Bonaire cancelled, Aruba freestyle still not secured and no girl´s slalom at Costa Brava.
Today the PWA announced, that the event on Bonaire (Freestyle), which was planned for June this year, had to be cancelled due to lack of funding. PWA: “Despite the best efforts of all involved, a substantial cut in available government funding for the event has meant that the organisers have had to cancel their plans for 2012 and will now look ahead to bringing the event back for 2013.”
As well the Aruba event has financial problems, brought also by the closure of the refinery on the island. Now the Slalom discipline got cancelled for 2012. The PWA wants to secure the Freestyle event there, but it is possible that the event dates may be moved to later in the year.
And like last year, Costa Brava will be a men´s only event. PWA: “The organisers have pushed hard to bring the women’s division back to the event, but in the end, the available funding was simply not sufficient and the event will go ahead for men only now.”
totally agree with mario.
bad that bonaire is cancelled, was the best event…
people was rocking over there!
PWA approach seems to be wrong. – Top riders are not allowed to compete in non-PWA sanctioned events and that limits the price-money they can earn and the coverage windsurfing can have. – Board prices have gone straight through the roof. It’s BS that a piece of molded foam with some wrapping has to cost as much as it does. – After so many years of production, the brands still don’t put out highperformance boards that don’t delaminate in 1 season. Maybe Cobra brands must come to a development moratorium and only release new boards every 4 years. (fixing bugs… Read more »
But more spots is not the answer! If you had 10 or 12 wave spots, nobody could afford to do the tour.
The point is that we need GOOD spots and GOOD money. A 3 or 4 event tour would be fine if it included cabo verde and maui. And if the prizes was 100k euro.
You know?
I think that the fact an AWT can get twice as many wave stops in 2 years as the PWA has in a decade, says something about the dedication and competence of the PWA. As well as the entire kite scene. The kite scene is pretty young and is already in competition outgrowing the PWA. the PKRA has 9 stops and 3 TBC (so it could get to a 12 stops total) In half the time the PWA got it done. I might be totally wrong here but maybe the PWA people should take a good hard look at themselves… Read more »
Exactly. AWT and PKRA are very good example of how it should be done. Just after one year AWT looks like it have very good potential for next seasons!
Mario, can I copy your text? I agree 100% with you!