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Towin fun

5. Juni 201622. März 2017

It’s finally summer! Which means hot and warm weather without wind haha. ok we got some thunderstormsessions lately. Last weekend I spend some hours in St. Andrae close to Podersdorf on another lake called Zicksee. We used the Max Matissek Winch a bit and had great fun. My friend Jo did a good job with the winch and lovely Theresa took some pics. I am working a lot on the double spocks and chacho in towin – stay tuned!

Beside that thanks for more than 25k Views on Seen Episode 2 – Frozen Fingers. I wasn’t expecting that and it even makes me more motivated for SEEN 3. Hopefully some Southeast wind is kicking in soon to score some bridge sessions before I leave to Brazil!

Spring 2016

25. April 201611. September 2018

wow. That was intense. Last couple of weeks – finally the wind found his way to Austria. First it was still pretty warm an we could sail some session without shoes, gloves, and hats. My friend Chris from CC-Films dropped by and we started filming the last bits for SEEN 2 – „Frozen Fingers“. Which will be out really really soon. We thoughts its already quite warm and its a perfect forecast for Podersdorf and filming. In the end it got way too cold (far below 10 degrees), grey, rainy and the wind was not that strong. But we got plenty of good footage. It’s a bit less radical but it tells the story of sailing in those mega cold conditions quite good – when you cant feel your fingers, your toes and every movement is so hard with the mega thick wetsuit – but you still love what you do!

Last week we got some another good week with nice conditions – and my buddy Max Matissek helped me out a bit with filming – so we could step the clips from SEEN 2 even a bit up. Anyways we had some really fun days pushing each other and having a great time – thats what Windsurfing is about.

End of this Week the Surfworldcup Podersdorf will take place for a last time. Unfortunately I will not compete – BUT I can’t wait to see all ma friends from all over the world again and have a good time at the Event (find me at the Chiemsee or JBL tent). On friday a new campaign of JBL will be released and it looks to be something different – make sure you follow my Facebook page to be uptodate!

Croatia Easter 2016

28. März 201622. März 2017

Just enjoyed some windy days down there in Croatia. Since I ve been back from Capetown – it was quiet cold in Austria, but last week a proper Bora-forecast for Istria, Croatia popped up – so I finally started the Windsurfing Season also in Europe.

We had kind of mixed conditions as I was sailing all my sails from 4.2 overpowered (local guys on 3.4-3.7) to 5.0 pumping. I was sailing with Woife Strasser from Germany, one of the most inspiring guys, I met for a long time. Altough he is around 50 and has cancer – he is really fit and pushing himself into the Freestylemoves. My friend Jo took some pictures.

On the way back I dropped by at Flikkaboards – discussing some changes on the upcoming Freestyleboard and I also picked up some Testboards from the Coreline. You can now test the Allround Wave 85, Freewave 99 and 107 in Podersdorf at Surfshop USD. If you wanna try the Freestyle its also no problem – get in touch with me! I ve a couple of boards ready to go!

This time I really wanna thank Ford Beyschlag for helping me out with this nice van (already last year), but I enjoy driving so much with it!

Capetown 2016

15. März 201622. März 2017

What should I say…I was expecting a bit more…I don’t know, I had a really nice time with my friends, but from the Windsurfing side it was just not as good as expected. We were driving and searching wind like crazy and we found almost wind everytime – but the conditions were not often really nice.

I was sailing a lot on different lakes and almost never on the sea. If you read through a list of the spots I ve been to it sounds like this Sandvlei-Rietvlei-Brandvlei-Brandvlei-Brandvlei-Rietvlei-Sandvlei-Doodles-Rietvlei-Melkbos-Brandvle-Rietvlei-Rietvlei-Doodles(hahahahaha) – yes, Doodles is a Bar, I know cheers to my brus Adam and Flo.

Anyways whats really positive about the trip to Capetown is, that I could finally test the Compact Freestyle from Flikkaboards – which is already such an amazing Freestyleboard. There is just a bit finetuning missing to make it overall perfect, but believe me! This board is crazy in moves. Can’t wait to ride it in strong starboardtack conditions hehe…Thanks to Luka Jures for involving so much in the development of this Skateboard, aaaah Windsurfboard 😛 (but it feels more like a Skateboard)

I am not sure I wanna do a Seen Episode from Southafrica, as I am just not happy with the clips I got, and I think Seen should be a highquality thing – BUT there are still two episodes in the making from last year..Roadtripping and Vienna, I just wanna step it up with a few more clips soon.

Boot Video Award 2016

25. Januar 201622. März 2017

Some good news again! I took part in the Boot Video Award 2016 – and my Video Seen – Episode One got nominated for the top 5 Videos a few weeks ago. Yesterday there was the prizegiving at the annual Boot Düsseldorf. My Video ended up in second position for the best Windsurfing Video!!! It makes me supery happy to see that the people like the „Seen“ Project a lot. I really wanna thank one of my best friends Chris Czadilek from CC-Films, who invested so much time and effort in this videoproject. And I ve also some more really good news – in just a few days I start my journey to Capetown, which means hopefully beside some epic traveling experience and some great Windsurfing also a new Episode of Seen! Beside that it looks like there is something coming up from JBL quite soon as well – be prepared!

Coverage in World of Windsurf

10. Januar 201622. März 2017

Lately I got some Coverage again. A Story about Sri Lanka was published in the Online Mag WORLD OF WINDSURF. It looks really cool – check it out: worldofwindsurf.com.
The Story you find via edition5.worldofwindsurf.com/travel_srilanka. A warm THANK YOU goes out to my Partners, who make this life possible!

Autumn 2015

1. Dezember 201522. März 2017

Wow. That was an busy time. I try to summarize it! Since I ve been back from Brasil I ve been twice to Croatia. Got some mega nice Boradays with my Buddy Adam Sims. As you know I love the easy life, sleeping in my van on the beach – wakeup, enjoy the sunrise, spend as much time Windsurfing as possible and have a good time with my friends. Here are a few pics of my two trips to Liznjan 🙂

On the last trip I picked up my new Freestyleboard from Flikkaboards in Slovenia. Luka Jures made me a new winnershape and Tony gave the board his unique Color. Afterwards we got some serious Bridge Condtions in Vienna. My brother and Chris from CC-Films helped me producing some new Videos coming soon – as well as new JBL Episode from Vienna feautring the new JBL Everest 700 Headphones. Check out a few Pictures from doing all this stuff:

Now it got really cold in Austria – so I am waiting for some good Conditions to pop up in Croatia. Beside that I am trying to finish studying at university and getting fit for the new season In six weeks I will leave to Capetown for bringing the trainingsmode on…hehe.

Brazil 2015 – WOW

10. Oktober 201522. März 2017

I probably had the best summer I could imagine. The conditions tried to kill my confidence every single day. I took a rest just 3 days long – but you could sail every day at least on 4.6! In videos Jeri always looks like a perfect spot, but in the end it’s super hard to sail there: it’s gusty, it’s choppy, there are small waves on bigger ones and it can be f*** strong. In the end I loved it. I went for maaaaaaaassive shifties…crashed harder that I could imagine ever before: spit blood, had to vomit – cause the harness hook went straight into my stomach, and could not open my mouth one day, because I hit the boom so hard with my head. Sounds bad, actually no. Thanks Edvan (one of the craziest and nicest guys) I ever met I got more and more into this shifty thing, and just on my last days I landed my first one!!! And a good point about the training of this move was that I got control in mega Shakas!! I did some which were at least 5 or 6metres high! My crew in Brazil was just perfect with my brothers Mo(my real one), Chris (my bro from another mother) and Martina – who is one of the most awesome girls I ve ever met. Thank you all so much.
Chris founded CC-Films and beside doing a very nice imagevideo for JBL we did the first Episode of my upcoming video series „SEEN“.

This is just the warmup. I wanna do basically 2-3 highquality a year from now on. Maybe this sound now a bit enthusiastic, but they idea behind is to create something, like a platform where i summarize my best memories and keep them alive for later. Maybe just from a day, maybe from a longtrip or just from an incredible weekend at home. In the end SEEN is less about the action and more about feelings, nice places and moments I don’t want to forget. Right now I am already working on episode2 which will be completly different from episode1 for sure.

Spring 2015 – BR IS BACK!!!!!

18. Juli 201522. März 2017

Hard to get it into words. My whole life changed a lot and I travelled more than ever. Tomorrow I will leave to brazil – so maybe its good to summarize it a bit for myself haha.Since mid of March I slept 6 times in my bed, I was on tour for 16 Weeks now – travelled through many countries, windsurfed a lot although two doctors told me that I wont be able to windsurf this year!

What a stupid shit! Anyways its all a bit too much for one post here – but what I really wanna point out is the amazing time I had in Izola, Slovenia working in a sportcamp as a Windsurfinstructor. I could to a lot of sport in my sparetime and got some really nice boradays in Izola, Grado, Marina Julia and Triest in Italy (which is also really close) ending the months with some serious south winds in Medulin, Croatia.

What also should be pointed out is that from now on I am sponsored by Ford Beyschlag and I am driving a brandnew Ford Transit Custom – Thanks a lot for this support!

Back on the Water – Winter 15

22. Januar 201522. März 2017

This Winter was kind of hard for me. After I hurt my shoulder at the Austrian Championships I had to take it easy and take some time off the water – I fully focused on studying. Then around Christmas I found out I still had a broken bone in my jumpingankle- since last summer. So the doctors told me to take it even more easy – no sport, no fun at all. Around three weeks later a really good Bora forecast poped up – so I went for some sailing to Croatia. That was really nice. 3.6 full power and my new 80l Freestyle Wave Board from Flikka Boards- THX Luka Jures. Now I will try to go back fully into sports around end of February. With hopefully no pain around mid of March. Stay Tuned…