januari 2009
With great pleasure i can introduce Jocelyn de Souza our France new teamrider!
Jocelyn will use the following sails in the competitions:
- 1st: formula: Ka sails Race 10,7m and Race 9,8m. With this equipment I'll be on regional championship(5 events), french FW championship senior (3 events), FW "Grands prix" (3 events in Poland: Pobierowo, Leba, Sopot)and World championship senior in Spain.
- 2nd: slalom: Ka sails Koncept 5,8m 6,6m 7,5m 8,5m. with this equipment the program is: regional slaloms (3 events), french pro-am championship AFF (3 events),french promotional "long distances"(4 events), World youth slalom championship Schonberg Germany
- 3nd:waves: Ka sails Kaos 5,3m 4,7m 4,2m. with this equipment: french pro-am championship AFF (3 events), freeriding
2009 Lancelin Ocean Classic
KA Ambassador Chris Lockwood on his 09 7.5 Koncept and Carbon Art 62 Slalom board fought an amazing battle with Peter Volwater in this years event with Peter just piping him at the post to win by a mere 2 seconds. Incredible stuff guy's.
Here's what Chris had to say.
"It was a great race. Thanks to all the guys and gals involved in organising it, and a big thanks to all the competitors.
Peter was right there for most of the race, and he passed me on the 4th leg after I did a slow gybe. I caught him again at the end of the leg. He gybed early, and I thought he was not going to make the marker boat in one go. He went upwind of the boat, found a nice steep swell, surfed it clew first for a considerable distance and hooked in alongside me for the last run out to the last mark. I got there first, but was struggling to find a ramp to gybe on and stay planing- there was very little wind. I shot wide in desperation, and Peter hooked a nice ramp to cruise past on the inside. I was left floundering and pumping to try to get planing again... he was long gone. But I put the pedal down in a last ditch attempt to catch him. His landing wasn't too flash but was good enough to hold me off on the beach.
It was one of the best races I've done in terms of being pushed all the way to the end. Feeling a bit sore still! Congrats Peter.
NEXT YEAR..."
Congratulations to both Peter and Chris and a fantastic effort from all the racers.
View the full results here.... and some great photo,s from Birdseye View Photography...
zaterdag 20-12-2008
Hi Andrew, just got in from a 2 hour sail with the 09 KA 10.7.
I rigged it up and it looked perfect straight away. No wrinkles and the new wide luff sleeve looked fantastic. On the water the sail was hooting, it felt really well balanced and it wasnt that windy. Looks like it has heaps of range and plenty of power.