GEORGE GRISLEY HA VIETNAM FULL SPOT GUIDEGEORGE GRISLEY HA VIETNAM FULL SPOT GUIDEIs this the new best winter windsurf destination?George Grisley reckons he has found the new best winter destination! And in his latest video he gives a complete breakdown of M Ha, Vietnam! Whether youre chasing flat-water freestyle or epic wave sessions, this hidden Vietnamese gem could be your next windsurfing paradise. Check it out!George: Looking for the perfect winter windsurfing destination? I might have found it. In this complete spot guide to M Ha, Vietnam, I break down everything you need to plan your trip from flights and accommodation to wind statistics, best seasons, and what to expect on the water. Whether youre chasing flat-water freestyle or epic wave sessions, this hidden Vietnamese gem could be your next windsurfing paradise. If youre planning a winter escape with consistent wind, warm water, and uncrowded conditions, this guide has all the information you need to book with confidence.!The post GEORGE GRISLEY HA VIETNAM FULL SPOT GUIDE appeared first on Windsurf Magazine Online.

CLUB VASS: BEYOND THE WINTER BLUES...CLUB VASS: BEYOND THE WINTER BLUESBeyond the Winter BluesClub Vass have been busy gearing up for the 2026 season and have been upgrading all their kit from the best brands, Duotone, Goya & Severne. There are lots of extra wing clinics scheduled and also an early bird special for the first week of the season starting the 17th May where you can score an extra 100 off per person on the wing clinic places! What are you waiting for!Dont let the February blues get you down its time to start dreaming of the stunning blues of Vassiliki Bay. With spring in the air, Club Vass have been hard at work on an epic pre-season refresh, upgrading virtually all their kit and taking it to the next level! This year brings an even bigger choice of brand-new gear than ever before, from the best brands in the business Duotone, Goya & Severne.Due to popular demand, extra Wing Clinics for beginners & intermediates have been added throughout the summer. Guests consistently rave about the unbeatable setup, with an outstanding Duotone wing fleet and expert coaching, including video feedback and dedicated on-water instruction. Spaces are now extremely limited and expected to fill fast, so dont miss out.And theres also a special early bird offer for the first week of the season, starting 17thMay with an incredible 100 off per person, including for those highly sought-after Wing Clinic places. Its the perfect time to be there a pristine paradise, with box-fresh kit and the bay almost to yourself.What are you waiting for?PHONE: +44 1992 874566 |EMAIL:info@clubvass.netWEBSITE:clubvass.comThe post CLUB VASS: BEYOND THE WINTER BLUES appeared first on Windsurf Magazine Online.

STUDENT WINDSURFING ASSOCIATION (SWA) SOUTHAMPTON EVENT ROUND-UPSTUDENT WINDSURFING ASSOCIATION (SWA) SOUTHAMPTON EVENT ROUND-UPLast weekend, Southampton played host to a fantastic Student Windsurfing Association (SWA) event, welcoming over 100 student windsurfers from across the UK. With a solid forecast delivering plenty of wind, the weekend was a huge success both on and off the water. Georgia Stolliday reports!Epic photos from: Rachel TitcombeA major highlight of the weekend was the debut of brand-new equipment, with 18,000 fundraised over the Summer and Autumn through a 50/50 split between community crowdfunding and a Sport England grant.This specific event was organised by both the SWA in collaboration Southampton Uni windsurf Club together but the crowdfunding campaign was run by myself and the SWA. The equipment supplied by Boardwise arrived just in time and were raced for the very first time at the event.On the water, students enjoyed a packed daytime schedule including free-sailing, beginner tuition, racing, and a light-wind freestyle competition. There were 9 universities there in total taking part Exeter, Birmingham, Bristol, Imperial, Bath, Southampton, Cardiff, Warwick and Nottingham. Racing was split into team racing (teams of three per university, with Bristol taking 1st, Exeter 2nd and Cardiff 3rd) and individual racing across beginner, intermediate and advanced fleets.True to SWA tradition, the evenings were just as memorable. Two nights out in Southampton saw students exploring local favourites including the Hobbit Pub, Jesters, and live music at the Frog and Frigate. The second nights themed social, Music Genres, brought plenty of colour, with Southampton dressed as cowboys, Exeter as jungle, Bristol as techno and Cardiff repping the 60s.Prize-giving featured a special virtual appearance from professional windsurfers Adam Simms and Yentel Caers, who shared their journeys into freestyle windsurfing and inspired the next generation.Prizes were generously sponsored by Circular & Co and Thatchers Cider, with unique 3D-printed trophies designed and made by a Southampton engineering student.The event was entirely volunteer-led by Southampton University Windsurf Club members, led by President Sophie Wood and Vice-President Caitlin Boothroyd, alongside the SWA Committee. All in all it was a brilliant weekend showcasing the strength, spirit and future of student windsurfing in the UK.ABOUT THE SWAThe SWA is an association that runs events for students throughout the academic year bringing young windsurfers from around the UK together. The SWAs aim is make windsurfing accessible to as many people as possible during their time at University, whilst also ensuring young advanced windsurfers have the opportunity to progress and get out on the water with others. We were overwhelmed with the support from the watersporting community for our crowdfunding campaign last year that allowed us to purchase new kit from Boardwise and we hope the equipment will enable us to keep our community going for years to come. Boardwise has supported us hugely since 2005 and we couldnt do what we do without them!It is still possible to donate to the SWA crowdfunding page, any additional donations will contribute to things like new harness lines, beginner equipment and repairs.Link:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/equipment-for-the-next-generation-of-windsurfers#Home Student Windsurfing AssociationBoardwise | The UKs #1 Windsurfing, Snowboarding, Foiling, Surf StoreHome www.osheasurf.comThe post STUDENT WINDSURFING ASSOCIATION (SWA) SOUTHAMPTON EVENT ROUND-UP appeared first on Windsurf Magazine Online.

STUDENT WINDSURFING ACTION (SWA) SOUTHAMPTON EVENT ROUND-UPSTUDENT WINDSURFING ACTION (SWA) SOUTHAMPTON EVENT ROUND-UPLast weekend, Southampton played host to a fantastic Student Windsurfing Association (SWA) event, welcoming over 100 student windsurfers from across the UK. With a solid forecast delivering plenty of wind, the weekend was a huge success both on and off the water. Georgia Stolliday reports!Epic photos from: Rachel TitcombeA major highlight of the weekend was the debut of brand-new equipment, with 18,000 fundraised over the Summer and Autumn through a 50/50 split between community crowdfunding and a Sport England grant.This specific event was organised by both the SWA in collaboration Southampton Uni windsurf Club together but the crowdfunding campaign was run by myself and the SWA. The equipment supplied by Boardwise arrived just in time and were raced for the very first time at the event.On the water, students enjoyed a packed daytime schedule including free-sailing, beginner tuition, racing, and a light-wind freestyle competition. There were 9 universities there in total taking part Exeter, Birmingham, Bristol, Imperial, Bath, Southampton, Cardiff, Warwick and Nottingham. Racing was split into team racing (teams of three per university, with Bristol taking 1st, Exeter 2nd and Cardiff 3rd) and individual racing across beginner, intermediate and advanced fleets.True to SWA tradition, the evenings were just as memorable. Two nights out in Southampton saw students exploring local favourites including the Hobbit Pub, Jesters, and live music at the Frog and Frigate. The second nights themed social, Music Genres, brought plenty of colour, with Southampton dressed as cowboys, Exeter as jungle, Bristol as techno and Cardiff repping the 60s.Prize-giving featured a special virtual appearance from professional windsurfers Adam Simms and Yentel Caers, who shared their journeys into freestyle windsurfing and inspired the next generation.Prizes were generously sponsored by Circular & Co and Thatchers Cider, with unique 3D-printed trophies designed and made by a Southampton engineering student.The event was entirely volunteer-led by Southampton University Windsurf Club members, led by President Sophie Wood and Vice-President Caitlin Boothroyd, alongside the SWA Committee. All in all it was a brilliant weekend showcasing the strength, spirit and future of student windsurfing in the UK.ABOUT THE SWAThe SWA is an association that runs events for students throughout the academic year bringing young windsurfers from around the UK together. The SWAs aim is make windsurfing accessible to as many people as possible during their time at University, whilst also ensuring young advanced windsurfers have the opportunity to progress and get out on the water with others. We were overwhelmed with the support from the watersporting community for our crowdfunding campaign last year that allowed us to purchase new kit from Boardwise and we hope the equipment will enable us to keep our community going for years to come. Boardwise has supported us hugely since 2005 and we couldnt do what we do without them!It is still possible to donate to the SWA crowdfunding page, any additional donations will contribute to things like new harness lines, beginner equipment and repairs.Link:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/equipment-for-the-next-generation-of-windsurfers#Home Student Windsurfing AssociationBoardwise | The UKs #1 Windsurfing, Snowboarding, Foiling, Surf StoreHome www.osheasurf.comThe post STUDENT WINDSURFING ACTION (SWA) SOUTHAMPTON EVENT ROUND-UP appeared first on Windsurf Magazine Online.

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VICTORY AT SEACLIFF!VICTORY AT SEACLIFF!The sleeping beast of the cold, dark east coast of Scotland woke up at the start of the year and has been firing non-stop ever since! Local rippers Luke Smith, Ruaraidh Somerville and Nick Jupp decided to try and score the elusive Seacliff Beach! They scored, but it wasnt all sunshine and rainbows read all about it:Photos: Richard WhitsonRecommendationView these on a big screen! Click on any photo to enlarge and scroll through the epic photos (they are slightly bigger and even more dramatic in full size!)RUARAIDH SOMERVILLEIll leave the forecast science to Luke when he picks up the red phone and tells me were going windsurfing, I just head home from the pub (err I mean university library!) and get an early night for the inevitable score the next day. This time Luke picked me up at a nice 7 oclock, a lazy lay in for us dedicated Northerners! My thoughts were all over the place going into this session at Seacliff. Just a week previously we had scored pretty enormous and sketchy conditions at the same spot. The wave height had been about logo high at best, which ordinarily would have been a cause for celebration but until the tide gets too high and the spot gets un-sailably mushy, Seacliff is a scary closeout of a wave when its big. You get on what you think is a nice peeling right and then the whole thing whacks you in the face. Id come out of last weeks session a little humbled, and as excited as I was for a second crack at it having had more mental preparation, I was nervous too.Thankfully as we pulled up to the spot, it looked a lot more manageable than the other day: waves were still coming in at a nice size, but in more ordered lines and with less ominous crashing as they broke! The advantage of the spot when its not completely closed out is you can sail as far up next to the upwind peninsula of rocks, which form a handy point break and as you get more confident you can go further down the beach as it bends and tackle the heavier sections. The further advantage of the spot is upwind of the rocks is a relatively long period of open water and flat rocks, so the wind stays as clean as you could hope at such a venue. If you timed it right, you could get out with no real fuss as Luke discovered the hard way, when he timed it wrong on his first run out and got smashed by a chunky set wave. I followed, laughing at his misfortune like the cruel soul I am, not knowing what karma I was invoking as I did!The session went well I began by picking off some of the smaller sets and building confidence, slowly figuring out the spot. Its very rocky and theres a ton of current moving about, so the wave tends to be very unpredictable and when youre messing with chunky waves, rocks, and ice-cold water, this tends to push you into more conservative windsurfing habits.Still, the session went well and as the tide pushed in and more water filled the bay, the waves got a bit softer and more attackable. The frustrating side of this is as I got more confident in my ability to hit the steep closeout sections, those especially rewarding waves started getting fewer and fewer. I started chasing down the last of the big ones, convinced I would find the perfect section, until I was handed my karma from laughing at Luke at the beginning of the session.My mantra on each wipeout had been dont let go of the kit, because the current was so strong and swimming was a very uninviting option. The wave that hit me didnt even give me the chance to hold on! I found myself swimming right in the worst of the current, and when the set that had taken me out finally dissipated on the shore and I caught sight of the sand, I realised I wasnt even treading water despite swimming as hard as I could, I realised I was very definitely moving backwards, and out to sea. This was not good! Luckily, there was another set closing in on me quickly, and there was enough force in the wave to let me bodysurf most of the way in. Even walking in thru the waist deep water, which looks pretty relaxing in Richards photos, felt like trying to walk through quick-dry cement!My gear had been washed clear of the rocks, Luke had caught it, and the maintenance costs were still at a nice zero pounds and zero pence. I think we all got lucky that day Nick, after getting a sick wave, got hammered on the rocks on the inside and escaped to tell the tale, kit and body unscathed! My ego was a bit knocked by the swim, and I weighed up my options accept discretion as the greater part of valour, or get one last good one so my enduring memory of the session would be a good one. I figured, since the waves were getting softer, what could be the risk?! Im glad I did, because I headed back out and got a nice wee air off a gentle foamy section to round off the day. With a good wave under my belt, a rapidly disappearing memory of a spooky swim, and what I knew would be a good album of dramatic keepsakes from Richard, I reckoned Id had my fill.Throughout the session I was on my old trusty combo 4.2 Goya Banzai 11, and 75l Quatro Pyramid, with a 17cm and 9cm Incinerator thruster setup from K4 Fins. Ive spent a lot of time on that sail and board combination and its been very good to me, especially in unpredictable conditions. Neoprene wise it was 6mm wetsuit and for my first time, equally thick boots a surprising one given I loathe windsurfing in boots, but for some reason super thick boots feel better to me than thin ones! Maybe because theyre less flexible, so they cant move around as much on your feet? Im open to explanations! Anyways, theres plenty more swell and wind hitting the East Coast over the coming weeks, and I reckon well have more tales to tell! Until next time.LUKE SMITHWell day 1,000,000 on this run of east coast swell was great fun!! For the past what-seems-like-ages, a bitter easterly has been blowing the full width of the North Sea giving us around 12ft @ 10 seconds of straight east swell, and this day was very much the same. Im a firm believer that the North Sea delivers the same whallop with less swell period than the Atlantic although Im not sure how much science my hypothesis is based on!Were more used to storms passing higher north around Norway so this swell angle is fairly rare, all the same weve had a few goes recently here at Sea Cliff to get our eyes in.So, pulling up seeing what looked a touch smaller and more rip-able than the last time I was super excited. That excitement lasted all of the first run out when, after getting separated from my kit and swimming against an almighty rip, I noticed that the beach was getting further away rather than closer Option B being swimming parallel to the shore was out given that down-wind was mast high and given the still very low tide, breaking onto dry rock Option C was in, body surf as well as possible and hope the kit gets pushed back out to you!Im not sure I fully got over that initial scare, but did manage to pick off some nice fun ones. Leaving the biggest of them for Ru who definitely won Man of the Match in my eyes.With no signs of this East Coast run finishing soon, am looking forwards to more of the same coming up! Have to say the new Severne Stone board makes me feel every bit Jaeger Stone when sailing. Paired with the S1, at least the kit was ready for it!!NICK JUPPAfter a pretty exciting session the week before we invited Richard along to do some photos, hoping the conditions would be more manageable, I woke up nervous after seeing last week and just filming the boys in those really big waves . The issue was not just the size but how hollow and brutal closeouts some of them were. However, I really wanted to get a sail and I was hoping the size and the conditions would allow for some nice down the line.We arrived pretty early to catch the tide and it looked more doable, dont get me wrong it still looked dangerous in that there was some heavy waves breaking on the rocks but I was determined to give it a go so I rigged up 4.5 and went out. Luke warned me about the rip and so I was determined to stay up wind but also that at all cost to keep my gear so its a fairly nervous first run but I got out straight away and got on a wave straight away. Clearly they have loads of power in the wave and after a tentative top turn and managing to not get crushed by the powerful lip I tried one more run.. this didnt go so well and I spent some time getting munched and the rip was unbelievable, but I held out to my gear and got back to the beach. I knew it was time to tactically withdraw and grab the camera. Overall, this was a great experience. What I really get from it is respect for the sea and appreciation of conditions where you can really go for it.It was a great crew spanning 50 years, I am looking forward to more missions.The filmed footage is available for both sessions on my you tube channel @juppster5980RICHARD WHITSONJust a few miles East of North Berwick on the Firth of Forth, under cliffs and against a stunning backdrop of the Bass-Rock and Tantallon Castle, lies the hidden gem of Seacliff Beach. After a prolonged spell of strong easterly winds and building swell an intrepid trio Nick, Ru, Luke, venture out to put themselves to the test.Photo-wise:Had been keen to shoot some extreme windsurfing action on the East-Lothian coast for an age so was delighted to get the call from the guys for a 30knt session with a 3m swell at Seacliff. My first visit and what a stunning venue it proved to be. I always like to get context in my shots by including background and wider views of the conditions, not just isolated shots of jumping, so as usual on a first visit I did a quick assessment of the possible shooting angles. Luckily the tide was a spring one and I arrived mid-tide so managed to get part way out on the rocky headland (St Baldreds Boat) so as catch the action either with the Bass-Rock or with Tantallon Castle as a backdrop. I would usually use a 600mm lens for shooting but ended up shooting mostly at 200mm given the majesty of the conditions and the backdrops. I could tell the conditions were a challenge for the guys and, given that it was only 5C air and 6C water temperature, I felt at some points I was on beach patrol keeping an eye on each of them in turn as they got rinsed or separated from their kit. Fortunately, with a flooding tide all ended up safely back on the beach but stresses the importance in challenging or risky conditions of not sailing on your own and having a lookout on the beach. So much great action and nail-biting moments to capture but shot-wise, those with the castle as a backdrop were my choice picks of the day: but to get those you would need to shoot at mid or low-tide in order to get out on the rocks to get the angle. Overall, what a stunning venue given the right conditions and cant wait to catch the next session!The post VICTORY AT SEACLIFF! appeared first on Windsurf Magazine Online.

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UNPACKING THE BOARDBAGS WITH VICTOR FERNANDEZ: PWA INTERVIEWUNPACKING THE BOARDBAGS WITH VICTOR FERNANDEZ: PWA INTERVIEWTune into the the new series from the PWAUnpacking the Boardbags!Kicking off the series is Victor Fernandez, who reflects on life at the top of the sport and shares the secrets behind his incredible longevityrevealing how, after more than 20 years on tour, he is still making it onto the podium.PWA: Vctor Fernndez is one of the most successful wavesailors of his generation. With 3 world titles to his name, this only tells a small portion of his success that has spanned over 20 years. Still reaching podiums in 2025, we sat down with Victor after the Gran Canaria event last summer to talk all things windsurfing, his life outside the sport and what keeps him motivated after all these years. We also discussed how he got into the sport, his battles with Philip Kster over the years in Pozo, the filming of 4 Dimensions and Minds Wide Open with Andre Paskowski and whether hes thinking about retirement as he enters his 25th year on tour!The post UNPACKING THE BOARDBAGS WITH VICTOR FERNANDEZ: PWA INTERVIEW appeared first on Windsurf Magazine Online.

LABOUR OF LOVE: PAUL VAN BELLEN, MARGARET RIVERLABOUR OF LOVE: PAUL VAN BELLEN, MARGARET RIVERWhen Paul van Bellen sends his drone out into the waves alongside the worlds best, the result is always something special. At the Margaret River Windsurfing Wave Classic, the stars aligned the conditions, and the talent allowing him to get right amongst the action. What emerged is more than just an edit; its a film shaped by passion. A true labour of love.The post LABOUR OF LOVE: PAUL VAN BELLEN, MARGARET RIVER appeared first on Windsurf Magazine Online.