Luderitz Speed Challenge 2015

[paulo56]

[Gozo]

il fait combien de large le run?

Je dirai entre 10 et 16 mètres

Le Chronométrage http://www.sportprotiming.com/index.html

[paulo56]

[rapha]

Quel gringalet ce Albeau

[Gozo]

Il l'avait laissé entendre il y a qqls jours... aujourd'hui il le confirme. Andrea Baldini ( ITA-223 ) ne participera sans doute pas au Luderitz 2015
Per una serie di motivi, tecnici e personali, le possibilità di andare a Luderitz 2015 sono praticamente evaporate…

[Philip]

Pas mal de photos sur facebook :
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Avec nos deux compères à l'inscription et Thierry en flagrant délit de dopage

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[Olivier44]

Heidi Ulrich :

Was an amazing experience @lüderitzspeedchallenge!!!! Unfortunately it's over for me now and unfortunately the canal was not ready untill today.
I'm sad..... But at least I did a new personal record.... 37.21 knots over 500m and 40.93 knots topspeed.....
I will now practise for sure more speedwindsurfing. It's an amazing feeling.

[Olivier44]

Alain De Gendt :

Yesterday we had a "ceremony" in the Nest hotel. It was mindblowing to here Sophie produce again all these lies. And even more shoking was to here some of the sponsors present thank them for the good job they've done so far! Kafka. Meanwhile we are still waiting for a proposal to compensate all windsurfers, this was promised to us already one week ago, but we all know by now what a promise means to this organisation.

Lucky for them there was Heidi Ulrich, otherwise they simply had nothing to talk about regarding windsurf the past 2 weeks.
All of us feel so sorry for her that she had to sail in those bad conditions, what she did was simply amazing! huge respect!

To be able to produce some more "content", there was Martin, the caddy from Tsjech windsurfer Martin Toth. He was not even in the event, but Sophie lent him some gear so he could set a national kite record, that's how it works the Luderitz record factory.
Good to know, there had never before been a claim for the Tsjech kite record!
We all had a good laugh and some beers on it in Barrels pub with the Tjsech Martins, to bad they have to leave today.
I mention this as an example how clever they play the marketing game and with all respect to Martin ofcourse, after all he said " I don't like to kite that much, I only do snowkiting in winter"

Thanx Rosi for the pix. check that chop and you know enough. For the first time ever on the canal I had a spin-out, I was lucky to recover, I can't blame the fin or board, there's a limit to what a fin can take.
Saturday they finally did what we've been asking for since 2 weeks, a grader levelled out the upwind side of the canal. Now there are 2 things left; waterlevel and that downwind sandwall. For 6 windsufers it's to late anyway.

[Gozo]

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De vrai belles photos

[frank44]

C'est quoi le bordel à Luderitz?
@Gozo
Enfin un mec qui propose des angles de vue différents et qui sait se servir de son boitier

[mechouille]

La suite :

Indeed it is Jeffrey, Seb and Sophie are giving me a hard time here, but I don't care(yesterday I almost had a fight with that guy in the Nest hotel, he shouted at the general manager of the hotel to have me removed-with no succes ofcourse...), they did this now 3 years in a row and I have emails from people telling me it was the same story in 2010. They stole our dreams and money, what do I have to lose? (Besides being physically threatened by him like he did the other day in the presence of others) So I like to warn as many speedsailors as possible to never come here again as long as they are running the show. Locals feel so bad about this, they are not to blame, on the contrary, they have always supported in the best possible way.

Thank to all for the support, Yesterday again a fight at the canal, Seb shouted the most obseen insults to me in the presence of main sponsor Chriz Benz and 10 other riders. Seb didn't want to drive me back upwind after a run....so I walked back and finally went sailing alone on the lagoon again. Now the majority of riders are new ( 7 Frenchies and British rider Farrel ) and that creates a whole new situation. He shouted that I would never get that Belgian record again!! Insane.

[mag]

Si on résume les informations publiées :
- Le canal a été endommagé par le mauvais temps quelques semaines avant l'ouverture, cela peut arriver.
- Il a été "remis en état" pour les kites avec les moyens disponibles ou que l'organisation a bien voulu mettre en place (sans porter de jugement sur le fait que les moyens mis en oeuvres étaient / sont suffisants ou non).
- Manque de change pour l'organisation "kiteuse", l'événement n'attire pas les foules côté kite et les stars pour les médias restent les planchistes (Antoine Albeau, Bjorn Dunkerbeck, ...), donc il faut des planchistes pour faire tourner l'évênement mais ils n'ont pas eu et n'auront peut-être pas un canal optimisé pour eux (tant que les tas de sables ne seront pas évacués sous le vent et tant que le niveau dans le canal ne sera pas optimal pour les planches).
- Jamais facile de gérer une crise mais la communication vis à vis des planchistes aurait gagnée à être meilleure (admettre que le canal n'est pas encore optimal et proposer un planning d'amélioration). On sort d'une crise par le haut ou par le bas !

[paulo56]

[Olivier44]

Antoine Albeau : Demain mercredi 21 le vent dois souffler sur le canal de speed, 30 à 35nds sont annoncés. J espère que l on aura quelques claques un peu plus fortes j ai envie de ressentir à nouveau la sensation des 50nds !

[Gozo]

La météo du spot :
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mercredi 21 Octobre, Journée N°4.

La liste des participants de l'édition 2015 :

52.05 nds : Antoine Albeau ( FRA-192 ) 46.26 nds 48.86 nds 49.94 nds
51.18 nds : Patrik Diethelm ( ITA-20 ) 44.41 nds 46.02 nds 49.00 nds 49.79 nds
51.09 nds : Bjorn Dunkerbeck ( ???-11 )
49.92 nds : Mark Grinnell ( RSA-321 )
48.82 nds : Christian Bornemann ( GER-29 ) 46.33 nds
48.82 nds : Farrel O Shea ( GBR-81 ) 45.00 nds 46.24 nds
48.72 nds : Markus Emmanuelson ( SUE-55 )
48.33 nds : Jean Michel Cloarec ( FRA-8888 ) 45.50 nds
48.31 nds : Remo Diethelm ( sui-201 )(2015 terminé)
48.21 nds : Martyn Ogier ( GBR-68 )
48.02 nds : Thierry Bielak ( FRA-44 ) 44.50 nds 46.84 nds
47.86 nds : Manfred Merle ( GER-82 ) 44.27 nds 47.00 nds 47.30 nds
47.55 nds : Yann Coadic ( FRA- 11 ) 41.00 nds 44.00 nds 47.44 nds
47.41 nds : Alain De Gendt ( BEL-33 ) 41.73 nds 43.53 nds
47.34 nds : Matthias Rottcher ( NAM-9 )(2015 terminé)
46.78 nds : Raffaello Gardelli ( SUE-580 )
46.73 nds : Aleksander Goncharov ( UKR-873 )
46.73 nds : Martin Toth ( CZE-7 )(2015 terminé)(2015 terminé)
46.55 nds : Christophe Richaud ( FRA-986 ) 42.86 nds 44.17 nds 45.50 nds 46.66 nds
46.33 nds : boris Vujasinovic ( CRO-91 )
46.29 nds : Erik beale ( GBR-5 )
46.09 nds : Francesco D'Urso ( ITA-62 )
45.87 nds : Alberto Possati ( ITA-107 )
45.57 nds : Christain Benzing ( GER-77 ) 41.16 nds
45.51 nds : Alain Montauzou ( FRA-500 )
45.28 nds : Andrea Baldini ( ITA-223 )
45.28 nds : Pierre Blasini ( FRA-21 )
44.78 nds : Mitch waggstaff ( SA-1111 ) 42.32 nds
41.25 nds : Karin Jaggi ( SUI-14 )
40.87 nds : Andrew Redfern ( FIJI-1111 )
37.21 nds : Heidi Ulrich ( SUI- )(2015 terminé)

Christian Maillet ( FRA-145 ) top speed: 38.60 nds 38.57 nds 40.10 nds 41.16 nds
Laurent Fresquet 41.27 nds 42.05 nds 43.46 nds 43.61 nds 45.00nds


Perf kite du jour

Sébastien Cattelan