REES DUNCAN / ENGLISH VERSION

Rees Duncan
Senior World Waveski Title 2009

SHORT & QUICK INTERVIEW

Name: Rees Duncan
Age: 37
Address: Emerald Beach, NSW, Australia
Occupation: Financial Planner
Paddling since: Age 11
Gear: Wavemaster Waveski and Styx Paddles
Sponsors: Wavemaster Waveski and Styx Paddles

Sportive achievements: 4 Open, 2 Juniors, 1 senior world Waveski titles, 13 Australian Titles
Favourite break: Hideaways in the Mentowies

Waveski World Titles: These titles went very well, great surf and weather all week and everyone had a great time
Your favourite destination for the next Worlds: Portugal
Waveski in Australia: It has reduced in size over the past 10 years but in the last 3-4 years has seen a increase in numbers and now becoming a member of the canoeing federation will hopefully seen a greater increase

Evolution of waveski in the near future: Construction will still mainly be epoxy resin, but shapes will be re produced by computer shaping and the board shape will become more stream lined and less volume similar to a surf board, which will allow for more radical manoeuvres

Experience in surfkayaking? No

Surfkayak & waveskis: Similar and will hopefully be able to feed off each others competitor numbers allowing each discipline to grow together
Did you ever been in Portugal? No.

Personal objectives in the sport: To help the sport to grow in Australia in number and for the average age to get younger rather than older.

Last words for all that want to try waveski. Give it a go, but ensure you try the right size board for your experience. We reciently had several very established stand up surfer try waveskiing and found themselves hooked, but found it quite hard as they started on a high performance, low volume ski. One of these surfers was Shaun Cansdell, a professional surfer, who admitted he quite enjoyed it and would like to try it again.

Thanks Rees and congratulations for the World Title!

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LUIS ABANDO / ENGLISH VERSION

WORLD IC & HP GRAND MASTERS KAYAKSURF CHAMPION 2009

Luis Abando on the right

SHORT & QUICK INTERVIEW WITH LUIS ABANDO

Name: Luis Alberto Abando
Age: 50
Occupation: Owns a sports store; runs kayaksurf, waveski and rolling courses during the Summer and is also a free lance journalist.
Paddling since: More than 25 years.
Gear (kayak, helmet, paddle, etc): Salsa from Murky and Neutron from Mega; Helmet Gath, Lendal Mystik paddle, anorak Nookie, spraydeck Nookie, buoyancy aids Delta.

Sponsors: Only the support of the Federación Vasca Kayak en Santa Cruz (Portugal).


Sportive achievements:

Most Recently:
2009 Kayaksurf World Champion, Grand Master IC and HP,
2008 Euskadi- Basque Kayaksurf Champion Masters long y short.
2007 1st place on the Bakio Kayaksurf Open HP and 2nd in IC.
2005 1st Place on the Bakio Kayaksurf Open, HP Class.

Also participated in six Waveski World Championships:
1992 - La Torche, World Cup.
1995 - Lacanau, France.
1998 – England.
1999 - Florianopolis, Brasil.
2000 - J. Bay, South Africa.
2001 - World Waveski Champion / Masters / Bakio.

Six Kayaksurf World Championships:
Since1997 (Thurso, Scotland), till 2009 in Portugal.

Two times European Champ (94 and 96) in Waveski, Grand Master Class – at this time, Grand Master Class was after 35 years old).

Favourite break: Bakio-Mundaka / Steamer Lane, California and Jeffreys Bay, South Africa.

Personal website: I don’t have any but you can check the website of my club in http://www.bakio2001.galeon.com/

Worlds in Portugal: Excellent championship, with waves for every tastes during the event (like the sand bottoms cause).

Your favourite destination for the next Worlds: USA East.

Ocean Spirit Festival: Awesome. Long live for the event.

How do you see the evolution of kayaksurf in the near future?
It will grows in proportion with the media exposure that is around our sport.

How is kayaksurf in Basque Country?
In Basque Country, we’re still a few but every time more. There is a growing interest around kayaksurf and it is already familiar in the beaches.

Personal objectives in the sport:
Surf till 80 years old, between kayaksurf and waveski just like I did till now.

Personal thoughts about Portugal:
Nice place and nice people.

Last words:
I would like to thank Santa Cruz Ocean Spirit organization and all the staff for the efforts done to run this World Championship and I hope to see you all in the water doing kayaksurf.

Un saludo,

Luis Abando

Thanks Luis!

RANDOM KAYAKS / English Version

RANDOM KAYAKS by Darren Bason

The light version of our latest chat with Darren Bason. This time, more as a designer and partner of Random Kayaks - his new aussie adventure. On the top, we can see Darren and Steve Farthing - Random Team in the Portugal Worlds 2009.

Hi Darren. First Worlds for Random Surfkayaks. Satisfied with the experience?
Yes very satisfied. We only had the finished product 2 weeks b4 the worlds and it seem to to perform out standingly.

Steve was World Champ with the Evolution... present us this model…
This is our 1st model the evolution its basically a wave ski design with a deck on it ,its just simple technology and it really works well myself and Terry my partner looked at all the other kayaks and ski's we had surfed and just put all our ideas together.

You also have a wave-ski. That's the one you're going to surf next waveski worlds?
At the moment my ski is in production, but it is the evolution with the deck cut down to a ski hopefully it will be the same feeling as the kayak version which will make it easy to transfer from one to the other. Fingers crossed anyway.

New projects for Random in the near future…
The next thing in the pipeline is an international class kayak, we will need to get an Aussie team for the next worlds and i want to use our own international kayak for the team. We also have no international kayaks available over here at the moment.

One Evolution went for England and the other for Japan. When will we have some in Portugal?
You just have to mail Future Kayaks! Talk with James and he gets you the Random surfkayak or waveski you want. He represents us in Europe (UK).

Can we count with you on kayaksurf.net for all the news from Australia ;)
Of course we will keep you guys at kayaksurf fully up to date on everything down under.

Thanks a lot Darren and all the luck for Random!

http://www.surfkayaking.com.au/

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