At he moment single and double eliminations completed in the freestyle discipline, and four slaloms completed too.
Provisional results:
Freestyle:
1-Taty Frans
2-Kiri Thode
3-Tonky Frans
4-Gollito Esteredo
Slalom:
1-Antoine Albeau
2-Björn Dunkerbeck
3-Cyril Moussilmani
4-Micah Buzianis
5-Julien Quentel
For all the information and photos: www.pwaworldtour.com
It was a time when windsurfing with short boards was called FUNboard, here you have some pictures of people having FUN. By the way, they're big enough in case someone wants to use them as desktop wallpaper.
When I’ve seen the seeding for the wave discipline at Sylt, I couldn’t believe my eyes. In the great final of the season, the Sylt Super Grand Slam, the event that will decide the wave world champion, Josh Angulo and Kauli Seadi, numbers one and two in the race for the title, are in the same side of the draw, in case both advance trough their heats, they will met in the quarter finals. And that’s not all, because among the top seeds, so already in the second round, there are such names as Nik Baker and Jason Polakow, how is this possible? They’re not even doing the tour! Is it a joke? As I absolutely couldn’t believe it, I checked the PWA rulebook (part 3).
These are the rankings in the waves discipline before Sylt:
| Cabo Verde | Gran Canaria | Sylt | Total | |
| 2100 | 1787 | - | 3887 | |
| 2-Kauli Seadi | 2067 | 1787 | - | 3854 |
| 3-Thomas Traversa | 1902 | 1787 | - | 3689 |
| 4-Ricardo Campello | 1622 | 2034 | - | 3656 |
| 5-Robby Swift | 1820 | 1787 | - | 3607 |
| 6-Victor Fernandez | 1523 | 2067 | - | 3590 |
| 7-Ross Williams | 1935 | 1655 | - | 3590 |
| 8-Kevin Pritchard | 2034 | 1457 | - | 3491 |
| 9-Marcilio Browne | 2001 | 1457 | - | 3458 |
| 10-Klaas Voget | 1523 | 1886 | - | 3409 |
| 11-Jonas Ceballos | 1391 | 2001 | - | 3392 |
| 12-Dario Ojeda | 1391 | 1968 | - | 3359 |
| 13-Daniel Bruch | 1259 | 1886 | - | 3145 |
| 14-Alex Mussolini | 1127 | 1935 | - | 3062 |
| 15-Phil Horrocks | 1259 | 1655 | - | 2914 |
As you can see, despite a poor performance in Pozo, Josh Angulo is leading the rankings before the last event at Sylt. That means it’s up to him becoming world champion this year for the second time in his career, or if it’s no wind and waves during the event he would be world champion.
The truth is that the forecast looks good for Sylt, so with a bit of luck we will see a great battle for the championship, because it’s still wide open, the guys who did good in Cabo Verde did bad in Gran Canaria and vice versa, so we expect some amazing wave action in the last event of the season.
Philip Köster despite wining in Pozo Izquierdo is out of the title race because he didn’t compete in Cabo Verde (he was injured) but is one of the favourites to win the event at Sylt and can be one of the defining factors in the run for the title, because he is not one of the top seeds, so he can be a hard match un in the early rounds.
Bet, we will send a Cutre polo shirt, from the limited edition “only for windsurfers” to the one having more sailors in the top 6 in the wave discipline in Sylt, so just pick the 6 riders (in order) you think will be at the top and send us a coment here (with your e-mail) or send us an e-mail to blog@cutre.com, just one try per person.
Open till the start of the first wave heat sometime between September 25th and October 4th: www.pwaworldtour.com
Just started the 7th event of the surfing world championship (WCT) in a clouded and glassy morning with some nice waves in the south west coast of France.
It's funny how a single windsurfing session, each person perceives it differently, for some was light, for others gusty, for some just perfect, others say too much choppy, for some it was great... definitely Fernando (in the picture) was having fun and has given us today this "cover shot".
The day started glassy and with some small waves, but right now, we have a good 20 knots and a promising session for this afternoon with the tide going down.
Someone from the Canary Islands is 3rd at FantasySurfer, the famous surf league from the american Surfer magazine, with mote than17.000 participants around the world.
Mick Fanning wins the final against Dane Reynolds at the Hurley Pro in Lower Trestles, California, and takes home the biggest prize money in surf history, 105.000 $ and goes from 7th to 2nd in the overall ASP rankings, just behing Joel Parkinson who is leading the tour despite a bad result in the Hurley Pro.
Sunsets like the one in the picture, clearly indicate the summer is gone (we never have sunsets like this with the trade winds).
It is a champion to be crowned today in the Hurley Pro 2009 at Lower Trestles, California.
The readers of SURFER magazine, vote for the best surfing photo of the year, go to the WEBSITE to watch all that amazing photographs, it´s some incredible stuff.
No matter what Windguru says when you see a sunset like this in Gran Canaria (photo taken yesterday), get your surfboard ready.
The spanish surfing magazine 3sesenta from this monts, has a spread page about the wave of Arguieguin and the project that would destroy the wave.
Japanese Motors - Single Fins & Safety Pins from Vice Records on Vimeo.
I think we can say the Japanese Motors are one most prominent bands of the actual "Surfmusic", even more when the singer, Alex Knost is one of the best surfers of the actual longboard scene.
At 16:00 (canarian time) starts day 3 of the Hurley Pro, and I absolutely recommend not missing at least the first 3 heats of the day:
Magnificent afternoon today in Pozo Izquierdo. No spectacular conditions at all, wind for 4,7 (4,2 for the light ones) and flat, but such a nice afternoon; warm, absolutely blue sky and just a few guys on the water, so I went in the water just for some freeride pictures from my friends having fun. Of course when some of your friends are Aleix, Dario or Philip, you can have more action than the expected according to the conditions.
For more information, photos and videos, you can visit his own BLOG.
Just started the Hurley Pro at Trestles, California, all this afternoon and evening you can watch live from California, the best surfers in the world in of of the finest point breaks of the world.
Although the forecast wasn't very good, the fact is that now in Pozo Izquierdo people are sailing with sails between 4.7 and 4.2 in a really nice to windsurf in trunks.
