I competed at the SPEED WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 

You are sailing with your back insteads of your legs. Use a waistharness on your hip with two strings between legs. Lines go straight out anyway. Hipharness. 10% more efficeint rig and board feels wider. Sorry I didnt tell you before, but well.. dont be a sheep and follow everybody else. Good luck.

Thanks for giving us an insight into this competition and you should be proud of being one of the top 20 speed windsurfers in the world. Would love to hear more about how you think about gear, skill and the lucky gust. And also a review about your new GPS watch would be interesting to me.

Congrats to your great placing! ☺ and good job on the narration-- special thanks for giving the women's race some attention, too, this kind of validation in a sport dominated by men makes speed surfing seem a lot more attractive to other female surfers 👍☺

Please make a video about stance 💪

I am facinated how all of you are handeling these sail sizes with 50 kts(!) of wind. Last weekend (June 6th) there was 30-35Kts on Strand Horst (Netherlands), and with my 80Kg I was having serious trouble in properly managing 5.0 (and was substantially slower than when there is less wind). Any tips (next to getting fat & heavy ;-) which I’m trying to avoid). Maybe Weight vest, strength training or some other secret ingredients? Great content, big thanks for sharing!🎉

Yes, please, show us, the smaller (172cm) and lighter (68kg) persons how to have a good stance to go fast 😉

Hi, Nils. Nice video. It's very hard to race and shoot at the same time.If you ride without camera, you will be faster with 1kn ;). Are there big differences between Coros and Motion in GPS measurements?

Question - why do most surfers in the video walk their gear back to the starting line? 800m is a long stretch. Why not surf back to the starting line slightly away from the beach, even if it means crossing upwind a bit?

would love to see your critique of your technique. I am very short at 160 cm and struggle to beat my taller friends at speed sailing

Megaaa, nächstes mal mach ich mit!🤣

Thank you for the good report and explanations. This will make the events even better known.

Which level is needed to register to the world championship?

excellente vidéo très claire !! moi qui rêve d y participer un jour avec ma fille :-) !!! juste rajouter le classement des autres épreuves mondiale et expliquer le classement .... !

How do you protect the camera from the sand?

So that speed is the average over 500m?

Well done Nils, and great video!

Not so much finding out who is the fastest one and for all, but who is the fastest each year ... Sorry mate, but you sound like "Fox News" there ! Hopefully you will be able to come back next year and finish within the top 3 🙂 You're doing everything for it. I got into speed sailing because of you. I loved speed but I'd never gone out to actually go as fast as myself or my equipment allowed before. I just had fun = Funboarding ... No worries - I'm far behind you but I do get some scary runs in. Would be interesting to know what equipment you used. Fin size for example and is it asymmetrical ? Well done for your position. 3rd German not bad.

The Ecstasy Of The Windsurfer Nils Strong Herzog vibes here, love it

Thanks for a super cool video. What do you means about square wind..

It seems like you (and Mario in his videos) don't have the harness lines in the middle between your hands, but further back (or hands further forward). Do the point 7 sails have more back hand pressure than other sails?

Cool video 🎉 thanks!!

Thanks a lot for all these complete informations. Beautiful videos and photos

I don't understand why the organizers didn't allow to get back on the water on board.

Congratulations 🎉 awesome watching speed runs🌊🤙🏻

Great job,just have to catch the best gust

I can imagine walking back along the beach 800m after every run is quite exhausting. Is that easier than sailing back upwind? Allowed to use a caddy like in Luderitz?

Thanks a lot for sharing your experiences as a competitor! 👌

About the effect of weight and height on speed; what were Heidi's speeds compared to for example yours? I imagine she has a physical disadvantage, being relatively short and light? Are weight vests allowed?

Playing with the big boys! Very cool.

switch to kiting - perfect for short people :)

Love to see something on stance, body position and how you would change based on your video review. Is your speed being calculated by gps or static timing ? Any other locations in Europe to visit for speed sailing ? Visiting from Australia in July 2025. Thinking Fuertraventura for 2 weeks ?

Great video Nils and yes please for the follow up video about improving. Question - why are you sailing upwind sometimes and other times walking? Is it about the wind angle? Also - if there's a line of people walking back up the speed course, doesn't it affect how clean the wind is for the guy sailing the course?

Yes Please do the stance video! Than you!

41 kt on sea and 44.9 kt on the canal 👌✨ well done !

Super impressive result, congrats. What kind of technique do you need for speed runs, or is it a case of “hook in and hang on” ?

When you fly the board, is it simply just trying to minimize wetted surface ie just ride on the tail of the board?

Good video Nils 👍

gr8 result! impressive.

Great video thanks. Looks a great event too. So lucky to have sun and windy conditions, unlike the uk 🥶

Zu spät, aber nicht weniger von Herzen: Moin Nils

Well done 👍 how does it feel compare to Luderitz ?

Nice footage Nils, see you on the next one🚀🚀🚀

Nice!!!

Cooles Video ,👍💯

Enjoy your videos. If you were the viewer, and a reporter was walking though a field of windsurfing gear, would you want to see a close-up of the reporter's face, or check out the gear? Overall, please, less face, more sailing.