In this issue

The Great Escape: Sylt’s cruel seas, Tested - 2020 5.0 Wave Sails & 95 litre Crossover Boards, Yentel Caers & Pierre Mortefon interviews, UK Comp. Reports, How-to body drag & layback jump, Sarah Hauser at Cloudbreak, 2020 World Travel Guide, Lough Neagh.

THE GREAT ESCAPE

There’s a saying that we travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. Windsurfing occupies that same space. For most of us it’s a release from the order of the everyday routine; order has its place, but a bit of wrestling with the wind and spray in your face helps keep it all in balance.

3 mins

THE CRUEL SEA

The German leg of the 2019 PWA wave world tour once again showed Sylt’s reputation as a formidable contest arena. It is a maker or breaker of dreams; a cruel sea. JC gets the thoughts of some of the top pros on the challenges of the North Sea.

10+ mins

YENTEL CAERS B-16

With a dense population of 10.5 million and a relatively small coastline, Belgium is famous for brussel sprouts, over 1100 types of beer, praline chocolate, waffles, inventing french fries and three PWA freestyle world champions - Steven Van Broeckhoven, Dieter Van Der Eyken and more recently Yentel Caers, who just won the title at the Sylt world cup event in October 2019. Ever keen to get the scoop, JC tracked a tired but ecstatic Yentel down the morning after his maiden title win to find out a few secrets behind this amazing Belgium freestyle success story.

10+ mins

Dream It, Do It

Sarah Hauser has had the long lefts of Cloudbreak, Fiji on her bucket list for a while and on the eve of her 30th birthday decided to turn dreams into reality, pressing the button on a ticket to ride its fabled waves. She tells us more about her successful adventure to the South Pacific.

4 mins

Champion Du Monde

After one of the greatest battles in PWA slalom history, which boiled right down to the final race of the 2019 season, 30-year-old French racer Pierre Mortefon took the world title after an epic showdown with Matteo Iachino. John Carter caught up with an emotional Pierre moments after he had clinched the victory for his initial reaction and we get the thoughts of his sponsors on what makes Pierre one of the world’s best.

5 mins

TIREE #34

The Tiree Wave Classic’s 34th year started calm but ended with a bang! Event photographer Richard Whitson gives us the scoop on a highlight of the UK wave competition scene.

6 mins

The Final!

The British Wavesailing Association 2019 titles came down to the final event in Cornwall and it didn’t disappoint! Mark Dowson rounds up the action and John Carter speaks to men’s pro champion Phil Horrocks.

6 mins

A Windy One!

2019’s Weymouth Speed Week was hailed by organisers as one of the windiest ever! Pete Davis tells us how it all went down!

5 mins

The Inland Sea

Known as Ulster’s inland sea, Lough Neagh is the largest freshwater lake in the UK and Ireland, Finn Mullen tells more about its history and windsurfing.

6 mins

Redefining Expectations

In windsurfing, the hunt for versatility in performance is nothing new. Ever since the excitement and freedom of short board windsurfing (or funboarding as it used to be known) took hold, the desire to find a board for all conditions has become an eternal quest. There have been some notable exponents along the way, and as new disciplines emerge, new directions in design have crystallised. There is of course always the risk that, in asking too much during the design brief stage, a product becomes the master of its own demise, fulfilling the undesirable motif of “Jack”, being ‘okay’ in all trades yet a master of none. It’s a place that will ultimately only lead to an end destination of mediocrity and historical obscurity.

10+ mins

The Power To Express

The eternal quest or Holy Grail in wave sail design is to find the perfect balance between useable power and control. And a good place to start, it seems, is to make the sail as physically as light as possible without compromising durability. We sourced eleven of the latest offerings and handed them over to the team to put them through their paces.

10+ mins

Waves Of Change

Sarah Hauser wasn’t the only sailor with Fiji on their bucket list. Florian Jung scratched the itch on his desire to make a trip to the South Pacific and tells us how he found perfect waves but left with a changed perspective.

6 mins

2020 World Travel Guide

Don’t worry, it’s natural, the middle of winter hasyou looking longingly at the bedroom light bulb, wishing it was a beaming sun and you were lying under the palm trees instead of buried beneath an electric blanket with a hot water bottle. We get it, you need a trip and it needs to be a warm one, so we’ve brought in the big guns for advice - Sportif Travel and Planet Windsurf Holidays give us their top 5 windsurf spots and we give micro guides to some choice windsurfing destinations. Warning – the next couple of pages have nothing but sunny shores to explore, if you can’t stand the heat, it’s probably best to get a pair of scissors out!

10+ mins

The Body Drag

Old Skool it may be …but in truth the body drag has never lost its cool. Revelling in his specialist subject, Harty uncovers the secrets behind this classic stunt.

10 mins

Move On Up - The Layback Jump

This month we throw our heads back for the layback jump. It’s a move which feels both weird and great, gives you better in-flight control, offers a great new perspective on jumping and also gives you a head start towards some of the backwards-rotating jumps which involve head movements. Essentially to achieve this move you are looking to perform a vertical jump trajectory and during same, pull the boom in and arch back to look straight behind you as you’re going up so you can check out the beach action, any photographers or your mate lying in the water! You can really build up how much you lean back, and go more vertical, as you do more and gain more confidence, you will also become more oriented and furthermore your steering and landing skills will steadily improve.

2 mins

Latest And Greatest

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6 mins

Do What You Love

The RYA tell us how you could turn your favourite hobby into a career?

3 mins

In Defence Of A Small Industry

Harty poses the question of how, in a modern world, does windsurfing stack up against other industries?

4 mins

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