Bjorn Dunkerbeck managed to secure the PWA slalom world title with still one event to go. Congratulations to Bjorn! Good to see someone else winning again. Not that I have anything against Antoine Albeau but after winning several world titles in a row it is good to see somebody else win again. The same happened a while back in the Formula 1 where Michael Schumacher was taking all the wins successively. That became a bit boring after a while.

Bjorn Dunkerbeck - PWA World Champoin 2011. Photo by PWA / John Carter

In my opinion it would even be better to see someone win who has never won before instead of Bjorn, Ben van der Steen for example. That will shows to the other windsurfers that it’s still possible to win a world title between all the “old” guys. On the other hand Bjorn Dunkerbeck and Antoine Albeau show how incredible talented they are because they are so consistent in their performances over the years.

Let’s see what will happen in Sylt, Germany. That will be the last race/slalom stop of the PWA Tour 2011.

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Dutch windsurfer Ben van der Steen (NED-57) will be participating in a new movie project. This project will be run by New World Spirits which created already some cool outdoor sports movies.  At the moment Ben is busy with filmmaker Tomas Miklautsch and the film crew creating the documentary style movie.

Here is a quote from Ben van der Steen:

We are now in The south Of Chile were we will go and sail on the mountain lakes for the next week and after we will go to Lago de Argentina were we will go and sail in front of the glassiers with big pieces of ice braking of it. When we are done there we will start and attempt to round the cape horn on a windsurfing board as the second windsurfers (Ben van der Steen) (Tine Slabe) to ever sail around the horn.

This all will be filmed and photographed by New World Spirits  which is run by legendary adventure windsurfer Tomas Miklautsch. And it will be made in to a documentary that will be spread and sold by redbull world wide.

Here are two great examples of what we can expect of this new movie. These short fragments are from the same movie makers.

Windsurfing under the Golden Gate bridge:

Extreme glacier windsurfing in Patagonia:

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