Eating sand under the rain at Fuerte

What a day yesterday. Massive black clowds, some rain and flying water and sand, so we had a hard but good time on the water in Sotavento, it was just impossible to not eat sand at the beach. With gusts of 35 - 45 knots the wind hammered along the coast, tough for Freestyle but nice to just sail and jump around at the Skatepark Sotavento. Today is start of the Kite Worldcup and for sure most of the PWA Sailors will come over from Gran Canaria today to get prepared for their Worldcup starting the 22nd of this month. All reports and images here

Fuerteventura Worldcup 2009

hauling canaries

Now it´s already eleven days that we are at Fuerte and it´s still hauling, actually picking up again. Even if the wind has been very very rough and the water for sure not the easiest, today we got a good day and finally we managed to reall do some moves and less crashes.... hopefully it goes on like that, would be very hard for all to perform high class Freestyle Moves during the PWA Worldcup which starts the 27th of July (reports and images you can already see PWA Fuerteventura ) The forecast for the next days is even more wind and some nice Swell. The Kiteboarding Worldcup will start in two days, so pretty tough for the Kite guys and girls too.....

Fuerteventura Images now....

While the Slalom and Wave guys and girls are ripping Pozo at te moment, we are sitting at the neighbour Island and next PWA Stopp, Fuerteventura. Good time for sailing and to take some images of the Island and the already arrived PWA Freestylers..... A small galery is already online

Fuerteventura Galery

PWA Lanzarote Images online now....

After some days at Fuerteventura I finally got the time to upload the 2009 PWA Lanzarote Image Galery to my Foto Website, I hope you like it....

PWA Lanzarote Galery

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difficult fuerteventura

While the guys are ripping it up at the 2009 Pozo Worldcup, I went straight to Fuerteventura this year without the usual Gran Canaria Stoppover and I am fighting with the Flat Choppy water at Sotavento to at least do some Moves per day.... At least the PWA Competitors who have already arrived for the their Training are not crashing much less than I do.... Again the Spot shows why it´s a real hardcore Freestyle Spot, only the best can really perform their high standard Moves. It´ll be exciting again between the 27th of july and the 01st of august. I will report again of course at Tom-Brendt.de

wind and small waves at Fuerte

I just arrived at Fuerte after the PWA Worldcup at Lanzarote a couple of days ago and today was my second day on the water, pretty gusty but ok and some small waves to ride every now and than, but for Freestyle it´s gonna be pretty hard again, but for sure it´ll also work...

PWA Lanzarote is over.....

It has been an epic Contest, the 2009 PWA Freestyle Worldcup at Costa Teguise - Lanzarote. Windspeeds around 40 knots and partly over Masthigh Waves, perfect for radical and extreme Freestyle. Gollito Estredo won the Event in fron of Kiri Thode, Antxon Otaegui and Marcilio Browne. Sara Quita dominated the women Contest and won in front of Junko Nagoshi..... You can see the whole reports in

www.tom-brendt.de

where you also find the Foto Galery to the Event