HOOKED Windsurfing Video by Stefan Csaky

It can take a durable person to enjoy all that windsurfing can provide when it comes to workouts and leisure rides. But it takes an even hardier person to travel hours just to enjoy our great wind surfing sport.  One such person is Stefan Csaky who created HOOKED which is a windsurfing video that is currently featured on Vimeo.  Stefan is a local windsurfer from Vienna, Austria that created this fantastic windsurfing video that features scenic skies and a mixture of beach scenes and industrial areas making for 11 minutes of pure windsurfing beaty.  Please check out the full video here or click below.

Young UK Windsurfer Given Community Outreach Award

I try to find windsurfing events and/or happenings that span across the world rather than just limit myself to the United States or  areas like Australia that already get tons of windsurfing sports news coverage.  This is why I take all of you to the small town of Falmouth and Penryn Parish in the United Kingdom where a young windsurfer was recently honored for all the work she has done for her community and the young would be windsurfers located within it.

Marianne Bryan was awarded the Royal Yachting Association’s Community Award for Youth for all the work she's done around the area.  Marianne worked with young children and novice windsurfers with South West Windsurfing and Roseland Waveriders windsurfing club at Percuil. Marianne started windsurfing at the ripe young age of 15 and picked up the sport's intricacies quite quickly and showed a knack for teaching others how to windsurf on their own.  We're always glad to see stories like this and hope to see many more youngsters taking up the mantle of teaching the next generation how to hope up on a board and take the waves by storm.

How to Find The Right Wet Suit

A key piece of equipment that many would-be windsurfers and water sports novices is a wetsuit.  It's easy to find information on the best windsurfing board, rigging, and sail but how do you go about choosing the right wetsuit for your wind surfing sports needs.  Thankfully we're here to search the webs for the tops experts with the best information on this and any other subject that would help bring new sailors into our great water sport.

Key features that the article focuses on is the fabric you're looking to have, the thickness of that fabric, the seams, and whether or not you will need insulation as part of the wetsuit.   There's also plenty of styles that wetsuits come in from long sleeved to short sleeved to sleeveless wet vests.  Rather than go into detail please click this link for a full article from this windsurfing blogger.

Over 140 Windsurfers Set to Take on Singapore Event

Looking for a great spot to windsurfing early next year? How about trying Singapore and watch the 140 professional windsurfers from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, and half a dozen other areas in the pacific.  The event will be held Jan 8th-10th in 2010 and will have the sailors look to compete in a variety of events that run from slalom courses to heats geared towards specific types of boards.

To encourage windsurfing as a sport throughout Singapore the event looks to also include youth workshops and races geared towards specific age groups. The usual weather in scenic Singapore looks to provide a fun and exciting atmosphere for the windsurfing sports event.  Please click the link for further details on the event and the organizations hosting it.

Fanatic's New Addicted To Ride 5 DVD

Promos for the new Fanatic Addicted To Ride DVD series have just been released on Fanatic's website.  This new windsurfing DVD seems to be set to feature some of the world's top windsurfers showing off their sailing skills.  The video alone features some of the world's most gorgeous locations including Maui, El Yaque, and South Africa.  Please check out this link for a full promotional video for ATR 5.

John Papaspirou wins the Greek National Slalom Championship

The Greek National Slalom Championship was held in early November and saw around 40 of the area's top windsurfing veterans vying for the top honor.  The winds averaged close to 40 knots most days and worked to make the slalom courses a bit more difficult for the competitors in the event.  Thankfully John Papaspirou utilized his windsurfing expertise to beat out the rest of the group to cinch his Greek National Slalom title.  Please check out the full article that features a lot of John's own words on how the different heats shaped up here.

Inventive Couple Enjoy "Ice Sailing"

We're always hard-pressed to find new locations to enjoy windsurfing at, but traveling the world to find primo locales to enjoy our various wind surfing sports  for a badass endless summer would only lead to a travel budget that would exceed tens of thousands of dollars.   if we truly wanted to ride escape the cold and truly experience an endless Summer.  Instead the folks in the video below choose to brave the cold without sacrificing their love of windsurfing.  Utilizing the sail from a windsurfing board a simple rig that adds a skateboard type wheel to modify the kite to serve their icesailing needs.