Great conditions.
Berndt Roedinger and Antoine Martin stand out after the first 2 rounds
Really cool to see how the boards work with the different riding styles. Love it!
Great to see, it would be interesting to see how much tail rocker Roediger's board has, those bottom turns are amazing!
Interesting to hear that Josh Angulo has been using a secondhand single fin 89 litre production Angulo board from 2016, true sinker for a man of his build, 100kg. Most other sailors are apparently riding boards with some additional volume over their weight eg Graham Ezzy (88-90kg) using custom 94 litre Tabou until he damaged finbox when he reverted to a custom 85 litre sinker.
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Interesting to hear that Josh Angulo has been using a secondhand single fin 89 litre production Angulo board from 2016, true sinker for a man of his build, 100kg. Most other sailors are apparently riding boards with some additional volume over their weight eg Graham Ezzy (88-90kg) using custom 94 litre Tabou until he damaged finbox when he reverted to a custom 85 litre sinker.
That live discussion, hosted yesterday on windsurfing.tv, was brilliant, and luckily you can still find it on youtube.
The board size and board shape issues are still open to debate, and there wasn't full agreement.
Josh sought out an old board he knew would work well at the Ponta Preta break - a place he knows better than anybody.
He obviously also wants to be on an Angulo board.
He was using a 5.3 sail - which was bigger than most chose - but the board does not appear to actually sink under him if you watch the replays. If he's 100kgs, then surely the board can't actually be 89litres?
I guess the single fin might help him get planing slightly earlier than a quad might, and it might also offer better top speed.
But Josh's true skill is in knowing when and where to pick up the wave, and then getting on that wave, despite his weight.
It is true, as was said in the discussion, that many lighter sailors can choose a board with +5 litres of volume over their weight in kilos, whereas heavier sailors often seem to choose a board with volume equal to their weight. That discussion gets more complicated when we compare board widths, and board volume added through hull thickness. True 'float' is often a function of board 'footprint'.
What we do know is that the typical Euro wave board, designed mostly for onshore conditions, and with a relatively flat rocker for early planing, is not what you want at Ponte Preta. You need a bit more rocker to fit in the curve of the wave, and some tail kick.
One of the key factors at this event has been the sailors ability to spot a good wave, and then being able to catch it. The winners so far seem to be the lighter sailors who seem to have a better chance of catching the wave when the wind is gusty and blowing well offshore.
And that is part of the usual complex discussion about 'apparent wind'.
The bigger guys often had to choose a bigger board just to position themselves well upwind in the hope of catching the wave sets first. But that same board might not be the ideal board they'd then want to be on, once on the wave face.
Once on the wave, most sailors seem to be able to belt along the face at speed, but the heat winners tended to be the ones who had enough board rocker to take them vertically up the face after a proper rail bottom turn.
Let's hope we get more of this amazing event at the weekend.
Its good to see a competition away from the usual places.
It looked to me that if they rode the wave in a typical vertical turn up and down the face they would be heading straight onto the rocks.
So it was more of a run parallel to the wave jump over the rocks on the wave face competition. A few did more turning, less fast DTL runs.
It was good to hear Graham Ezzy's honesty about using a custom board. He said most production wave boards wouldn't work there.
That break looks fun until you get caught inside and have to deal with the rocks..
Berndts boards are super small according to specs on Flikka Instagram page, dtl board at 215 x 55.5 and 'competition' board at 209 x 56.5. Tiny but obviously work for him!
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Berndts boards are super small according to specs on Flikka Instagram page, dtl board at 215 x 55.5 and 'competition' board at 209 x 56.5. Tiny but obviously work for him!
It's supposedly a 75 litre board.
Bernd is also pretty small, weighing about 72 kilos.
Looks surprisingly similar to a faster moving, snappier breaking Punta San Carlos.
Major props!
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Looks surprisingly similar to a faster moving, snappier breaking Punta San Carlos.
Major props!
Uhm...way heavier than Punta San Carlos (though I have destroyed gear in the Chilli Bowl)
That's what I said!
Kinda like Backyards into Bones, Northshore power.
Where a longer, narrower s
And if you like power, try Punta San Antonio on a W swell on your way into PSC.
Closes out on S swells, mushes sectiony on NW swells.
Josh Angulo's board test:
windsurfing.lepicture.com/board-tests/#2016-Angulo-Triumph
Select to expand quoteFlying Dutchman said..
Holy moly ! Awesome! Can't get enough of that !
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