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Forums > Windsurfing General

2025 rider and team changes

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Created by jdfoils Two weeks ago, 31 Dec 2024
jdfoils
269 posts
31 Dec 2024 11:52PM
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Another year for changes. So far I have heard...

Amado Vrieswijk leaving Severne
Liam Dunkerbeck leaving Starboard

Others ?

DI7
24 posts
1 Jan 2025 1:36AM
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Johan Soe leaving Point 7 and FMX
Daniele Benedeti leaving Challenger and FMX
Justine Lemeteyer leaving S2 Maui and FMX

Mark _australia
WA, 22714 posts
1 Jan 2025 12:26PM
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I've got a slot free for a wavesailor, free rider and Foiler

if they pay $2800 for a board

SeanAUS120
QLD, 757 posts
3 Jan 2025 12:53AM
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Anyone.......joining a team, or just leaving?

DI7
24 posts
2 Jan 2025 11:21PM
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Guess announcements will come soon ...

Annual contracts are the norm ...

WillyWind
503 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
269 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, 14446 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
2392 posts
6 Jan 2025 5:33AM
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looks like Allesio Stilrich is off simmer

Basher
538 posts
6 Jan 2025 9:56AM
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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
WA, 1148 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
31 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
1009 posts
6 Jan 2025 7:28PM
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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
WA, 269 posts
6 Jan 2025 9:54PM
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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
269 posts
7 Jan 2025 11:35PM
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Daniele Benedetti now with Duotone

berowne
NSW, 1384 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
2392 posts
8 Jan 2025 10:52AM
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Looks like Benedetti is still on Patrick to me

jdfoils
269 posts
9 Jan 2025 11:49PM
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Justyna Sniady to Flikka

Doggerland
165 posts
10 Jan 2025 1:29AM
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Bernd Roediger to Naish

BSN101
WA, 2325 posts
Friday , 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
269 posts
Saturday , 11 Jan 2025 9:07AM
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Takara Ishii to Goya

windsurftom
NSW, 368 posts
Saturday , 11 Jan 2025 7:03PM
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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, 14446 posts
Saturday , 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
WA, 3195 posts
Saturday , 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
269 posts
Monday , 12 Jan 2025 11:41PM
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Amado Vrieswijk to point 7

jdfoils
269 posts
Wednesday , 14 Jan 2025 11:50PM
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Liam Dunkerbeck to Duotone

jdfoils
269 posts
Thursday , 15 Jan 2025 11:56PM
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Camille Juban to AV boards

PhilUK
1009 posts
Thursday , 16 Jan 2025 1:20AM
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jdfoils said..
Camille Juban to AV boards


He has been there for a while.

awg
SA, 58 posts
Thursday , 16 Jan 2025 8:22AM
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Time to revisit PVB'S classic sail brand video:

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