The Tuna and Mini Tuna are finless Alaia boards build with the finest materials and technologies. The Tunas are such a perfect blend of the proper flex, rail and bottom contours combined with modern materials to increase floatation, that they no longer require fins to surf and are rapidly changing the way we understand surfboard design and our surfing experience.

The Tuna’s rocker profile is very flat so it is easy to catch waves. The combination of the gentle curves and hard rails holds the board into the wave face. The Tuna’s speed is incredible even on the smallest waves! With the Tuna in your quiver you will look at the surf in an entirely different way, seeing waves that are fun and rip-able where you did not see them before! It will truly open your mind and your surfing.

After testing and refining Tom Wegener shapes with his team of open-minded surfers, we bring you the next chapter in surfing, The Seaglass Project.
The Seaglass Project is changing the definition of what we ride, how we ride and where we will want to ride in the future. With unbelievable partners like Tom on board, we cannot imagine the doors The Seaglass Project Tunas have opened. History is in the making.

Features:

• Finless
• Stringless
• Flat rocker
• SLX Epoxy technology

Seaglass Tunas will retail for $495USD and come in the following sizes:
Tuna 6’2”, 17”, 2 1/8”
Mini-Tuna 5’3” 16 1/8” 2 1/4”

To know more about this project visit Global Surf Industries website

However when the water gets colder or when it gets chilly it’s better to dress the 2mm Matuse Sophia Jacket.

Probably this is the coolest jacket you can get.
Matuse team did an awesome job.

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Matuse Sophia Jacket features

• Hour Glass Panel: The hour glass chest panel not only provides a naturally contoured fit on the bodice but also adds an extra bit of curvy flow to your already stylish lines on the wave.
• Hydrasil Nylon: Silky smooth, hydrophibic (i.e. rejects H2O) material that’s your windbreaker in the water. Makes you feel all buttery inside.
• Geoprene Stategic Paneling: Super-low modulus, max-flex Geoprene that keeps the body’s thermostatic line balanced (i.e. you don’t get hot and tired from fighting your suit or cold and bitter from that oil-based neoprene).
• Mini back-zip: The mini back-zip maximizes your ease-of-entry while minimizing water-entry.
• Titanium Coated Geopreme texture skin on core: Provides board traction and makes you bulletproof—at least against the wind and cold.
• 100% Glued and blind stitched seams: Provides durability, flexibility and cushy warmth for your skin.

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Retail price: $139

Wanted for review

What will be the program of the camp? What can you look forward to if you apply?
The authentic atmosphere of the local surfhouse only 3km from the beach, surfing lessons from the local pros, all the equipment (neoprene, surf board) for free, also possibility of longboard/skateboard rental, indoboard, new skatepark and simply relaxed time spent in the locality that hundreds of surfers from around the world visit every year.

Every participant will get presents from the main partner of the camp – Horsefeathers and other partners DVS, Electric, Swiss-shop.cz and Free Magazine.
The camp is being organized by www.surfczech.cz a you can choose from a week, two-weeks or three-weeks stay in term from 5.6. to 26.6.2010. If you want to spend some quality time by the Atlantic, try something new or just get better at surfing, don’t hesitate and register at www.surfczech.cz .
The camp has a limited capacity, so be sure to reserve your place soon enough.

The Kite Club Maui will be supporting the event as a local organizer to ensure the girls have everything they need, just as with last year’s clinic with Kristin Boese on Maui. Gretta Kruesi will also be on the team for the KB4girls Maui clinic and will help promote the event as well as co-instruct and support Kristin during the event, which will be an important part of the camp.

But this event has even more to offer! To support the female athletes as much as possible and to offer the participants an amazing program and every reason to make their way over to Hawaii, KB4girls has teamed up with the Maui based water women program “Butterfly Effect”.

The “Butterfly Effect” organizes downwind runs for female athletes of all watersports and will be using the KB4girls clinic as a platform for their kiteboarding participants to prepare for their event in July.

Tatiana Howard, founder of the Butterfly Effect says: “I am really excited to have KB4girls involved. I think the clinic Kristin is running will be perfect to get the girls ready and confident for our Butterfly Effect in July. I would encourage all kite girls to take part in the KB4girls clinic, learn new tips and tricks, and soak up all the advice. You will be able to enjoy The 4th Annual Butterfly Effect 2010 even more after this intensive training because you will be shredding down the north shore of Maui with new skills.”

Due to the limited space on Maui’s beaches this KB4girls event can only accommodate 20 participants in order to guarantee the safety of all riders. All those interested are urgent to book as soon as possible. Registration is open on www.kb4girls.com/schedule/usa-maui.html and will close on April 1. As usual the $30 registration fee will be donated to the Surfrider Foundation and towards the protection of our oceans and beaches.

During one week we will have the following competitions:

• PKRA World Cup event 10 – 15 April
• ORANGE SPEED CROSSING 13 – 18 April
• LONG DISTANCE KITESURF Pros and amateur competition 10 – 12 April

Soon we will bring to you more information about this event.

“Kristin’s generosity in constantly wanting to encourage and teach other women kitesurfers around the world gives us an amazing opportunity to learn new skills from a world-class female athlete. Thanks Kristin!” says coordinator Nicolea Paul, WAChickKiters Network, WA/Australia.

Elea Faucheron, aka “Air Chica”, Air Club for girls, says: “Being a woman in kiteboarding has never been more exciting. Women from all backgrounds and businesses are jumping headlong into the sport. The KB4girls 2010 Tour is an opportunity for woman globally to connect, share and challenge themselves. Thanks Kristin for bringing women together and sharing your incredible enthusiasm with us.”

Follow the link to know more about this stage.

Boese is the owner of nine World Championship titles, with the ninth title in the wave discipline recently officially recognized.

Ralph Hannah, Records Manager at Guinness World Records comments:
“We are delighted to recognize Kristin’s numerous kitesurfing world championships with a Guinness World Records™ certificate for the most kitesurfing world championships won by a woman.”

“Between 2005 and 2008 she has won an incredible nine world titles which are a combination of sanctioned events in wave, boardercross, slider and kicker, freestyle, course racing disciplines and overall titles. This also includes the 2005 PKRA Wave title, which despite being a single event we still considered the winner to be the world leader in wave riding at the time and have therefore recognized it as a world title, just as the male winner was considered the 2005 Wave world champion.”

Boese showed an incredible variety of riding by winning these titles in five different disciplines, 2x freestyle, 2x wave, 2x course race, 1x slider & kicker, 1x Boarder-cross, and 1x Overall Title. This year she is first in the official International Kiteboarding Association (ISAF class) world ranking in course racing and also finished second in the one-off world championship event.

Kristin says: “I remember watching Guinness record attempts on TV when I was little and thinking how amazing it was that these people had done something that had never been achieved before. It makes me proud to actually be one of them now and it is a very special achievement for me.”

Mauricio Toscano, president of the Professional Kite-board Riders Association (PKRA), says: “Kristin Boese is an extremely talented athlete. She has competed in the PKRA Kiteboarding World Tour since 2002 and through the years she has become an icon in the kiteboarding world, by conquering more World titles than anyone else. As the PKRA world tour has always focused on promoting both the sport of kiteboarding and the riders, it is great to see this kind of success story.”

A natural rider, she started competing the same year she began kiteboarding (2002) and ended up ranked twelfth in the world that year, followed by fourth place in 2003 and second place in 2004. When she started her career the only competition discipline that existed was freestyle. As the sport developed she expanded with the newly recognized disciplines with much practice and preparation backed up with motivation. She proved her mettle by winning her first and second titles (freestyle) against competitors who on average were 10 years younger than her.

“When I first started competing,” she says, “I could only dream of maybe being the best female kiter in the world one day and becoming world champion. There was no way I could plan or even think of becoming this successful in the sport. However, after winning a few world championship titles I made it my goal to not only become the female kite-boarder with the most world championship titles, but also to push our sport and support female riders all over the world.”

The blonde beauty is very visible in the media and has also taken the sport to the masses through her modeling and photo shoots for magazines such as Vogue, Playboy and Max plus her kite-boarding videos are shown online in a number of sources.

A list of her titles reads as follows:
2005 PKRA Freestyle World Champion
2005 PKRA Wave World Champion
2006 PKRA Freestyle
2006 PKRA Slider World Champion
2007 PKRA Boarder-cross World Champion
2007 KPWT Overall World Champion
2007 KPWT Course Race World Champion
2007 KPWT Wave-riding World Champion
2008 KPWT Course-race World Champion

Source: Kristin Boese

The Nixon Headphone team is supported by world-class athletes and musicians and includes Mos Def, Santigold, Little Boots, Trouble Andrew Andy Irons, Bruce Irons, Andrew Reynolds, Paul Rodriquez, and JP Walker

Tension is mounting for the seventh edition of the biggest snowboard event for girls only: at the Roxy Chicken Jam 2010 from the 8th to the 10th of January 2010, snowboard stars like Cheryl Maas (NED), Kjersti Buaas Oestgaard (NOR), Janna Meyen-Weatherby (USA), Sarka Pancochova (CZE) and Lisa Filzmoser (AUT) will fly high over the kickers of Saalbach Hinterglemm and set the rails of the Nightpark on fire! Parties and live concerts with Bunny Lake and the Wax Wreckaz will additionally contribute to make this weekend a true freestyle festival.

With only a few weeks to go before the Olympic Winter Games 2010 will start and being a 6-star event of the TTR Women’s Snowboard Tour, the Roxy Chicken Jam 2010 is the perfect opportunity for the world’s best female snowboarders to show their tricks under competitive conditions and to determine their position among competitors. Hence, the current leader of the Swatch TTR Women’s Ranking List, Sarka Pancochova (CZE), has confirmed to come to Saalbach Hinterglemm, just as four-time X Games gold medallist Janna Meyen-Weatherby (USA) who already presented herself in good form at the New Zealand Open 2009 where she took second place. The third of that important summer event, Shelly Gotlieb (NZL), will also be at the start, just like double Roxy Chicken Jam winner, Cheryl Maas (NED), the fourth of the TTR ranking, Lisa Wiik (NOR), or stars like Kjersti Buaas Oestgaard (NOR), Jenny Jones (GBR) and Tania Detomas (ITA). Lisa Filzmoser (AUT) from Wels in Upper Austria will try to capture a place on the podium for the local Austrians.

At the Roxy Chicken Jam 2010 at Saalbach Hinterglemm, Salzburg County/Austria, the snow park and the event format will be especially tuned for the needs of the girls. The world’s best female snowboarders will present their show-stopping slopestyle tricks only 200 metres away from the centre of Hinterglemm. At the Nightpark at Unterschwarzachlift, they will prove their creativity and style on two jib sets and a triple kicker line fighting for the US$ 50,000 prize-money.

The Roxy Chicken Jam will be held as a carbon neutral event. The compensation for the effects on the environment and the avoidance of CO2 and garbage are in the foreground. “The Quiksilver group being committed to sustainability and the protection of the environment, it is a great step to have the Roxy Chicken Jam being held as a neutral event”, says Maritxu Darrigrand who is in charge of sustainable development at Roxy and Quiksilver. The emissions that will be produced at the production of artificial snow, at the use of the snow grooming vehicles, at the concert and at the journeys will be compensated in co-operation with the Suddenrush Atlantic Rainforest Institution (SRAFRI). Snowboard stars like Terje Haakonsen (NOR) and Nicolas Mueller (SUI) are actively involved in this project aiming to sustainably preserve the rainforest at the Brazilian Atlantic coastline (further information: atlanticrainforest.org).

Apart from the sporting highlights at the snow park, concerts and DJ sets will make the Roxy Chicken Jam a big freestyle festival. Prior to the prize-giving, Innsbruck’s Wax Wreckaz DJ crew will drop some heavy beats at the Reiterkogel valley station. After the award ceremony, the electro underground collective Bunny Lake from Vienna will rock the crowd. Finally, an after-show party will top off the weekend.

For further information, please visit roxy.com