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23/08/2010 PWA Fuerteventura.
Just as every year the organisation was perfect with lots of spectators and very good wind. During the competition I used the F2 rodeo 98 with the choco 18cm starfish fin and my favorite sail: the gaastra echo LE 4,4.
Day 1:
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Only the first round of the single elimination could be completed as the wind filled in later that day.
Day 2:
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My first opponent was my Belgian fellow Dieter Van der Eycken B35. My heat was perfect and I even scored the best points that day. also my next heat was very good against Maarten Van Ochten H73. The next to face was Taty Frans NB9 but I failed to end 5th in the first single elimination.
Day 3:
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I managed to keep my 5th place in the double elimination. I won against Nicolas Akgazciyan F400, Bjorn sarahgoza NB11 and Leo Ray F200, but I was stopped by Tonky Frans NB7.
Day 4:
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I had to do better to keep my overall position in 3th place, and so I did. I won several heats in a row against new talent of Bonaire Endro Finies NB77, trainingspartner Davy Scheffers H311 who performed really strong. Then I took revenche over Tonky Frans NB7. I had to give my very best to beat Kiri Thode NB61. In the final against Gollito Estredo V01 I wanted to do my moves higher and more radical but I crashed a litlle bit too much so Gollito won, leaving me in 2nd place. Kiri was 3th.
Day 5:
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My day was great, things could only became better. To defend my 2nd place in the double elimination I sailed a great heat against Tonky Frans who had worked himself through the elimination ladder by winning 5 heats in a row. It was a nervous moment to wait for the decision of the jury.
I won with a 3/2 decision. In the final I performed much better against Gollito then the day before. It was again a stressfull waiting period but the jury decided with a 3/2 that Gollito won.
I ended 2nd in this 2nd double and 3th overall for the event. I could hold my 3th position in the overall year ranking. So I am really very glad with these results.

Here some pictures.

19/07/2010 PWA Lanzarote.
This year we had bad luck with the wind as only 1 single elimination could run.After the registration on day one the wind increased for echo LE 5,2 on the F2 rodeo 98 with 18cm choco fin. I used this rig during the whole week. The first possible start was at 1 pm but the wind backed off for the rest of the day.
Day2: skippersmeeting in the morning but the wind started to blow at 1 pm to get the competition started. My first 2 heats were against Paul Zeper and Maarten Van Ochten who's very strong performing this year. To  be with the best four I needed to win against Tonky Frans.
I knew everything was possible and that the best would win. I started the heat very strong with a high kono, shaka into air cana brava, future, culo, skopu, clew-flaka, burner, shovit-spock diablo, double airfunnel, and some other moves. But I ended with half a point less then Tonky. My kono was too far out upwind and the jury didn't know the move that was my shaka into air cana brava. But Tonky performed very strong, so it was close.
Day 3 and 4: the finals of the single elimination were completed/ Gollito 1st, Kiri Thode 2nd, Tonky 3th and Soltysiak 4th.
On the last day the double was started but could not be completed.

Next is the PWA Fuerteventura but first I'm in Gran Canaria to train jumps and waveriding. I'll keep in touch.

Here some pictures & videos of;
2010 Costa Teguise, Lanzarote PWA World Cup - Part 1
2010 Costa Teguise, Lanzarote PWA World Cup - Part 2
2010 Costa Teguise, Lanzarote PWA World Cup - Part 3
2010 Costa Teguise, Lanzarote PWA World Cup - Part 4

Result:

Top 4 overal ranking PWA on this moment:

more at www.pwaworldtour.com

23/06/2010 New movie.
New movie, Wapala - Mag N°7: Windsurf Freestyle Sardinia, Cap Horn and Pwa Costa Brava.

23/06/2010 EFPT Milos Beach Lefkada Vassiliki Festival.
Here a brief report about the efpt event at the beautiful island of Lefkada, Greece.
The event took place on 2 spots: the first 2 days at Vassiliki and the last days at Milos Beach.

We immediately moved to Lefkada after the event at Sardinia to have training in Milos and Vassiliki.
Milos is very beautiful and calm. Nearly every afternoon the wind rises for 5,6-5,2 sails. The wind is cross-onshore from the left with nice chop for powermoves.
Vassiliki is totally different: the gusty wind here is cross-offshore from thee right and starts after 4pm during 2 hours for 5,2-4,8 sails on flat water.

The first day of the event the wind started earlier as usual: at 2pm we could use our 5,6 sails already and later in the afternoon the wind increased to using 4,8 sails fully powered.
I used the F2 rodeo 98 and the gaastra echo LE 4,8. I won my first heat against Genkel G-984.
My next opponent was the local rider Promponas GRE-393, a very talented guy. I kept controle and won the heat as I landed all my best moves.
Next was Yarden Meir from Israel. He can sail incredible heats with sick moves but I could win without any mistake. In the final I met Akgazciyan F400. The gusty wind dropped so it was hard to chose the best rigs. I took the F2 rodeo 107 that plans a little earlier and keeps on planing, with the gaastra echo LE 5,2. This seemed to be the best choice. I started far way off to use the best wind. Akgazyian took the risk to stay in front of the beach using the gusts. My tactics seemed better and I could bust out all my powermoves while Akgazyan was struggling to get some power on the inside. So I won the first single elimination.
The 2nd day the wind stayed the same, good for 4,8 full power. But after a 2 hours waiting time before my heat, the wind died a bit.
Edvan Souza from Brasil won against Akgaziyan to face me in the final of the double elimination.
The wind was super gusty and the wind turned more offshore. So it was pumping out of the wind and being overpowered in the gusts of wind. The heat ended without any wind.
But the heat counted as we had enough moves. I was happy when I was announced as the winner of the double elimination.

I also won a price of the internet voting and a free dinner for 2 persons. And I joined the jury of the Miss bikini contest, not bad!

Day 3 we drove to Milos beach, a 40 minutes drive. I like this spot more because of its consistent wind and good chop. But the wind only showed up during the afternoon for the biggest rigs to die before the start of the first heat.
Day 4 same story with fog that blocked the thermal winds. So no further eliminations could be run.

More info at www.efpt.net
Here some pictures and a movie of my heat against Stam Promponas.

Result:

Top 4 overal ranking EFPT on this moment:

06/06/2010 EFPT Sardinia Freestyle Grand Prix.
This year the event was a huge succes as the wind blew every day for a solid power for 5,6 to full power 3,6 sail sizes.
We ran 3 double eliminations and a super session with the red bull ramp, in 4 days.

Day 1 started perfect. I was powered up with the gaastra echo LE 4,8 on the F2 rodeo 98.
I won both the single and double elimination. davy Scheffers (H311) was second and Antony Ruenes (F85) was third.

The wind blew strong on day 2 with some gusts reaching 60 knots! Everyone was one their smallest sails. I took the new 2011 gaastra IQ 3,6. It was the first time I used the sail. It felt very comfortable during the warming up with perfect control.
In this second single elimination I did the big air moves like high ponch, airflakas, toad, T-bones,... I won every heat to meet the very strong performing Nicolas Akgazciyan (F400) in the final. I was glad to win the heat in these extreme conditions.
The wind tempered during the double elimination but still sail sizes 4,0 or 4,2 were the most used. I chose the 4,8 for the final and I was full powered. Again I had to face Akgazcian and I won again.

On day 3 the wind was rather poor in the morning for 5,6 sail size. After a day with 3,6 size no one was hungry to use the biggest sails again. In the afternoon the wind picked up again, good for my echo LE 5,2. Davy Scheffers was on fire this day. He beated me in the semi final and he won the single elimination against Akgazcian. I ended 3th after beaten edvan Souza (BRA 250) who sailed very strong, but I had my best heat of the event.

Day 4 started windy for 4,2-4,8 sail sizes but lacked off for 5,2-5,6 sails and the bigger boards (F2 rodeo 107). I started the double very well by beating Edvan and Akgazcian to face Davy in the last final. I won the heat against Davy but I needed another heat to try to beat him.
It was a close decision but I silly crashed my last few moves and Davy sailed a solid sick heat to leave Davy win the double.

In the end there was a supersession with the red bull ramp. Akgazcian won with a tabletop forward. I was 2nd with an airchachoo.

The results:

Here some pictures.

21/05/2010 Intervieuw.
Intervieuw of Podersdorf on Gaastra.com.

13/05/2010 Cool Shoe
New sponser Cool Shoe.

11/05/2010 Podersdorf World Cup Freestyle PWA/EFPT.
The PWA Podersdorf World Cup freestyle eventually turned out to be succesfull by unexpected wind on the last day.
We were standby during 5 days waiting for wind. To create the atmosphere I decided to start tow-in freestyle windsurf behind a jetski. I was a BIG succes as 10.000 people watched the show. I was so excited and the crowds pushed me to my best performance ever in these conditions. In the evening Tonky Frans showed why he is the king of the ramp, and the party's were also awesome. The first competitors were supposed to hit the water very early at 6.00 am. I was lucky to start in heat number 14 so I could sleep a little bit longer.
On day 3 a tow-in competition was set up with € 1.000 price money. The best 8 freestylers were invited to join the competition. I knew I had a chance to take the scalp because of my experience with tow in. Taty Frans landed a double flaka, so I had to do better and tried a culo which I had never succeeded before in no wind. But the speed gave me enough power to land it and the jury pointed me as the winner with Taty in 2nd place and Nicolas Ackghazyian in 3th.
On day 4 and 5 we spend the time by chilling around and doing SUP.
The final day only 5 knots were predicted, but in the morning at 5.30 am during the skippers meeting the wind blew full power. I was not very prepaired without breakfast but all went good. My first heat was no problem but the second was against my training fellow davy Scheffers. It seemed to be the best heat of the event. The wind picked up and I was full power with gaastra echo 5,6 on the F2 rodeo. At the start I had some winddips while Davy scored some power moves like culo and burner. But I felt no stress as the heats were 9 minutes with 3 best tricks on each side. I showed my best and landed most of my powermoves and double moves to meet Andre Paskowski in the next round. This heat I won also but then I had to face world champion Gollito Estredo. I pulled out the very best of me with higher and more radical moves. It was a tough battle but I had a good feeling after it. Unexpected I won the heat, I couldn't believe it. I was stoked! In the final I faced Taty Frans and I knew I had an opportunity to win the heat and the event. The wind dropped so we had to pump to bust out the moves, but no powermoves were possible. Unluckiliy I started my heat 5 seconds to early with a culo which didn't count of course... But Taty earned the victory and I was very happy with my second place in the PWA Podersdorf world cup 2010.
Now I'm super motivated to stay in the top 3 of the world!

Result:
1. Taty Frans (Bonaire starboard - Maui Sails)
2. Steven Van Broeckhoven (België F2 - Gaastra)
3. Gollito Estredo (Venezuela fanatic - north)

Here some pictures and movie's of the town-in competition day 3 and the last day of competition.
More info www.PWAworldtour.com

26/04/2010 Movies.
New movie, O'Neill The Crowning III at Klitmöller.

11/02/2010 Moves.
New move online, Kabikuchi.

20/04/2010 EFPT Mondial du vent.
Here some pictures.

04/04/2010 Media.
Interview in Menzo (Belgium) and a short interview PWA 2010 een Preview in Motion (Netherland).

04/04/2010 Moves.
New moves online, Flaka Ponch & Ponch.

29/03/2010 Media 2009.
Mixd Coverage Collection 2009 made by MixDservices.com.

29/03/2010 Bonaire.
New pictures of Bonaire.

16/03/2010 Bonaire.
New pictures of Bonaire.

06/03/2010 Bonaire.
The wind was missing a bit. The past week I sailed 3 days underpowered with 5.6 and 5.2 and 1 day the wind was good for 5.2. But for next week the predictions are looking good, so more action coming soon!!
Here some pictures by Hylke Bakker.

11/02/2010 Skopu
New move online, Skopu.

02/02/2010 Intervieuw.
Matt Pritchard interviews the new Gaastra teammember.

24/01/2010 S.A.
New pictures off South Africa.

24/01/2010 C7.
Interview about sponsorchange and future plans at continentseven.

20/01/2010 S.A.
New pictures off South Africa.

14/01/2010 S.A.
Here's some pictures of my first weeks in South Africa.

01/01/2010 New Sail Sponser
After 2 succesfull years on maui sails, I decided to go for a change. I like to continue my succes with gaastra sails. It will give me new energy to give the best of myself.

The new gaastra sails look awesome; the echo is one of the best pure freestyle sails on the market: super light and lots of power. The combination with the new F2 rodeo will be the most radical freestyle set you can imagine.
I'm super happy to be in the same team with Kiri Thode, Tonky Frans and Davy Scheffers, a real dreamteam. We are all good friends and we will push the freestyle level to the highest with new moves.
January 1st I'll be in South Africa to train for waves and freestyle. You'll find reports and photos on this new looking website.

I'm very glad I got the trust and support of gaastra international and they can count on me for the next season.

29/12/2009 Yachting Awards 2009 (Belgium)
The nominees for the Yachting Awards 2009 are known and it is up to you to decide who is awarded the Trophée.
To vote for your favorite candidate to send an SMS to 6687 (0.50 € / message) in the format in the column "Code" next to his / their name.
Example: MALE 1 (space between MALE and 1).
If your voice is accepted, you will receive a confirmation message back.
Per category you can only cast one vote.
You can SMS:
- From 01/01/2010 - 12:00,
- Until 01/02/2010 - 12:00.
The announcement is at the KBYV Yachting Awards Ceremony in February 2010 (more information later).
I am one of the nominated, so send an SMS from 1jan. 12h:
Van Broeckhoven Steven
OBC
1st Ranking European Freestyle Pro Tour, 5th PWAworldtour & Rookie of the Year PWA!
MALE 4
For the full list and contest rules can be consulted at the following site: http://www.belgiansailing.be/

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