Good results come early this year and Personal Report Dirk-Jan Knol claiming a new strand horst record 82,13km/h average in shallow water, heard he said 3 runs the fin was in the ground and the others in the air. Oisin van Gelderen and Jacques van der Hout did a national record. Gerlof Hansma, Hans Kreisel … Read more
Wingssails Speed Special 5.6 Stefano Basso now made a pure 100% supercompact speedsail. The proto/custom sail is made for a dutch speedsurfer, its not me, he is fast. I cannot tell as promised I promised him, so speculate….. Erik Loots Erik is windsurfer for 10+ years. In his daily life he is professional in … Read more
Windsurfing in the cold Now suddenly windsurfing 2 days in a row (weeks of snow, ice and other bad stuff). After some time sitting onshore it is fun to go out on the water again. December was not possible to surf and I had no problems with that 2010 was great. But January 2011 is one big … Read more
There is no better workout than windsurfing! January 2011 has been a good month so far, we have windsurfed many times in the Netherlands. Now at least till the weekend below zero Celsius at night :(, so maybe some icesurfers get some action. Lets hope it becomes warmer at the end of this week. Just … Read more
Speedteam Lauwersmeer Intro Here it is Ingolf his movie about the upgraded 2011 speedteam Lauwersmeer. Have fun guys! Erik Loots Erik is windsurfer for 10+ years. In his daily life he is professional in construction dewatering, advisor, troubleshooter. Erik likes adventures, explore and to challenge himself. During his life he is trying to get the … Read more
Speed equipment weight (Now versus 3 years ago) Three years ago speedsurfingblog.com just started as my personal blog. One of the very first english articles was about my equipment weight (check the article here).Now I thought lets compare my 2008 speedset with my new equipment. Now it turns out the total weight is exactly the … Read more
RRD X-Fire 2011 The brand new 2011 X-Fire I just got this email from Marcel Braas with PDF and have to share the new RRD X-Fire. Just because they look great, soo for all RRD fans and speeders the stats: RRD text: The X-Fire V3 is the most complete slalom range ever developed by RRD. … Read more
Rallye raid Dakar 2011 & windsurfing http://www.dakar.com/ At home my brother Wouter is huge fan of the Dakar rallye and so this means I watched most reports of this legendary rally last years. Started to search more about this rally, it has similarity with our passion speedsurfing only more expensive. Enjoyed really watching this rally … Read more
Links – 150 windsurf Blogs Now the newest list with links to all blogs I know, new are the catagories. Just contact me to add your blog (because I don’t know everything online 😉 ). This list contains over 150 blogs (most are regular updated) about windsurfing. Click on the title “Links – Blogs” to … Read more
Interview David Gollick about Windsurfingfins.co.uk On facebook I saw www.windsurfingfins.co.uk and there are a lot of things going on last 12 months. Also received emails from speedsurfingblog.com readers with questions about the finshop. So it was about time for a interview about this new service! Why did you Start Windsurfingfins.co.uk? For years I struggled … Read more
