Category: Freestyle
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Long Island’s finest takes it to the Gorge. Enjoy!
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Thandi is way cool. Jon Sassone is almost as cool (and a fantastic windsurfer. Thandi sails too, but Jon is crazy good. But cool as Thandi…?) Cooler still (and we're in a heat wave) are the upcoming screenings of Children of the Wind, the movie about the birth of windsurfing in Bonaire (the cradle…
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Joe's Beach at Heckscher took too much damage for an event to be possible next month. Here's the word from Mike Burns: "Hello to all the East Coast Windsurfing Festival racers, freestylers, paddlers, tossers, spectators, formula guys, schloggers, crashers, splashers, bobbers, buoys, officials, judges, and sponsors. It's with great sadness that we have to officially postpone…
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Andy Brandt and his merry crew of instructors are coming to Tiana next week (May 17-19) for three days of magnificent windsurfing instruction and fun. It's coming down to crunch time, meaning if you sign up now (and wait until the last minute) you may get shut out. ABK is strict about the ratio…
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Damage from Hurricane Sandy (and delays in getting Federal funding to repair Heckscher Park) rule out Field 7 (Joe's Beach) for the sixth annual East Coast Windsurfing Festival. The organizers need an idea for an alternate site, and right now they don't have one. If you do, please reply here, or post them in…
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While on a windsurfing vacation in Aruba in 1997 I first heard about “the Bonaire kids”, a collection of young (and very young) locals one island over who were windsurfing on antiquated gear, many of whom were fantastic windsurfers, and some of whom were astonishingly good tricksters. We now know the names of some of…
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There's no such thing as guaranteed wind. Doesn't matter what a meteorologist tells you…all you need to do is ask a group of windsurfers who have flown great distances to get to Sure Wind…the skunk stories come out, or at least long stretches of barely planable conditions. I've had the experience in Aruba, Bonaire, Hatteras,…
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Recently in the Yahoo Long Island Windsurfers forum Mike Burns made reference to looping an F2 Sunset Slalom. This is ridiculous. The F2 Sunset Slalom is best suited to intermediate windsurfers, getting them comfortable planing in the footstraps and perhaps beginning to learn the planing jibe. It is a doofuss board from yesteryear that should…
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I can barely raise my arms to the keyboard. I'm out of windsurfing and SUPsurfing shape, having suffered through a windless waveless hell of a season (until last Saturday glorious Saturday). So all I'm going to share now is Saturday: Got a text from Christian and a voicemail from Peconic Jeff that Tiana Bay…
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There are changes regarding the scheduled ABK Windsurfing Clinics on Long Island. 1. The September 21-13 clinic at Napeague has been cancelled, except for those people who have been directly contacted by Andy Brandt (in other words, you know who you are.) 2. The September 28-30 clinic at Napeague (including the famous Freestyle Group) is…