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Young windsurfing sensation, Philip Köster is firmly placed to become a great windsurfing legend. His amazing results in the PWA Wave Tour, winning every single event he entered in the past season, have won him the title of PWA World Champion and a place as one of our ‘windsurfing legends’

Growing up literally on the doorstep of world class windsurfing at Vargas in Gran Canaria, Spain, with his parents running a windsurfing school, you can see why he has become a windsurfing legend at such an early age. Learning from the age of 8, he would windsurf every day, already hitting the biggest waves he could find! This explains why he has become a master of windsurfing ‘airtime’ and the leading contender for mastering the triple forward loop.

He has an impressive list of sponsors including Starboard, Neil Pryde, Red Bull, Volkswagen, Dakine, Maui Ultra Fins. You can see more photos, videos on Philip Köster’s Neil Pryde profile or Starboard’s Dream Team International. For all his latest feedback from the world of windsurfing Follow Philip Köster on Twitter.

Windsurfing Legends – Philip Köster

In an interview with Red Bull, Philip Köster had this to say about his early days competing with other seasoned pro windsurfers…
Red Bull – Being so young, did you find it hard to earn the respect from other pro windsurfers?
Philip Köster – “In my first year, when I was 12, it wasn’t easy at all. I could do things that none of the others could do but the other guys wouldn’t talk to me – some of them couldn’t even look at me. But now they accept me, we surf together and have fun.”

Philip hit the international windsurf scene in a big way when he won the Red Bull Big Day event in 2008 and was crowned PWA Pozo Wave Champion in 2009. In the same year he was also named Rookie of the Year and won the German Wave Championships. Ranking third overall in PWA Wave for 2010, he followed up by becoming the 2011 PWA Wave World Champion, all this while still just 17 years old!

In his final performance for the win as PWA World Wave Champion Philip Köster scored 12 points with one amazing ride that included a one-handed goiter, a taka, a wave 360 landing back in the wave and then flying into a huge double forward on the way out.

All in all Philip Köster is already a windsurfing legend with a massive future ahead of him.

Sneak preview of new Goya Windsurfing team member, Marcilio Browne ripping it up at Jaws, Hawaii.

Jaws short clip from marcilio browne on Vimeo.

Brawzinho, as he is known, decided to become a professional when he was 12, and since then, has done all he can do to be on top. He won his first world cup PWA event at the age of 16, at the Belgium Indoor Jump contest, and in that same year had a very good performance on the PWA wave event in Portugal, finishing 5th.

In 2007, at the age of 18 he won one of the biggest and most traditional events on the PWA, the Fuertventura Grand Slam , which was very important for his Freestyle World Title victory that year.

Now living on Maui, he is working closely with his new sponsors, Goya Windsurfing to develop their range of windsurf boards and sails. Goya Windsurfing are at the cutting edge of windsurf equipment design and you can try out all the latest boards and sails at the Poole Windsurfing School. Each year we take delivery of the latest windsurf boards and sails from Goya Windsurfing, for our students to use on everything from beginners windsurfing lessons through to advanced private windsurfing lessons. Maybe you just want to rent the best windsurfing equipment available, in which case you can try out all the brand new Goya Windsurfing boards and sails by taking your windsurf hire time with Poole Windsurfing.

All the latest 2012 windsurfing equipment will be unwrapped this spring at the Poole Windsurfing School. Each year we take delivery of brand new windsurfing equipment from Goya Windsurfing, RRD, Amex, Billabong and Pat Love. This year is no exception, with the latest 2012 windsurfing boards and sails from Goya Windsurfing & RRD being prepared for you.

Learning to windsurf is a lot about having the right equipment and here at the Poole Windsurfing School we pride ourselves on having the latest windsurfing boards & windsurfing sails for our students.

Its early days at the moment, so we don’t have pictures of the rigged kit but thought everyone would be keen to get a sneak preview of some of the brand new windsurf boards & sails that we will have this summer season:

Goya WIndsurfing
2012 Goya Surf 202lt Beginners Windsurf Board:

The Goya Surf is such a great beginners windsurfing board that can take every rider through the early stages of windsurfing and into learning the intermediate skills. A balanced board for beginners that can also be turned into one of the most used boards in the quiver of advanced riders. Not to forget the Stand Up Paddle qualities of this wonderful platform.

A wide & short fin helps first time water starts in shallow sections while still maintaining enough fin area once you are planing. Additionally, the all new fully retractable Allgaier® dagger board brings the best of both worlds. You can choose to either have it hidden away, tucked inside the board while riding around, or have it down for first time riders or for trimming upwind on the lighter wind days. Having the daggerboard down maximizes stability while learning to uphaul.


The board features a full EVA deck. Added foam thickness in the nose area keeps the board safe from potential boom front and mast hits. A harder and denser EVA around the whole perimeter of the board helps keeping the rails looking like new after a full season.

2012 Goya Surf Beginners Windsurf Sails:

The 2012 Goya Surf is a perfect windsurf sail for all those taking beginners windsurfing lessons. With full dacron panels, reinforced perimeter, integrated mast pad, and indestructible Ever Clear window, it is a sail that will last for years. Lightweight and durable make for easy windsurfing for those learning to windsurf.

A full head batten and a short leech batten provide stability in both light and strong winds. Adjustable head webbing allows compatibility with any RDM mast, which are used exclusively throughout the Poole Windsurfing School. A large viewing window provides clear and durable sight through the sail. Bright colors make it safe and easy to spot on the water, and fun to look at.

The Goya Surf is the perfect choice for learning to up haul and for learning the basic principals of sailing.


Jason Diffin: “The 2012 SURF is the classic Dacron trainer sail for beginning windsurfers. The SURF is the perfect choice for learning to up haul and for learning the basic principals of sailing.”

2012 Goya Guru Improver to Advanced Windsurf Sails:

The 2012 Goya Guru offers unbeatable high wind comfort and control, flexible feeling and smooth, forward driving power delivery. Finger tip handling and and easily neutralized in transitions. We will be using these sails when teaching improver to advanced windsurfing lessons and will be available in our fleet of advanced windsurf hire equipment.

It comes with an Ever Clear window and all scrim and x-ply construction, resulting in incredible strength and light weight, great power and unbeatable high wind control. New for 2012 are a much lighter construction weight, due to a scrim panel coverage of about 70%, resulting in a stronger and lighter feeling on the water.

Jason Diffin: “The GURU is the ultimate wave and high wind performance sail. Major advancements in materials and component technology create a new GURU model that has better low end, is lighter, and is more tunable than ever. The sail is easy incredibly easy to handle and depower even in the most radical conditions, and the GURU still offers the trademark flexible and comfortable feeling it has become famous for.”

2012 Goya Nexus Improver to Advanced Windsurf Sails:

The 2012 Goya Nexus is a No-Cam Freeride & Freerace sail that supplies the maximum of power, speed and control in the Goya Sail range. The Goya Nexus is pure performance and will be ready for your use on windsurfing courses and advanced windsurf equipment rental at the Poole Windsurfing School.

While cut for power, speed and control in all sizes, the focus is on maneuverability in sizes 4.3 to 6.9 and lift and control in sizes 7.5 to 9.0. Forward and focused drive and crisp, easy handling make Goya Nexus the “go to” sail for maximum performance in bump and jump and flat water conditions.

Sizes 4.3 to 6.9 come as a six batten design, while sizes 7.5 to 9.0 come with seven battens, offering maximum drive while sharing the same built and features.

Jason Diffin: “The 2012 NEXUS is pure freeride and freerace performance. While cut for power, speed and control in all sizes, the focus is on maneuverability in 4.3-6.9 and lift and control in sizes 7.5, 8.2 and 9.0. Forward and focused drive and crisp, easy handling make NEXUS the “go to” sail for maximum performance in bump and jump and flat water conditions.”

RRD Windsurfing
2012 RRD Easyride 180lt Beginners Windsurf Board:

The RRD Easyride windsurf boards give you the right feeling of security through stability and soft touch under your feet. The short length and the wide outline allow to use a small sail to steer the board wherever you want even after 10 minutes of riding. They are a result of a long research and development process in making windsurfing easy for everyone!

Technology includes EPS/HD Glass/Wood sandwich skin on stepping area with a combination of Glass fibers laminated in Single Shot moulding process. Deck covered with Softskin™.

2012 RRD Evolution 148lt & 158lt Improver to Advanced Windsurf Boards:

The balanced mix between floatation and performance makes the RRD Evolution M 148lt and L 158lt 360 Duratech line the perfect boards to progress in your gybes and even allows you basic freestyle manoeuvres potential! These are THE windsurf board to learn how to carve gybe on, being super easy to initiate and hold a carve on. We will be using the brand new 2012 RRD Evolution windsurf boards at Poole Windsurfing to teach students everything from faster tacks & gybes, beach starts, harness, planing, footstraps & the ultimate carve gybes. The boards will also be a part of our improver to advanced windsurf hire fleet.

2012 DIRECT DRIVE SERIES™
INCORPORATING DIAGONAL FLEX™

Diagonal Flex™
The main difference between Goya masts and those of all competition is Diagonal Flex™. No other mast brand offers this technology.

Diagonal Flex™ does not only allow Goya masts to bend to amazing curves, just like all those laboratory photos you know, but while in that shape, they are also enabled to twist extremely lively, working in close synergy with the Goya sails.

The difference resulting from this feature is expressed by a very simple number: Last winter, also know as the big wave season, between all Goya Team Riders, shops and distributors, we broke a total of three (3) masts. This was only possible through the Diagonal Flex™ technology developed by Goya Windsurfing.

90% Carbon
Another essential building block of our masts is the use of an all new Goya exclusive Carbon lay up that makes our extreme bend and twist curves possible in the first place. 90% Pre-Preg. 33 million pounds per square inch.

Wall Thickness
The equation is very simple. Our wall thickness is at least 50% thicker than the rest of the market, while still being among the lightest weights.

How is that possible? Again, it’s no magic, everything starts with the most advance materials available, built with the same technology that is used in the aerospace industry.

Bend and Reflex like SDM
That sounds impossible but when you see that we offer our RDM masts at 490, doesn’t that make you curious how quick and stable our 400 is?

The Goya mast layup gradually adapts to each sizing, enabling us to go from 12 IMCS on our 310 all the way up to 30 IMCS on the 490, while still keeping the same bending percentages or even getting a stiffer bottom section on the larger masts.

Check out this trailer of big wave surfing at Jaws, Maui. The JP Windsurfing crew have shot some amazingly slick footage with vivid colours, some super slow-mo and panning effects…

You really feel like you are getting the full big wave experience with this filming, its up there with Four Dimensions for quality of production & the visual clarity that is taking windsurfing movies to whole new level. It really is a joy to see windsurfing showcased on such an epic scale.

Enjoy & hope to see you on the water in 2012.
Happy Windsurfing!

2012 is here and MFC is celebrating 26 years in the fin business by working with Hawaiian waterman, Kai Lenny.

Pio Marasco of Maui Fin Company has this to say about Kai Lenny…
“We are very excited about our newest collaboration with Hawaiian Waterman and 2 time Stand Up Paddle World Champion, Kai Lenny.

We’ve known Kai since he was a little kid and we have been supporting him since the early days. A very motivated athlete with a great personality, Kai fits perfectly into the MFC family; his spirit of Aloha and his amazing qualities will definitely make us proud to have him on our team. He is one of the new Hawaiian Water Ambassadors”

“In the last years he has achieved many titles and awards, and the time has arrived to develop new fins together, especially for SUP.

We will support him in his SUP, windsurfing, surfing career; we will be working with him on his new “Hydro-Foil Board” for a top-secret project he has in the works.“

These are some of Kai’s achievement in the last couple of years.
2009 PWA Rookie of the Year-Windsurfing

2010 SUPWT Sunset Beach Pro Winner

2010 SUPWT Hawaii Island Pro Winner

2010 SUPWT World Champion

2011 SUPWT Sunset Beach Pro Winner

2011 SUPWT La Torche, France Pro Winner

2011 SUPWT World Champion

MFC HAWAII welcomes Kai with open arms and hopes to continue their long standing relationship.

We have just had the official word that Marcilio Browne has joined Goya Windsurfing….

We are happy to share with you the news on the latest addition to the Goya family! Brawzinho is now living on Maui and naturally our paths have merged. He influences wave sailing in amazing ways and will keep on pushing the sport forward in the years to come!

WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY:

Brawzinho:
“Being on Goya is a dream , Francisco has had a really big impact on me as I was growing up . I feel right at home and get along really well with everyone in the company , it all just makes perfect sense and i am really excited for the years to come! ”

Francisco Goya:
“Braw is on a mission, pushing the progression of the sport on every angle. To have the opportunity to work with him is a dream. He has been breaking down the walls inside the sport for years now and he is just getting started. I believe he got the potential to represent Windsurfing for decades to come. ”

Jason Diffin:
“I’m super stoked to be working with Marcilio “Brawzinho” Browne in to 2012. His sailing style is really inspirational to me. Inventive, powerful, technical and fluid maneuvers combined with a wide range of wave knowledge make Brawzinho incredibly fun and exciting to watch. I welcome the challenge of creating sails that will help Brawzinho reach his competitive and free sailing goals, and I especially look forward to seeing how this R&D will improve the Goya Sails product line. Welcome to the Goya Team Brawzinho!”

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