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Juice

Robby Swift's 'Down Under' video.

Dhakla (Morocco/Western Sahara) Festival pics.

Thorpy's UK Speed Spots Guide. (Includes satellite info maps.)

Ollie Scott from Bryan Metcalf-Perez on Vimeo.

A juicy Maui sesh for GP.

Sylvain Moussilmani interviewed on the Simmer Race Sails by LocalSailing.nl

Tatiana filmed [windsurfing] by kite.

WSJ say Sarah Hébert's planning a Trans-Atlantic windsurfing mission.

Fuerte Wave Classic could get a green light today.

Up Close and Personal

Nice POVs from GP.

Fun sesh clip from the Fuerteventura Wave Classic. More live updates from the FWC here throughout the day, Including the live map and some nice size snaps of Punta Elena on Windsurf Today.

South of France Freestyle clip on C7.

Ladies - The Butterfly Effect, Fiji, is ON for this June.

Some pics and a video of the destruction to the French West Coast and the unfortunate damage to recently refurbished store Surf Avenue. (If my schoolboy French is correct, it sounds like the Albeau family store on the ravaged Isle de Ré escaped major damage though.)

Tenerife mastmount clip from the OTC crew.

As if you need motivation to go faster!

New 99 Custom website.

Hot Prospects

 Congratulations to Philip Koester who's scored a juicy deal with Red Bull. Let me see. So that's NeilPryde, Starboard, Mercedes, Red Bull, Oxbow, Maui Ultra Fins and DaKine all backing the hottest prospect for the 2010 Wavesailing World Title! Not a bad collection of sponsors eh?

New camps in Portugal with Simple Forward. (German language website for now but courses available in various languages.)

Don't forget the Fuerteventura Wave Classic (FWC) is underway today - follow the live updates here.

Fingers Crossed

Super sad to hear about the Chile disaster - apparently Matanzas suffered really badly and I heard Robby Swift and Klaas Voget's places there were damaged but that they are OK. I've asked some of the locals for details and will keep you up-to-date on the news and how we can assist - but I'm sure going to Chile to spend money and aid the recovery will be a pretty good way to help.

EDIT/UPDATE: Saw this [German Language] post on Swift/Fernandez/Voget. (Tip: Use Google translate.)

Also, glad Maui survived the no-show Tsunami. We also hope everyone in SW France and Portugal are OK too after the weekend's terrible storms and flooding.

OK loads to get through here we go...

Point-7 2011 protos spotted.

North Shore Maui got more swell than the Tsunami-expectant south.

Stay informed with the latest from the Fuerteventura Wave Classic.

Some weekend and last-week session pics from La Fitenia and North Shore Tenerife with Alex Mussolini, Dany Bruch and loads of hot local sailors at WindsurfingTenerife.com. That's Jochen who sent them in pictured above at La Fitenia. Thanks Jochen.

Timo Mullen avoided flooding in the UK and scored a fun little sesh at Praa Sands in Cornwall. Check out these pics he sent in.

 

 

 

The Wave Classic Invitational Morocco is confirmed for May.

Lithuanian rider Girmantas has a new Blog covering his travels - he just scored some waves in the Sea of Cortez.

A solid endorsement for Bonaire Freestyler and MC Ruben Petrisie from Josh Angulo...not bad coming from a  buddy of Jack Johnson!
 

 Spanish Pro Rafael Cervero sent this notification of some tuition camps he's running in Tarifa, Spain.

<<PR

Hi to everyone

Here i bring you the first freestyle, wave, slalom clinic teached by Pierre Glogaen and Rafael Cerveró (myself).Dont get wrong the name, of the clinic is medium-advance.Minimum level is waterstart and footstraps, we will help you to improve your planing position, your upwind course, jibes...and for the most advance we will make an introduction of freestyle, wave and slalom.

With theoric(mesures, rigging, tricks in the beach...) and practic clases, done by two instructors with experience.

The clinic is 3 days long and costs 150 euros, with snack dinner on saturday.The clases will be in spanish, french, english or italian, and in the begining they will be in tarifa smile´s centre, but if consider that any other beach is better we will move.

In tarifa´s smile centre you will find everything you need if yo dont bring your own kit.

http://www.tarifasmile.com/

For any futher information contact Pierre on contac[at]tarifasmile.com or me on kurrye13[at]gmail.com

Greetz to everybody and hope to see you there.

ENDS>>

 Kurosh Kiani on tuning his Angulo Magnums. 

More later.