Neil Pryde Speed Sails Test Session with Antoine Albeau | Andy Laufer
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- La Palme Occitanie: 3 days of perfect Tramontana with winds between 20 and 45 knots. Perfect conditions to test the new speed sails in 5.8sqm. The beach along Le Rouet was not perfect so we decided to test those speed machines on our JP Slalom Pro 55 and 29 cm fins.
The white/yellow sail is the latest proto from the Neil Pryde Development Center/Maui. Robert Stroj designed a perfect new speed sail with lots of changes. Can't tell the details right now but the sail has got more power, better acceleration, more stability, better speeds in those "windholes" and most important for speed - more topspeed!
Going straight line we have reached speeds between 41 and 42 knots, in slingshots up to almost 44 knots (81 kmh). Good numbers as the beach was not perfect.
Another big step forward, I hope he can transfer this progress to the other sizes.
We had lots of fun out there, always an honour for me to test with the 25x World Champion Antoine Albeau F-192. His "Groundspeed" is incredible, especially when it gets gnarly and choppy. Always reminds me, why he got all of those titels :)
At the end, I had a beautiful spinout ending up in a big crash. Think I landed about 30 meters from my equipment. Was still hooked in but fortunately those harness lines cracked immediately. Didn't hurt, just hit the water.
Special appearance: Sam Esteve F-79 If you see this guy freestyling in real, you won*t even believe that those things are possible!!
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Boah, wieder Mal ein Kribbel - Video, Unglaublich, wie der Oberkörper dieses Kolosses Antoine scheinbar regungslos über's Wasser pflügt und nur Hände und Füße minimal auszugleichen scheinen. Auch die unfassbare Beschleunigung in den Böen ist super eingefangen! Und er ist Andy trotzdem nicht davongedüst... Respektvolles Dankeschön
Best windsurf footages on UA-cam, you make me feel nostalgic while i’m studing for university 🥺
Thanks Giulio!
Me too 😁
THE WAY TO NEW RECORDS 💪😀
Thank you for the great ride! Always fun to watch these immense joyrides!, have HalleluYah in our hearts!
Thanks Daniel!
W O W. This is some of the most amazing footage I've ever seen. With two of my favorites! Bravo!
I also love the scooped out nose, the shape is very sexy. I have an older 59 JP slalom pro and it is Fast!
Thanks a lot Andie, cheers Andy
Allez Antoine. Thank you Andy for all vidéos. There are top. Perhaps one day, we will be lucky to see you riding with one of my favourite windsurfer (after you) : Robert territehau. One day, you should try this spot in France : « lancieux » in Bretagne (Côtes-d’Armor), it’s a spot of slalom. When there is sun, it’s beautiful.
With those speeds, it feels to me like continuously walking on the edge, and no margin of error, me wanting to bail out. Thanks for amazing footage and keeping the love for windsurfing going.
Thanks Ronald, I will keep on trying :) Cheers
Full-speed while hitting the gust!!! G0d damned fast!
Thanks for this. Love the orange & black sail design. Looks incredible!
Pleasure, love it too...
Absolutely insane! Especially when you guys hit the choppy part at full speed! Scary!
Thanks Haroun!
Cool, what a insane speed, and this crazy freestyle action 😬
Thanks Robert
Simplement superbe!
Cette voile a l'air d'avoir le feu du speed!
Thanks mate!
Scary af! Amazing stuff Andy!
Thanks mate
i love your windsurfing montages
Thank you
@@AndyLaufer 😅😅😅
cannot wait to be able to travel again!
Soon... Aloha
nice footage thanks for sharing a sneak peak at some protos. That freestyler had me breath in hard. Just doing tricks like that and not looking back could have gotten really ugly...
Thanks mate
Wahnsinn, man bekommt Angst beim zuschauen. Respekt 🤙
Dank Dir!
Truly Amazing video Andy. Really really cool :-)
Thanks Roger, see you in Luderitz
Holly crap !!! You are flying and Antoine seems faster.......impossible task ! You guys are incredible (Esteve also ). Thank you once again ! The season is at our door over here ....great inspiring video ! Kudo !
Thanks Martin, really appreciate that!
insane speed - please more of that 🤙🤙🤙
I would like to be half as fast or a third or even better a fifth 🤣😎
Thanks mate :)
COOL , wie immer :-) , nur der North Tampen wollte nocht mit Neilpryde ;-))
:)
That was intense!
Thanks Eric
thanks for sharing! best footage like always! btw first 😁
Thanks mate
Meh, I can go faster with my low aspect ratio foil... kidding. You have the best POV windsurfing videos out there. I don’t know how you do it, but they make you really feel like you are there. And thank you for not adding soundtrack!!!!!
Thanks man, sometimes its better to keep it raw :)
Nice. I missed it so much
love your vids man.
Thanks Andrew
you are the best . i love your youtube channel
Thanks mate
@@AndyLaufer you welcome 🙏
Flying!
Never seen Antoine with a helmet and camera 🎥. Can you get a footage from him? That speed in such crazy chop is something beyond humans abilities, only super human can do that 🚀. Did you crash because harness broke or it broke because you crashed? 🤙
I got a spinout, rail catched water - bäm
@@AndyLaufer I hope you're ok. It's good that you weren't too far from the beach
GR8 MORE OFF THAT !
I try, thanks :)
Imagine doing a body drag at that speed 🤯
With a loose shorts :)
Ow
A body drag at those speeds would result in a body bag
Im waiting for body drag on foil...
it is called "emasulate drag"
Awsome!!!
Thanks Phil
Awesome video!! That's some crazy winds. The sail shape did seem different. I noticed the roach shape caused the sail to interact with the board/water a bit more than would be expected?
All 3 sails completely different. White yellow was the fastest
Great sense of speed, I miss that gliding feel...
Really great vid, thank you. Come to our spot one day, during eastern wind especially; Almanarre
Thanks Yves! I know Almanarre, stayed there in 1990 and 1991. Beautiful!
@@AndyLaufer 30 years ago is a long time, come back
I am actually planning a trip to Almanarre this year :)
@@AndyLaufer 😳
Sick 🤙🏻
Thanks
nice as usual ! not too cold ?
Thanks Francois, no it was ok
Mega Aufnahmen👍🏽
Benutzt du einen Brustgurt oder ein Kopfband?
Dankeschön. Helm Cam
Premier réflexe quand on prend une grosse boite... regarder si les chevilles sont toujours bien en place 😉 super bien filmé les runs fullspeed a 2... on voit que ça fume sévère... me tarde d'y retourner... ça ressemble à gruissan mais le ponton me fait dire que non 🤔🤔
Merci David
TOP!!!!!
Bonjour et merci pour cette vidéo dont l'énergie déborde. Est-il possible de savoir si Antoine et vous même placez le pied de mat au même endroit sur la planche? Merci de votre réponse.
Merci beaucoup. Oui on les place presque au meme place.
@@AndyLaufer Merci d'avoir pris le temps de répondre.
Which spot is this? I miss my sessions I had in parallel with PWA. Will be visiting soon for some flat waters.
La Palme France
Wie schnell warst du max?
Ps: nice Video!
Danke, 43.6kn
Würde mich freuen, wenn bei den Kites auch endlich mal was passiert in der Richtung. Aber solange wir da diese dicken aufgeblasenen Würste vorne dran haben, wird das wohl nix :(
Das kriegst Du doch hin! Versetzt heizen...
@@AndyLaufer ???
Traumhaft 🤙🤙🤙
Danke
In reality it was also beautiful to see ;-) 😍😍😍. I try to make the same videos but lack ... the speed ^^. See you Andy
Thanks Remi
Andy & Antoine fortissimi ( da ex windsurfer ) from Italy 😢😭
Thanks bibi
3:40 se tirer la bourre avec son pot, moments intenses ...qui me rappellent des souvenirs
Türrk var mı
Two kite surfers disliked this video.
Hehe maybe :)
Imagine start saying that the sails have no improvement since the last year?
super schnell 👍 aber entspannt dürfte das nicht mehr sein 🧐
Ging eigentlich, draußen wirds dann ruppig :)
Herlich
Awesome as always! If you want, you could join the windsurf discord server, Nico and Rytis already joined:
discord.gg/6e8NpbVyVH
Green one looks faster
Yes it was the fastest :)
Bad news for all speedwindsurfing lovers today : the access to the spot is about to be closed to the cars by rocks. Impossible to park the car close to the beach....sad day.
Why?
@@AndyLaufer a stupid law named " loi littoral" which means NO cars in a band of 500 meters from the beach. actually it seems we can park the cars beside the railway.
No worries, Principe already took care about this
@@AndyLaufer he tries...look here :fb.watch/5aB911FMTW/