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It’s now official. The Planet Reef party will be held on the 13th of June. During this event the election for the Dutch Miss Reef 2010 will be held. These parties are always very cool so be sure to block you agenda. Here can see the teaser for the Planet Reef party.
Soure: Edge to Edge
Have you ever thought about joining the GPS Team Challenge or starting GPS speedsurfing? Here are 5 reasons why I joined this challenge and hopefully you will also after reading these reasons.
Windsurfing has always been my favorite sport and I am windsurfing since I was eleven. After a while I noticed I reached a plateau. I wasn’t getting any faster or improving on other fields for that matter. By joining the Dutch Fun Speeders Team I hope I can remove that barrier and improve my windsurfing skills. Read all the reasons to join the GPS Team Challenge
The Point-7 team is working hard on the new sails for 2011. They look gorgeous as you can see on these pictures. The sails don’t contain any logo’s yet because they are prototypes. Point-7 is not a big sail brand in the Netherlands but with these sails that might change 
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For some reason most people are always looking at the top brands when buying new windsurfing equipment (including me). Maybe I should have a bit broader look at things.
point-7 ac-3 2011 Prototype
Naish Sails decided to update their website. It is available to you in four languages: English, French, German or Spanish. All the 2010 Naish Sails are on the website.
Severne Sails also created a new website. The site is very good looking and you can find all the new 2010 sails on it. Also the new Severne Reflex which is developed with Björn Dunkerbeck.
A lot of windsurfers by now know that it’s possible to measure speed with a GPS and post your results individually on sites like GPS-Speedsurfing.com. This idea inspired some members on the Seabreeze forum to set up a similar competition, but then between teams. A lot of people joined the discussion and this showed huge interest by the community. Eventually this lead to The GPS Team Challenge. Read more about: GPS Team Challenge
You probably have heard about tow-in surfing. With muscle power alone the surfer can’t make enough speed to get picked up by the wave. The solution is easy, the surfer is towed in onto the wave by a wave runner. The surfer is now able to get bigger waves.
I didn’t know that this was possible with windsurfing equipment. Kauli Seadi did a tow in session at big wave spot Jaws. On 1:03 you can see how he is towed in.
Hiswa, one of the biggest dutch boat shows is coming up. The expo is not as big as BOOT Dusseldorf but you can still find a lot of boats and water sports related stands.
There is one major difference with BOOT, there are almost no windsurfing exhibitors. As a windsurfer I wouldn’t advice you to go there, only if you interested in boats, looking for tips on boat maintenance, rigging tips, navigational equipment or other related topics.
Here you can find out how to get there.
A new Windsurfer International Magazine is out. This is a fairly new windsurfing magazine which you can find only online. And that’s no coincidence.
Brain likes print but he has to say that even recycled paper doesn’t make up for the traditional methods print uses to publish everything because of the toxic inks, wasted paper and high shipping costs. Besides that, some magazines also “recycle” the content which have been seen online already.
I don’t fully agree because a lot of people forget how much environmental impact all the data centers have on which all the websites reside. Anyway it’s another great issue!
Lately I am thinking about redesigning the website. I like the clean look the website has and the fast loading times. The website is also is easy readable.
What I don’t like is the fact that my site is not very recognizable. It could be any site instead of Mad Windsurfing. The navigation is also not how it should be. Old articles are not found very easily and that is very important because I want to provide the best user experience possible.
Yesterday I rearranged the sidebar (see the columns on the left). It was cluttered and not al links were clicked on very frequently. Hopefully is the navigation improved by this change.
What do you think? What should be improved and what should stay? Leave here your comment.
I guess I need to go to a warm tropical island again. Since all videos I am posting lately are shot at beautiful and tropical windsurfing spots. This video shows footage from a 2 week surf trip to Boa Vista which is part of the archipelago of Cabo Verde. …And here in the Netherlands it’s freezing…