Here below Guillermo together with the Chilean young gun Alex Vargas

For the slalom sailors of the world there has been a small break in between all of the world cup competition and what not the last couple of weeks. The summer is now at its full high in Denmark and probably the best time that you can catch in the world right this moment.

Not long after I came back from the lovely island of Aruba I set out on a mission again, but this time a completely different one. This time I was not in focus but a big group of kids who had chosen to spend the first week of their summer vacation windsurfing until they dropped.

The destination was the area of Ringkobing Fjord which is big enclosed lake connecting to the west coast of Denmark. This area is known for bringing the most amount of windy days during the year.

My friend Lars and I headed over there from Copenhagen and met up with all of the youngsters who were already setting up camp for the next 5 days. After a while all of their parents left and there was now only one thing on their minds, and that was to hit the water. I cannot believe how much motivation there was in these youngsters. I woke up the first morning around 7.30 and peaked outside the window of the van and I could see them rigging up already. Jeeez. Well I just had to follow along, but I knew that I would probably be the last man standing, so I put on the wetsuit and head out on the water.

I was amazed how good these kids were. Nearly everyone of them could gybe and they were just racing around me like small champions. We did many hours of coaching for each of their individual needs until it was lunchtime. After that we hit the water again and windsurfed until no one could hold on to the boom anymore. Thats exactly how I remember it from the time I was at their age, I just couldn’t get enough, and I cant say how big of a motivation it was for me personally to hang out with all of these motivated kidsters.

This was basically the program the days we had wind. We also had couple of days without wind where we spent out energy on some story telling from around the world, some sports and general chill out true surfer style.

The last day we closed it all down by setting up a big fire to make bread on stick and of course marshmallows along with some classical campfire singing. It was great fun and these kids brought us great entertainment and joy.

In the end the camp was packed up and all of the parents came by to pick up the youngsters who now were equipped with lots of new knowledge and technique to challenge the upcoming Danish summer conditions.

Aloha from Denmark

Kurosh Kiani

The upcoming world championships will be setting off in Lobito´s in Peru and we expect the Angulo Boards to be ripping up at this spot. Head over to the Radical Wave website to have a closer look at the set-up in Chile, one of the most popular waveriding countries in the world when it comes to windsurfing. Click on the picture to go to the Radical Wave website.

Angulo boards wished the best for Steve for this season..

The Ulsan PWA event was long and offered difficult wind conditions but with his combination of the Magnum boards and the 2011 Gun Sails Josh managed to stay consistently in the top finishing it off with a final win.

Here is a couple from Josh about his podium finish at Jinha Beach, Ulsan: “Feels Good! After some trials and tribulations in trying to get my slalom legs, I finally managed to get a podium finish for the first time in my slalom career. The hard work in developing the new Magnums combined with Gun Sails substantial R&D program has finally given me the equipment to battle with the best of em’. I don’t want to get ahead of myeslf and I know I have to continue to take it one start and one jibe at time, but I can definitely say that I have a greater motivation than ever before to keep tuning my equipment for maximum effeciency. Thanks to all the friends out there who have been very supportive !”

Josh at the mark

Josh at the startline

Josh winning a final

Kurosh Kiani

The Korean sunrise

If you want to read more about Josh´s great result from Ulsan, click by the PWA website for an interview from the event site, and if you want to read more about the event and see videos from the event, click by the PWA website.

Next stop for the Angulo team will be Costa Brava where the next leg of the slalom tour will start on the 31st of May. Be sure to click back to Anguloboards.com for more stories from the team around the world.

We are now truly worldwide. Guillermo Echenique, director of Radical Wave put together a truly great presentation of this years range in Chile and sent us some pictures along with some words about his thoughts on the launch of Angulo Boards in Chile: “It has been a great reception from all riders, the event was superb and tomorrow I am doing another to promote Alex Vargas my teamrider that won the South American Championship last week in Perú (Pacasmayo). First place only 15 year old. Great for us and the Angulo team around the world to announce as news we have such a great waterman in South America. As you know the Pacific Ocean gives us lots of rough but great conditions which allows us to really go out there and rip it up in the big wave in Topocalma, Matanzas, Pupuya, and Roca Cuadrada. 4 spot in less than 30 km with different conditions.”

Also check out some video from Topacalma and see for yourself which kind of conditions Chile can deliver.

With wind conditions that didnt allow too much play, the competitors of this years championships had to settle for just one elimination. Gutek was ready from startline to finish and proofed that he has what it takes to win championships like this, even in difficult conditions.

As for Gutek himself, he comments the following: “I stayed focused all the time. Had best starts and did fully planning jibes”. Next time we will be seing Gutek at a championship will be at the upcoming worlds at Texel in Holland, the Polish cup and the youth europeans in France.

If you didnt know Gutek, here is a couple of facts on our young ripper:

Name: Radoslaw
Surname: Kurczewski
Nickname: Gutek
Born: 29/03/1993
Started windsurfing: 2002
Started competing: 2008
Best Results:
Junior World Champ 2009
Youth World Champ 2011
Several Polish Junior and Youth Champ
Boards: Angulo Magnum 2010
Sails: MauiSails TR-6
Favourite spot: South Africa
Slogan: Do your best! Don’t look for others!

We are stoked on this result and look forward to be following “Gutek” in his future development on the racing scene. Tune back in to anguloboards.com for more news from our riders around the globe.