Patrick Diethelm online – 2 speedboards http://www.patrikdiethelm.com/ is online, he chose to develop 2 speedboards. 43cm and 50cm wide. And the boards are not slow as Torsten Mallon demonstrated 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 … Read more
Black Project Fins http://www.blackprojectfins.com/?page_id=281 The Black Project Type S is a new speedfin design too me. Tom Hammerton and Martyn Ogier ride/ developed/ tested these fins. We know Martyn from the speed:world:cup and Tom from Hotsails but also high speed on Maui between breaking waves. The design makes me remember the Kai Kopf fins some years … Read more
Wind wind wind wind Yeah we should get a little bit more wind than average last month, winddirection West South West. Which probably forces all speedsurfers to look for speedspots without tide :(, not much to do about this. Soo 95% chance it will be Strand Horst for me, at this moment it looks like … Read more
Windy week with a lot of results Ben vd Steen went superfast in gusty conditions, I was there, and also Peter Volwater with new PR (who had to leave early). It is good to know the conditions used for these extreme high speeds. When looking to Peter and Ben the chop was often higher than the … Read more
About Herman Maes On speedsurfingblog.com: Guest-Editor Expertise: Speedsurfing in Belgium, blog-trends Contact: herman@dailybits.be What does speedsurfingblog.com means to Herman? I think I was one of the first contacts of Erik to help him setting up speedsurfingblog.com. Giving him some tips about how to start blogging and using which available tools. Since 2002 I’m already a personal … Read more
Interview – Manfred Fuchs This post guest-editor is Herman Maes and uploaded to speedsurfingblog by Erik.As a first post on speedsurfingblog.com I want to give some credits on one of the persons who are making the whole gps speed revolution so much easier, by providing gps-results (gps-speed.com). Manfred Fuchs is the German developer of this gps … Read more
Introduction To Alastair Nichol, the Speedsurfing Blogs Latest Author I’m very happy to accept Erik’s kind offer to become an author here on the Speedsurfing blog so i’ll introduce myself. My names Alastair Nichol and I first started windsurfing in 1984 age 12 and very quickly i caught the bug for the sport. For the … Read more
GPS team challenge 5th place Just discovered I am at the 5th place at the gpsteamchallenge individual ranking, thanks to my recent improvement on hour and alpha. Great news to see myself between some big names. Too bad it is soo cold, I just would like to do a very big distance on 1 day … Read more
Most promising speed product for 2012 Well I like to know the latest developments in windsurfing, especially speedsurfing. In 2010 the idea of the reflex battens of Severne was definitely something I thought that stood out. This year it was the year of “the widebase”, loads of brands added such a design which must be … Read more
Mobile Phone Died, what would be the best mobile phone for wind/speedsurfing? Yesterday my mobile phone died (actually the touchscreen died), a bit disappointed, I had this Samsung S5230 for just over 1 year. I think the phone was good value for money. For speedsurfing a mobile phone with internet is great. Before the Samsung I … Read more
