European Speed Championships 2009, second leg

And the results from second leg... Still not official (due low-wind/speed), but on twitter I read they could have good conditions this afternoon. Let's hope soo, this event deserves some good wind!!!

2 Dutchman on top in lightwind, yeah!!! Speedsurfing in lightwinds is something totally different from highwind speedsurfing. But for Dirk Jan no problemo.

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European Speed Championships 2009, first results

The first leg is invalid. Bjorn Dunkerbeck on first place, but Dirk-Jan Knol is really close!!! Fastest time is 61.65kmh or 33.29kn over 250m. Lets hope for some better conditions. Dirk-Jan go go go!!!

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Lightwind speedboard for 2010

For next season I have to buy a lightwind speedboard, with at least the same or even better performance than the Fanatic Falcon 91 I recently sold. The board should be excellent in these conditions:

• Windstrength 8-25kn (should be comftable floating so at least 90 liters)
• Good for medium waves/ chop and flat water. The board doesn't have to be able to take 2m waves, I don't speedsurf in those conditions. Max waveheight is approx. 0,5-0,6m
• Good for downwind courses from 120-160 degrees downwind.

This lightwind board will be used on open water, pure focus on 5x 10sec speed. So average speed is not important, acceleration and drag count a lot!!! For these requirements there are no specific boarddesigns, sooo I have choose the best compromise... (when will gps-boarddesigns hit the market???)

The candidates for season 2010:

1. Fanatic Falcon 91/90/89 (2006-2008), the monoconcave series. Just buy one back, this is a safe bet since I have enough experience with these boards. From what I heard the 90/89 should be better in higher waves/chop
2. Angulo Magnum 60 (2009), I tried this board last week. Definitly have to test it on more flat water, felt like a lot of potential.
3. Fanatic Falcon 102 (2010), this one is inbetween a power and efficiency design. Biggest advantage, this board hammers thru everything :)
4. Tabou Manta 65 (2010), should be fast...

This is the current ranking of choise above, I would buy a new fanatic falcon 90 at this moment if I had to choose. But there is enough time to test :). Do you miss a very fast boarddesign?? Comment and tell me why this board should be added to the list.

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2 Years Blogging

Speedsurfingblog officially started Novembre-2007, however due my lack of knowledge in computers AND lack of time those days the first post was published in Decembre-2007. The second post was in January-2008 and that is were it really started. But after a period of posts I lost my intrest in blogging (between July and Novembre 2008), I found it extremely hard to write good articles/ get responds/ let the articles be found (search engine optimalisation).

Speedsurfingblog is a project started to show the world what happens in the speedsurfing scene. On all windsurfing forums there is a lot of information, but often I found stuff missing. Also all information is widely spread over the internet. I wanted to share my findings and path to higher speeds. But these articles were not motivating, especially because my windsurfing results were not improving in that period...

In Decembre 2008 I started blogging again. I had some time left, because all water was frozen due low tempratures. No windsurfing for me, and I didn't want to icesurf. I decided to try again making speedsurfingblog work. I added these points for speedsurfingblog to-do list:

• interviews with intresting people in speedsurfing scene
• publish articles about how-to setup speedsurfing gear
• publish speedsurfing gear tests
• Get speedsurfingblog known around the world
• Get and keep in contact with people around the world to kn
  

These new points were intresting because I learned a lot by writing these stuff. Or interviewing people that have lots of experience in speedsurfing.

After I really started to have fun blogging the readers went up, intresting brands/people contacted me. And every day it seems there is more possible. Thanks to all readers and visitors!!! Thank you, and please keep on reading, comment and emailing intresting stuff!! All the readers and visitors are my motivation to continue speedsurfingblog!

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