Cesare Cantagalli enjoys South Africa – Photo Gallery

Paul Wagstaff and Cesare Cantaglli at the Gunston party

Cesare Cantaglli signs the Gunston event poster from 1984 at the Gunston party in 2015

Balz Müller at the Gunston Party in the old lycra

Cesare Cantaglli met old friends at the Gunston party

Cesare Canatagalli rigs for a session at the Cape

Cesare Cantagalli returned to South Africa

Cesare Cantagalli in the waves at Scarborough

Cesare Cantagalli with an Aerial off the lip

Cesare Cantagalli hits the lip perfectly at Scarborough

Cesare Cantagalli with an Aerial off the lip at Scarborough

Cesare Cantagalli and a Baboon

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Paul “Waggy” Wagstaff of the water sport shop Bay Sport organized a nice reunion night to celebrate 30 years of the mythical Gunston Cup, an international invitational Windsurf Wave contest in South Africa, which was won by Cesare in 1986. After this event the pictures of the excellent windsurf spots were published in magazines all around the world and South Africa became one of the most important destination for windsurfers. Shapers built up workshops there and magazines started to test equipment.

During the Gunston Cup many characters, who were the representatives of South African windsurfing history in the past, showed up and some of them decided to live in South Africa. The biggest names at the Gunston Party was Terry Weiner (former president of the PBA and founder and organiser of the Gunston event). Terry was a judge at the old Aloha Classic and invited Cesare for the South Africa Tour. On the flight from Maui to Cape Town Terry invented the name Cheese Roll during a conversation with Cesare… no more Killer Loop… and the name of the move was changed to Cheese Roll. Klaus Walter, the first  F2 testimonial, a famous German rider, was there, too. Who else? Ivan van Vuuren, a former national South African champion & Coreban SUP founder, Cameron Bruce (South African National Champion) and Ralf Bachschuster, a very successful German windsurfer on the World Tour.

“What a memorable night. It was wonderful to come back, find this welcome and meet again so many people. In the evolution of the sport it was important to meet in Big Bay with so much enthusiasm. I thank Paul of Bay Sport for organizing this night.” Cesare Cantagalli

Cesare Cantagalli with a radical Aerial off the lip

And in the following days Cesare made it more than once on the water. At the beginning he had few warm-up sessions at Melkbos, afterwards he drove to Cape Point and on the same day he had two other sessions in Scarborough and Witsands. The 46 year-old Italian from Faenza, who heavily influenced the wave discipline in the past with the invention of revolutionary moves and styles – just think about the Cheese Rolls in the mid 80ties, arched Back Loops and arched Jumps in the 90ties –  travelled the world under the name “Globotour” producing stunning pictures and impressive video footage.

Now Mr. Cheese Roll is back and stoked about the sport as he was it in the past. Actually he gives it all to grow 99NoveNove and he found an investor, what allowed him to establish a really strong international team with Kauli Seadi, Pascall Toselli, Nicolas Agkazciyan, Youp Schmit, Amanda Beenen, Marc Pare, Finian Maynard, Miriam Rasmussen or Valter Scotto. He will as well try to get more fit and wants to get back on the water more often. It doesn’t matter where. Just to feel the new shapes under his feet. The gear has changed and he perhaps will invent new styles again in the near future.

Cesare Cantagalli documentary – Video

 You will see how great his windsurfing technique was already during the late 80s. He was on Fanatic/A.R.T. that days. Later he sailed under the flag of Drops and created his own sailline, called G.O.T (Globo Tour)