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RIWmag interviewed Maurizio Andreello live

Posted by RIWmag on 02 Apr 2020 /

This Wednesday’ 1April at 17 and’ riWmag's first virtual video interview went live. We had long hoped to one day be able to have such a solution available, and strangely this opportunity’ there you and’ presented just in these days when the rhythms of life are completely altered by the [...]

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Massimo Chiod Chiodelli and his SBT return

Posted by RIWmag on 10 Mar 2020 /

In recent weeks, thanks to the capabilities’ PR of Grand doer Fabio’ Tampieri, MEMBERS of the SBT group (www.facebook.com/SURFISTIeBASTARDIeTOPE/) were able to take advantage of the return of a historical figure of Italian windsurfing, architect cartoonist Massimo Chiod Chiodelli. Always a stranger to the wishfuls’ sports of our sport, Chiod immediately invests his humor and his [...]

classes (pre)Olympic

Flavia Tartaglini's breakthrough: just regattas

Posted by RIWmag on 10 Feb 2020 /

This interview was already being prepared’ for a few weeks now and unfortunately we’ prolonged because of the computer rupture of our special interviewee, but this long wait and’ really worth it! When in the distance 1999 arrival’ in the world of pre-Olympic regattas there were still the Aloha and Mistral One Design classes. Was [...]

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Vincent Valkenaers: The First Knight

Posted by RIWmag on 28 Jan 2020 /

English Version Follows Prince Baldini interview Vincent Valkenaers, the first windsurfer of the millennium on the Guinnes Record Book with the world record on the Mile at the Prince of Speed in La Palme organized by the Prince. Vincent Valkenaers: my First World Record Knight on the Mile, Record Open Ocean, 53.25KTs on 500 m. It is incredible that this [...]

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Svein Rasmussen (R)iqFoil evolution

Posted by RIWmag on 13 Jan 2020 /

English version follows Svein Rasmussen and the (R)iqFoil Starboard evolution was founded in 1994 by Svein Rasmussen, windsurfing world champion and Olympic contender. From next summer, after Tokyo2020, their iqFoil equipment will be’ the star of the upcoming Olympic Windsurfing campaigns. About the future of this new RIWmag Olympic class [...]

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Mirco Babini, windsurfing, kite, waves and common sense

Posted by RIWmag on 28 Nov 2019 /

In recent days there has been a big controversy on facebook concerning the rules of precedence between kiters and windsurfers especially in the engagement between the waves. The controversy was fuelled by a photo posted on the company's Facebook page’ Iko (International Kiteboarding Organization which is a private company for commercial purposes - www.facebook.com/ikointl/photos/a.169737913075169/2233808743334732/?Type = 3&Theater), according to which the kite [...]

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Matteo Iachino deputy PWA SLALOM champion 2019

Posted by RIWmag on 27 Nov 2019 /

Third in the men's foil slalom world championship and deputy PWA slalom world champion 2019. For the fourth year in a row on the first two steps of the professional podium of the top level windsurfing slalom Matteo Iachino (Starboard, Severne Sails, Citroën, Prolimit, TWS, Shamal Sunglasses, Starboard Foil) hasn't won his second world title really [...]

classes (pre)Olympic

Parigi2024: Carlo Dalla Vedova and Francesco Zarbo

Posted by RIWmag on 22 Sep 2019 /

ENGLISH VERSION follows Premise: In the coming weeks, technical tests will be held in Torbole in the water to decide which windsurfing equipment to use at the Paris Olympics2024. 5 classes currently to be evaluated, 2 foil-free and 3 with foil. Carlo Dalla Vedova, president of the RS Class:X, explains why the class it represents, [...]

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DEFI 2019: THEWES DE BOER AND SEVERNE ENIGMA

Posted by RIWmag on 18 Jun 2019 /

The Defi Wind's the biggest regatta windsurfing world pro/am and this year there was RIWmag! As always there are many news’ presented in preview from Gruissan Beach. Where possible were popular live broadcasts streamed live from RIWmag's facebook page (show all were recorded among the videos [...]

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METEOEVENTI: ANTICILONE, WARM WEATHER AND LITTLE WIND

Posted by RIWmag on 06 Jun 2019 /

AUTHOR: METEOEVENTI - meteoeventi@gmail.com BACK The AFRICAN ANTICILONE ... WARM WEATHER and little wind METEOVENTI RIWMAG dear friends and here we are again, as usual, to analyze the meteorological situation waiting for the next weekend. It was a while since it was alive ... the North African anticyclone will star in this weekend in almost all regions of Bel [...]