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Amado Vrieswijk NB-20 and Steven van Broeckhoven B-72 ride the 2018 JP Freestyle boards. Their action explains what these new designs are capable off better than a details description. But for more detail check: https://jp-australia.com/2017/products/boards/freestyle-2018/

Loftsails’ no-compromise dedicated freestyle design - agile, quick and reactive. Ultra-light, the Airscape provides explosive power, wide wind range and reliable stability in an easy ducking, perfect-to-pop package. The Airscape is a featherweight, ultra responsive and rapidly accelerating rig that goes neutral for the most acrobatic freestyle windsurfing moves and rips as well in waves.

Light and crisp characteristics yield a quick response, high performance rig which makes the Wavescape the perfect choice for explosive down-the-line moves. With all new shorter boom lengths for 2018, the Wavescape 4-batten layout makes for light, powerful, and compact handling. And with total xply construction; 4mil biax window sections with our exclusive 3.5 biax body panels, you can be confident that your wavescape will survive anything you put it in! When water goes vertical, the Wavescape is the ultimate mobility and expression tool for your own style.

Windsurfing has gone to another dimension - flying free of the water’s surface. Foiling is new and the Skyscape is newly built for it. Sails for foil designs are best light, with low end grunt and superior upwind character. The Skyscape design package includes 5 battens with 3 cams and a low outline configuration. Skyscape sail profile exhibits pronounced forward orientation - augmenting the low-end grunt needed in light winds to pop up and go. Softer & more forward-oriented batten systems with a slightly firmer leech perfectly match the more front-foot oriented stance associated with foiling.

Premium balance & stability in challenging conditions is what the Pure Lip is all about! Playing in the waves is demanding, both for you and your gear. The number one priority of the Pure Lip is to be able to handle brutal poundings in breaking surf, followed by rig stability in varying winds associated with wavesailing. Stability and durability are the strong suits of the Pure Lip, which magazine test reports over the years undoubtedly confirm. The Pure Lip 2018 is built to survive: total xply construction, 5mil triax low, 4mil biax window sections and our new 3.5 biax upper body provides the stability you need while making sure the sail is reinforced to handle anything you put in its way. Sometimes conditions take you to limits... go there and beyond with total confidence in the Pure Lip!

Generated from the successful 2017 edition, the new Switchblade 2018 leads the field again by taking it to the next level of performance in free ride sailing. Renowned for having the widest range of its class, the Switchblade transforms from a low-end powerhouse to a top-end racing weapon thanks to its wide tuning range.

Redesigned for 2018, the Blade FR has evolved to even greater efficiency and speed for dedicated upwind and downwind formula courses. The Loftsails FR has a long and proven history in Formula racing – Dennis Littel’s incredible 10 successive titles, and Fernando Martinez 6-time Spanish national champion.

The Loftsails Raceboard Blade (9.5 & 8.5) has a history in raceboard World Championships, winning the World Championships twice under the the guide of Fernando Martinez and Alex Buchau. This specialist discipline involves providing power and lift for course-racing hulls (longboards with centerboards) with specific designs for upwind drive and extreme pointing in displacement mode from ultra-light wind to moderate breeze conditions – and full-planing downwind legs. Loftsails’ Raceboard Blade is a full bodied, low-end power source with superb, streamlined, and efficient trim reactivity for the top end of the wind range-of-use. The 6-batten, 3 cam Loftsails Raceboard Blade 9.5 and 8.5 have no rivals in competitive Raceboard medium to strong wind designs. The Raceboard Blade 9.5 LW (Light Wind) is a specialized 5-batten, 3 cam design optimized for the best possible light to medium wind performance.

Completely redesigned for 2018, the Racing Blade is the ultra-complete slalom performance package for any serious racer. New luff curves, vertical and horizontal shaping, leech tuning and batten profiles make this 2017 double test winning design leap to the next level, ensuring you’ll leave the rest of the pack in your wake.

Loftsails’ Speed Blades are dedicated speed designs that have consistently broken the “50-knot barrier”. Loftsails Speed Blades won events such as the prestigious Luderitz-Canal challenge in Namibia. Speed Blades are developed with Speedsailing legend Erik Beale, Loftsails’ Speed Team and Speed Product Manager. Similar to Racing Blades in design, Speed Blades are tuned with slightly more upper leech release to suit downwind courses typical of serious speed sailing courses.

WipeOut of the Day... Dodgy filming i know... but caught these the other day... No Handed Push loop vs No handed Forward loop... Whats your Favourite? :) Riders: Ernest Brendel vs Julien Salmonn