In this issue

SENSATIONS - Windsup Special – Tests, Technique & Adventure, Fanatic’s Cape Town Camp, Pwa Slalom Japan, Antoine Albeau Profile, La Palme Speed Challenge, Kevin Pritchard’s Highs And Lows, Fast Track Learning To Windsurf, Starboard’s Eco Board, Aussie Rules Wavesailing, Lena Erdil’s Travel Essentials.

Aussie Rules!

Malcom Bonzer is a ‘true blue Aussie’ and guest ‘fake news’ reporter this issue on a very alternative type of windsurfing contest. Crass, crude and definitely not P.C., read on as Malcom tells us more with his tongue firmly bolted to his cheek.

6 mins

La Palme Speed Challenge

Les Salins, La Palme, France was the location this spring for a world speed sailing record attempt from March 12 - April 30. Sanctioned as a private record attempt by the WSSRC (world speed sailing record council). World and national speed sailing record holders and a select band of invited sailors made the journey to the South of France to try out a new canal by its designer, UK speed sailing legend, Erik Beale. We caught up with Erik and fellow Brits, Zara Davis and Farrel O’Shea to learn more about the new addition to the speed event calendar.

7 mins

Highs And Lows

Multiple world champion Kevin Pritchard has been competing for over two decades. Far from retiring, he is still on the podium and winning against sailors half his age. A seasoned professional, he has encountered the full range of emotions, good and bad, an athlete faces in their career. He shares with us some of his personal highs and lows of windsurfing competition and the experiences that have shaped him.

6 mins

All Or Nothing

Known for his all or nothing approach, Antoine Albeau needs little introduction. Multiple world titles and an icon of our sport; he is and always will be a windsurfing legend. Last year saw him lose his PWA world champion crown but gain a son. At such a significant time in his life, a reflective Antoine shares his thoughts with John Carter on the current state of slalom, foiling, winning and family.

10 mins

The Power Of Choice

For such a sport that is so dependent on nature, windsurfing so far has done very little to look at the environmental cost of the production of its equipment. Starboard wants to change that and is leading the charge through reduction of plastics in its packaging and use of environmentally friendly materials where possible. Recent Starboard signing, Flo Jung, tells us about their latest venture to produce an eco-friendly board using Balsa and discusses the challenges of meeting windsurfing’s obligation for more sustainable choices.

4 mins

Staghunt

When Chris ‘Muzza’ Murray has his stag do, you just know there is going to be a story worth telling! George Shillito tells the tale and provides us with some inspiration for alternative stags and WindSUP adventures.

9 mins

Rising Appeal

When we conducted our review on WindSUPs last year, we didn’t anticipate the amount of interest it would whip up. This year windsurfing foils will try to come in and steal the limelight, yet we’re still hedging our bets for the WindSUP to win out in the popularity stakes. So why the grip of attention - what is the appeal? We sent our test team in to investigate the developments on the market for 2017.

4 mins

Quick Learner

It’s a popular public misconception that learning to windsurf takes a while. Reader Elise Gire shares her own rather faster track approach of learning from up-hauling all the way through to short board sailing, water start, harness, footstraps and jibing in 50 days on the water! Granted this was in Maui, but it still shows with some dogged determination what can be achieved! The story doesn’t end there; Elise is now sailing in the waves and planning to enter her first wave competition. Read on for excerpts from the diary she kept during the first fifty days of her windsurf journey and an inspiring tale!

6 mins

Getting Kids Hooked

Can you remember the first time you stepped onto a board? As a wind surfer seeing your children taking their very own first steps into the sport can be magical - those moments that plant the seeds we hope will blossom into a future love for windsurfing. With equipment, instruction and clothing developing all the time for younger children, knowing where to start can be a bit of a minefield. Fortunately the RYA have it covered, here are some fantastic opportunities which will make it easy for you to get your little people out on the water and loving it.

3 mins

Nostalgia Ain't What It Used To Be

Harty warns against the imagined joy of the good ol’ days of the travelling windsurfer.

5 mins

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