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jayturcot
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 Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:42 am Post subject: History of Freestyle windsurfing |
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I'm trying to (for my own curiosity) put together a history of windsurfing freestyle progression. I feel like there has been rapid progression in recent years and the new-school freestyle movement but I have a feeling that alot of the move have actually been around a LONG time.
http://www.roynbartholdi.com/windsurfing/maneuver-descriptions
has a lot of the inventors but not when the moves were pioneered
Anybody know any details?
I'll try and keep the list here updated....
Move: Inventor (Country) ... year + any other details
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Air/Jump Jibe: ?? (??) <1983
Cheese Roll: Cesare Cantagalli (Italy) ??
Vulcan: ? (?) <1991
Willy Skipper: Matt Pritchard (USA) <1999 Source
Spock: Josh Stone (USA) <1999 Source
Grubby: Greg Allaway (Australia) ?2001?
Flaka (Swayze): Web Pedrick (USA) 2002 Source
Ponch: Kevin Ponichtera (USA) ?<=2003?
Shaka: Ricardo Campello (Brazil) 2003 Source * - aka "monkey flip" Youtube clip (PWA 2013)
Kono & Switch Kono: Kiri Thode (Bonaire) 2008 Source
Funnel: Ricardo Campello (Brazil) ??
Burner: Gollito Estredo (Venezuela) ??
Shifty: Steven Van Broeckhoven (Belgium) 2015 Source
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isobars
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| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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The first freestyle trick I ever heard of was the head dip, from the late '70s.
http://tinyurl.com/p2v76yy |
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jayturcot
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| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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I was gearing it towards aerial freestyle since this can be sliced in so many ways.
I am curious if people have exact names / dates for things like all the gybe variations etc, but I feel like those have been around so long now that it will be a miracle to people remember the exact origins.
I have a sneaking suspicion that many of the wave moves are actually quite old. |
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cgoudie1
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| Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 3:55 pm Post subject: Re: History of Freestyle windsurfing |
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Jay, the 1st Vulcan I ever saw was performed by Tony Logoz back around
1991. Don't know if he was the inventer.
-Craig
| jayturcot wrote: | I'm trying to (for my own curiosity) put together a history of windsurfing freestyle progression. I feel like there has been rapid progression in recent years and the new-school freestyle movement but I have a feeling that alot of the move have actually been around a LONG time.
http://www.roynbartholdi.com/windsurfing/maneuver-descriptions
has a lot of the inventors but not when the moves were pioneered
Anybody know any details?
I'll try and keep the list here updated....
Move: Inventor (Country) ... year + any other details
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Cheese Roll: Cesare Cantagalli (Italy) ??
Vulcan: ??
Spock: Josh Stone (USA) ??
Grubby: Greg Allaway (Australia) ?2001?
Flaka (Swayze): Web Pedrick (USA) 2002 Source
Ponch: Kevin Ponichtera (USA) ?<=2003?
Shaka: Ricardo Campello (Brazil) 2003 Source * - aka "monkey flip"
Kono & Switch Kono: Kiri Thode (Bonaire) 2008 Source
Funnel: Ricardo Campello (Brazil) ??
Burner: Gollito Estredo (Venezuela) ?? |
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gregnw44
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| Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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Who's the girl that did the "Head Dip" in the opening credits for "Miami Vice"???
Just 12 seconds in to the theme song, LOL
Whoever she is... I've been in love with her, since the first season of that show!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEjXPY9jOx8
I did head dips sailing the Kona One in Hood River in July. Cody of US Windsurfing, was videoing me. But I guess they ended up on the cutting room floor ha-ha !!
Planing the Kona with their 9M sail in 15 mph wind at the Event Site, in the foot-straps, doing had dips. That would've been fun to see, for those learning to use footstraps 
Greg - |
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GarryW
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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| If you ask me it all started with the Willy Skipper. All of the moves like Vulcans and Spocks are based on that basic move. |
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GarryW
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| Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Does Carl Mienberg doing a monkey jibe count? |
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DanWeiss
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| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 11:36 am Post subject: |
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Off topic to the OP since he hopes to cover only aerial tricks, but Gary Eversole probably published the first book for freestyle in the early 1980s. Maybe it was titled, "Freestyle Windsurfing" or something similar.
The main guy currently doing the classic longboard freestyle in North America is Pierre Coupal from Canada. Check him out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pierre.coupal?fref=ts
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DanWeiss
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| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 11:38 am Post subject: |
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Josh Stone and Matt Pritchard rocked the early vulcans and willy skippers. I think Matt may have invented the willy skipper.
Another early aerial move is the jump jibe, which Matt said created the willy skipper as he landed a jump jibe short.
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