MG Windsurfing

Last weekend was stupidly windy but unfortunately a lot of rain was on the menu, too. I had two good wave sessions which were actually the first proper days in waves that I got in this year. The Trailer Wave works great and I'm very happy with my waveriding. Jumps are a different story though. I would have loved to practise some backloops or pushloops but as the wind was super strong and I was just holding on to my 3.7, I just couldn't be bothered. I feel the need for a longer trip in order to get more comfortable in waves again and start progressing. On the other hand, I love freestyle and this is where I push myself every session. Well, I'm off to Bavaria this weekend. I'm gonna work on my final paper and may be lucky to sneak away to the lake and catch some gusts barely strong enough to get you going on a 5.3. 

It's been a while since my last post and I've had some good time on the water. The "Zuparken Festival", an open air festival at a beach right at the Baltic in Northern Germany, took place the weekend before last weekend. There was a freestyle competition going on and I managed to win the comp along with a wildcard for the PWA Sylt in the freestyle discipline. The wind was pretty much up and down all day so we just had a supersession during which the wind dropped off completely. Here are some pics of a session I had some time ago. All photos courtesy of Ingo Peitz:

As stated in the previous post, the German Freestyle Battle was a great success. Here are two more pictures and a video. Results: 1. Mathias Genkel 2. Malte Hecht 3. Tobias Schwarz 4. Felix Söder pics by Burkhard Hauer and unknown

The first German Freestyle Battle 2011 took place on the island of Norderney last weekend. With flatwater conditions behind sandbars and steady winds, this was a perfect venue to run a freestyle windsurf competition. About 25 German riders gathered on a sandbar just about 500 metres offshore to run the event. In winds gusting up to about 28 knots it was a great day to be fully powered up on your 4.7. I managed to win the event and am really happy with the result. See here the single elimination ladder and some pics of the supersession:

Well, it's probably been a while that I haven't posted anything on this blog. Here's another concise update of what was going on in the last couple of weeks. I have had some amazing freestyle sessions as it has been uncommonly sunny and windy for a while now. Now is a great time to come to Germany in case anybody was thinking about doing so. To be honest, the wind just stopped - but it's still warm. So this was last weekend and the vid showing the bob was filmed two weeks ago. See you on the water. Pics by Valentin Boeckler.

That was so nice. Even though I was on a freestyleboard as I have just saved up for a new waveboard now, it was so much fun to ride these waves and do some moves in between.

Here's a quick edit of a couple of windsurf sessions I had in February. Spots are Pozo and Arinaga on Gran Canaria and Brouwersdam in the Netherlands.