Waveski / France National Championship 2011

Campeonato Francês de Waveski / 29 de Outubro a 1 de Novembro

As estrelas estão lá todas! Campeões do mundo e nova geração na meca do waveski europeu (e talvez mundial). Fred Jonneaux, NEWS TEAM kayaksurf.net, envia-nos o convite para O evento europeu do waveski. Imaginem estar em Sables d'Olonne e assistir a heats com Caroline Angibaud, Renan LeLoutre, Pablo Arrouays, Virgile Humbert, Mathieu Jonneaux, Mathieu Babarit e muitos, muitos mais? Um luxo. Este evento irá contar com um Troféu Best Wave kayaksurf.net para a onda do campeonato. Ficamos à espera do report!

As every year, our France National Waveski Championship takes place at the end of october. This 2011 edition takes place in Sables d’Olonne, which is a special place for waveski, as it’s the only place in France (and probably in the world… !) that has a school with waveski section that prepares young riders to waveski high level and teaches them at school at the same time, as in any school. Great champions as Caroline Angibaud, Paul Jouet, Coralie Jousset, Renan Leloutre,… studied in this school. Now, Fred Jonneaux, NEWS TEAM kayaksurf.net, invites us for one more edition of the TOP event in Sables d'Olonnes. Below more infos. Let's wait for the reports and good luck for all! Don't forget the Best Wave Trophy kayaksurf.net ;)

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FRANCE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Sables d’Olonne – Oct 29th to Nov 1st

As every year, our France National Waveski Championship takes place at the end of october. This 2011 edition takes place in Sables d’Olonne, which is a special place for waveski, as it’s the only place in France (and probably in the world… !) that has a school with waveski section that prepares young riders to waveski high level and teaches them at school at the same time, as in any school. Great champions as Caroline Angibaud, Paul Jouet, Coralie Jousset, Renan Leloutre,… studied in this school.

Those special students are coached by Gérard Lucas, who was National Waveski Team Coach for several years. Gérard is also the Contest Director for these 2011 Waveski France National Championships.

Of course it’s our main event in France, and each year more than 80 riders meet there to compete : as you could see in Santa Cruz, the powerful surf of our young riders will be present, and you can be sure they all are going to struggle to make a big show on the waves… ! Just try to imagine Pablo Arrouays and Virgile Humbert fighting for the national title… do you think Mathieu Babarit and Caroline Angibaud (who both couldn’t run the world titles) will let them do the job ?... Renan Leloutre, Maël Divialle, Mathieu Jonneaux, Maxime Gaborit, Nathan Le Bars…. And many other great surfers will be there, and you can be sure they all want to climb on podiums !...

…. Well, I have to go now… to prepare my camera !

As usual, Mamgoz Productions / BreizhridersTV will make the video report for you.

Mérci Fred!

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KAYAKSURF Sweden in Portugal with aterra.se

Kayaksurf Sueco nas ondas de Peniche



Já é habitual de há uns anos para cá que Leif venha a Portugal surfar com alguns conterrâneos seus. De facto, com este sol em Outubro, qualquer sueco fica perdido pelo nosso país. Nas duas passadas semanas, a Capital da Onda, foi igualmente visitada por kayaksurfistas oriundos da Dinamarca e Bulgária. Tivemos oportunidade de partilhar ondas nos habituais spots de Peniche e, com este tempinho, até parecia Agosto! Fica o report que Leif, NEWS TEAM kayaksurf.net, nos envia agora directo da Suécia. A viagem contou, como habitualmente, com o apoio da Watertech.

Great days of sun, surf and paddles in the water ;) That was like that in the past two weeks in Peniche, Portugal. Surfkayakers from Sweden, Denmark and Bulgary came till Portugal to surf in our "Wave Capital". Now, Leif Davidsson, NEWS TEAM kayaksurf.net, sent us the report from those days. Next year, like usual, let's meet again in Peniche! This trip had, like usual, Watertech support.

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Peniche surf kayak course with Aterra and Watertech

Home again after a week in Peniche, this was our fourth surf kayak course down here. And the participants learn how to surf in perfect conditions on waves from one to two meters. Our course is a five day course, often Monday-Friday. May 2012 we come back to Peniche and hope to see you there in a surf kayak course or if you are there surfing I hope to meet you in the waves.

More info aterra.se. For info in English please contact info@aterra.se.
vänliga hälsningar / kind regards / venlig hilsen
Leif Davidsson

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Leif Davidsson

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WAVESKI / Mathieu Jonneaux in Portugal

Sequência de Mathieu Jonneaux / Mundial de Waveski 2011


photos by scosf2011

Mathieu Jonneaux, WatertechTeam, já é bem conhecido por estas bandas. É um dos nomes fortes da nova geração francesa de waveski. Para além da sua classe nas ondas, Matt é também o homem forte da Mamgoz Productions que nos tem trazido alguns dos melhores vídeos de waveski produzidos nos últimos tempos. Fica uma sequência de luxo tirada no Mundial de Waveski que decorreu este ano no Santa Cruz Ocean Spirit Festival.

Mathieu Jonneaux, Watertech Team, is already a very well known name here on kayaksurf.net ;) Besides being one of the strongest names of the new french waveski generation, Matt is also the manager of Mamgoz Productions. We all know very well their video productions in the last Worlds. Enjoy this sequence taken in Santa Cruz Ocean Spirit Festival (Waveski Worlds 2011). Very cool!

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Coupe de Bretagne / Waveski & Kayaksurf Surfing France

Taça da Bretanha / Prova de Waveski e Kayaksurf no dia 23 de Outubro



Mais uma! É a potência mundial do waveski a organizar e promover eventos que apostam, essencialmente, na iniciação dos atletas mais jovens. Fred Jonneaux, NEWS TEAM kayaksurf.net, enviou-nos o convite. Este evento vai contemplar, pela primeira vez em França, a união entre kayaksurf e waveski. Onde é que nós já vimos isto? A confirmação chega-nos da nação por excelência do waveski. Muito bom. Tal como Fred escreve mais em baixo... - "sharing our common passion : paddling and surfing waves ! "

One more! It's the usual french activitie regarding the waveski scene. Fred Jonneaux, NEWS TEAM kayaksurf.net, sent us the invitiation for next October 23rd. Let's go! This event will also have for the very firts time in France, the participation of some surfkayakers ;) That's great News! Like in Portugal, Ireland, Brazil, USA, Galiza, Italy and now... also in France. Like Fred writes below - "sharing our common passion : paddling and surfing waves ! ". Let's wait for the report!!

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Brittany Regional Waveski AND Surfkayak Competition on October 23rd

Since a few years, in Brittany, we manage to run a regional waveski circuit, that has 3 or 4 legs, and a regional championship. This is the way we found to interest young and beginners in waveski to come to competitions that are not too far away from the place they live, and it’s also the way to make a regional ranking. Then, riders who get good ranking are supposed to come to the waveski national circuit. We generally have between 20 and 35 entries on each regional leg.

To encourage new riders and also ladies to come to the activity, we give free entries to ladies, and also to people who are not yet ranked in waveski. Some of them don’t have any board, so we also lend them free of charge the boards that our Departemental Kayak Comitee lends us for waveski development, which is really a very good help. By this way, last year we got a few new riders coming to the activity. After a few competitions on the regional circuit, some of them buy a second hand board and then keep on surfing.

Competition organizations are very light : everyone has to give a hand on the organization : riders who compete also come to judgement (new ones are teached about it) each club comes with some material (beach flags, judgement files, beach marshall boards,…) and this is really good for the spirit we like to feel on the competitions : hard battle on waves, and friendship on the beach !

And also, for the first time in France, a few surfkayakers will join us on the competition. This is a real good new, because it makes a bigger event, and it’s a very good way to meet new people sharing our common passion : paddling and surfing waves ! Of course we said they are welcome ! Some of our young riders will have the opportunity to try a surfkayak, some of surfkayakers will have their first rides on a waveski, this is a good experience for everyone.

Other European countries, as Portugal, Spain, Ireland,… do so, so we can enjoy that France, which has very few surfkayakers, go on the same way, it can be a real promotion for both activities.

So we just pray for good conditions for October 23rd at Baie des Trépassés (Plouhinec Club organization), the most western spot of France.

This regional meeting is the last one before our National Waveski Championship which takes place in Sables d’Olonne (in the middle of french atlantic coast) from October 29th to November 1st. So Oct 23rd will probably be a « training competition » before the main national event… this means big level for sure !

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Mérci Fred!


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Basque Team celebrates the World Kayaksurf Title 2011

Bascos continuam a celebrar o Título Mundial obtido nos EUA



E a selecção basca continua em festa! Entrevistas para rádios, jornais e sempre com umas jantaradas pelo meio ;) Txema Carreto, NEWS TEAM kayaksurf.net, enviou-nos algumas imagens desta árdua tarefa ;) Mais em baixo, um novo vídeo sobre o Mundial.

And the Basque Team still continues the party! Interviews on radios, for the newspapers and also with some great dinner parties. Hard work Txema ;) Below, the most recent video from the WCSK11. Aupa!!

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Obrigado Txema!


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WCSK11 / Kayaksurf Worlds USA / Japan Team

Mundial de Kayaksurf 2011 / Selecção Japonesa



Eram somente três mas, tal como em Portugal 2009, cheios de simpatia e boa onda. Shota Onishi, NEWS TEAM kayaksurf.net, envia-nos a confirmação de que nenhum elemento do Japão conseguiu chegar a uma final, no entanto, Masaki Matsumoto alcançou as semi-finais em Masters HP. Parabéns pela participação!

They were a "small" team but, like in Portugal, full of simpathy and good vibe. Shota Onishi, NEWS TEAM kayaksurf.net, congrats Masaki Matsumoto that reached the semi-finals of Master's Short class! Congratulations Japan for one more World Championship!!

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Japan Team and Dave Johnston (USA)


Masaki Matsumoto





Thanks Shota and a nice trip back Japan to all the Team!


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Roberta Borsari / Kayaksurf & SUP in Chicama, Peru

Mais uma aventura de Bebeta! Depois da Pororoca... Chicama no Peru ;)


photos by kayaksurfclub brasil

Bom, depois da Pororoca - http://www.kayaksurf.net/RobertaPororoca.html - Bebeta foi até ao Perú para explorar a esquerda mais longa e famosa do mundo. A atleta da Mega Flying Squad e uma das grandes amigas do kayaksurf.net, vai dar-nos depois o report! Boa sorte amiga ;)

Well, after Pororoca - http://www.kayaksurf.net/RobertaPororoca.html - Roberta Borsari goes till the most famous and long left of the world. She will be surfing in Chicama (Peru) and then, we'll hava like usual a great report from our good friend. Good luck Bebeta!!

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A Top 10 mundial Roberta Borsari conhecerá, de caiaque e de SUP, na famosa Chicama com suas ondas de 1,5 quilômetros de extensão, no Peru



Depois de surfar a onda mais extensa do mundo em rio, a pororoca, a atleta Roberta Borsari tem agora um novo objetivo na carreira: desvendar a onda esquerda mais longa dos mares, no norte peruano. E o desafio já tem data marcada. No dia 1º de outubro, a brasileira desembarca no Peru para uma surftrip no imenso Pacífico.

"Chicama tem uma onda considerada um clássico do surfe. Ela é tão extensa que, depois de surfá-la, é preciso um bote para te resgatar para conseguir um bom aproveitamento dos treinos", contou a atleta. A onda do local pode chegar a mais de 1,5 quilômetros de extensão e dois metros de altura.

O Peru é mundialmente reconhecido pelas boas ondas e a ideia da brasileira é se aventurar no caiaque (sua especialidade) e também no Stand Up Paddle (SUP), modalidade que tem atraído adeptos por todo o mundo na qual o atleta fica em pé sobre uma prancha remando. "Explorar esse local com os equipamentos de remo será um enorme prazer", ressalta Borsari.

Para explorar os mistérios do país asteca, Roberta ficará no resort Chicama Surf, que oferece alguns mimos aos seus hóspedes como o SPA do local. Assim, quem quiser acompanhar os aventureiros e quer ficar confortavelmente instalado, o hotel oferece excelente infraestrutura turística.

Logo depois da surftrip, a atleta lançará oficialmente o seu novo site, no qual apresentará todas as emoções e o histórico de suas aventuras. E em novembro, Roberta participará do Campeonato Sul-Americano de Kayaksurf em Barra Velha, Santa Catarina.

Em abril, Borsari se tornou a primeira mulher do mundo a surfar de caiaque a Pororoca, no rio Araguari. A Pororoca ocorre em decorrência do encontro das águas do rio com o mar, formando imensas ondas. Top 10 no ranking mundial de kayaksurf, a atleta é a única mulher a correr o circuito nacional. Na canoagem em corredeiras foi a primeira mulher a descer vários rios do sudeste do país. Além disso, em 2009, tornou-se a primeira a surfar de caiaque as águas de Galápagos

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Kayaksurf Symposium / Denmark 2011

Simpósio de Kayaksurf na Dinamarca com a presença de Simon Hammond



O kayaksurf desponta na Dinamarca com várias iniciativas levadas a cabo pelo DKF (Dinamarca Kayak Surf). Casper Gyndelberg, NEWS TEAM kayaksurf.net, envia-nos o report de mais um fim de semana onde as pagaias e os kayaks foram notícia. Tal como habitualmente, o DKF convida sempre um nome sonante da cena mundial para dar formação. Depois de Pete Belnkinsop, o convite caiu este ano no escocês Simon Hammond - autor do "Surf Kayak - Essential Guide". O evebto reuniu mais de 50 atletas oriundos da Dinamarca e Suécia. Fica o report!

Last weekend in September opened the Kayaksurf Denmark up for this year's big Surf Symposium in Cold Hawaii. 50 surfkayakers from Denmark and Sweden were troops up with the x world champion Simon Hammond from United Kingdom. Casper Gyldenberg, NEWS TEAM kayaksurf.net, sent us the full report with plenty of photos - links below. Enjoy it!!

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Simon Hammond

Surf Symposium 2011 Denmark
by Casper Gyldenberg

The weekend kicked off Friday evening when people began to check into. In the evening, Simon Hammond held a lecture about the way to become world champion. There sat many, listening and dreaming at the top of the podium at the world championships in kayak surfing. Saturday morning went so loose in the waves in Klitmøller Cold Hawaii where the day was on workshops, and plenty of comfort among the participants.

Hen of the day watching the rescue helicopter dropped by to take aerial images of surfers in the water. Really cool to get some surf pictures from a different angle. Sunday was on the DKF Surf Raid, another kayak surf competition on Danish soil. It was the unofficial Danish championship so surfers from Sweden may well participate. The day went really well and there were many exciting race in today's competition and you could see that the surfers were much better than the competition last year.

First place went to Petter Like Berg, Sweden, second place went to Lars Larsson and third place went to Dane David Tetzschner.

This competition has given the Danes something to train for, it can not be true that the Swedes will come and take almost all podium places in Denmark championships.

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See photos of DKF Surf Raid on
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Thanks Casper!!


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