The fourth edition of Camp Bela Yen, meaning “full throttle” in Papiamento, took place last week in Aruba. Our Dream Team riders Sarah-Quita and Oda helped to organize an unforgettable water sports experience for 19 kids in Aruba. This camp aims to teach the basics of windsurfing and other water sports to children while showing…
The last stop of the Wave World Tour is finished and we know the Champions! The PWA/IWT Aloha Classic took place on beautiful Maui at Ho’okipa Beach Park. During the event, our Starboard Wave riders were unstoppable and finished at the absolute top. Antoine Martin claimed his first place at the 2023 Aloha Classic and…
The last stop of the 2023 Wave World Tour is on! The single eliminations of the PWA/IWT Aloha Classic on Maui finished and we could see Starboard riders win both the Women’s and Men’s divisions. Our Starboard rider Sarah-Quita Offringa claimed her 3rd Wave World Title and 22nd overall. She is truly an exceptional and unstoppable…
The PWA World Cup on Sylt is over and we have some exciting results to share. During the 10 days of competition we could see a variety of conditions. Very tricky and always changing wind, shore break, and chaotic chop. The athletes were challenged both physically and mentally. The wind was very inconsistent and the…
The 2023 PWA Freestyle World Cup in Fuerteventura is finished and the Starboard Dream team has been on fire this week. We saw them throwing down the latest tricks in epic conditions in Fuerteventura! Sarah-Quita Offringa claims her 21st World Title on tour and her 14th Freestyle World Title. The Queen of Windsurfing finished the…
The PWA World Cup is in full swing on Fuerteventura. The Slalom division finished on Monday and our Starboard Slalom riders dominated the event. Fuerteventura delivered proper conditions and we could see a full week of action, fin vs. foil battles, and crazy crashes. Sarah-Quita Offringa claimed an incredible victory on the fin. Blanca Alabau…
Following the Gran Canaria Wave and Slalom World Cup, Pozo hosted another special event. Organization Windsurf Girls on Tour group organized a full day of windsurfing in Pozo Izquierdo. On the 10th of July, 40 women got together and experienced top-level coaching from the world’s leading women windsurfers. A full day of windsurfing, video analysis,…
Our Starboard Wave Dream Team showed incredible performances during the 2023 Gran Canaria PWA Windsurfing Wave Grand Slam. Pozo didn’t disappoint and delivered proper conditions to test the skills of wave riders from all over the world. Many Starboard wave riders reached the podium and took home a trophy. Sarah-Quita Offinga takes second place after…
After 14 years, the PWA Slalom Grand Slam has returned to Gran Canaria, Pozo Izquierdo. Our Starboard riders claimed the highest ranks in very challenging conditions. The 5th and last day for Slalom at Grand Canaria brought incredible results for our Dream Team Slalom riders. We have seen many tight rail-to-rail finishes, foil vs. fin…
The Starboard girls, Sarah-Quita Offringa and Coraline Foveau, claim second and third place respectively at the Fiji Pro. This epic IWT/PWA event happened last week and wowed the riders as well as the spectators all over the world. The spot “Cloudbreak” had been firing already a few days before the event kicked off, providing incredible…
The first Episode of the new Dream Team series is out! We’ll update you on a regular basis, on the adventures of our Dream Team riders. Watch the behind the scenes material on how they train, travel and prepare for competitions. Episode one was shot in Aruba and features three riders of our freestyle team:…
Jericoacoara and Maceió are the places to be for Sarah-Quita Offringa, when it comes to her winter training. This year, there have been some highlights for her and it sounds like she’ll step up her freestyle game again this season. Sarah-Quita: “Every year, my trip to Brazil feels like a vacation! It’s at the end…
Dream Team rider and multiple World Champion, Sarah Quita Offringa, just released a new video: the best of the Canaries 2022. We caught up with the windsurf superstar from Aruba and asked her about the outlook for this season. Which events will she attend? Will we see the double forward in one of this years…
Dream Team member Sarah Quita Offringa is the multiple PWA world champion in freestyle, waves and slalom and is always looking for new ways to challenge herself. In the past years the Caribbean rider also got into kitesurfing, winging and longboarding. All of those activities she can enjoy on her home turf in Aruba. Sarah…
Finally the PWA World Cup in Pozo was back on tour! Our Dream Team rider and 19 x World Champion Sarah-Quita Offringa wrote about her time training and competing in Pozo. Keep reading if you want to know what is going on behind the scenes from Sarah´s point of view. Also take a look at…
Words by Sarah-Quita Offringa, 17 x World Champion in Freestyle, Wave and Slalom. “We have one more event to go this year in France. It’s going to be a grand slam which means I’ll be competing in all three disciplines at one event. That’s going to be a challenge! This time of year I…
16 X (Sarah-Quita + Starboard) = 17 PWA World Titles, 130 Starboards and Endless Hours On The Water! Pro Kid to Windsurfing Legend, looking back at 16 years together. Looking forwards to many more years to come! Is the partnership between Sarah-Quita and Starboard the most successful partnership in windsurfing history? We leave you to…
How To Set Up Your iGnite: Starboard’s Dream Team Riders Sarah-Quita Offringa, Oda Johanne and Lennart Neubauer explain how they set up their favorite freestyle boards.
Welcome to the world´s first windsurf university Our Dream Team riders Oda Johanne and Sarah-Quita Offringa have just started the world’s first Windsurf University! We guess you asked yourself the same questions as we did when we first heard about it. Windsurf University? What is that? Can you study the best sport in the…
Dream Team riders Sarah-Quita Offringa and Oda Johanne is reunited for training in Aruba! Read their update from another Lovely Holiday in Aruba. Again. Sarah-Quita: It’s been about 6 months since Oda was stuck in Aruba due to the lockdown in 2020, but she ventured out to the Caribbean again and has been on island since January. Let me…
Our team riders Sarah-Quita and Oda Johanne are doing all the disciplines in windsurfing in their 2nd episode of “Roadtrip”. Here is the story of Team Lovely Holiday on their way to Italy where they went freestyling, foiling and wave sailing! Italy here we go! After Denmark, we decided to drive down to Italy.…
Have you tried the famous body drag? Sarah-Quita Offringa who is 17 x World Champion in Freestyle, Wave and Slalom, explains the body drag in detail! This was one of the first moves Sarah-Quita learned on a windsurfer and still is one of her favorite moves! Here are her quick tips: To star the…
Our Dream Team rider Sarah-Quita Offringa went on a road trip in Europe with team mate Oda Johanne. Read her update below and check out their vlog where they drive after the wind! Words by Sarah-Quita: Keep The Stoke Rolling! Well since all the competitions officially got cancelled Oda came to grab me in Holland…
Lovely Holiday – Australia Starboard duo Sarah-Quita Offringa and Oda Johanne are out with a new Lovely Holiday episode from Australia! “Follow Beatrice and Magdalena on their 5-week road trip up and down the coast of WA. They find awesome conditions for freestyle, wave sailing and through trial and error learn how to survive in the…
Lovely Holiday – Part 2 Sarah-Quita Offringa’s and Oda Johanne’s alter egos: “After Brazil, Beatrice wanted to take her sailing to the next level and traveled to Bonaire to train. Her good friend Magdalena sees how beautiful Bonaire is, and how much Beatrice has improved and decides to surprise her in paradise. Together they…
Sarah-Quita Offinga went to Japan to take part in the race at Defi Wind. Read her report: The first Défi Wind Japan was a success! I’m really happy I was invited for this event in Miyako-Jima. A lot of people will say they have been to Tokyo… But when will you ever get the chance…
Watch this amazing short documentary about 15 x World Champion Sarah-Quita Offringa. Contains clips from her childhood, how she started windsurfing and how she wants to show the world that women can be great windsurfers. A “must see” video produced by ESPN. To watch the video, click on the link above.
Watch a session of the two World Cup freestyle windsurfers Sarah-Quita Offringa and Oda Johanne Stokstad Brødholt. Board: 2019 Starboard Flare. Spot: Lagoa Grande, Brazil.
Sarah-Quita Offringa reports from her windsurfing trip to Brazil: Hey all, I’m back in Aruba after a bomb 2,5 weeks in Brasil. It’s the second year in a row that I travelled there, and it lived up to its expectations again. The sunsets are still magical, the people are so welcoming and friendly, there’s music…
Beatrice used to be one of the tourists that would come to Jeri to just enjoy the caipirinha’s and watch the windsurfers sail into the sunset. Until one day she was very curious to find out what the fuss was about this windsurfing and why these windsurfers would spend hours and hours on the…
Sarah-Quita Offringa just released her new video from her training in Brazil last year. Really impressive moves from the 11 x freestyle World Champion.
We have had great success for years with our dedicated slalom boards – the iSonic´s. Plenty of testing, new designs and shapes make the iSonic a winning board. We have asked some of our Team Riders to tell us what they think about the iSonic. Sarah-Quita Offringa The boards I have been using this year are…
Sarah-Quita Offringa has had an amazing time on tour so far finishing every contest on the podium. Read her update below: Woah. This year is coming together nicely. I just made it back to the Netherlands and am looking back on 3 months of competition with a big smile on my face. I decided…
After some intense and windy days on Fuerteventura, the 2018 freestyle tour is finished for the women, while the men will still compete in Sylt. Read what our freestyle Dream Team had to say after the World Cup. Sarah-Quita Offringa So after some wave sailing in mental conditions in Pozo, we were treated to…
25 minutes of action, interviews and behind the scenes from Pozo. Make sure you watch to the end for some nice wipeouts. Great sailing by the Starboard Team! Philip Köster and Daida Moreno won the event. Sarah-Quita Offringa got 2nd place and Iballa Moreno 3rd place. Really strong sailing from all of them. Jeager…
Sarah-Quita Offringa: “Dushi Aruba <3 What a treat again with non-stop wind for weeks on end. This particular session, the wind just dropped when Quincy and I hit the water, and then came back full force when we came off the water! Nonetheless, it was a sweet sesh! I can’t believe I’ve been sailing at…
Day 7: Iballa Moreno Crowned Champion of the First Ever PWA World Cup in Morocco After Windless Final Day. Words by PWA, Chris Yates. The women’s wave fleet met at 09:30am (GMT+1) on the final morning of the 2018 Morocco PWA World Cup for the skippers’ meeting, but with mast high waves and…
The 14 x World Champion Sarah-Quita Offringa have been home on Aruba for some weeks now. It´s been windy every day! Great skills doing power moves on both tacks!
14 x World Champion Sarah-Quita Offringa spent one week on Bonaire and managed to score some good freestyle conditions!
Sarah-Quita Offringa has spent a few days on Bonaire. She went for an evening session yesterday, and KUMA movie was there to document her impressive skills on the water. Got to love those evening sessions in the Caribbean!
Sarah-Quita Offringa and Oda Johanne are both training in South Africa at the moment. Check out a short clip filmed from a session they had together in Rietvlei. It´s all about having fun on the water!
Here we are in 2018 and it’s already going so fast. I just spent 7 weeks at home and at the time, I thought it would be forever, but really, it went by in a flash. I’m already off on my first adventure of the year, and even though it wasn’t my initial…
Sarah-Quita Offringa with some great wave action from last summer on the Canaries. Stylish loops and push loops combined with excellent riding! Sarah is the queen of windsurfing and is always in the top in all the disciplines: freestyle, slalom and wave! Edit and filming by Markus Rydberg and In To Fire & Water. Follow…
In the Starboard Dream Team are many talented riders with great success over the years. What’s their biggest motivation in windsurfing? Is it the progress, the traveling, the the fame or to score an epic session with their best friends? Read as the pros answer below: Sarah-Quita Offringa: “What I love most about…
Lena Erdil sent us this video where a drone is following some of the PWA races from the girls. These amazing clips were filmed during the last event of the year in New Caledonia. It is a true paradise for windsurfing with great wind and beautiful water colors. If you wondered how it really looks…
Right at the end of my freestyle trip in Brazil, I received a shocker of an e-mail. It was Thursday the 2nd November 2017 when the PWA broke the news to me: “ Hi Sarah-Quita, unfortunately we have made a mistake and it seems that you have not yet won the PWA Slalom World Title”. …
Day 6: Final Foil Flourish as SQ Offringa and Antoine Albeau are Crowned After five fairly solid windy days in a row, the wind machine, unfortunately, decided to take a slight break on the final day of the 2017 Airwaves Noumea Dream Cup – meaning that the rankings for the slalom remain unchanged from overnight.…
Team riders Oda, Maaike and Sarah-Quita all planned their winter training together in Brazil this year. As a result, they spent quite some time together sailing Jericoacoara and its lagoons. The girls have pushed each other hard on the water and produced this little #overdramatic freestyle clip featuring mad forwards, pushloops, kono’s, skopu’s and more,…
Yes!!! Let’s make slalom great again! What a week I’ve just spent in Denmark. It’s been a while since we managed to complete so many rounds in such a huge range of conditions. Driving down from Norway I already heard rumours about this storm that would come through the area. That got me a bit…
Ten Days of Explosive Freestyle and Slalom Fuerteventura more than lived up to its reputation again as the 2017 Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam – sponsored by René Egli – saw 10 days of 25-45 knot winds to provide an amazing natural arena for the freestyle and racing. Over the course of the event we saw…
The final day of Freestyle at the 2017 Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam produced one of the most exciting women’s freestyle finals in history as Maaike Huvermann pushed Sarah-Quita Offringa all the way in the second double elimination. However, the 19-year-old from Holland couldn’t quite do enough to prevent Offringa from winning as the Aruban continues…
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