongoing fight for this years title. Unfortunately only half a single elimination could be run, yet there has been a lot of nice tow-in action going on with...

EFPT Lanzarote – Day 3

July 10th, 2015

At day number three of the EFPT Lanzarote 2015, the spot at Costa Teguise could prove its full potential and delivered amazing conditions for the whole competition. With an early start at 9.30am the first double elimination could be finished as well as the second single elimination, but first things first... Already at the start of the double in the morning the riders could take their 4.4s for a ...

EFPT Lanzarote – Day 2

July 9th, 2015

We started into day number two here at the EFPT Lanzarote with amazing wind conditions in the morning and a forecast that would guarantee an action-packed day with the remaining heats of the single elimination. The competition kicked off with a resail of Marco Lufen (JP/Neilpryde) from Germany against Dmitry Tertyshnyy (RRD) from Russia. The young German sailor was absolutely killing it by sendin...

EFPT Lanzarote – Day 1

July 8th, 2015

27 riders of 16 nations registered today for the second stage of the EFPT Lanzarote taking place from the 8th - 12th of July at the shores of Costa Teguise. Next to many experienced EFPT riders like Adrien Bosson (North/Fanatic), Mattia Fabrizi (North/Fanatic), Yentel Caers (JP/Neilpryde) and Amado Vrieswijk (Severne/JP) just to name a few, we are delighted to also have see some new faces and eve...

DAM-X : The EFPT goes to the Netherlands

June 2nd, 2015

We are delighted to announce that the EFPT DAM-X event taking place in Brouwersdam, Holland from the 7th through the 11th of October 2015 could be confirmed. The top organisation team around Pieternel Van der Linde and Uwe Jendrusch have been working around the clock to make this happen at the Surf- and Zeilcentrum in Brouwersdam, which is supposed to be one of the best freestyle spots around Euro...

Milos Beach Lefkada Freestyle Open – Day 3

May 31st, 2015

With a wind forecast that left us with low expectations for the morning, the skippers meeting was once again set for 12.00am. What we learned by now though is that this place is full of surprises when it comes to the weather conditions. Already shortly after midday Milos Beach delivered the famous thermical wind of Lefkada. The first possible start was timed for 2.00pm. The riders looked powered ...