Blog dedicated to surfing, windsurfing & everyhing that surrounds them, with special attention to the beach of Pozo Izquierdo.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

What a level!

First day of the Spanish Cup in Pozo Izquierdo and we have seen an amazing level in the competition, you just have to see the podium, all of the them are copetitors in the World Tour.
The winner of the single eliminarion has been Jonas Ceballos (Simmer/Fanatic) followed by his brother Eleazar Alonso, Philip Koster was third and Dario Ojeda fourth.
Tomorrow at 8:30 skippers meeting for the double elimination.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Live Now

Right now, live from California the 6.0 Lowes Pro, Rob Machado won his second round heat a few minutes ago and Dane Reynolds is right now on the water. To see the live action click on the image.

Everything ready

Everything ready for the Funboard Spanish Cup starting this Friday in Pozo Izquierdo.

Wear sunscreen

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Danger

There's no mast anymore to signal the big rock on the right side of the beach as it broke two weeks ago, now we are having strong tides and the rock is completely covered during the high tide (today two guys crashed against the rock) so be careful if you are sailing in Pozo Izquierdo during the high tide.

Monday, April 27, 2009

New slalom rules

Slalom rules have changed this year, it's not 2 boards 4 sails to choose for every competition anymore, now it's 3 boards and 6 sails for all the year, to see the changes in the PWA Rule Book click here.

Next weekend

Plenty of stuff for next weekend, in Pozo Izquierdo will be the Funboard Spanish Cup, for registration and more information you can visit 2NDREEF, in Tarifa will be the Roxy Girls Camp with the Ruano twins, for more details: MORENOTWINSDOTCOM, and in Austria starts the Slalom World Tour sponsored by DWARF8 .

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Sunday for 4,7-4,2

The day is getting better, now we have good wind for the 4,7 (4,2 for the lighter ones) and some little waves for jumping.

A jacket of 50.000$

Dusty Payne wins the Kustom Air Strike with 50.000$ for an air.

Sunday 26th

The photo is from yesterday, nobody is sailing at the moment today, it’s clouded (with some calima) and flat, but the wind is already there, was lighter early in the morning, but now you can sail wit a 5 or 4,7 but looks like is no hurry on going sailing, maybe is because we had a little overdose of wind yesterday.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Saturday afternoon

Strong wind(3,7) and nearly flat now with the high tide (was full at 14:18), waves are supposed to get better later in the afternoon as the tide goes down.

Saturday 25th

The wind is back.
It’s 10 am, and even though is a bit clouded, the wind looks perfect for the 4,7 so I’m giving a try. Next update at lunch time.

Cafe N-44

Vidar Jensen opened a Cafe in Puerto Rico (south of Gran Canaria) in the shoping center, for more information you can visit his group on Facebook.

Friday, April 24, 2009

More photos

We just posted in the section PHOTOS a few more shots from the last days.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Anne-Marie joins Simmer

Anne-Marie Reichman joins the Simmer team, for more information you can visit Simmer Sails website or Anne-Marie's one.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Other options

When the wind is strong in Pozo you can always find lighter winds along the coast.
For more information about the best spots arround the island, you can visit our Spot Guide.

Tuesday 21st

Nuclear winds again in Pozo, at lunch time was just one sail on the water, Dario Ojeda's Simmer Icon 3,7.

Monday, April 20, 2009

7 surfers

Seven surfers have won the first two events of the tour in the past (as Joel Parkinson just did on the Gold Coast and Bells Beach), Mark Richards in 1979, Cheyne Horan in 1982, Hans Hedemann in 1983, Tom Carroll in 1985, Tom Curren in 1986 and 1990, Sunny Garcia in 2000 and Kelly Slater in 1997, 2006 and 2008.
All of them except Horan and Hederman, went on to win the title that year, will this be Joel Parkinson's year?

Sunday, April 19, 2009

High water

From the creators of Step Into Liquid, comes High Water, soon on theaters.

More photos from Saturday's session

We just posted some new photos from yesterday's session at Las Salinas de Arinaga, if you want to see them, click here.

Billabong XXL awards

Last Friday were given the Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards 2009, you can see the feature and winner's videos on Surfline or if you prefer to see all the nominees videos yo can go to Billabong XXL.

Sunday on 3,7

Strong winds in Pozo from early morning and still some south swell on the area.

Afternoon session

Great afternoon of saliling with the last waves of the south swell.
We will update the sailing conditions in the area tomorrow morning.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Wind and waves

South swell and trade winds on offer today, good wind in Pozo but not the best, some spots arround the corner are a really good option today.

Cutre on facebook


We are now on facebook... join our group here.

SUP in Pozo

Aleix and DarĆ­o having fun with the Stand Up Paddle.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Forecast

Forecast looks really good for sunday and all the upcoming week.
:)

Longskate

Day with variable winds in Pozo, and even though late in the afternoon the wind picked up and some people were sailing with 4,7 we opted to surf down the street.

Four Dimensions

New video on the making. Peter Svensson and Andree Paskowski are producing a new video with the riders Vƭctor FernƔndez, JosƩ "Gollito" Esteredo, Marcilio Browne and Andree Paskowski himself.
For more information: www.fourdimensionsmovie.blogspot.com

Best design

On-line magazine www.boardseekermag.com had a poll to decide which sail had the best graphic design, and the most voted one was the Simmer Mission, followed by her sister, the Simmer Icon.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Sunday in Las Salinas (2)

We just added in the section Photos, some new shots from last Sunday in Las Salinas de Arinaga.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Las Salinas 1992

We just recieved those classic photos from our friend Claus, from Club Mistral. Those photos were taken in 1992 by Dario, and as you can see the harbour wasn't there yet. The guys from Club Mistral were the first ones going to Las Salinas for windsurfing lessons.

Perfect Bells Beach live now

Perfect waves for the second round of the mens competition starting in 10 minutes, for the really fanatic ones, Kelly's heat will be at 2:00 am (canarian time), click on the image above to see the webcast.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Sunday in Las Salinas

Perfect ending for a windy Easter week, we had wind every single day of the week, and spent the Sunday in the friendly spot of Las Salinas de Arinaga, strong wind, flat water and amazing people having a great day at the beach.
In the next days we will publish a complete report of the spot.

Sunday at noon

The day started with clouds and inconsistent winds, but right now the clouds have gone and the wind looks pretty stable, like for 4,7-4,2.
By the way, today in El Pais (spanish newspaper) supplement it's a really nice 8 pages article with photos of waves, mostly shooted from inside the barrel.

A pot of wind at the end of the rainbow

After all day with inconsistent winds, late in the afernoon, with an amazing rainbow, the wind turned a few degrees and picked up just enough for a late session with the 4,7 (the kid on the yellow Simmer was on 3,7 but that's another story).

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Bells Beach live now

Just starting women's quarter finals (23:00 Canary Islands time). Click on the image to go to the site.

Improving conditions

Having a coffee in El Viento waiting for the conditions to improve. Right now is 4,7-4,2 (still gusty but better than yesterday) and some of the local wave spots are starting to break.

Friday, April 10, 2009

2010 sails, Maui Photoshoot

The guys from Mauiwindsurfing just posted a few recent videos from the photoshoots at Hookipa for the 2010 sails.

Photos from Fernando Sanchez

Our friend and good photographer Fernando SƔnchez just updated his website with some great photos from the last days in Pozo and the Spanish windsrurfing tour last weekend in Tenerife.

Looking for waves

When we have strong wind in Pozo but it's nearly flat, is time to drive along the coast, you can have a nice surprise just arround the corner.

4,7-4,2 and a litte bit gusty

The clouds have gone, perfect day in the 4,7-4,2 range, a little bit gusty, but warm enough to start using the shory.

Still windy

The day started slow, with light to moderate winds, a little bit too north (which means gusty in Pozo) and with big clouds, but the wind picked up (I'm rigging 4,2 as soon as I post this) and the clouds are starting to leave.
The forecast says we are having strong winds again this afternoon.

New photos


New photos in the gallery Daily photos.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Kite sculpture?

Yesterday’s strong winds performed a significant transformation to the windsurfing sculpture in the avenue in front of the beach in Pozo Izquierdo.

Picaresque

New video from Mikey Detemple, a little wonder of creativity and aestheticism, characteristics we usually miss in windsurfing videos.

Thursday with wind and waves

Great sailing condirions this morning, with sails in the 3,7-4,2 range, and waves arround half mast on the sets.
As we can see in this second image, the nuclear winds we had yesterday, caused some little damages.

New website for Victor Fernandez

Vƭctor FernƔndez just started a brand new website: www.victore42.com

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Strong wind

3,7 and 3,4 were the norm today, really strong winds for tomorrow too, but slowing down a little bit for thursday, and still windy the rest of the week.

Spanish windsurfing tour in Pozo Izquierdo

The "Gran Premio Secondreef Copa de Espana", will be in Pozo Izquierdo the first weekend of May. For more information you can visit www.2ndreef.com.

Robby at Hookipa


A little jump from Robby "The Legend" last week at Hookipa.

Spanish WIndsurfing Tour Video

Alessio Stillrich just posted in his blog, a small video from the event of the Spanish Windsurfing Tour in Tenerife last weekend.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach

Tonight starts the waiting period for the most classic ASP surf event, the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach, for live coverage and more information click here.

Forecast


The forecast looks really good for all the week, and kind of epic for tuesday-wendesday.
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