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You could become a professional Freestyle judge by attending the IFCA end EFPT Freestyle Judging Workshop in Belgium.

When: 02-04 March 2012
Where : Sports Hotel Bloso / Ghent – Belgium

Contact:
Bruno de Wannemaeker,
+32 479 940061
bruno.ifca(at)pandora.be



The 3 Day clinic contains all aspects of freestyle judging, freestyle event set up, rules
and event management.The teachers are Tom Hartmann from the EFPT and Ruben Petrisie from the EFPKT with professional assistance from the president of the International Fun Board Class Association (IFCA) Bruno de Wannemaeker.
Students shall receive an official international judging certificate, which is valid for judging on international freestyle events.

The European fun Board Expression and the Final event of the European Freestyle Pro Kids Tour was held on the beaches of Six Fours in France, Le Brusc. any kids howed up to compete on the last event of the season, except the winds who vailed to blow good enough for the 5 day freestyle event compitition. Even if so, the event turned out to be a great one with lots of activities including stunnin afternoon tow in sessions (windsurfer pulled by Boat same as in wake boarding only this time the surfer releases the rope and performes Freestyle tricks as if there was enough wind to do so).
BNG as Tour Manager and the events Head judge took the kids further out by boat in order to to catch enough winds to complete the first elimination rounds.

On one of the days a light wind expression session was held,Steven Max and Mattijs Lasore both 13 years of age made the top 2 spots of the light wind expression session.

Pertusato film crew were on sight to film and edit most of the action happening. Get to know more about the perstusato boys here...

Kids introduced new kids to the sport windsurfing with Thanks to the Female Slalom World Champion of 2009 Valery Arrighetti who made it possible for a group of kids from a student organization to be able to meet and greet with the Windsurfing Pro kids.
All of them got their first introduction to windsurfing and went home with a great experience.

Interview sessions were done right on the beach and the crowds got to hear about most of the kids their background, their lifestyle and their sponsors. Steven Max from Aruba looks up to the vice world Champion in Freestyle Kiri thode, his biggest idol in windsurfing.

A new face from Italy Anna Chiochetti wins the special price as the (MVS)
Most Valuable Sailor of the event, judged on her personality, style and reputation at the event.
Anna will be receiving a brand new carbon windsurfing masts by Reptile Masts.

The afternoon  Tow in shows were amazing with top riders such as Bastian Rama, Antony Ruanes, Davy Scheffers, Nicolas Akgazciyan, the amazing Julian Mas and even Thomas Traversa.
see the video for the best of Tow in:

PICTURES by Raffi Cherbedjian
EFPKT
EFE
VIDEOS by Pertusatofilms

BNG attended the 3 rd EFPKT (European Freestyle Pro Kids Tour) tour stop in Belgium back in August.
The event was organized and proudly supported by Twins Club.
They provided a great service to all competitors and the event was a great one with bright sunny summer days, beach activities and a great dub step closure party.
Groovy Dj sessions were done by BNG at sunset during a media tow in session with local Hero and the 2011 Freestyle World Champion Steven van Broekhoven.

BNG testing the Killer 2012 Ka Sails in Turkey, Alacati
First Words: The killer was surprisingly light in hands.
It was about 20 knots and I thought that I might be a bit
over powered on a 5.3 but, the power drive was so smooth through out the sail. I also found it very maneuverable and easy to handle, now I cant wait to have more sessions on the killer to discover more of its uniqueness.

BNG attending the PWA Pegasus Airlines World Tour stop in Turkey.
A great event organized by surf and sounds with super conditions.
Tuning and testing the Ka Race Sails with Brand Manager Peter Weitenberg and team rider Jesper Orth during the event.
More event info here: surfnsound

BNG at the Sealion World Cup event.
An event organized and created by Board sponsor AHD.
The event was unique were only one type of board was allowed for Sup racing, fun Slalom racing and light wind wave sailing which the board is mainly designed for. Some of the international attendance were Diony Gaudagdino from Venezuela, Hot sails Mauii's Jeff Henderson from Hawaii and Swedish Sealion Pioneer Niclas Cederlund.
Over 40 participants with the same boards were all part of this extremely cool and fun atmospheric event.
Groovy to club sounds DJ sessions were done by BNG during the weekend evening.

5.3 Ka Sail kaos on a sealion Rasta version having fun and playing with french waves.

BNG made his way to final rounds and went home on the 6th position.

Here: Diony on a upgraded version of the sealion, a slightly looser board with less volume than the original, making the board more radical on the turns in extreme conditions.

AHD / Sealion
Photos: Loic Olivier
Ka Sails
Twins Club
EFPKT

IFCA PRO KIDS World championships
Organized by Surf en Zeil centrum Brouwersdam and supported by:
The European Freestyle Pro Kids Tour
Provincie zeeland
Mystic boarding the main event sponsor
Center Parcs Port Zélande
Surf magazine Holland
Surf magazine Germany

A well organized location and event with great windsurfing conditions
made it possible for windsurfing kids from 8 different nations
to come over and to battle for a world title in the youth and junior division.

Official opening ceremony was done by the municipal councilor of "Gemeente Goedereede" Mr. Peter Feller. A flag parade was held straight after, towards Center Parcs Port Zélande where the kids were welcomed with a BBQ dinner. BNG as the EFPKT tour manager and the head judge at this event surely was impressed by the level of the kids at this world cup event. The forecast started with light winds and sunshine to rain and more wind to even stronger winds with the sun peeking through some parts of the days. Yet every single day from beginning to end was another exciting day with tow in sessions, expression sessions, water jump sessions and pure freestyle sensations.
At the end of the event there had been enough eliminations rounds to fairly decide the overall decisions. We are not saying that it was easy but, one thing is sure, this event generated a lot of excitement and fun.

< Judges focused while the talented kids perform their freestyle tricks at Brouwersdam.

From the UK, Isaac Bradly Baker got back in the water after a wind skating injury and won the U 13 super kids division.

Ethan Westera from "one happy island" Aruba a Champion in the U 15 division. This 13 year old kid was able to do high rated moves like no handed flaka's

Rafael de Windt from the tropical island of Curacao a very interesting freestyler who knew how to impress the judges with style and inventing tricks like a " spock and wissle" it does sounds funny but, we never ever saw no one else do something like that before.

Official event organizer Uwe Jendrusch the father of the talented local freestyler stoked after his son Rick Jendrusch kicked out Rafael de Windt in one of the earlier elimination rounds.

Local Rick Jendrusch from Holland the new Youth world champion
who was crowed at his home spot. Big ups

Awards cermony of the IFCA PRO KIDS at the zeil en Surf Centrum Brouwersdam was great with lots of happy faces. The winds dropped down and the sunshine came out to say good bye on the last moments of the final day of this event. This event was the second stop of the five European Freestyle Pro Kids Tour
stops. The tour will continue at the next tour stop in Belgium.

Pictures: IFCA/EFPKT and Jasper Van Overbeek
Jasper Van Overbeek
Brouwersdam
Mystic
EFPKT
IFCA

DEFI WIND one of windsurfing's greatest events went down in Gruissan south of France.
The 11 year old event had 1111 entry spots and yet brought 850 fanatic windsurfers from 25 nations together with more than 100 teenagers ready to take part in the long distance windsurfing race which was set along a coast line on a 40 km stretch.

(picture): A rabbit start line with a boat crossing infront of 850 windsurfers.




Photographer George Steinmetz (www.georgesteinmetz.com)
who is commissioned by the New York Times (American newspaper)
was also on sight snapping artistic shots true the lens, next to
Jean Souville the French photographer who snapped most shots of the Defi Wind event.



A few windsurfers from Estonia were  also on sight next to all the other windsurfers from the many different countries.
The waters of the Estonian coastline are actually mostly shallow and with its smooth winds it becomes ideal for windsurfing enthusiasts.
During the winter they even have ice-surfing tracks, giving windsurfing a whole new feeling.


BNG cruising on the way in, on the Ka Race 7.9 and the AHD slalom board sl1. This event is definitely a must to do;being among so many windsurfers at one event, on one single spot simply creates this energetic atmosphere you have to experience at least one time.

Jason Polakow and Levi Sevir were on stage to appoint the winner of the "windsurf amateur film festival"
sponsored by OXBOW.
After the winner was announced it was time to introduce an exclusive preview of a new movie named
'Walls of perception'
a movie where the the Oxbow team riders share their autentic mind set.
The Oxbow Riders: Matt Meola, Levi Siver, Antoine Delpero, Kai Lenny,
Jason Polakow, Duane Desoto and Ian Alldredge.


BNG and the MUSIC: After the movie presentation he was up on stage performing some of his Hip Hop tracks.

And was accompanied by Pintos on some groovy mixture of reggae and hip hop later on.

Music By: NASSER a great electro rock band exploded the last evening with great electro sounds so good that they even changed the weather to a spattered sky of sparkling water drops.
By TRAX MAGAZINE: the live Nasser resembles a Soulwax Nite Version converted to rock
BY ROLLINGSTONE: The result is final. It's a box!
check em out here...



Special Thanks to Philippe Bru,all the other crew members and sponsors
who made this event a unique one.
It is by far one of the most interesting and exciting event in windsurfing.
DEFI WIND
DEFI WIND on TV..
DEFI WIND VIDEOS

BNG will be one of the 1111 windsurfers who will cross the start line at one of the biggest long distance race that will be held down south in France where he and Pintos are also scheduled to perform a few groovy tunes live on stage.

New Gear for BNG:
AHD stands for: Advanced Hull Dynamics
A brand that is open to new designs and ideas in windsurfing.
BNG is equipped with new boards for expression of style and a few fast racing boards.
Stoked.







Ka Sails by Andrew McDougall:
Are the Sails he will be using from now on.
The crew at Ka Sails are friendly and very supportive,
Big ups to all of em.
Picture: BNG testing new race equipments


BNG attended the Grand Prix Guyader
a long distance event where many boats of all types
got together to compete between two check points.
The fastest captain whit the quickest sailing time measured over
a distance of approx 8km would be the winner.







BNG on the AHD Tactik board, a windsurfing race board designed and
specialized for light wind racing.
The winds never really blew strong enough to be on his slalom gear.

Boat crew chilling on the edge on a light breeze cruise in the baie de Douarnenez. A cool shot taken by Loic Olivier

A Sessions on a Sealion?. A fat fishy looking board that could turn your light windsurfing days into blasts of excitement by simply cruising or playing in waves of any size. The deck is fully padded and the swallow tail makes it easy to control and turn. You can also use it for a SUP (stand up paddle)session whenever you like, there is even a paddle and two fins included Oh yeah; No need for foot straps at all. With this board the waiting days for a fun windsurf sessions have been officially reduced. The mission of the guys at AHD was not only to build the ultimate light wind wave board but, also one that could motivate people to go windsurfing more often anytime anywhere with a well fitting slogan like...'Any Wind Windsurfing '.

BNG experimenting the Sealion board on a morning light wind wave session @ cap sizun

Defi Wind

AHD Boards

Ka Sails

Grand Prix Guyader

 Loic Olivier