PWA News

Rookie Challenges

December 9, 2006

 

The PWA recently announced the recipients of their Rookies-of-the-year awards at the Aloha Classic prize giving. Unanimous backing from her peers earned Sarah-Quita Offringa (ARU-91 Starboard / MauiSails) this years women’s title – a real indicator of…

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Downtime in Dahab

December 7, 2006

 

23-yr old Swiss star Laure Treboux (SUI-4 Naish / Naish) had an amazing debut season, finishing up 3rd overall in the women’s Freestyle rankings in 2006.

 

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Approaching the festive season we thought we'd ask the Pro's if they could have anything they wished for, what they'd like Santa to slip under their Christmas trees - and yours!

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24 yr-old Marie Edlund-Tjernberg (S-6 F2 / North) from southern Sweden is a regular feature on the Women’s freestyle fleet entry lists. Marie is from a windsurfing-mad family, including her parents and fellow pro, sister Nina Edlund Tjernberg, (S-165…

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25-yr old Maui –resident Levi Siver (USA-0 Starboard / NeilPryde) is one of the world’s best and most respected wave sailors. His unique riding style blends fluidity and power that creates an awesome display of both carving and aerial projection. Levi,…

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2006 has been a good year for the Moreno twins. Sharing no less than seven event wins, and three world titles between them, Daida and Iballa can afford to celebrate their 29th birthdays in style!

 

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With some sailors being fanatical about technical figures and settings, and others operating purely by feel, here we continue our series asking elite performers their advice on tuning-up. This time we quizzed Victor Fernandez, Douglas Diaz and World…

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Multiple World Champion Nik Baker (K-66 Mistral / North) has been successful at all the PWA disciplines during a pro career spanning 18 years. Nik knows what it takes to win and compete amongst the best, and this winning mindset has been instrumental in…

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Ho'okipa delivers and the 2006 Wave Champions are crowned!

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Margarita Mix

November 27, 2006

30 yr-old Yolanda ‘Yoli’, Freites de Brendt (V-26 Fanatic / North) hails from the hotbed of Freestyle talent that is Isla Margarita, just off Venezuela’s Caribbean coastline.

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The Best of… JC

November 24, 2006

If anyone's qualified to comment on the best action in Windsurfing its likely to be a photographer. Who better then to tell us about how good tour life is than regular PWA snapper John ‘JC’ Carter? Whether he’s right in the impact zone, on a boat,…

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It’s easy to imagine that all pro windsurfers are paid large salaries to travel the world and sail in locations that most windsurfers only dream about, and to some extent that’s true, but it doesn’t apply to everyone. There are also a significant amount…

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Florent Renard and Sarah-Quita Offringa awarded the coveted PWA 2006 Rookie of the year titles.

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The 2006 season has witnessed great progress for Professional Windsurfing both on and off the water. Just as the standard required to compete at this level has gone through the ceiling, fresh faces and exceptional talent have un-deniably raised interest…

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Polakow charges back up through the ranks but has to settle for second place as Josh Angulo lights up the line up on this, the final day of the 21st Aloha Classic to be held at Ho’okipa beach park.

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Josh Angulo and Iballa Moreno claim victory on a day when tactical ability, wave selection and out and out waveriding skill reign supreme.

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