Tag: Tonky Frans

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...

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...

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...

EFPT Lanzarote: Sunday-funday

July 12th, 2015

After four very successful competition days, where we were able to run two full double eliminations, the prize-giving took place yesterday evening at the beach bar of the Melia Salinas, the high class hotel and one of the sponsors of the event. With action that has never been seen like this at other freestyle events, the organisers as well as the sponsors were more than happy with the outcome and ...

EFPT Lanzarote – Final Day

July 11th, 2015

The final competition day at the EFPT event in Lanzarote started with very moody skies but sailable conditions from the morning onwards. The horn of the first heat of the double elimination went off just before 11.00am and we were able to run the whole competition through with the sailors on their 4.8's in the beginning but soon chaning down to 4.4's. One of the riders of the day has definit...

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...

Chiemsee European Tow-In Championship – The Final

May 3rd, 2015

After the whole Saturday was all under the sign of the PWA freestyle competition as riders and crew were trying to make the best out of the conditions and to get a result, the tow-in finals got postponed to Sunday afternoon. 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 las...

Chiemsee European Tow-In Championship – Day 1

April 30th, 2015

With a weather forecast that predicts the chance of wind on the weekend the EFPT race directory decided to run two of the qualification rounds for the final already today. Fleet number three provided some surprises and didn't disappoint at the same time. Local rider Max Matissek (North/Fanatic), who is a big star here on site, was carried through both of his runs by the cheering crowd at the beac...

Chiemsee European Tow-In Championship

April 29th, 2015

The Chiemsee European Tow-In Championship will take place for the fourth time at the Surf Worldcup Podersdorf, Austria from the 30th of April through to the 2nd of May 2015. In 2012 the brand Chiemsee began the movement of tow-in windsurfing, calling upon the best 30 freestylers in the world to show their moves in zero wind. Since then thousands of people have enjoyed the show that takes place dur...

The EFPT final 2014 – the EFE upgrades to 10.000€ prize-money

September 24th, 2014

For the second time in a row Six Fours les Plages will be the place where the final of the European Freestyle Pro Tour is going to happen. The organization on site, under the head organizer Fred Bosson, has been a loyal partner of the tour for the past years and managed to grow their event the European Freestyle Expression (EFE) year by year. Since the last two years have been 5.000€ prize-mo...