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Competition in Poros, Greece

Hey guys! On the last weekend me, Nikollas and his sister Gelly went to one of the Greek MultiCup competitions in picturesque island of Poros. We went there one day earlier to check out local conditions, unfortunately the thermical wind died out before we managed to get into the water. After some lazy waiting for wind on the beach, we checked in the Goldenview hotel which greeted us with special prices for racers and literally golden view through the room windows, with the bay where races would take place just in front. Actually, hotel terrace and beach was where we rigged our gear and launched to the water. I have to say, the place wasn’t perfect for that with very little space and almost no shade to hide the sails, but we managed to get around just fine. …..Read more

In Greece. Part I.

Hey guys! I have been in Greece for four days already and it has been fantastic! Great weather (summer by my standards), winds every day and lots of nice action on the water. The first thing which I understood about my gear when I came was that I am massively over-fined. I have 74 B1, 74 B5 Boss fins and M75 VMG. They used to work pretty well back at home but in this saulty waters they are too big and too dragy. Boss fins still do work pretty well in lighter winds with 12.0 meter sails, but on downwind I can feel I am not as fast. …..Read more

New season begins!!

Finally! After more than half a year of not windsurfing, I got back on my board few days ago! What a good feeling! And the best thing – I felt right at home. It seemed like I did not forget anything. I was on a new TR8 12.0, which, even though I couldn’t downhaul to recommended setting, felt really good! Lots of power (even too much sometimes, but 0,5 cm of additional downhaul should sort that out), great stability, amazing acceleration and speed. The sail is big improvement compared to my old TR5. I was sailing really fast with very good angle and no one could match me. Later we switched sails with my friend and he was instantly much faster – no better way to prove, that sail is working great.

Now I just have to get a new fin from The Boss custom and I will start packing for my three weeks

training trip to Greece. Warm weather, good winds and clear waters – what can be better? Tune in back soon for some reports

straight from Greece! See you on the water!

The message

Some time ago I came across one windsurfing video which I really liked a lot. It is not something totally different, unseen or very special, but somehow I really felt connected with the footage, probably because of the feeling it conveyed. And then I started to think what is the “feel” of usual clips we post in our social networking sites and what kind of image does it create to our non-windsurfing friends.

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Racing season 2012. Gear talk.

Hey everybody! Racing season starts early in the ‘other’ side of the world with Downunder Pro 2012 happening right now and Calema Midwinters starting in the beginning of March. After that, the attention of Formula Windsurfing enthusiasts around the world turns, more or less, to Europe. I will not name all the events happening around here, but European championship taking place in Germany’s well known Sylt, May 16 – 20th, will be one of the most important ones. …..Read more

Meanwhile..

Hi! It’s been a while since the last time I wrote something here and I really can’t find any solid excuse for that. Having your blog spamed by thousands of useless comments is also not a reason as it took me no more than a day to sort everything out and add some anti spam protection. Although I was forced to delete ALL the comments which were posted, so if yours was one of them – I am sorry for that.

Anyway, during the ‘silent’ time lots of things happened. …..Read more

Baltic cup 2011. Lithunian round.

Hey. Sorry for taking so long to give you my report from Lithuanian Baltic Cup event. We had a great competition with two windy days out of three. On friday race commitee tried to give starts, but no races were completed due to wind being too light. Saturday was a whole different story. From the early morning the wind was blowing steady 7-9m/s closer to shore and reaching up to 11m/s by the windward mark. …..Read more

Lithuanian cup

Hi! Thanks for visiting my blog. I hope you will enjoy reading it in English. It took me some time to finish this report as the week after competition was quiet busy. Anyway, here it is!

We had a great weekend with a bit of slalom training on Friday, 4 medium wind Formula races on Saturday and one light wind race on Sunday. Big thanks to organizers and race judges who did a great job running everything as smoothly as possible. They did it perfectly! …..Read more

Pirmasis blog’o gimtadienis!

Labas! ltu1001.lt blog’as vakar atšventė savo pirmąjį gimtadienį. Lygiai prieš metus, balandžio 23d. adresu www.ltu1001.lt buvo patalpintas pirmas pasisveikinimo įrašas. Per tuos metus buvo visko – gerų ir nelabai įspūdžių, gyvų transliacijų iš varžybų, kartais per ilgai užsitęsusios tylos ir dar šio bei to. Visa tai – per 23 įrašus, įskaičiuojant ir šį. Toks laiko tarpas leidžia neblogai įvertinti padarytą darbą ir suprasti, ko norėtum padaryt daugiau, o ko, galbūt, atsisakyti. …..Read more

Pirmos sezono varžybos

8Labas. Nuo sezono atidarymo praėjo dvi savaitės. Per tą laiką, įskaitant ir šį varžybinį šeštadienį, plaukiau 5 kartus. Puikus jausmas ir vėl būti ant vandens. Įgūdžiai, panašu, niekur nedingo – kampai ir greičiai vis dar geri.

Dėja, pasirodo, tik kampo ir greičio silpno, gūsingo Vėjo sąlygomis neužtenka. Daugiausiai čia lemia tinkamas laikas …..Read more

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