Craig Hollins AKA kato does 553,5km distance in 24hours I just read on the gpsteamchallenge site Craig Hollins did the most distance ever on a windsurfer in 24h (in the gpsteamchallenge). http://gpsteamchallenge.com.au/sailor_session/show?date=2010-11-30&team=16Not normal this is a great performance. Craig used his Carbon Art Slalom 52 and a few KA Koncept sails. Check out the link for … 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
Speed Classic 2010 Day 1 video Great video, nice to see the conditions. It does look a bit different on video compared to the photos, I guess both were at different times (early vs late competition). Choppy and small swell on video, it would have been nice if the swell was a bit more parallel … Read more
Surfmagazine 11/2010 http://www.extremesportsmagazines.nl/surf/ Great to be in the surfmagazine with this big picture, WOW. I like it a lot 🙂 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 … 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
