cedric bordes windsurfer

Mercredi, septembre 1 2010

CRAZY STUFF...

 


Well... I can say that it was windy...
Great trainning with my friend Pascal on my home spot, Le Jai in south of France.
The wind was nucelar, but it was pretty fun to go full speed on these big chops! Hopefully no one break anything...
I love my 5,5 Gaastra vapor and Tabou manta 59 evo II, I wish to be able to use it during races... maybi in Sylt?
Credit pictures: Jeremy Lacave

Samedi, août 28 2010

SESSION A LA MAISON

De retour à la maison avant le defi inter iles en Corse et la finale de la coupe du monde a Sylt, j'ai posé mes bags pour 3 semaines. Quelques jours de vacances à la Baule et enfin une session correcte en vagues a la Coudou malgré le vent variant de 15 à 35 knots et le monde à l'eau.

Je teste en ce moment des protos de pockets waves multi ailerons et aussi des mantas de light wind... interressant...

Merci à  twixtop  pour les photos!


Mercredi, août 18 2010

PWA TURQUISH WORLD CUP

What a hot event! 45 degres all day... hard for the body and the mast... Hopefully I broke nothing and done my best during the race.

It was a hard event because everybody is fast here on flat water.

I came from with a so/so result and I am now fully focused on the last stop of the tour in Sylt Germani in one month.

Before that I will have to try the last proto of pocket wave shaped by Fabien vollenweider and also a secret new weapon for slalom in light wind...


Jeudi, août 5 2010

PWA FUERTEVENTURA WORLD CUP

The first windy event of the year...yeaaaaaaah. We have done some incredibles races with epics battles.

It was a hard fight but I have a really good speed as soon as i used my gaastra vapor 6,7 and 6 with Manta 69 and 59.

I was surprised to go to all the final during the first 2 days against the big names... it was more easy in theses conditions than on light wind like we have since the beguining of the year.

I broke my ribs three days before the event but with the adrenaline and pain killer it was ok on the water.

I was just piss because of several stupids crashs on the water, I know we are racing with no rules systeme but some guys are crazy, they go for the crash straight if their are not qualified... due to this I lost some really precious points and places and price monei... but this is racing and like we tell in France, "La roue trourne"...


Mardi, juillet 6 2010

10/14 JUILLET A MACINAGGIO

Ce Week end aura lieu une compétition de slalom et de vitesse en haute Corse sur le spot de Macinaggio. De nombreux très bons riders seront présent. Vent d'est? Mistral? thermique? il parait que le spot fonctionne à la moindre brise... et que le paysage vaut le détour. Je vais aller y faire un tour pour constater de moi meme! Photos et report à découvrir la semaine prochaine, mais ce week-end s'annonce au top ! 


Jeudi, juillet 1 2010

NAISH STANDUP TOUR

J'ai participé ce we à la derniere étape du naish stand up tour.

Le stand up paddle est un sport qui est en train de chambouller la pratique des sports nautiques.

Accessible et radicale à la fois il permet a tous de se faire plaisir sur l'eau.

Il peut se pratiquer dans les vagues en surf, en balades et fitness sur un lac ou riviere et aussi en course de longue distance autour de bouées. Coté course, nous avons donc couru 5 manches ce week end sur des parcours de slalom de 1 km ou de longue distance de 7 km... Ce fut assez physique pour moi car je suis arrivé sans entrainement et sans planches!

Je finis ma premiere manche juste devant la premiere feminine et apres quelques réglages et techniques de rames je me classe 7/7/5!

J'ai également profité pour testé de nouvelles pagaies Deboichet en bois et en carbone,


ORANGE FREESTYLE CUP

A great city event has tae place in marseille beach this week. It was a mix of windsurf, kitesurf, skate and party.

The show was prety nice with nice actions for us on a ramp...pretty scary because it was moving on the water and if you miss the rail, you crash straigt away...

The skate board show was also insane!

Here is a link with sick pictures from a friend of mine (from www.drops.fr)

Jeudi, juin 24 2010

NEW IQ LAUNCH

Official launch of new compact wave IQ, thomas traversa promodel.

More info on www.gaastra.Com


Mardi, juin 15 2010

A busy month

Not so much time to add any news theses last weeks.

After the first event of the year in Korea where I finished at a great 29 place... over early on the first round and took a rob on my fins on race number 3.

So i used my 2 discards and it was hard to came back after... I am not looking for excuses but I was pretty pissed off.

On the last day I made a mission to be in time to the french second stop of Aff tour...

I had to fly total 16 hours + put out of the airport 8 bags alone + 5 hours driving with broken one tires + rigging in 5 minutes for being in time in saint malo, France for the start of the second race of the day. Thanks to discard I am still 4th on the national ranking (one point to the second)

Then I came back to Marseille for around 10 days where I organized more or less all he gaatra/tabou 2011 photoshoot! it was really interesting and nice to work on it but I was dead after it! With my friend Ross Williams we prepared together all the gear (15 boards, 20 sails) every days.. We sailed 5 hours a day to catch the best action pics for each products!

Then I was in my home spot for a race during the week end, no wind expect 2 funny races, I was leading the second one and they canceled 10 meters before the finishing line, obviously it was the right decision to take... only julien quentel and were planning after the last mark...

Straight after I drove to Costa Brava for the second stop of Pwa. It was a long event with only one round and half done. I found some speed and was on the first looser final when a terrible start with micah sitting on my board. I finished 18.

I also tested some new tabou manta proto for next year.

I am now at home for one month before the third pwa event in Canarias island.

Here are some pcitures of this last busy month...

 


Mardi, juin 1 2010

IQ

Elles sont là! les nouvelles voiles compactes de chez gaastra en 4 lattes (5 au delà de 5 mètres).

Personnellement ça a completement changé ma façon de naviguer. Plus de jus et nerf dans les mains sans pour autant avoir une voile camion dans les bras.

On est actuellement en plein shooting du matos 2011 pour Tabou/Gaastra. Beaucoup de travail, de préparation de matériel, d'heure passées sur l'eau et la route mais cela en vaut la peine le soir lorsque l'on regarde les photos.

J'espère pourvoir souffler un peu avant la prochaine étape de coupe du monde dans 5 jours et la transjai de ce week end car je sens que mon corps est à bout.

J'ai enchainé les events avec qui plus est, un début de saison assez dur en Corée et une étape à Saint Malo pour le championnat de france, ou après avoir loupé la première manche (avion) j'ai limité la casse pour rester en 4 ème position avant la finale.

1 point me sépare du second donc tout est jouable! 


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