Freestyle Podcast with wave single elimination from Jakub Kosmowski on Vimeo.

Freestyle Podcast with Four Dimensions from Sylt from Jakub Kosmowski on Vimeo.

On the second day of the contest in Sylt we had only rain and no wind. On that day we didn’t run any competition.

Third day is a different story. Since morning we had wind and good weather. In the beginning it seemed that the wind was strong but shortly after going on the water it was different then I thought. All the riders were on their biggest sails which was quite difficult with those choppy conditions. A lot of the riders had some problem that day. Fabian Weber broke his mast before his heat. Philip Soltysiak dislocated his shoulder, Antxon Otaegui couldn’t compete because of his injury from Fuerteventura and I broke my fin in the middle of my heat. Rough conditions messed up the plan of some top guys. Marcilio Browne and Gollito Estredo were stopped by the Frans brother in the quarterfinals and they finished the single elimination on the fifth place. The winner was Kiri Thode who sailed most consistently in Sylt waves. Second place went to Taty Frans and third to Nicola Akgazian from France.

In the afternoon wind didn’t stop to blow so the decision was to run double elimination. All eyes were on the fight between Marcilio Browne and Gollito Estredo. The guys were fighting for a place in the top 5. The young Venezuelan came up with a victory after sailing a great heat. Marcilio couldn’t find his rhythm and you could see he had some problems with those difficult conditions. Gollito won that heat and a next one against Nicola Akgazian but then he lost against Tonky Frans who was sailing very well. In the battle between the brother it was Taty Frans who went into the final. At that point Taty was on fire. He was landing all the moves higher and with more power than Kiri. Kiri couldn’t do much about that. He lost twice in the final and it was Taty who came up with his first double elimination victory.

My run in the double was average. I was against Mattia Pedrani. In the whole heat I didn’t had enough power to do my tricks. The competition was on hold but unfortunately two heat after mine. Too late for me. The forecast for the next days is very good but we still have to run wave single and double elimination so there is no big chance to run another freestyle elimination.

It was only slalom racing on the fourth day in Sylt. The wind was light and the best rider on that day was Antoine Albeau.  

Today starts the last PWA event this season on a German island Sylt. Yesterday we had a registration day and all the riders prepared their equipment. This event will show who will win the overall freestyle world title this year. The big favorite is Gollito Estredo who is in front of Kiri Thode and Tonky Frans. There are few more riders who will fight for the top spot like: Steven van Broeckhoven and Marcilio Browne.

It looks like we will have an interesting final in waves as well where Josh Angulo is in front of Kauli Seadi just with 33 points. Definitely all eyes will be on Phillip Koster who won the event in Pozo in front of Victor Fernandez who didn’t lose a heat there in three years.  

This will be a second event for me after Fuerteventura where I can check my form after the injury. This time it will be completely different. We can have wind for big sails or 30 knots and a huge beach break. The forecast looks very good for Monday. Stay tuned…

Hope you enjoy it.

KUBA IN DA HELL from Wiktor Kitzman on Vimeo.

Finally after a long time of uploading, cutting and rendering I am bringing the first episode of the Freestyle Podcasts from Fuerteventura. It is just a short video of few guys training here before the event. The second episode from the single and double elimination is uploading as we speak so should be online tomorrow morning and then I will upload another episode from the final day. Hope you will like it. Take care.

Freestyle Podcast PWA Fuerteventura episode 1 from Jakub Kosmowski on Vimeo.

It’s been a long time since my last sailing. After a hand injury which I had in Cape Town, I hurt my knee which added few extra days to my non sailing period.

Luckily it’s all gone and I’m happy to say: I’m coming back. I’m in Fuerteventura already for some training before the PWA event which will start on the 25^th of July.

Secondly I totally changed all my sponsors in the season 2009. I joined two great international teams. This year I will use RRD boards and Simmer Style Sails. All of my trips will be secured by Unimil which started a new internet portal Uclub.pl which I will promote. I will also join a new clothing brand straight from Danish Klitmoller called Plasma Boardriding. The new brand is growing very fast and launching new style very fast. The founder Robert Sand is very ambitious about the brand so for sure we will see a lot of great stuff from their side. All of those products will be provided in Poland by new internet surf shop called eSurf.pl which is also my new sponsor. One brand which didn’t change and still gives me a lot of support is Da Kine. I’ve already received the new version of the T4 harness and for sure I will write a bit more about that later from the Canaries.

This season will be for sure my way back to the professional windsurfing and I hope I can sail good in Fuerte and promote my sponsors. I will launch my “Freestyle Podcasts” this week.

I hope we will have great conditions and I can get back in shape in short time!

pics: Philip Soltysiak

Freestyle Podcast Cape Town episode 2 from JFK Studio on Vimeo.

And also I wish you all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, hope all of you will have a great time…

Freestyle Podcast from Cape Town episode 1 from JFK Studio on Vimeo.

Enjoy. Next episode is coming out next weekend.

Freestyle Podcasts episode 7 with tricktionary from JFK Studio on Vimeo.