Yann Sorlut: PWA Cabo Verde summary

Here are some pictures and words from RRD rider Yann Sorlut about his experience in PWA Wave competition in Cabo Verde

"Cabo verde is beautifull …but be be careful to the rocs!!! I didn’t break anything in two years there. But the last days of my trip it happened!! Bad timming on the airial and straight to the rocs! One mast, a 5.0 and a board... broken! The most amazing was the board. Broken in the back pads like if you cut it with a big knife. I wa lucky to have not the foot into the strap when that happened!!! About the result, I’m happy. My heats were better and better. My last one was ok with wave-riding with two aerials, but the judge has prefered the style of Jason and Marcillio. Anyway I’m quite happy to end the contest on the 17th place with... Jonas, Victore and Levy!!! I hope to go again there next year!!!
Pictures by Claire Sorlut (my wife)"

New video from Greta Ita-38

Ciao a tutti, costretta da un riposo forzato, finalmente sono riuscita a finire il mio video . Ancora non sò quando potrò tornare in acqua per farne altri perciò mi accontento di gustare i miei ricordi dell'inverno e passo la maggior parte del tempo libero a guardare video di windsurf sognando ad occhi aperti….

Questo è il link di un mio video fatto a Jeri:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j9-fToG42o

Ciao Greta.

Blog www.meteosailing.it/greta

SEB GARAT: New Zealand News.

Hi.

I'm now in New Zealand.

It's a such beautiful place... maybe juste a little too cold for me...

I send you a report from my trip, with some pictures...

Cheers.

Seb

Trip New Zealand

Stance have recently contacted me to organise a Trip in New Zealand.

Since I'm staying in Nouméa, which is only 2 hours from NZ, I decided to be part of the trip.

I landed on Christchurch, (south island) after one stop in Auckland.

That's the end of the summer here in NZ . So it's not so hot, but still possible to ride. Delphine from Stance, who lives in Christchurch has prepared a nice trip for us.

So we stayed 2 days around Christchruch, we went riding some local spots. Then we went 1 days on the Coleridge Lake. Then we drived down to Dunedin. And today, we just arrived in Quennstown, in the middle of the island, around a lake.

Here we can make many « extremes » activities. Everything is in touch with nature : Rafting, Climbling, paragliding, bungees, and of course Kiting on the lake. We are pretty busy for tommorow, like we want to do the bungees jump, and explore the lake to find a great place for Kiting.

Despite that it's cold here, I can say that it's a really beautiful country. And people here are really nice.

You will see our trip in next Stance Magazine, in vidéos and pictures in a few months.

Sébastien GARAT

www.sebgarat.com

Garda Lake winter freestyle session

Some fresh triks from icing Garda waters!!

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L'inverno è oramai alla fine, e le uscite in acqua si fanno più frequenti , anche se le temperature dell'acqua del Lago di garda sono ai minimi storici i freestyler non si fanno scrupoli.

In action Paolo "il nando" Rangaioli con 4.7 e twintip 100lt

foto: Lorenzo windsurfmag.it

Lorenzo Windcam Staff
www.windcam.it

New RRD POZO Kid!!!

Hey RRD crew Look at this!! Omar Sanchez: New RRd Canarian Kid from Pozo Izquierdo Keep an eye on him, since he's an hot ripper!!! Best regards Ricardo

RRDream Team Tarifa

Un abbraccio da Tarifa
dal RRDream Team Tarifa
il Team Manager
Beat

RRD & SIMMER Denmark Wave/Freestyle Tour poster

Mikkel ci ha mandato una gustosa preview del poster del prossimo Tour Wave/Freestyle RRD & Simmer in Danimarca.

Davvero niente male!

Mikel sent us a nice preview of the RRD & SIMMER Denmark Wave/Freestyle Tour poster.
Really cool!

Hi Guys, Here is the new poster for the 2009 wave/freestyle tour. Don’t thinke we can do much better.

Aloha from Maui

Mikkel Asmussen

Skishop
Strandvejen 163
DK-2900 Hellerup
Denmark

TARIFA UPDATES

Hola amigo here you have some photos from the test.

Ah, check Beat website: http://www.dwarf8.com/news_en-367.html

Abel

Some gear on the beach ready to be tested

Abel manages some racing protos...

RRD Stand Up Eleven

Just published on Official RRD website a new World On Line about the new RRD STAND UP PADDLE BOARD Probably on of the smartest boards to think about, looking for the warm and light breeze summer season... more RRD Stand Up boards have to come soon...

Stand Up Eleven "Walking on water" Program: SUP boards

All details, action images and videos are available on the official website www.robertoriccidesigns.com
http://www.robertoriccidesigns.com/y14/#home.surfing.supboards.standupeleven2009

Official World On Line in PDF version is available on World On Line section of the official website
http://www.robertoriccidesigns.com/y14/#home.worldonline

http://www.robertoriccidesigns.com/WOL/WOL-SUP11_2009eng.pdf

New Skyeboy Video

Hi,

Hows it going??

My foot is doing really well now. I have some a really good physio over here in GC who is working on me everyday.
So hopefully it should all be close to perfect by Maui. In the end they say it is a bone bruise, which means it will be painful for a while, but not too bad if I go sailing on it.

I finally finished putting together my video. I am pretty happy with it in the end as there are some different angles and a few really nice transitions. You can check it out on the link below and also from there embed it into the RRD blog. Hope you enjoy it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNY1C4DGnIY

Ok.. hope the RRD family are all well.

Cheers
John

http://www.johnskye.com

Introducing Francisco Fonseca

I'm updating out RRD Windsurfing Team page with some hot RRD national riders.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce Francisco Fonseca, a very talented guy from Portugal, local ripper in praya do Guincho... enjoy it!

Hi,
I just wanted to share with you a bit about me and my windsurfing history. I wrote a small text about me and attached some of my competition results and 1 or two fotos. I´m also sending you some links of Some of my old youtube Videos as well as a video of me (from this summer) that a guy from Guincho made.


My name is Francisco Fonseca.
I started surfing when I was 7 years old and as soon as I turned 10 my father gave me a kid windsurfing rig for children on Christmas, My father taught me to sail, he made windsurf boards at the time and was of the first to windsurf in Portugal. My father would take me to a lagoon near Lisbon to take me sailing whenever he could.
When I turned 12 all I could think about was going to Guincho beach that was much closer to my house and had several good wave sailors as well as some of the most challenging conditions in Europe.
At the Age of 15 I became Junior National Wave Champion, and that was what I was waiting for to be able to ask my parents to go to Hawaii. I found out about the Maui ocean academy and with a lot of economical strain from my parents they agreed to let me go study there for six months.
I Arrived on Maui on January 6th of the year 2000. When I got to the school the two first people I met Alex Mussolini and Baptist Gossein, Alex was also studding at the and Baptise was working. Baptise was the only one with a car license and him, Alex and me would drive down and sail Hookipa every day and that turned out to be the dynamic trio. We would sail hard, always pushing each other and always we would always go out on the biggest days, if it was 2 foot Hookipa we where there, if it was double mast we where there! We became the best of friends. Other good friends were Kauli and Charles another Brazilian that were living on Maui at that time, and with whom we would sail with every day.
I moved back to Guincho for the summer season, becoming Junior Production Board World Champion that summer. And returned to Maui for a month in October to do the Aloha Classic trails(I came in 9th and only top 8 went into the main event). I made it back to Maui another 4 times until 2003 when I had the help of Tabou Boards with my tickets. Then Tabou separated from Bic and that was the end of the budget. So it was another 3 years till I made it back to Hawaii. I travelled closer, Morocco, Cabo Verde, Canaries. At the Age of 18 in the year 2002 I started to study at the university of Marketing and Publicity in Lisbon and finished my course in 2007 having done a few Pwa events when I had the money to go.
With the lack of sponsor support I have never been able to fully achieve my dream of dedicating my self 100% to the PWA Wave World Tour, I think I have the talent and the dedication to achieve good results but I have never really been given a chance.
In 2007 I only did 2 events out of five (Guincho and Brazil) and ended up in a respectable 32ºPLACE in the end of the tour.
My plans for the future are to sail as most as possible push myself and push the sport, I want to do as many travel stories as I can and fully dedicate my self to the progression of wave sailing so as to show the kids how radical and amazing windsurfing can be.
And maybe with a bit of luck ill hopefully find my self one day finishing on the podium of a few PWA wave events.

links:
Francisco New Compilation!!(High Quality)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJBLanRduwQ



mini-video-Portfolio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrTyXgkv3bA



Francisco Televisão(Tv and film 2008),
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcrVYXgUMas



Francisco surf sessions -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJtLjObvdHc



Francisco Fonseca Guincho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq9erQkO9vs



My best regards
Francisc Fonseca P72

Arnaud on YouTube

Ciao Guys,
I uploaded a movie on you tube a while ago.
The movie is called:
Kitesurfing dussen

have a look, and tell me:
what do you think about it?

Ciao
Arnaud

RRD Kiteboarding - test session in Tarifa

Il nostro amico Dr. Beat ci ha mandato qualche link interessante da Tarifa, dove Abel Lago sta testando un po' di nuovi giocattoli Wave e Race assieme a Roberto Ricci e al kite designer Werther Castelletti...
Maggiori dettagli in arrivo!

Our friend Dr. Beat sent us some links with some interesting pictures from Tarifa, with Abel Lago testing full power new Wave and Racing toys together with Roberto Ricci himself and Kite Designer Werther Castelletti...
We'll keep you update...

Check it out

http://www.dwarf8.com/news_en-367.html
http://www.dwarf8.com/news_en-368.html
http://www.dwarf8.com/news_en-369.html

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Movie from Jericoacoara

Hey RRD-guys!

I'm a national rider from Sweden, just got back from Jericoacoara where we had some great action.

Check out the first movie from there shown on this swedish website:
http://www.surfsession.se/film51_SURFSESSION_TV_4.html

SurfsessionTV4 from Stefan Eriksson on Vimeo.

More to come!

Best winds!

Niklas Strahlen

S-4444.com

A couple of shots from South Africa...

Ciao,
ieri mentre ero al laghetto a fare freestyle, mi hanno fatto qualche foto e me le hanno date...
3 o 4 giorni fa invece, la tipa di capesessions.com ha fatto qualche foto ad Hagkat con un albero d'onda. Probabilmente le vuole usare Fabio Calò per Funboard con un articoletto.
Oggi facciamo anche un po' di video...
Vi tengo aggiornati sugli sviluppi...
Ciao Claudio

Some info from Finian

"My family and I are now in Philadelphia waiting for our flight to Maui after three wonderful weeks in the British Virgin Islands. Our time there with my family has been special with some boat trips and also excellent slalom training for the upcoming season. The conditions around the islands are great for the light to medium wind sailing with wind almost everyday and I was blessed to even have a few days of over 30-knots, which is rare in my country. Unfortunately the big (mast-high barreling reef break for 500 meters) swell that arrived on Feb. 19 did not have enough wind to ride, but I tried. Next time and I am happy to see the BVI has some world-class waves. Now it is onto Maui where the final preparations begin for the 2009 world cup slalom and speed seasons. The business end of the year is almost here."

Flo Jung @ Tv report ZDF

Hey guys,

Here a little tv links of a short report in ZDF.

http://heutenacht.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/3/0,1872,1021123,00.html?dr=1

There will be an extended repetition next week at 2 o clock.

Cheers

flo

Hi folks,

Hier ein kleiner Tv link..

http://heutenacht.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/3/0,1872,1021123,00.html?dr=1

Der Beitrag lief gestern bei ZDF. Nächste Sendung kommt in einer anderen
Fassung voraussichtlich in einer Woche bei Drehscheibe Deutschland mittags
um 2 Uhr.

Grüße

Flo