Beach Telegraph

Goiter, Goyta or Goita?

PWA Judge Thijs van de Meer wrote back on the Levi Siver 'Is it an Air Taka or a Goiter?' issue.

Thijs says it's a Goiter because "In the picture [above] you can see the mastfoot is clearly higher than the top of the mast.

To me, that's where an Air Taka turns into a Goiter.

Goiters are being done a lot flatter these days, it looks less radical, but the guys are sticking them more consistently this way.

A tough trade off. Compliments to Levi for staying in the wave in these offshore conditions. Too bad he lost it at the end." Thanks Thijs for that insight. If you disagree why not vote in the Poll to the right?

By the way. Eagle-eyed readers might have noticed the various spellings of Goiter in circulation.

Irish Pro Oisin Van Gelderen did some research and found that a Goiter, as opposed to a Goyta or Goita, is related to an overdose of action in the Adrenal glands!

From memory I think that's why the move was named that back in the 90s. So who invented it? Was it Mark Angulo? Any answers, medical or windsurfing related are appreciated in the Comments section below. Thanks.

Here's a revolutionary new way of choosing a sail from Boardseeker.

I had a great response to yesterday's 'arty Blogs' post, and received a lot of links such as Frank from River-Rippers.net's recomendation. 

Yann Sorlut sums-up the AFF event in Almanarre, France.

Take a deep breath and hoooooooooold.

Even The King goes on the Rocks from time-to-time.

GP get's his readers to take some of the strain and posts other people's videos for a day. Good idea.

More new perspectives from Dani Miguel.

Err how glad am I that never bought any Quiksilver stock? Thanks to [Twitter] @Ian Votteri for the alert!

Worldwide Whirlwind

A Cyclone windsurfing adventure from Sean. Yikes.

WINDNews magazine [Italian language] is out now.

Some Polish MauiSails riders enjoyed Western Australia - includes a short Margaret River wavesailing clip.

Continent Seven have a link to a clip of wavesailing in Tarifa (Andalucia, Spain) and Carro (France).

Weird.

'Kous' takes you wavesailing near Athens, Greece.

Some more recent Maui windsurfing shots from Makani's Maui Windsurfing Blog.

Victor Fernandez 'getting high' at home.

Planche mag have a video link to footage of the new XO brand sails in action.

Finally, if you didn't see the video or vote on the Goyta/Air Taka Poll to the right, please check it out and register your opinion! Thanks.

That's all for now folks. Gotta dash and see about some real work...

Need to Know

Keeping you up-to-speed and on-the-pace...

Irish Pro Oisin Van Gelderen sent this scenic shot of a 5 deg Celsius session on Wednesday in Brandon Bay, Ireland, during an 8.6 meter swell and 30 knots of wind. Thanks Oisin. Brrr.

The Maui crew get a break from the old routine. (I bet those shots are flipped from port tack...)

News and pics from the Fuerte Wave Classic.

A Total Wind reader has also posted some nice shots from the contest in their forum too. Here and here.

PWA Slalom Champion Antoine Albeau's re-launched his website.

News, pics and audio [French language] interviews from the AFF event in Almanarre, France.

You can follow more live throughout the day also at Windsurf Journal.

A [German language] interview of filmmaker and PWA Freestyler Andre Paskowski.

The new RRD 11 SUP.

Mad Maarten suggests some no-wind reading material.

A video of a hot Danish lady showing off in Bonaire.

More old-skool windsurfing action video.

Have a nice day.

Brotherhood

What is it with the 'brother's' theme today?

Anyway. 'Tropical' Ireland gifted Finn Mullen some nice surf. (17ft@18 secs out to sea - the hood's just for the sun protection..honest.)

But 'balmy' England had snow showers  and snow drifts on the way to the beach in mind for his younger bro Timo to contend with today.

 

Was it worth it? "3/4 ft offshore at  K Bay? You bet!" he said.

Here's some more recent UK winter waves in Cornwall courtesy of photo portfolio site Guavajelly. (Tip - check the South Coast reef action shots in the '08 gallery.)

Tatiana Howard needs to study harder and concentrate more...bet this is what GP was like in Skool.

Here's that Samba movie trailer again if you missed it before.

PWA Freestyler Yoli De Brendt has a new video coaching system for you.

Everyone's ready and waiting at Cotillo beach for the Fuerteventura Wave Classic.

Meanwhile in the South of France they're running waves at the first AFF event of 2009.

..and you can win a surf (not windsurfing) trip to Morocco with Xoxxi. (departing London.)

Funk Soul Brothers

Please support the Frans brothers on a Bonaire to Curacao  crossing for a good cause.

The Pritchard Brothers work hard on their legs.

Lost in Maui

Two events to keep tabs on live - Fuerteventura Wave Classic (little bit 'o action yesterday) and AFF French Cup in Almanarre (French language).

News from the Micronesia Windsurfing Cup.

Meet Elvis.

RRD introduce PWA wavesailor Francisco Fonseca.

Couple more Quick Interviews...

Goofing around in Galicia.

Twin fins, Quad fins, asymmetric fins...no fins.

A mellow Kona MiniTanker GoPro clip on U-Ride - link on frontpage named  Penhors Inside.

Back in Effect

Many wave-crammed days and a training course later and Beach Telegraph is back in action.

With the dust settling from the Cabo Verde event it's time to get back up-to-speed with everything going on.

So much has happened that I gotta draw a line in the sand and just start from here instead of catching-up.

Actually, just sticking in Cabo Verde for a minute, you'll see that Graham Ezzy won the Super Session.

www.Windinfo.eu sent the flyer above for the Boardshort Picnic Windsurfing Camp (German language) in Gargano Italy.

Continent Seven editor and PWA racer Chris Pressler's been enjoying himself and winning in Vietnam.

Epic Sessions has been giving great webcast service in Maui during the past week. And GP thinks it's about time the PWA offered even a low budget version themselves. What do you think? Should they wait until they get a high-quality rig and the extra budget to staff it and host it, or should they just give us action in any way possible?

Just bear in mind though that although it's easy to park at Ho'okipa and do this, but other competition areas are harder to capture as the contest areas are huge and you'd need extra people to film edit and commentate, plus all the additional radios and someone to coordinate - which all costs money even on a low budget scale.

Don't forget to check GP out on the Flowrider at Kihei too.

Hotsails have been enjoying some Tandem action.

Before the 'line in the sand' WIND mag sent these links to videos of  Thomas Traversa and friends in Big Wave action in France and the consequences.

Boujmaa Guillol is now Blogging.

I saw this Reggae outfit on Twitter thanks to Ms. Porter. I wonder if he inhaled?

Let's not forget 'The Hustle Project' where I hassle the industry for free gear for you guys. Although I've been offline for a week I'm still holding the Fanatic T-Shirt comp open for at least today.

Here's a reminder of the question and details:

How many PWA Events were won by Fanatic Riders in 2008?

Please leave your answer in the Comments section below AND mail me at [email protected] stating why you want the shirt and like the brand for when I choose the winners. Thanks.

Rules: 1. No pros or sponsored riders or dealers are allowed to answer. We will know who you are! 2. I'll think up more rules as I go along.

More soon. Please leave links to anything you think I've missed in the Comments section below.

Sunrise to Sunset

GP gets up early and enjoys Pro-less Ho'okipa. I'm glad he liked yesterday's weather link too...

Windsurf Journal put Kauli And Victor Head-to-Head.

Freestyle film wizard Andre Paskowski announces another new release due March 9th - including 5 new moves from Gollito.

An interview with Josh Angulo at Maui.ee

Some good fun had in Asia with Chris Pressler and the Starboard crew.

Various pics from a heavy session at the 'Isle of Cows' in France including Thomas Traversa, Thierry Belbe'och and Erwan Jauffroy at U-Ride and WIND. (And in another post at WIND.)

Gollito went racing.

Hot Sails have signed a new Speed Sailor.

I see the Starboard Futura Charity Auction has crossed the 2 Thousand bucks mark. I don't know what the charity or cause is? I'll ask them. I wonder if it's something environmental like Surfrider as mentioned in our Poll?

An event to mark something important for Italian readers.

Someone lucky's off to Maui.

I Just can't Get Enough

Check out Mad Maarten's Windsurfing Wallpaper collection.

A little present from WIND mag and the Traversa family.

It's not quite Windguru but...(Thanks to Hugo for the link.)

SimmerStyle are showing video from Cape Town, plus an interview with Cyril Moussilmani and some Maui snaps from Kai Katchdourian.

Boardseeker are also showing a movie of the Big Bay Classic wavesailing event.

Windsurfing Magazine have their latest board test videos online.

I can't get enough of this Air Funnel. While you're at Continent Seven why not read their interview with Peter Volwater?

Carbon Art shaper James Dinnis won the New Zealand Slalom nationals.

Next year the organizer's want to attract racers from all over the planet to join the fun in their beautiful country.

You can read a more detailed summary of this year's event at Surfer Today.

Time to visit Dr. Schmock.

www.MauiWindcam.com has tons of fans, but if you're not one yet you can become a groupie and tell your friends about it at Facebook.

German PWA Freestyler and filmaker Andre Paskowski's entered the Blogosphere.

No news yet from Normen Günzlein, but I'll post something as soon as Normen or perhaps his sponsors are in contact.

Shaka Sir

U-Ride are showing some clips and videos of the recent storms in France on their homepage.

Windsurfing Democrat John Kerry didn't make it into the White House but someone else shows-off their Hawaiian upbringing here. (Remember his bodysurfing skills too?)

Robby Swift finished editing his footage of Lanes from last week.

World Freestyle Windsurfing Champ Gollito enjoyed a special day out. Congratulations Gollito.

No wind in Cape Town means chaos for up-and-coming young British Pro Chris Murray.

Here's some sadder news from South Africa though.

Steve Bodner has some photos to share from the Alex Caviglia Blue Water Classic in Miami. Thanks Steve.

Here's those Irish Speedsailing event dates mentioned yesterday.

Check back for more later. Please paste any interesting links in the Comments section below. Thanks.

Green Light

It's great to see so many contests being confirmed for 2009. A really positive sign in fact.

The latest event getting the green light is The 2009 South American Championships confirmed for March 20th to March 23rd in Potrerillos, Mendoza, Argentina. 

This festival event will decide the continental champions for 3 classes : Formula, Raceboard, and Techno 293. You can find out more at www.amwindsurf.com.ar

France is also lucky to have a Speed event confirmed too. (French).

Stehsegelrevue (German language )interviewed Andre Paskowski about his Road Trip film.

George Markopoulos  has been enjoying his Maui experience.

Here's some nice shots of Klaas Voget and Victor Fernandez training at Melkbos in Cape Town from the Fanatic website.

French PWA Pro Leo Ray took on the chill and currents of France's River Rhone. Don't forget, if you're a fresh water freak, there's always gallons of fast flowing action to be seen at RiverRippers.net

Epic Sessions are all excited by new Waterproof HD cameras.

Continent Seven have a Cape Town spot tour and their Blog confirms the comments that Thomas Traversa left here clarifying that he's staying with Tabou. Thanks for clearing that up for us Thomas and good luck for 2009.

Jonas Ceballos has a clip of Pozo action posted a few places but where better to see it than at his Blog?

More Later. As usual, any interesting links left in the Comments section below are much appreciated.