PWA Podersdorf, Austria 2010 last day

Skippers meeting at 5.30am and first start at 6am. Pretty crazy but we had conditions so action. Wind was super light Almost everyone was on 5.7. I had just 5.3 so I pumped a bit but it was ok. I lost against Chico cuz I was missing 1 move which actually the judges didn't see last 5sec of the heat totally next to the beach. Bad luck what can you do. I finished 17th which was worse I expected. Season is still long so full power on!!!!

pics by John Carter

PWA Podersdorf, Austria 2010

Here we are the 4th day in Austria and still no wind. At least it was sunny and warm till today, on the weekend we had nice action on the water without wind. Guys were pulled by the boat and the winner was Steven B72 with a clean culo in no wind. We have 2 days left and the forecast is very bad, we are still thinking positive and belive that some thermical wind will kick in. Lets see...

Pics by John Carter

Dahab spring 2010

New short video filmed in Dahab is online! Check it out, hope you'll like it

Dahab spring 2010 from Andraz Zan on Vimeo.

Filtr mag

Few weeks ago, second number of the most popular extreme magazine came out in Slovenia and I am in it. Check the articles and photos...

You can find the whole magazine here.... FILTR MAG

Dahab freestyle week 2010

This year Vova Morozov also organized small event in Dahab called Dahab freestyle week. We had 2 windy days with north wind so it was enough time to finish double elimination. First day we were sailing on open sea. Spectators and judges were watching us from very big yacht. It was super interesting. Despite bad wind and chopy water at the beginning single was finished and we had a lot of fun. Popretinsky was first I was second and Gusev was third. After 2 days we moved to another spot. Better for freestyle and much better for photos. The wind was more constant and we pulled double elimination with great action. I was on fire and won 2 times against Popretinsky. So results after double elimination were: 1st myself, 2nd Popretinsky, 3rd Gusev, 4th Jakovlyev ,... I was super happy, that was my 2nd victory. I hope we will have good conditions also in EFPT and PWA , to show some good moves. Photos by Valery Pistry

Cape Town 2010 short video

Finally I made it. I didn't have much interesting fotage but I still manage to make short video from Cape Town. Check it out, I hope you will enjoy it.

Cape Town 2010 by Andraž Žan from Andraž Žan SLO49_2 on Vimeo.

First event in 2010- Russian wave

After cape Town we had a long period of no wind in Egypt. I was working for Quiksilver windsurf school in El tur( www.windsurfer.si) which was very exciting, I became one year older and I took part in first event in 2010. The biggest Russian event Russian wave took place in Soma bay close to Hurgada. The event was offering many disciplines: wakebording, surfing, kiteboarding, slalom windsurfing and freestyle windsurfing, oh and I almost forgot there was also discipline called miss Russian wave and it had the same prize money as each sport discipline J . So from 20. – 27. of february was time to compete and to have fun. There was one day of perfect wind and we manage to make the full double elimination. The wind was very strong at the beggining (4.5 superstyle full power) but at the end of the day it gave up and I had to pump hard with 5.3 to win the freestyle windsurf discipline. All the other days it was time to chill, for supersession and crazy session with very strong wind which came from nowhere. The organization was average, we had a lot of fun and I showed I gain some skills during winter. I am happy to win the first event and I hope I will do good also in the future. Stay tuned...

Photos by Julija Gusev