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LOWDOWN – SEVERNE FOX
Severne have been making waves with their entry into the windsurf board market. We catch up with Severne head shaper James Hooper to get the lowdown on (…)
PEOPLE AND PLACES – CANARY SUMMER
What did you do last summer? Irish youth sailor Finn Mellon, swapped his school-books for the sun and wind of the Canary Islands. Read on as he (…)
THOMAS TRAVERSA – PERSPECTIVE
FULL POWER Thomas Traversa only has one setting – ‘Full Power’. Here he hits a super technical aerial hard on a rough Ho’okipa lip. JC captures the (…)
PHILIP KÖSTER – ROAD TO RECOVERY!
With two back to back wins at the opening events of the 2017 PWA wave tour, Philip Köster has made a scintillating start to his return to (…)
PWA SLALOM – NO RULES
In the aftermath of the 2017 PWA slalom event at Fuerteventura, where two sailors were badly injured, debate raged as to the ‘no rules’ nature of modern (…)
LENA ERDIL – FEMALE FORCE
Are men and women treated the same in professional windsurfing? Could windsurfing be doing more to encourage women into the sport? They are challenging questions that require (…)
MORENO TWINS – SWOT ANALYSIS
No one knows the Moreno twins better than ….the Moreno twins! The multiple world champions grew up together, compete together and have dominated women’s wave sailing in (…)
MAUI – NOKA’OI
Hawaiians have a saying, ‘Maui nō ka ‘oi’ – Maui is the best – to praise their beloved island of Maui. Since modern windsurfing began, Maui has (…)
MARCILIO BROWNE – HOW TO TABLE TOP
Want to know how to do a table top – 2 x PWA World Champion Marcilio Browne tells us how. Words Marcilio Browne // Action photos Fish (…)
LOWDOWN – RRD COMPACT WAVE
Inflatable SUPs transformed SUP sales with their portability and compact storage and kitesurfers regularly cite the compact nature of their kit as one of the reasons for (…)
SLALOM FINS – THE LEADING EDGE
Slalom fins are the tyres that shoe the Formula 1 boards of our sport and racers cherish them with an almost unhealthy obsession! A good slalom fin (…)
PERSPECTIVE – PHILIP KOSTER
FLIGHT OF A CHAMPION He came, he soared, he conquered. Philip Koster well and truly shook the demons of a knee injury off his back at Gran (…)
MOTIVATE MOTIVATE
Motivation – some say you are born with it, others acquire it, but almost everyone needs it to be successful in windsurfing. So what are the secret (…)
PERSPECTIVE – ALEIX SANLLEHY GONZALEZ
LIGHTROOM Barcelona sailor – Aleix Sanllehy Gonzalez, CAT 555, gets twisted over the lip at Ho’okipa as JC’s lens finds its target through the rays of light (…)
ISLE OF LEWIS – MIDSUMMER MADNESS
Summer in the UK doesn’t mean an end to wavesailing or that you need to fly to find world class waves – if you are prepared to (…)