Steven Van Broeckhoven (F2- Maui Sails) has won the first event of the European Freestyle Pro Tour in Sardinia !!!!! He beat Davy Scheffers form Holland in the final. Steven is leading the EFPT ranking now. In a few days the next events of the efpt start in Greece. Steven is stoked with his first European Pro Tour victory and he's determined to win the overall ranking.


Steve's team mates also scored some good results lately. Niek van der Linde (Fanatic - Maui Sails) won King Of The Dam 2009 and he is leading the Championship in Holland and Belgium. Niek performed great with the Loco 5,2! Ben Van Hooydonk (F2 - Maui Sails, loco 5,6) was 7th and first master, so "triple" good news.

 

 

Steven event report

On the final day of the first EFPT event in Sardinia the wind appeared, luckily. They started with the "famous heat number 3" which already had been canceled twice. Again this heat was canceled twice because they said "too little wind". But to be honest, the riders of that heat took too small sail sizes (4,5m!). Eventually they had to finish the heat officially. Davy Scheffers, my training fellow from Holland, performed very well with power moves to eliminate the strong sailing German Tilo Eber.

I had to start in the second round because I had enough points from last year results. First I had to compete against Mazocco Gamba. I did what I used to do and I showed all my power moves to the jury and the public. I did moves like burner, culo, kono, switch-stance kono, shaka-cana-brava, ponch, etc... The next heat was against the Brazilian Chico. The wind increased and I decided to take the Loco 5,2. I was nice full powered before the heat started, but during the heat the wind got less. But thanks to the excellent power of the Maui Sails Loco I could start planing early and put all my moves without crashing, and I won again. My next opponent was Andre Paskowski, who is a strong contender in all competitions with lots of strong moves in short time. I chose again for Loco 5,6 which gave me my favorite full power. I crashed 2 times but I sailed a good heat. Davy competed against Ackghazyan at the same time.

Our dream became true: both Davy and I in the final and the public going wild, wow! Davy and I decided to bring a great show in the final with power moves, which we did. The public was going crazy and we busted out all power moves. I had a perfect heat with 10 power moves and 2 slide moves like double puneta and "clew first flaka into flaka". I knew Davy performed also very well, so we had to wait for the decision of the jury. After our heat we got BIG applause from the public and many photos of us were taken.

Best Greetz,
Steven Van Broeckhoven, B-72
www.stevenb72.com
www.teamthebunch.com