Windsurf Pro Center Rhodos

LOL

2009-09-17T05:27:00.000-07:00

LOL, in 2009, the very famous PRO CENTER JURGEN NIENS/BERTIE CRAUSAZ (the swiss coast guard) lost 8 (yes eight), team members.

Why???? i am really asking myself, maybee gettin' pay for some nuts and working 70 hours per weeks, without working contract, didn't fit with the working minds of these ex-team's members, especially when some things are promised for a long time, and these things are just fictives in the reality !!!!

THINK ABOUT IT !!!! WHY IS THERE 8 PEOPLE WHO LEFT THE TEAM BEFORE THE END OF THE SEASON ????????????

Maybee some people should change thei way t think about what is good to do if you wanna keep your employee......

TAKE CARE THEN BYE BYE,
TAKE CARE BYE BYE THEN !!!!!

F2 station clown...

2009-06-12T07:42:00.000-07:00

our office girl Michele is back this year again, to make you and us laughing...
presentation:

name: Michèle
nick name: the horse
nationality: swiss
sex: hmm...
weight: 185
high: 2.45
favourite board and sail: discovery
Party? shake your ass, watch your step
Are u single? no
Mc donald or greek restaurant? mc donalds!!!!!!!!!!
something to add? no

Girl's Camp Time

2009-06-12T04:54:00.000-07:00

The two last weeks were quite hot at the Pro Center with the Laure Treboux Girl's Camp...

Laure Treboux AKA SUI-4 is a professionnal windsurfer, and she is n°3 in the Freestyle World Cup PWA Women 2008. Helped by North Sails and Fanatic she is travelling all around the world for teaching surfing when she is not winning the freestyle competitions.
Also she organizes some special camps for girls who wants to learn surfing and she made it at the Pro Center the lasts two weeks.

let's enjoy the pictures and leave us some comment to help us making the next edition 2010 even better than it was this year:

Laure and our station manager Capo

Beach training and theory

and now let's go rippin' on the water...

11 years old Emily ... the future of windsurfing .....!!!!!!

Chantale

Bea

swiss and finish style

and Laure making her show ...!!!

hope everybody enjoy these weeks,

stay tuned

freestyle swedish clinic, THE MOVIE

2009-05-25T03:54:00.000-07:00

After the pictures, now the movie .... enjoy

swedish mafia...second member

2009-05-21T09:24:00.000-07:00

Name:Jakob
Nickname:Flash, ... because i learn so fast
Nationality:Swedish
Sex:can`t u see
Weight:Muscles weight a lot
Height:1,74m
Favorite board and sail:NS Duke
Party: Ya man
Are u single:Yes
McDonadls or Greek Restaurant:Geek for real
Something else:This summer is going to be awesome

French connection

2009-05-21T09:12:00.000-07:00

we got new teamriders to introduce......here they are,

Name:Benoit
Nickname:Ben
Nationality:France
Sex:Men
Weight:72kg
Hight:1,80m
Favorite board and sail:JP frestyle,NP The Fly 4,7
Party:Yes IIIIIIIIIII
Are u single:Yes
McDonadls or Greek resaurant:Greek ofcourse
Something else:It`s time to windsurf!!!!!!

swedish invasion !!!!!!

2009-05-21T08:55:00.000-07:00

This week has been crazy !!!!
We had an invasion of 50 swedish...
The wind has been really down but we had fun on the water anyway.
Yesterday was freestyle time with Boujmaa who organize some special training for low wind freestyle, and the kids as the oldest guys had fun and improve a lot their balance on the board and their style on the water.

Today we start again with Boujmaa and Hans who explain everything about how to trim a slalom sail and explain everything about the different style of boards.

Then we had this big slalom contest that eveyone had been waiting for.
It was a close call but in the final between Sweden and Germany pulled the longest straw.
Now we are looking forward to this weekend since the wind will be back

Baywatch AKA Magnus

FREESTYLE TIME THIS IS FREESTYLE TIMING... THE MOVIE SOON ON THE BLOG

CLINIC TIME ... THANKS TO HANS, BIG RESPECT MAN!!!!

CONTEST TIME ... THANKS TO EVERYBODY FOR THE HAPPINESS YOU SHOW US

after work time ...

2009-05-21T08:51:00.000-07:00

Hey Ceco the green is somewhere else... here it's the beach !!!!!

a guest ....

2009-05-21T08:32:00.000-07:00

our pornsatr interview ...

2009-05-15T10:14:00.000-07:00

last week, our baywatch Magnus, was interviewed by the CNN/BBC report...
No the young lady needed to make an interview of a swedish surf insructor for her school and we don't have any idea what was it about, just the picture is funny...
"Hey Baywatch ... do you like it?"

after christmas, happy new year !!!

2009-05-15T10:04:00.000-07:00

Yeah like the kids after unpacking their presents, our custommers and us had a lot's of fun while testing all the new staff!!!
We had one big day with 7 Bft and oe and a half meters of wave, perfect to test the new twinser FA Rave, and the new F2 Vibe , the result was really nice but too much cloudy for any good picures.

The next days where less windy but enough to keep on having lot's of fun

Enjoy !!!

christmas at the pro center

2009-05-15T09:50:00.000-07:00

Finally last week all the new 2009 equipment arrive at the Pro Center.
New F2 Vantage, New F2 Rave twinser, New F2 Vibe, plus all the North Sail 2009, Ice, Duke, Natural and S-Type, it was looking like christmas on the beach of Trianda !!!
ok now we have to unpack everything and to rigg all the sails.... a lot's of fun !!!

some fresh news

2009-05-02T09:04:00.000-07:00

We are sorry for the last few days without any news, but it was kind of really busy at the Pro Center, with all the new equipment 2009 JP/Neil Pryde and F2/North Sails wich arrive finally.
But we also had some nice surfing time as you will see and of course still fixing and making the station ready.
The first custommers started surfing as well from Danemark, Holland, Germany, Russia and France.

Enjoy

boujmaa

rigging some sails for our firsts customers

young blood

Berti and jurgen the super BIG BOSS (Soon his interview)

boujmaa first jibe of the season

holland's power represent

YOUNG BLOOOOOOOOOD !!!!!!!!!!!

Berti ... before ...

...and after !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lay down Ceco lay down !!!

speed loop air chachooooo y boujie... into crashhhhhhhhh

our photographer ...

enjoy .....!!!!!!!!! and stay tuned

HEYYYY Cecooooo ...

2009-04-25T10:35:00.000-07:00

Let's present now our Mc Gyver

name: Tsvetan
nickname:Ceco
nationality:Bulgarian
sex: ♂
weight:70kg
high:174cm
favourite board and sail?JP wave 69 north ICE 5.0/4.5m2
Party?Always
are you single?Yes
Mac Donalds or greek restaurant? Off course greek restaurant malaka!!!
Something to add? Easy dating ….. no go for windsurfing !!!!

Big boss

2009-04-24T10:30:00.000-07:00

Let's present now our Big Boss

name: Crausaz
nickname: Berty
nationality:Swiss
sex: ♂
weight: 80kg
high:183cm
favourite board and sail? F2 XTC 91, North Duke 5.4
Party? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
are you single? Yes
Mac Donalds or greek restaurant? Greek restaurant with retzina
Something to add? Nothing

head office

2009-04-24T10:19:00.001-07:00

Let's present now our head office girl

name: marlene
nickname: lene
nationality:austrian
sex: female
weight: 53
high:163
favourite board and sail? Dont know yet
Party?sure
are you single? yes
Mac Donalds or greek restaurant? Greek for sure
Something to add? Very important secretary ;)

One day at the Pro Center

2009-04-24T10:06:00.001-07:00

By Capo AKA Marcus

«nice day again at the beach,the boy's and me worked our fingers to the bones,making the boat's
ready and sanding and paint the station(F2-center).The hole day it was blowing like hell,
we missed the best wind but still one hour nice sailing with 5.3 ICE.So another great day at the
beach of Rhodos Island

JP roof changing

2009-04-24T09:44:00.000-07:00

As we told you yesterday, we are fixing , cleaning, repairing the surf stations.

At the begin of the week, we were fixing a new roof at the JP australia/Neil Pryde Hi-Tech center.

Enjoy the pic's...

don't worry, we took a nice shower after that...

Big Boss

2009-04-23T04:40:00.000-07:00

Let's present now our Super Big Boss, he is owner of the Pro Center since the beginning, over 25 years ago...

name: Jurgen Niens
nickname: ...
nationality: germany
sex: ♂
weight: 88kg
high:178cm
favourite board and sail? F2 XTC 91, North voodoo 5.3
Party? why not but not too late
are you single? No
Mac Donalds or greek restaurant? Greek restaurant with retzina

time for action

2009-04-23T04:17:00.000-07:00

ok it's looks pretty windy now so let's go surfing, ACTION TIME !!!!!!!!!!!

stay tuned for more news, pictures and movies soon

enjoy riding

boujmaa

2009-04-23T03:47:00.000-07:00

Let's present now our crash tester

name: Colin
nickname: Boujmaa, Bouj', Bougie
nationality: french
sex: ♂
weight: 84 kg
high:186 cm
favourite board and sail? F2 Chilli, North Sail Ice 5.3
Party? Sometimes
are you single? No
Mac Donalds or greek restaurant? my mum's food
Something to add? You know what? I am happy !!!

young blood

2009-04-23T03:43:00.000-07:00

Let's present now our young blood

name: Magnus Johansson
nickname: not yet
nationality: Sweden
sex: ♂
weight: 98 kg
high:198 cm
favourite board and sail? Jp freestyle, Neil pryde expression
Party? Yes
are you single? Off course
Mac Donalds or greek restaurant? Mc Donalds!
Something to add? Life is better while surfing

CAPO

2009-04-23T03:21:00.000-07:00

Let's present now our station manager

name: Marcus
nickname: Capo
nationality: German
sex: ♂
weight: still losing
high:1,78
favourite board and sail? F2 Spice 96,duke 5.4
Party? why not
are you single? at the moment …..yes
Mac Donalds or greek restaurant? both
Something to add? no pain,no glory

Babis

2009-04-23T03:07:00.000-07:00

So let's start with some team riders interview,

all season long we gonna present you the team, what they do …
so first of all
let's present all of us one by one,

for the first interview, let's present the greek team rider, mister Flaka AKA Babis

name: Babis
nickname: Babi
nationality: Hellas
sex: ♂
weight: 86kilos
high:1,80
favourite board and sail? Chilli 5,4 duke
Party? ok
are you single? no
Mac Donalds or greek restaurant? I hate McDonald......
Something to add? SAILING FOR EVER

before the summer

2009-04-23T01:37:00.000-07:00

Begin of the season means rebuilding, fixing, cleaning, ….

Also before you arrive in the station, just take a look to see how it is right now ....

Enjoy it

we let you know that we already have a lot's of wind and that we enjoy it a lot … !!!!

1st post

2009-04-23T01:34:00.001-07:00

Why this blog?
This blog is made to show you the inside life of a big surf station as the Pro Center in Rhodos island (Greece)
Here you will find some riders interview, some team riders interview, you can follow the openning of the station and of course watch many pictures of our daily session, movies, …
also we will try to make this blog as much as possible interactive, so let us know what do you think about it, if you have some new ideas to boost it, and if you have already been to the Pro Center, let us know what did you think about the life there and how could we make it even better than it is for you.

Enjoy your ride

Capo and Bouj'