2025 rider and team changes

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jdfoils > 9 months ago, 31 Dec 2024

jdfoils

435 posts

31 Dec 2024 11:52pm

Another year for changes. So far I have heard...

Amado Vrieswijk leaving Severne
Liam Dunkerbeck leaving Starboard

Others ?

DI7

29 posts

1 Jan 2025 1:36am

Johan Soe leaving Point 7 and FMX
Daniele Benedeti leaving Challenger and FMX
Justine Lemeteyer leaving S2 Maui and FMX

Mark _australia

23526 posts

1 Jan 2025 12:26pm

I've got a slot free for a wavesailor, free rider and Foiler

if they pay $2800 for a board

SeanAUS120

QLD

769 posts

3 Jan 2025 12:53am

Anyone.......joining a team, or just leaving?

DI7

29 posts

2 Jan 2025 11:21pm

Guess announcements will come soon ...

Annual contracts are the norm ...

WillyWind

582 posts

4 Jan 2025 7:50am

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DI7 said..
Johan Soe leaving Point 7 and FMX
Daniele Benedeti leaving Challenger and FMX
Justine Lemeteyer leaving S2 Maui and FMX

What is Johan Soe up to? He left F4 too. Will he do the tour?

jdfoils

435 posts

4 Jan 2025 9:23am

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WillyWind said..

DI7 said..
Johan Soe leaving Point 7 and FMX
Daniele Benedeti leaving Challenger and FMX
Justine Lemeteyer leaving S2 Maui and FMX

What is Johan Soe up to? He left F4 too. Will he do the tour?

Patrik

Gestalt

QLD

14722 posts

4 Jan 2025 1:06pm

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jdfoils said..

WillyWind said..

DI7 said..
Johan Soe leaving Point 7 and FMX
Daniele Benedeti leaving Challenger and FMX
Justine Lemeteyer leaving S2 Maui and FMX

What is Johan Soe up to? He left F4 too. Will he do the tour?

Patrik

Seems like a good fit

thedoor

2487 posts

6 Jan 2025 5:33am

looks like Allesio Stilrich is off simmer

Let's be honest here.
In earlier years the transfer market has been more about which sailor has got the event results in the last year - and about which brand needs promotion.
This year it's totally about cost cutting, and no pro sailor is safe.

This new approach is a disaster - in the way it affects budgets for 2025 events, and how the competitors can survive.
The underlying cause is what we call 'a shrinking market'.

Which brand would you say is doing well? I'd answer: None of them.

curac

1160 posts

6 Jan 2025 12:24pm

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Basher said..
Let's be honest here.
In earlier years the transfer market has been more about which sailor has got the event results in the last year - and about which brand needs promotion.
This year it's totally about cost cutting, and no pro sailor is safe.

This new approach is a disaster - in the way it affects budgets for 2025 events, and how the competitors can survive.
The underlying cause is what we call 'a shrinking market'.

Which brand would you say is doing well? I'd answer: None of them.

yeah it's all going down the drain. we should buy all we can so that once the industry dies we can still go windsurfing.

Niichts

45 posts

6 Jan 2025 3:56pm

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jdfoils said..

WillyWind said..

DI7 said..
Johan Soe leaving Point 7 and FMX
Daniele Benedeti leaving Challenger and FMX
Justine Lemeteyer leaving S2 Maui and FMX

What is Johan Soe up to? He left F4 too. Will he do the tour?

Patrik

Still, I would be very curious to see how much performance Soe can push out of a Patrik board and sail. We already know the foils are fantastic, but it remains to be seen whether the gear (sails especially) are on par with the competition. I've heard more than once that, at the highest level, the Point-7 sails aren't exactly competitive with the others, but that it was the sailor that made up for it. Especially given that Point-7 gear is cheap, relative to some of the other top racing brands.

PhilUK

1107 posts

6 Jan 2025 7:28pm

Too many brands chasing a smaller public spend on kit.
The only growth is the sport is IQ Foil, where there are only a handful of brands producing the kit. Patrik produce an IQ Foil setup, hence Soe has signed as he is doing both PWA and IQ Foil as I understand it.

ptsf1111

506 posts

6 Jan 2025 9:54pm

Cut the crap, windsurfing is not dying. It is getting even smaller but brands will keep producing boards and sails. More popular sports like winging will support our sport indirectly so brands that develop kites, wings, windsurf stuff will survive. Brands that only do windsurf gear might struggle.

jdfoils

435 posts

7 Jan 2025 11:35pm

Daniele Benedetti now with Duotone

berowne

NSW

1555 posts

8 Jan 2025 11:18am

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jdfoils said..
Daniele Benedetti now with Duotone

www.instagram.com/p/DEhhnHeuhET/?igsh=cW84aWxtM29uNW9o

thedoor

2487 posts

8 Jan 2025 10:52am

Looks like Benedetti is still on Patrick to me

jdfoils

435 posts

9 Jan 2025 11:49pm

Justyna Sniady to Flikka

Doggerland

222 posts

10 Jan 2025 1:29am

Bernd Roediger to Naish

BSN101

2378 posts

10 Jan 2025 10:41am

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Gestalt said..

jdfoils said..

WillyWind said..

DI7 said..
Johan Soe leaving Point 7 and FMX
Daniele Benedeti leaving Challenger and FMX
Justine Lemeteyer leaving S2 Maui and FMX

What is Johan Soe up to? He left F4 too. Will he do the tour?

Patrik

Seems like a good fit

I met him down here doing some R&D. Huge lad and was foiling insanely fast.

jdfoils

435 posts

11 Jan 2025 9:07am

Takara Ishii to Goya

windsurftom

NSW

401 posts

11 Jan 2025 7:03pm

Will be interesting to see who Johan Soe goes with, he looks like he may dominate the PWA foil racing going forward.

I would guess Severne/ Starboard

Gestalt

QLD

14722 posts

11 Jan 2025 7:37pm

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BSN101 said..

Gestalt said..

jdfoils said..

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WillyWind said..

DI7 said..
Johan Soe leaving Point 7 and FMX
Daniele Benedeti leaving Challenger and FMX
Justine Lemeteyer leaving S2 Maui and FMX

What is Johan Soe up to? He left F4 too. Will he do the tour?

Patrik

Seems like a good fit

I met him down here doing some R&D. Huge lad and was foiling insanely fast.

Never met either Patrik or Johan but they both seem pretty technically minded so emeill be interesting to see how that plays out

Subsonic

3384 posts

11 Jan 2025 8:18pm

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BSN101 said..

Gestalt said..

jdfoils said..

WillyWind said..

DI7 said..
Johan Soe leaving Point 7 and FMX
Daniele Benedeti leaving Challenger and FMX
Justine Lemeteyer leaving S2 Maui and FMX

What is Johan Soe up to? He left F4 too. Will he do the tour?

Patrik

Seems like a good fit

I met him down here doing some R&D. Huge lad and was foiling insanely fast.

Apparently he also makes excellent rice. A man of many talents

jdfoils

435 posts

12 Jan 2025 11:41pm

Amado Vrieswijk to point 7

jdfoils

435 posts

14 Jan 2025 11:50pm

Liam Dunkerbeck to Duotone

jdfoils

435 posts

15 Jan 2025 11:56pm

Camille Juban to AV boards

PhilUK

1107 posts

16 Jan 2025 1:20am

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jdfoils said..
Camille Juban to AV boards

He has been there for a while.

awg

60 posts

16 Jan 2025 8:22am

Time to revisit PVB'S classic sail brand video:

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jdfoils

435 posts

22 Jan 2025 12:08am

Blanca Alabou leaving Starboard

ka43

NSW

3097 posts

22 Jan 2025 6:36pm

Robby Naish to Gaastra & Mistral.
Bjorn Dunkerbeck to F2 and NP.
Anders Bringdal to Tiga & NP.
Phil McGain to Bic & Gaastra.
Tom Leudecke to Tiga & NP.
Bruce Wylie to Gaastra & Mistral.
Alex Aguerra to Tiga & NP.
Robert Territehau to Bic and UP.
Really?? That long ago??

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