The 2012 PWA Sylt World Cup - Day Five (All Times
You can see a list of the equipment the slalom sailors have registered HERE. Wave Judging Criteria: 14 minute heats with 2 wave and 0 jumps to count. Watch the event LIVE on our dedicated LIVE Page by CLICKING HERE. 18:21 The heat has been cancelled as the wind has disappeared again. That's the end of the action today, congratulations to Jose 'Gollito' Estredo for winning the men's freestyle double elimination. The skippers meeting for all of the disciplines tomorrow will be at 10am with the first possible start at 10:30. Thanks for tuning into the ticker today. 18:20 This will be the last heat of the day 18:18 Women's Heat 48 is now sailing - Jaggi vs Wahl 18:17 Results Heat 48 - Mussolini advances. 18:16 Mussolini lands a backside 360 just off the back of the wave. Williams lands a backloop. Mussolini goes down hard as he goes for the lip.  The next women's heat will be two wave only, no jumps.  18:13 Good frontside smack from Williams but then the wave closes out on him. Williams in desperate need of a jump 18:12 Nice backside air from Mussolini and Williams lands a sketchy backloop. Great wave from Mussolini as he throws a backside air and then a smooth taka. Nice frontside smack and another taka from Mussolini.  18:07 Mussolini opens with a one footed backloop. Williams with a couple of frontside turns, whilst Mussolini settles for a backside hit before gybing off the wave. Mussolini with a front and backside turn. Williams goes for a frontside wave 360 but lands it off the back of the wave. 18:02 Heat 48 is now sailing - Mussolini vs Williams. 18:01 Results Heat 47 - Wahl advances. 18:00 Arutkin goes down on her wave. Wahl with a small wave on the inside.  17:56 Good frontside smack from Arutkin, whilst Wahl stomps an endo forward.  Philip Koster, Victor Fernandez, Daida Moreno and Iballa Moreno are also released for the day.  17:51 Arutkin opens with a good first wave, with several decent turns. Wahl also picks up a good first wave. Tabletop from Wahl. Wahl with a couple of good frontside turns. Arutkin responds with a good wave of her own, Nice first turn and the another one in the white water. 17:46 Heat 47 is now being re-sailed - Wahl vs Arutkin We're pleased to say that the live stream is now working again.  17:43 The wind is returning so the AP flag for women's Heat 47 will be coming down in a minute. 17:42 We are experiencing some issues with the live stream at the moment, we are working hard to rectify the problem and hope to be back online as soon as possible. 17:40 The heat has been cancelled due to the wind dropping. 17:35 The wind is looking very light again. 17:34 Wahl makes a strong start to the heat with 3 good frontside turns.  17:29 Heat 47 is now sailing - Wahl vs Arutkin 17:27 AP flag is now down for women's Heat 47 - Wahl vs Arutkin. 17:23 The sailors remain n standby, the rain is starting to clear so the wind should start to return. 17:12 The AP flag is up as the rain is too heavy to be able to see any action on the water 17:11 Results Heat 47 - Williams advances. 17:10 Williams goes for a tweaked backside air but can't land it. The rain is absolutely torrential now! Seadi waterstarts away from an air chachoo. Good frontside from Williams to end the heat. 17:06 Williams lands a big backloop. Backside air from Seadi but that's it on that wave. It looks super stormy in Sylt right now with menacing black clouds. Big catapult from Seadi on the way out. Williams nails a frontside wave 360. Seadi crashes a one footed backloop.  17:01 Nice couple of frontside turns from Williams. Seadi with a better second wave than his first. Seadi with another wave, a few nice turns.Seadi lands a backloop. Williams with more stylish riding. 16:56 Heat 47 is now sailing - Williams vs Seadi 16:54 Heat 47 is coming up in a couple of minutes - Williams vs Seadi. 16:40 The sailors remain on hold as the wind hasn't returned yet. 16:32 Results Wome's Heat 46 - Wahl and Arutkin advance. 16:27 The heat has been cancelled as the wind has dropped now! 16:26 Heat 47 is now sailing - Williams vs Seadi.  16:24 Wahl with a two frontside hits and then a couple of backside turns on her next wave. 16:20 Aubet with a couple of backside wiggles.  16:17 Wahl sails away from a wet forward. Looks like another squall is going to hit now. 16:15 Arutkin with a couple of nice frontside turns. Aubet with a small wave aswell but nowhere near as good as Arutkin. 16:10 Women's Heat 46 is now sailing - Reimann vs Wahl & Arutkin vs Aubet Results Men's Heat 46 - Williams and Seadi advance. 16:09 Seadi doesn't quite make his goiter attempt. Denel makes two nice turns. One handed backloop from Williams. Super smooth riding from Williams again. Big frontside air from Denel but he can't land it. 16:04 Perfect one handed, one footed backloop from Seadi. Good first hit from Lewis but goes down on his next turn. Seadi also picks up a good wave. Nice fluid wave from Williams.  15:59 Nice one handed backloop from Denel. Nice frontside hit from Seadi right on the lip. Williams links a few turns. Seadi with a backloop. One handed backloop from Williams. Denel with a couple of frontside turns in the white water. Williams with a few turns but the wave didn't really open up for him. 15:54 Heat 46 is now sailing - Williams vs Denel & Lewis vs Seadi 15:45 The wind is starting to come back and swinging back to more cross-shore again. 15:38 The wind remains light at the moment, so the sailors remain on hold. 15:21 Heat 46 involves Williams vs Denel & Lewis vs Seadi. 15:18 When the wind improves again heat 46a and 46b will be run at the same time. Stay tuned. 15:18 Lewis is changing his equipment for a bigger setup. Andrea Cucchi is not too pleased about getting very wet feet helping his rider change kit. The heat has been cancelled due to the wind dropping. 15:14 Seadi goes down on a goiter attempt. The wind is dropping with the rain unfortunately.  15:10 Looks like it's about to rain big time! 15:09 Backloop from Seadi nicely landed. Lewis crashes his backloop. Seadi with a small wave and ends with taka in the white water. One handed, one footed backloop from Seadi! It looks super windy now. Big one handed backloop from Lewis but lands slightly wet. Seadi with a really nice floaty top turn and ends with a nice taka after a couple of good turns.  The freestyler sailors are released for the day. Their skippers meeting will be at 10am tomorrow morning with the view to starting from 10:30.  15:04 Heat 46b is now sailing - Lewis vs Seadi 15:03 Results Heat 44b - Denel advances. 15:02 Denel with another sick taka. Traversa stomps a big backloop out the back. Traversa makes 3 good frontside turns, whilst Denel lands a one handed backloop. Traversa sails away from a wet double forward. Traversa with a sick frontside hit on a big section. 14:57 Traversa goes for a frontside wave 360 but doesn't make it. Denel waterstarts away from a double forward. Denel with a huge frontside turn into taka right in front  of Traversa and right in the section. Traversa makes a couple of turns but not as radical as Denel on that one.  14:52 Traversa and Denel both score excellent first waves. Good backloop from Denel. Traversa crashes a double forward. Denel falls off the back of his wave.  14:48 The re-sail of Heat 44b is now sailing - Traversa vs Denel 14:47 Results Heat 44b and 45b - Wahl and Aubet 14:46 Aubet crashes a forward loop. Aubet with a good wave as she links a good front and backside combo.  14:42 After this heat there will be a resail of heat 44b between Traversa and Denel, followed by heat 46b, Lewis vs Seadi. The heat is going to be resailed due to a missed jump for Traversa. Wahl with another good wave.  14:37 Wahl scores a good wave with several fluid turns. Aubet with a small wave.  14:33 Results Heat 45 - Lewis and Seadi advance. 14:32 Women's Heat 44b and 45b are now sailing - Wahl vs Weber & Aubet vs Lohoff. 14:30 Nice floater from Seadi and a vertical top turn, more fluid riding from him. Big frontside turn from Lewis and very later snap on his next turn. Seadi breaks his fins out on his frontside smack then a really radical backside smack. Lewis links a couple of turns then throws another frontside wave 360. 14:26 Pijoan crashes a backloop. One handed backloop from Lewis. Sick frontside wave 360 from Lewis, loses no speed at all on the exit. Bruch with a nice frontside turn but it won't match Lewis' last wave, who scores 8.5 points. 14:21 Pijoan down on his top turn. Seadi lands a backloop and puts together a good wave. Super fluid wave from Seadi. Lewis with a couple of good turns but doesn't make his frontside wave 360.  14:16 Heat 45 is now sailing - Bruch vs Lewis & Seadi vs Pijoan 14:15 Results Heat 44 - Williams and Denel advance. 14:14 One handed backloop from Denel. Williams links a couple of turns before throwing another sick frontside wave 360 right in the pocket. Traversa with a hard crash after a frontside aerial. Denel with a wet double loop. 14:10 Denel with a small wave. Good frontside smack from Williams and then the wave closes out on him. Ojeda with a clean backloop. Denel lands a backloop too.  14:05 Ojeda lands a backloop. Nice frontside hit from Traversa. Williams lands a backloop. 14:00 Heat 44 is now sailing - Ojeda vs Williams & Traversa vs Denel 13:59 Results Heat 43 - Lewis and Pijoan advance. 13:58 Jamaer with a good couple of turns and then gets eaten by the wave on his third top turn. Volwater lands a double forward and he throws a nice backside turn with a good frontside too. Jamaer with a one handed top turn.  13:55 Lewis with a wet backloop then links a few turns together but it was only a small wave. Jamaer finds a nice wave but he over does his first turn.  13:50 Volwater attempts a double forward but doesn't land it. Pijoan with a powerful frontside hit. Jamaer lands a backloop. Volwater also throws a good backloop.  13:45 Heat 43 is now sailing - Jamaer vs Lewis & Pijoan vs Volwater. 13:44 Results Heat 42 - Williams and Voget advance. 13:43 Voget down on a backloop and Williams crashes a frontside wave 360 attempt. Denel makes a taka after a big frontside smack. Voget drops a one handed backloop out the back just before the end of the heat. Denel with a huge vertical frontside smack but can't quite hold it. 13:39 Denel lands a big backloop and links a few nice turns but only a small wave. Browne with his best wave. Browne is changing his equipment. 13:34 Sick wave from Williams as he links a couple of fluid frontside smacks before throwing a frontside wave 360. Williams and Browne both land backloops. Voget throwing plenty of spray on his wave. Browne goes for a taka but can't make the rotation.  13:30 Results Heat 41 - Pijoan and Volwater advance. 13:29 Heat 42 is now sailing - Williams vs Browne & Voget vs Denel. 13:27 Volwater crashes a double forward. Frontside air from Proffitt but he can't hold it. 13:22 Low one handed backloop crash from proffitt. Volwater finds a good sized wave but goes down after a few turns. Nice snappy frontside smack from Proffitt. Small frontside air from Pijoan, then goes down trying to force a taka. Volwater with a big one handed backie. 13:18 The slalom fleet are released for today. 13:17 One handed backloop from Volwater. Estredo with a couple of turns on a small wave. Pijoan with a two nice slashy turns and a good, clean backloop. Proffitt with a good first turn throwing plenty of spray. Pijoan scores another good wave, just mistimes his last turn a little.  13:12 Heat 41 is now sailing - Pijoan vs Estredo & Proffitt vs Volwater. 13:11 Results Heat 40 - Jamaer and Lewis advance 13:10 Naalisvaara with a decent wave, nice first turn. Rutkowski good vertical frontside hit and another late hit too. Jamaer picks up a wave but it disappears on him after the first turn.  13:06 Jamaer with a heavy crash after a decent frontside smack and lands a backloop out the back. Backloop from Lewis. Rutkowski with his best wave of the heat so far. Wet one handed backloop by Lewis, but then makes a much bigger one handed backie on the outside.  13:01 Wet backloop from Lewis. Naalisavaara with a decent first turn but then the wave crumbles on him. Good backloop from Naalisvaara. Lewis with a couple of big frontside smacks and another couple of big turns on his next wave.  12:56 Heat 40 is now sailing - Jamaer vs Rutkowski & Lewis vs Naalisvaara 12:55 Results Heat 39 - Voget and Denel advance. 12:54 Skye with a good vertical frontside snap. Voget agonisingly close to a frontside wave 360. Denel with a huge frontside hit, which sends the spray flying, good wave from the Frenchman again. Pushloop from Swift on the outside. 12:51 Voget links several turns together, one of which was pretty vertical. Denel with a super slidey taka and a late frontside hit! Skye gets nailed by the lip after slightly mistiming top turn. Wet table forward loop from Swift. Voget with another good first turn. One handed backie from Swift but he loses it right at the end. Skye lands a backie too.  12:46 Denel with a powerful frontside hit but he goes down afterwards. Nice frontside hit from Swift. Voget gybes onto a nice wave and delivers a couple of good turns. Backloop from Voget. The wind has dropped a bit at the moment. 12:41 Results Heat 38 - Williams and Browne advance. 12:40 Heat 39 is now sailing - Voget vs Skye & Jules Denel vs Swfit 12:39 Perfect one handed backie from Horrocks and from Williams too. Browne with a good frontside hit and ends it with a taka. 12:36 Big frontside smack from Browne and Williams with a nice backside smack.  12:32 Williams with a couple more stylish turns. Danielsen with a decent wave but he lost speed in the middle of it. Williams goes down on a pushloop. Browne scores his best wave of the heat so far. 12:28 Heat 38 is now sailing -  Williams has a couple of solid wave scores already in this heat.  The Live scoring should now be up and working again too. 12:23 Results Heat 37 - Estredo and Volwater advance. 12:22 Gollito goes down on another backloop with a big headthrow. Nice backside from Chambers.  12:18 Super clean backie from Gollito, but Chambers can't match it. 6.5 points for Gollito's backie but they are tied on jumps. Angulo needs a Jump, whilst Volwater just scores a nice wave. Angulo with a lowed backie than Volwater's.  12:13 Chambers with a good powerful frontside hit and Estredo with a couple of smaller turns. Wet forward from Chamders. Volwater nails a good backloop. Tweaked backside air from Gollito but he can't make a top turn. Volwater with a nice vertical frontside smack and a one handed backie.  12:08 Heat 37 is now sailing - Chambers vs Estredo & Angulo vs Volwater 12:07 Results Heat 36 - Rutkowski and Naalisvaara advance. 12:06 Frans goes for a shaka but only makes a shuvit.  12:04 Frans goes down pretty hard in the shore break. Naalisavaara is dominating his heat, so Kleingarn has plenty of work to do with 2 minutes to go 12:02 Naalisvaara puts together a good wave and scores 6.5 points for it. Nice frontside hit from Naalisvaara after mistiming his first turn slightly. Rutkowski goes for backside air but he can't land it. Clean forward loop from Naalisvaara. Wet crazy pete for a crazy pete.  11:57 Rutkowski with a late hit and goes down in the white water. Nice backside hit from Rutkwoski and he scores 3.5 points. Naalisvara with a nice backloop and scores 6 points. Kleingarn scores 5.5 points for his backie.   11:52 Heat 36 is now sailing - Frans vs Rutkowski & Naalisvaara vs Kleingarn  11:46 The sailors from Heat 36 are now on standby again. The AP flag for the re-sail will come down at 11:50. 11:45 The conditions look they are improving again and the wind is swinging back to its cross shore direction. The wave double elimination could be back on very soon. 11:20 The sailors remain on standby for the time being, the action will resume when the conditions improve. 11:10 Backside air from Frans and a back and frontside smack. Rutkowski crashes a backloop.  The heat has been cancelled, the wind has dropped with the rain. 11:07 Kleingarn with a small wave. Good backside hit from Rutkowski but he goes down. Frans crashes a low backloop.  11:02 Heat 36 is now sailing - Frans vs Rutkowski & Naalisavaara vs Kleingarn. 10:45 The next announcement for the slalom sailors will be at 13:30 with the first possible start at 2pm. We're experiencing some technical difficulties with the internet connection so there may be no live scoring to begin with. We're working hard to resolve this issue and we apologise for any incovenience. 10:30 The men's wave double elimination will resume at 11am. The heat duration is to be confirmed. 10:05 Results of the Men's Double Eliminations - 1st Jose 'Gollito' Estredo 2nd Tonky Frans 3rd Kiri Thode 4th Steven Van Broeckhoven 10:00 Next announcement for the slalom at 10:30 first possible start at 11am. 09:53 Results coming up shortly. 09:52 Perfect Bongka 360 from Frans amazing. Gollito down on another backloop attempt. Wet clew-first puneta from Frans and a burner followed up with a wet burner. Gollito nails a burner 360 really fast. Nice culo from Frans. Gollito lands his backloop this time and a toad on the outside, but possibly outside. 09:49 Big air flaka from Gollito. Nice Shaka from Frans. Gollito with a massive shaka and a big Culo. Gollito with a burner, Frans goes down on his. Double spock from Frans on the inside. Future from Gollito and Frans with a nice ponch. Clean pushloop from Frans. Fast, clean skopu from Gollito, crashes a backloop though.  09:45 Heat 51 is now sailing - Estredo vs Tonky Frans 09:38 Results Heat 50 - Tonky Frans advances. 09:32 Frans with a shaka and a big clean culo from Thode and a clean backloop. Big culo from Frans. One handed air funnel from Thode. Sick pushloop from Frans. Big backloop from Frans and a wet skopu. Stalled forward from Frans. Culo 180 from Thode just before the end of the heat. 09:29 Thode crashes his spock culo and Frans lands a bongka. Nice shaka from Thode but he goes down on the landing. Super nice burner from Frans. Thode lands a ponch. Sick air skopu from Thode and a fast Kabikuchi. Thode with a spock culo on the inside. Thode crashes a spock-culo. Frans with a flaka on the outside. Air funnel but not a clean finish from Thode. Air flaka by Frans.  09:25 Heat 50 is now sailing - Thode vs Tonky Frans Next wave announcement at 10:30 first possible start 11am 09:16 Results Heat 49 - Tonky Frans advances. 09:12 Nice one handed air funnel 900 from Frans but crashes his backloop. Van Broeckhoven makes a skopu. Frans crashes a no handed burner attempt. Nice backloop from Frans and a clean forward loop. Regular kono from Van Broeckhoven. Frans lands an amazing no handed burner and a sick one handed backloop to complete his scoresheet. Van Broeckhoven with a pushloop. 09:09 Van Broeckhoven with a burner 900. Shaka 360 from Tonky and an air flaka. Clean culo from Frans. Van Broeckhoven with a shaka. Shuv it spock from Van Broeckhoven on the outside. Clean powerful culo from Van Broeckhoven. Frans makes a skopu. Regular kono from Van Broeckhoven. Frans nails a perfect pushloop. One handed air funnel from Van Broeckhoven with an added 360.  09:05 Heat 49 is now sailing - Van Broeckhoven vs Tonky Frans 08:57 Results Heat 48 - Tonky Frans advances. 08:52 Big backloop from Frans off a wave out the back. Nice kono from Schmit. One handed air funnel by Schmit. Schmit goes for a massive flonch but goes down on the landing. Clean ponch from Frans.  08:49 Schmit stomps a burner. Big air flaka from Frans. Nice burner from Frans. Clean culo from Schmit. Wet backie from Frans. Planing air flaka from Schmit and a massive shaka. Good culo from Frans. One handed air funnel 900. Schmit makes a skopu. Great pushloop from Frans and a forward loop from Schmit followed up with a culo. Regular kono from Frans.  08:45 Heat 48 is now sailing - Tonky Frans vs Schmit 08:37 Results Heat 47 - Schmit advances. 08:32 There will now be a one heat break.  08:32 Sick tweaked pushloop from Schmit on the outside. Soltysiak stomps a big shaka. Schmit lands a skopu. Air flaka on the outside from Schmit. Regular kono from Schmit who now has all his moves on starboard, followed up with a planing ponch. Soltysiak crashes his kono.  08:29 Big culo from Schmit to open and a clean burner from Soltysiak.  Wet burner from Schmit on the inside. Soltysiak with a skopu on the outside, and Schmit lands a big shaka off the wave. One handed funnel from Schmit and a sick spock culo from Soltysiak. Big forward from Schmit and a nice ponch from Soltysiak. Nice air bob from Schmit.  08:25 Heat 47 is now sailing - Schmit vs Soltysiak  08:18 Results Heat 46 - Schmit and Soltysiak advance. The heat between Van der Eyken and Soltysiak came down to  a tie break. 08:15 There is a break for one heat duration before heat 47. 08:12 Super clean culo from Soltysiak. Schmit tries a double air funnel but can't make it. Van der Eyken with a wet shuvit spock. E-slider from Soltysiak and a burner. Double spock to end the heat from Van der Eyken and Schmit lands a switch chachoo. 08:09 Skope from Soltysiak. Wet shaka from Van der Eyken and a nice cuki, Wet burner from Frans and he goes for an air chachoo but doesn't land it. Big poinch from Soltysiak. Big shaka from Van der Eyken. Schmit lands a backloop outside of the competition area. 08:05 Heat 46 is now sailing - Schmit vs Frans & Soltysiak vs Van der Eyken 08:02 Heat 46 is now in countdown sequence - Schmit vs Frans & Soltysiak vs Van der Eyken 07:45 The next call for the wave sailors will be at 09:30, with the first possible start at 10am. 07:30 It's quite flat at the moment, but it's nice and windy so the freestyle shall be run first at 8am, with the wave sailors remaining hold. Yesterday saw Antoine Albeau dominate the slalom as he won both of the races that were run.