First EVER Slalom X.. and it's CRAZY!!!! - Day 5 - Pozo - Windsurf World Cup - 2024 - Gran Canaria 

THAT IS WINDSURFING. SO GREAT!!!

Yes!! This is the best windsurfing action I’ve seen in a long time! Wave performance is intriguing for sure, but blasting chop in overpowered conditions is more relatable to me as an average windsurfer than pulling stalled double forwards. And look at the speed and control they put in! And I didn’t expect the sausage to be that good, but it sure works well! Love to see this brutal hardcore fin action where everyone uses a helmet for good reasons and are completely out of breath when they get back on the beach. Another thing: nobody is saying anything about the conditions than that they are excellent. True sportsmanship! Slalom X: success! 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼

The drone footage has been fantastic, and the sausage adds an amazing dimension

So nice to watch real slalom racing in solid conditions!

“She’s not a fan of the sausage” 😂😂😂

The race all oldschoolers were waiting for. Old fashion fin racing on full power never gets old. That is good action.

Awesome ! So much action and so much fun to watch!!!! Congrats PWA !

Poor Ben, got so excited he could hardly express himself...and who can fault him..this was epic, amazing, insanely good....it feels like christmas is here and the PWA have given us the best present ever..

Im just so much in love with windsurfing. Big thank to the sailors, the organizers, the PWA, to Ben, to the drone pilots

"Don't jump with the Slalom Gear" 😮

It was a great day, good conditions, good racing. Bring on some more! Thank you to the organizers, racers, media crew!

Yeah! Surfing on just a fin! Finally. Just an ordinary fin!! That’s windsurfing. Seen the boards blasting. See the boards planing. Lov’it!! ❤

Fantastic. Possibly the best slalom-footage I've ever seen.

Great footage. Very exciting races. I love it!

Epic coverage and races. What a show!! 👏

Windsurfing is back !!! I love the fin speed

Slalom X was amazing! 🌭 ++

So nice to see fin races. Something I can relate to!

We loved the commentary - and the sausaaageee!

Love the action in these conditions at Pozo 💪 Good thing to be able to adapt the race format according to the spot 🤙🤙🤙

Finally, real windsurfing action and not a foil in sight. Hooray!. So good to see everyone riding on fins again. This is what real windsurfing is! Long live the fin! Great commentary as always.

Pure entertainment with real physical Action 😮❤💪 love it!

Back to the good old days. That´s the real stuff. Keep it on.

great coverage Ben. it was incredible to watch a real slalom race . you did a great job commenting it. my hat is off to the racing judges too. 5 guys squeezed in a little zodiac facing the waves and the spray all day long. they should get a better boat next time . looking forward to next race👏👏👏👏👏

Now this is what I’m talking about! This is windsurfing at its best! Love this slalom X! It has actually just made me realise how much foiling has taken away from windsurfing at the highest level over the past 4 or 5 years. I get it, foiling has its place (I suppose) but as a windsurfer of 37 yrs (I actually used to race with Ben as a kid/youth, haha) this is what I love, fins, mega winds and now obstacles, let’s gooooo! 🔥

That is fantastic entertainment!👍

Amazing, entertaining, engaging. The new discipline is absolutely amazing. I can't wait to watch the second day.

excellent action, great drone footage, top event!

Terrific coverage and what a Day of Racing😀

That’s it!!! Super cool, fin is back! I hope also that it also shows that the sport is far from gone, that this is still the king/queen of all wind-watersports, so much STYLE, power and tension in the movement. Superb racing, so cool to see fin blasting, I can relate sooo much to it! ❤

Very exciting to watch fin racing! I watched most of the livestream on playback yesterday. really great. Feels like it used to feel. I hope more Slalom x in the future! Very nice editing of full day too.

Those slalom actions and the pace with which they were performed were excellent to see, and hear, and although an occasional mistake occurred those can happen to anyone.

Thank you! so good to see the action up close 😁🤙

Great race. I disagree, the sausage makes it better. Add a few more sausages.

What the races! Great job 👏 thank you for organizing this slamon x event!

Superb action with blistering speed, and a challenging sea pushing riders at the limit. Many epic runs! No need for the sausage when conditions are this good and spectacular. Just let the girls and guys fly on their fin. (Great coverage as always!)

Have waited sooo long to watch great slalom fin action. Loving it!

Amazing action. This format is much cooler then pure slalom.🤙

Amazing edit, commentary and footage.

that is great slalom!!! That's a great show !!! fantastic

wow what a fantastic racing day! This is real windsurf 🤙

Excellent coverage 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Great coverage Ben. Loving this

EPIC Slalom FIN

Terminan mas exhaustos que los de olas… debe ser duro a ese nivel!!! 💪💪💪✨✨✨✨🤗

So happy to see this :D

Tack!

That's what we were waiting for

Seems the girls were all afraid of the sausage. 😂

Wooow. Super competitions!!!

Love to see the dancing boards in strong wind condiction, the racer can't speak after,lovely hard condiction 🤙🤙🤙🤙

Slalom X is amazing! And the sausage can make a burger there.. blood boiling event!

Superbes courses!

Amazing action, great conditions, and kudos to the drone operator - epic shots, great angles, so much better way to convey the speed, dynamic stance, starting line approaches...! I hope he will get to upgrade the equipment for more bitrate, the choppy water texture eats a lot of bandwidth...

That was good, how slalom should have been all these years, improvements would be a change of course so that the riders are going out through the white water and waves. It does seem to be get around the first mark in the lead and you stay there and win and the excitement is 3-5 whereas the foil seems much more open racing. Overtake with fin and foil it's a much better set up than guys on fun and 9.0 sat at the marks sinking 🚀🚀🚀

awesome!

Very nice races. The new format adds a great dimension. It seems the sausage should be wider. It would give more options to jump it and reduce likelihood of collision. And it would add more to the decision making from the rider.

They should put a bouy on the left of the sausage, if you don't want to jump to have to make a 360 around the buoy. That will make it more entertaining.

😍 Fin forever

9:37 must have been some obstacle in the water that caught the fin

Without sausage it wouldn’t be that exciting. Fin racing needs this elements and high winds. Cause without it, foil is delivering more thrilling and close racing. But both disciplines earn their spot in windsurfing. And guys both is real windsurfing, foiling too.

Great action! I wonder if the final leg could be the other way close in to the beach with the finish out from the bunker, so they have to face some breacking waves going out? Something like the line the wavesailors take when jumping.

SOOOO Epic

Wow, I didn't know racing slalom with a fin wasn't a thing anymore 👀

Epic

C’mon girls don’t be afraid of a sausage😂

😄

No entendí porque no saltaron las chicas….

Suprisingly attractive to watch but, gosh, i really wouldn't want to crash my slalom gear over the sausage.

great action, great footage, great commentary 🎉🎉 how many knots, though? just wondering what the guys manage with 6.0