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Kauli Seadi (BRA-253, Quatro/ Naish)
Born and raised in Brazil, Kauli is the
freshly crowned 2005 wave world
champion. Through a combination of
r a d i c a l s t y l e a n d s h e e r
determination he has reached his
position at the top of the food chain in
waves and is well in the upper
echelon of the freestyle department.
An incredible all-round windsurfer
and a phenomenal athlete in
general, Kauli is one of the most
diverse talents and brightest characters on tour so is
undoubtedly here to stay for many years to come.
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Ricardo Campello (V-111,JP/ Neil Pryde)
In freestyle there is one player that
has been calling the shots for three
years in a row, and that is twenty
year old Ricardo Campello. Three
times freestyle world champion and
now taking the wave rankings by
storm, Ricardo is leading the new
generation of windsurfers straight
into the new era of the sport. As well
as dominating freestyle, Ricardo has
pushed the limits of jumping in the
sport is still as competitive as ever. The Terminator has
no intention of retiring just yet.
wave discipline with some of the most extreme jumps
and double loops around.
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Bjorn Dunkerbeck(E-11, North Sails)
Bjorn Dunkerbeck has become a
Bjorn Dunkerbeck has become a
household name in windsurfing and
beyond. Twelve times overall world
champion and a huge driving force
behind the sport, Bjorn proved he is
still a major contender to be
reckoned with by winning the 2005
overall Slalom 42 world title. Pushing
the limits of speedsailing and ripping
it up with the young generation in
wavesailing, the true master of the
sport is still as competitive as ever. The Terminator has
no intention of retiring just yet.
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Matt Pritchard (US-10,Tabou/ Gaastra)
All American bulldog Matt Pritchard
has entered the PWA tour as long
ago as 1992 and has been a familiar
face in the upper regions ever since.
Over the years Matt has challenged
in all disciplines, finally taking his first
world title in 2002 in Freestyle. With
the emergence of the spectacular
Super X discipline, Matt has proven
you can teach an old dog new tricks
as he has nailed the overall Super X world championship two times running now and is still
carving up the waves with the best of them.
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Micah Buzianis (USA-34, F2/ North Sails)
Hailing from the Rocky Mountains,
Micah has come a long way from
mountain boy to full bred windsurfing
racer. Over the years he has been
consistently at the top of the race
rankings, winning the PWA Formula
racing title in 2003. In the all new
Slalom 42 discipline, Buzianis raced
his way into the 2005 world
championship, together with Bjorn
Dunkerbeck in an unprecedented
shared overall first place. Slalom is back and with it, so
is Micah Buzianis.
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Josh Angulo (US-11)
Without a doubt, Josh Angulo is one
of the PWA's most turbulent riders.
Enfant terrible turned dedicated
athlete, Josh is back in full effect with
his unique radical style ripping up the
wave charts since his return to the
tour in 2000, sealing his comeback
with an impressive victory in the
2005 Jeep Hawaii Pro. Through his
tremendous enthusiasm, Josh
promotes the sport wherever he can,proving he's not only a sensational windsurfer these
days, but an important and charismatic spokesperson
for windsurfing as well
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Kevin Pritchard (US-3,Starboard/Maui Sails)
Kevin Pritchard ended twelve years
of Dunkerbeck dominance by
knocking the legendary E-11 off his
overall world championship throne in
2000. In doing so, Kevin is one of
three overall world champions
windsurfing has ever known,
together with the illustrious Robby
Naish and Bjorn Dunkerbeck. Today,
Kevin is more dedicated than ever,
traveling the world while maintaining his position in the upperPWAechelon in waves, Super X
and the recently launched Slalom 42 discipline.
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Jason Polakow (KA-1111, JP/ Neil Pryde)
WJason's list of achievements in
windsurfing is as long as it is
impressive. Having sailed virtually
every break around the world, won
two overall world wave titles and
countless PWA events since his
debut fifteen years ago and initiated
one of the world's most successful
board brands, Jason has become a
true windsurfing icon. These days
Jason travels the world looking for the most brutal conditions whilst competing in the PWA
wave tour, showing the young generation how it's done.
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Boujamaa Guilloul (M-3, Starboard / Severne)
One of the tour's most colorful
personalities has to be twenty year
old Boujamaa Guilloul. Coming from
the shores of Morocco, Boujamaa
has only joined the PWA tour in
2004, but already he is one of the
most talked about riders on the
circuit. All smiles on land, full
madman on the water, Boujamaa is
pushing wavesailing to new
extremes with his ultra-tweaked jumps and loops that lesser gods cannot even
understand, let alone do.
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Daida Moreno (E-64, Mistral/ North Sails)
One woman has been dominating
the windsurfing scene since her
debut in the late nineties; Daida
Moreno has taken women's
windsurfing to another level,
sometimes literally with massive
jumps that would make any
windsurfer turn green with envy.
Daida is a phenomenal windsurfer
and brilliant marketer, utilising her
sailing and personality to push the sport to new heights - not only for herself, but for
windsurfing in general.
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Iballa Moreno (E-63, Mistral/ North Sails)
Being Daida's twin sister it should
come as no surprise that Iballa has
been rocking the world of
windsurfing big time too over the last
couple of years. With incredible
moves and jumps up her sleeve,
Iballa may well only have a match in
her sister, as in many wave and
freestyle finals the Moreno twins go
head to head to decide who's best.
Whether it's in the form of twin power of simply by her superb individual skills, Iballa is a
dominant factor in all of women's windsurfing.
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Karin Jaggi (Z-14, F2)
Not only is Swiss born Karin Jaggi a
super-talented all-round windsurfer,
excelling in every discipline; she is
also officially the fastest windsurfing
woman on the planet with a world
speed record of 41.2 knots. Over the
years, Karin has demonstrated her
versatility by winning several world
titles in every discipline, including
this year's newest departments of
Super X and Slalom 42. In 2005 Karin was voted on thePWAmanagement board to help
build the tour and the sport with her longstanding
experience as a superb professional windsurfer.
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