Category: Bonaire
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Kiri Thode, dropping jaws mid-move. So what else is new? Currently the young star from Bonaire is doing his thing at the PWA Freestyle event in Fuertaventura (check out more amazing photos from the event on the PWA website.) I once had the priviledge of some on-the-water interaction with him, as a very young Kiri…
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We return to Bonaire, the incubator of so much great freestyle…planing and nonplaning…and catch up with a windsurfer named Ceasar (who is identified as "Nero" in this video), previously featured in the Peconic Puffin in Freestyle: Take it Easy. Here he goes again, better than ever: A note about the move when he stands on…
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This is an excerpt from the ProKids DVD. There’s another clip (and more info about the DVD) in this post. Bonaire…freestyle heaven!
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Elvis is in Bonaire. And Elvis has a message for us: Tricks are for Kids! Three-year-olds can windsurf. Eight-year-olds can do a world of moves. Twelve-year-olds will blow your minds. Fifteen and sixteen-year-olds rule! (Check out this excerpt from “ProKids”) Anybody who follows freestyle knows about Bonaire as a capital of the discipline. Tonky and…
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Bust a move in eight knots. Bust a move in six. In the current edition of Windsurfing Magazine, Matt Pritchard says that freestyle windsurfing events should lose the wind minimums. If the wind is light, Pritchard says either get out bigger sails, or keep the sails and get out the big boards, and freestyle it…
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