Tag: tow-in

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 2

May 1st, 2015

Day two at the Chiemsee European Tow-In Championships started with the second qualification round that included some of the best freestyle windsurfers in the world, amongst them current World Champion Gollito Estredo (North/Fanatic) from Venezuela, who won the first edition of the Chiemsee Tow-In Championship in 2012, Taty Frans (Starboard) and Youp Schmit from Bonaire as well as tow-in expert Jul...

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...

EFE – Day 2

October 31st, 2014

Day 2 at the EFE unfortunately didn't see any wind, yet a day packed with alternative program for the riders and the specators. After the skippers meeting at 10.00 in the morning a training session with the coach of Adrien Bosson (North/Fanatic) has been organised. Many riders got involved in the power-hour outdoors. Silvain motivated the group to give everything in the long warm-up run over the ...

EFE – Registration Day

October 30th, 2014

For the third time in a row, an EFPT stage is hosted at the shores of Six Fours les Plages. For the second time now it will be the place where the European champion will be crowned. This year there has been a notable recognition amongst the crew and the riders about how much the event has been growing year by year. After increasing the international interest in the event by raising the prize-mo...

EFPT Lanzarote – Day 4

July 12th, 2014

At day 4 of the EFPT Lanzarote the chance of running the freestyle event seemed to be higher than at all the other days of competition despite the very low forecast of only eight knots. Around lunchtime the wind seemed to increase leaving crew, riders and organization with the hopes of being able to run at least the first eight heats of the single elimination to get a result. The scheduled tow-in ...