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PWA TENERIFE WINDSURFING ACTION IN THE FLESH!
WORDS: DAN NEWMAN PICS: PENNY CHAPMAN @ SEAZTHEMOMENT GLOBETROTTING, SEA FAIRING WINDSURFER DAN NEWMAN AND GIRLFRIEND PENNY WERE LOOKING FOR SOME TIME OUT AWAY FROM YACHTY DUTIES DURING SUMMER 2017. DECIDING TO HIT UP TENERIFE THEY LUCKED OUT AS THE PWA WOULD BE IN TOWN AT THE SAME TIME. HERE DAN RECOUNTS HIS EXPERIENCE OF SEEING THE PROS SHRED LIVE AND DIRECT.
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Hungry for some high wind, wave action we figured that the Canaries would be the best place to spend a few weeks on our summer tour. Having spent plenty of time in El Medano, Tenerife, in the past it would be the perfect choice as it had never failed to deliver the goods! We then realised that the PWA were heading over for the second stage of the world wave tour, so it was a no brainer …
I’ ve always been an avid follower of the PWA world tour and been especially inspired by the action on the wave circuit. Having the opportunity to see an event live and in person was extremely exciting. I can remember back in the day, when I was just a wee lad, thumbing my way through the windsurfing magazines each month, admiring pictures of the action and then waiting eagerly for the latest tour video to be released, to actually see the footage.
Nowadays it is far easier to keep up to date with all of the events online. The live coverage on the PWA website itself is superb and the commentary delivered by Ben Profit really makes it. If you’ ve not yet tuned in then you really must as it is extremely entertaining. They have also introduced live results and score sheets on the video feed so you can keep track, wave by wave, jump by jump, making sofa spectating or sneaking a peak of the action on your phone while you’ re supposed to be working, very easy.
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