Interesting to see conditions where Pros properly suffering not only with gear decisions but also physically. DefiWind was on my wishlist in 2020, but hopefully I'll do the 2022. An iSonic looks sick 🤤🤙
Great video! Interesting to see you were struggling as well. I raced Defi in 2018 with a 100-liter slalom board and a 4.2 wave sail. My smallest fin was a 32 slalom fin so my legs were burning from pushing against that fin. I still feel it when I think of it lol. Finished 235 or so (1300 attendees). Defi is so much fun. You don't get it until you participate. Every windsurfer has to join the event at least once in their life! It was one of my most memorable windsurf event ever. Keep up the channel. I watched many of your tip videos and learned a lot from them.
Really cool video 🤙🏽 It's really interesting to get this close into the Defi conditions and the talks and thoughts between the riders. Thanks a lot for your effort 😁
it's so cool that you bring windsurfing back to the front. I've been surfing for 20 years and in the meantime had the feeling that there are no more young people, but fortunately that is changing and that thanks to you!
Thank you for the opportunity of winning a slalom board! I've recently started racing with 2 sails and on old board, winning this would be very helpful!
That rabbit start is killer! I've done the OBX-WIND Long distance race a few times and it's like the wind leaves with the front of the fleet..... Great footage of the race! Loved the whole video :-) That isonic looks fast!
Another great video Nico! Loving the windsurfing again after nearly 10 years out of the sport. Thanks for all the inspiration and information - keep them coming!!! Best wishes.
Great video! Also nice to see you on the waves a bit. Funny how the anticipation before a race and the eternal questions of what gear to use is on every racer's mind! I'm racing in the San Francisco Bay-very choppy and windy-you should come here sometime and drop in for a race! I'm sailing Starboard Isonic 97 and 72...........so what am I missing when it's crazy windy? Ah, I know the answer...it's the Isonic 55! ;-) Keep up the great videos and hope to see you on the water sometime ( in SF). Cheers, Greg Schreier
Sailing the Defi is a dream for me - it's a long way from Australia! The energy of so many sailors, both professional and amateur. An amazing spectacle. Thanks for taking us for the ride.
3 года назад
I'm once again impressed by the quality of your Windsurf videos! Always fun to watch. I'm subscribed since the very beginning of the channel.
Please drop more of that content. It's so inspiring to watch and even in Winter I'm really looking forward to go windsurfing next year again, and maybe with some luck even with your board.
Great to see the discussions and decisions that happen even with the pros. We tend to try and sneak a look in the back of our friends cars at our regular spot to see what empty sail bag is in there before we go out. Awesome to see the behind the scenes banter as well as the on the water action. Great video as always. Cheers.
Nice to see the frustrations as well as the highs! Really makes your videos more relatable and enjoyable, fair play Nico! 👍 Hello from Ireland btw man 🇮🇪
Another great video Nico! Congratulations! And welcome to the Défi family 😃. I am on my way to Leucate right now (where windsurfing is good all year round) and will be training for my next Défi, hopefully on a new Isonic 😉.
Great video. So interesting listening to strategy about which gear to choose in a long distance race with such varying conditions. Hope to see footage of that iSonic :)
Really nice video. Nice to see all the pro’s on the water at the same time but also how they talk tactics to each other on the beach! The 55 would be a perfect high wind board for me at the next defi.
Great video again! After not being on a windsurf board for over 10 years, your videos made me start again this year. Will this new iSonic beat my good old Mistral Stinger! Can’t wait to try it 😉
I am finding your videos motvating and inspiring... I started windsurfing 35 years ago ...and found the passion again this year...alot thanks to your and other peoples videos. I am still sailing my model year-00 JP ...Perhaps time for an upgrade😀
Great video - as always. This little iSonic would be a really nice XMas present! Thank you for letting us participate in your windsurf life and giving away such an awesome board!
Awesome to see a video again, I've watched them all and got catapulted into an injury a week ago. Hope all goes well for you and keep up the nice vids :)
Thank you for sharing your struggles and the good times! Its cool to learn what the pros take into consideration when figuring out what to race with (new gear would help with that too). 😃
A very nice video of the iconic Defi Wind! To compete in the Defi is a dream for most windsurfers around the world, and by doing nice onboard filming you let windsurfers of all levels understand what Defi really is, and eventually what to be prepared for.. Nice.
Great to see that even with your skills and also the amount of gear still it is difficult sometimes! Thanks for the insight which makes it easier for me to get through when wind, gear, time or whatever does not feel right! Thumbs up 👍🏻
So good to see your videos back in the feed. Defi looks awesome what a great endurance event love to try. Hey 👋 be great to see you drop in a few more videos on tips, hacks and tuning. What you should do is approach someone who is rigged up and ask if you could help tune their gear, video the process. When will we see Nico down under?
Started foiling recently, it is heart warming to see I'm not the only one taking the over the bars crashes, even the pros are getting smoked. Its a new beginning for all of us, super exciting. Now show me the board, I still willing to ride a fin!
Hey Nico. It was nice to see windsurfing again. After a rest of more than twenty years i started this year in Rügen. The start was stressful and hard. But the second day was nice. And with my old material i was the conversation piece of the day. :-) Enjoy surfing Nico
this was cool video . it would be great of you make video that show how to choose the right gear for the right condition, also how to tune it , like where to put the foot straps and when to adjust the joint positioning
I allways admired the Defiwind competition for the end of the season. Liked the talk with Rico, my friend and national heroe since I am from Croatia. Look forward to eventual wininng of the SB Isonic that I am very fond off.
Sehr cool zu sehen, wie sich die Profis untereinander binnen eines Events verständigen - gerne mehr davon! :) Und natürlich vielen Dank für das Gewinnspiel und deine Videos!
Seemed like a tough day on the water! That board looks insane, i have fallen in love with windsurfing over the last year or two, but I’m a trainee watersports instructor so getting the money together for a board if difficult, this means I am reliant on my friends to borrow their kit, having a board would give me the opportunity to progress so much more and hopefully one day compete! Thanks for making some great content!
Cool Video. Nice to see you again with action clips. And very interesting: also pro‘s have the same problem: which gear size should they choose….. And finally the wind is doing different 🤨
Great video, I am a german windsurfing beginner and I am only able to go surfing 3-4 times a year, but I feel like watching your videos in between being on the water does actually help me a lot. So thank you for your work!
Defi, a race that brings the windsurfing fans closer, such and event and great atmosphere. Nico great video, been following a lot of tips from your pass videos and keep on improving. Best of luck in your role in Starboard as well as an athlete.
It's nice to see such a funny , handsome , talented windsurfer producing yet another outstanding video on my favourite RUclips channel ;) nice one Nico
Cool insights Nico! Can’t wait for the the next Defi 🤩 I wish I could escape the weather in Germany to DO THE BEST SPORT IN THE WORLD. All the best for you ✌🏻
Great video. After a 20 year "rest" from windsurfing I've started again in order to teach and sail with my son who's now big and strong enough to do the kind of stuff that used to excite me at the end of the last century!!!! We've picked up some slightly out of date second hand gear so it would be great to have this to inspire him to keep going (actually I don't think he needs too much external motivation, but it would be nice all the same). Thanks!!!!!
3 года назад
Nice to see Défi Wind from the inside! Can't wait to see the second part!
After starting Windsurfing 3 years ago, Nico was the first YT Channel i joined for tutorials, tips and tricks. In 2021 I was planing the first time at lake Tegernsee. Still love it. I want to learn more and increase my skills. 🤙 World: Hang loose!
The starts of the Defi are amazing! definitely not something you can get right on the first go. Looking forward to trying again. Be great to do on an isonic 55!!!
I visited Gruissan many years ago (pre Le Defi) but had no idea it was a windsurfing mecca, it's since been one of my few choices when asked where would I like to go overseas - would love to just hang out and enjoy the vibe, even better to sail at least one race. Love all the vlogs coming out too, especially Nico and Ben Proffit.
Great overview how the competition looks like. So much technology is in windsurfing nowadays. Foil brings windsurfing to a next level. Thanks for an interesting video.
Just started up windsurfing last summer in Denmark on at 2005 beginner Mistral board and a 2008 Gun wave rig (what I could afford).. Haven't had my first catapult yet though, hopefully it will stay like that!
Really great! When I windsurf for 2 to 3 hours I make around 40 to 50 km (with breaks in between) and I finished completely exhausted!! So I cannot imaging doing that racing… supermen!
Interesting to see conditions where Pros properly suffering not only with gear decisions but also physically. DefiWind was on my wishlist in 2020, but hopefully I'll do the 2022. An iSonic looks sick 🤤🤙
I totally agree-gear decisions on race day is a universal quest!
Wind surfings the best! Gonna try a foil this weekend! Can’t wait to up my light wind game
I like how humble you are and willing to show the rest of us that even the top guys get catapulted 😁
Great video! Interesting to see you were struggling as well. I raced Defi in 2018 with a 100-liter slalom board and a 4.2 wave sail. My smallest fin was a 32 slalom fin so my legs were burning from pushing against that fin. I still feel it when I think of it lol. Finished 235 or so (1300 attendees). Defi is so much fun. You don't get it until you participate. Every windsurfer has to join the event at least once in their life! It was one of my most memorable windsurf event ever. Keep up the channel. I watched many of your tip videos and learned a lot from them.
Really cool video 🤙🏽 It's really interesting to get this close into the Defi conditions and the talks and thoughts between the riders. Thanks a lot for your effort 😁
it's so cool that you bring windsurfing back to the front. I've been surfing for 20 years and in the meantime had the feeling that there are no more young people, but fortunately that is changing and that thanks to you!
Hey, really interesting to see all the conditions and just how difficult this event can be.
The best show of windsurfing worldwide, nice to see how this sport is live every year
Thank you for the opportunity of winning a slalom board!
I've recently started racing with 2 sails and on old board, winning this would be very helpful!
Same as me! Second hand 92 litre slalom and an old 5.3 wave sail. Sure is cheaper than buying new stuff
Great video nico, thanks. Seeing that a pro van fall twice during regatta let me hope that i am not that bad too :).... See you in next defi
Nice to see you again with the big boys, thanks for this kind of videos showing us how professional competitions are from the inside!!
Looks awesome! So does the iSonic!
That rabbit start is killer! I've done the OBX-WIND Long distance race a few times and it's like the wind leaves with the front of the fleet..... Great footage of the race! Loved the whole video :-) That isonic looks fast!
Great video, as always! Nico, you make by far the best windsurf videos on youtube!
Another great video Nico! Loving the windsurfing again after nearly 10 years out of the sport. Thanks for all the inspiration and information - keep them coming!!! Best wishes.
Great video! Also nice to see you on the waves a bit. Funny how the anticipation before a race and the eternal questions of
what gear to use is on every racer's mind! I'm racing in the San Francisco Bay-very choppy and windy-you should come here sometime and drop in for a race!
I'm sailing Starboard Isonic 97 and 72...........so what am I missing when it's crazy windy? Ah, I know the answer...it's the Isonic 55! ;-)
Keep up the great videos and hope to see you on the water sometime ( in SF).
Cheers,
Greg Schreier
Sailing the Defi is a dream for me - it's a long way from Australia! The energy of so many sailors, both professional and amateur. An amazing spectacle. Thanks for taking us for the ride.
I'm once again impressed by the quality of your Windsurf videos! Always fun to watch. I'm subscribed since the very beginning of the channel.
Please drop more of that content. It's so inspiring to watch and even in Winter I'm really looking forward to go windsurfing next year again, and maybe with some luck even with your board.
Great to see the discussions and decisions that happen even with the pros. We tend to try and sneak a look in the back of our friends cars at our regular spot to see what empty sail bag is in there before we go out. Awesome to see the behind the scenes banter as well as the on the water action. Great video as always. Cheers.
Nice to see the frustrations as well as the highs! Really makes your videos more relatable and enjoyable, fair play Nico! 👍 Hello from Ireland btw man 🇮🇪
You make windsurfing great again, we are so lucky to have you around. Best giveaway could ever imagine!
Another great video Nico! Congratulations! And welcome to the Défi family 😃. I am on my way to Leucate right now (where windsurfing is good all year round) and will be training for my next Défi, hopefully on a new Isonic 😉.
Nico Prien is one of the best windsurfing channel, keep doing that please, i'm very thankful to you !
Great video. So interesting listening to strategy about which gear to choose in a long distance race with such varying conditions. Hope to see footage of that iSonic :)
Really nice video. Nice to see all the pro’s on the water at the same time but also how they talk tactics to each other on the beach! The 55 would be a perfect high wind board for me at the next defi.
Nice video and looking forward to the next! Matching the right gear with the conditions is a real challenge somtimes. Good luck!
Always wanted to watch Defi wind. So cool to see some of the action through your lens and from your board!!!
As always, great video ! It’s ingesting to have a point of view from the inside and see what choices you have to make. Well done Nico !
Great video again! After not being on a windsurf board for over 10 years, your videos made me start again this year. Will this new iSonic beat my good old Mistral Stinger! Can’t wait to try it 😉
I am finding your videos motvating and inspiring... I started windsurfing 35 years ago ...and found the passion again this year...alot thanks to your and other peoples videos. I am still sailing my model year-00 JP ...Perhaps time for an upgrade😀
Great video - as always. This little iSonic would be a really nice XMas present! Thank you for letting us participate in your windsurf life and giving away such an awesome board!
Awesome to see a video again, I've watched them all and got catapulted into an injury a week ago. Hope all goes well for you and keep up the nice vids :)
Thank you for sharing your struggles and the good times! Its cool to learn what the pros take into consideration when figuring out what to race with (new gear would help with that too). 😃
A very nice video of the iconic Defi Wind! To compete in the Defi is a dream for most windsurfers around the world, and by doing nice onboard filming you let windsurfers of all levels understand what Defi really is, and eventually what to be prepared for.. Nice.
Cool video! Thanks for the first hand update. Was wondering if you have any experience or comments about Kode? (Not Ultrakode).
Great to see that even with your skills and also the amount of gear still it is difficult sometimes! Thanks for the insight which makes it easier for me to get through when wind, gear, time or whatever does not feel right! Thumbs up 👍🏻
So good to see your videos back in the feed. Defi looks awesome what a great endurance event love to try. Hey 👋 be great to see you drop in a few more videos on tips, hacks and tuning. What you should do is approach someone who is rigged up and ask if you could help tune their gear, video the process. When will we see Nico down under?
Started foiling recently, it is heart warming to see I'm not the only one taking the over the bars crashes, even the pros are getting smoked. Its a new beginning for all of us, super exciting. Now show me the board, I still willing to ride a fin!
What an amazing video again. I watch since i began windsurfing. Your video's keep getting beter. Keep going!!
Hey Nico. It was nice to see windsurfing again. After a rest of more than twenty years i started this year in Rügen. The start was stressful and hard. But the second day was nice. And with my old material i was the conversation piece of the day. :-)
Enjoy surfing Nico
Love this type of vid, shows the whole picture instead of just the highlights. Well done!!
this was cool video .
it would be great of you make video that show how to choose the right gear for the right condition, also how to tune it , like where to put the foot straps and when to adjust the joint positioning
Winter is comming - what do you do against the cold on the water and after the session? Thank you for your videos.
Nice to see that even pros like you sometimes struggle to find the right gear combo ;-) Great video!
Gnarly seshh mate..
It is AMAZING to see you testing for STARBOARD!
Keep rockin dude!!
I allways admired the Defiwind competition for the end of the season. Liked the talk with Rico, my friend and national heroe since I am from Croatia. Look forward to eventual wininng of the SB Isonic that I am very fond off.
Great video Nico, hope to race all of you the next time at Defi. And the 55 looks perfect for my homespot.
Sehr cool zu sehen, wie sich die Profis untereinander binnen eines Events verständigen - gerne mehr davon! :) Und natürlich vielen Dank für das Gewinnspiel und deine Videos!
Very interesting video. Windsurfing is full of frustration with the wind and most videos don't reflect that like this one does. Cheers Nico!
Nice to see so many windsurfers arround at one place...maybe I will try it next year with your iSonic 55, now using very old Mistral Flow 103l :-)
I was waiting for this video! Nice as usual haha
I am super interested by this isonic 55 especially for the next défi wind !
Seemed like a tough day on the water! That board looks insane, i have fallen in love with windsurfing over the last year or two, but I’m a trainee watersports instructor so getting the money together for a board if difficult, this means I am reliant on my friends to borrow their kit, having a board would give me the opportunity to progress so much more and hopefully one day compete! Thanks for making some great content!
Thank you for inspiring not to quit and to keep learning to windsurf!
Cool Video. Nice to see you again with action clips. And very interesting: also pro‘s have the same problem: which gear size should they choose…..
And finally the wind is doing different 🤨
wow nice footage of the Defi event! the view from the boom just awesome!!!
Also, the struggle of the pro's make them more human to me. hahaha
Great Video…been waiting for this. I’m glad you don’t cut out your crashes or catapults…people can relate to that a lot more. Send it! 😄🤙🏻
that board looks so sick! would love to try it :) and so nice to see some clips of you surfing wave as well!
Great video, I am a german windsurfing beginner and I am only able to go surfing 3-4 times a year, but I feel like watching your videos in between being on the water does actually help me a lot. So thank you for your work!
Nice video as usual. Hoping being part of the next Defi wind. I just got the sail but missing the board 😬.
Is it not worth it to adjust the board for comfort or use freerace gear for such events? Btw Isonic looks good ^
Thanks Nico!! So good to have been part of le défi and on to have been on the same start line as you!!
Excellent video on the Defi, you need to have good stamina to go that long a distance flat out. Looking forward to part two!
Defi, a race that brings the windsurfing fans closer, such and event and great atmosphere. Nico great video, been following a lot of tips from your pass videos and keep on improving. Best of luck in your role in Starboard as well as an athlete.
Really nice video. I hope the catapults we’re not that bad. Which wing did you fly?
Hey Nico, nice to see you back again. I was missing you videos 📹. Winning the board would be fantastic... stay happy 😊
It's nice to see such a funny , handsome , talented windsurfer producing yet another outstanding video on my favourite RUclips channel ;) nice one Nico
The isonic really looks beautiful. But probaply only rideable in more than 30 knots of wind?
There are crashes on 11:22 and 11:46. Are that those 2 catapults you mentioned?
The I sonic looks so sick! would be in love with this board! Hope I could join the defi wind one day too. Amazing content you're making Nico!
Those long hauls really mess up your back leg but is that also true when foiling? Just wondering as I have never been on a foil.
Another great video and cool music too! Great to hear your thinking on tuning changes.
Thank you nico very much and this board would be ideal since I am still searching for a slalom board.
Cool insights Nico! Can’t wait for the the next Defi 🤩 I wish I could escape the weather in Germany to DO THE BEST SPORT IN THE WORLD. All the best for you ✌🏻
Very interesting video for every windsurfer! I really look forward to start at slalom! So this board would help a lot!
Really nice video! I started windsurfing last year and I think your videos are very inspirational.
Great video. After a 20 year "rest" from windsurfing I've started again in order to teach and sail with my son who's now big and strong enough to do the kind of stuff that used to excite me at the end of the last century!!!! We've picked up some slightly out of date second hand gear so it would be great to have this to inspire him to keep going (actually I don't think he needs too much external motivation, but it would be nice all the same). Thanks!!!!!
Nice to see Défi Wind from the inside! Can't wait to see the second part!
After starting Windsurfing 3 years ago, Nico was the first YT Channel i joined for tutorials, tips and tricks. In 2021 I was planing the first time at lake Tegernsee. Still love it. I want to learn more and increase my skills. 🤙 World: Hang loose!
I dream of that leg burn 🤙😬 Great job on the blend of footage & looking forward to my isonic 55🥺
Those speed runs around 4:30 remind me that windsurfing is rad! Can’t get locked and loaded on a kite like that.. pow!
Fantastic initiative - giveaway!:-) I am shock ! is that really enought for 20 knots? or there was more - looks like much more, like 25-30 knots
Good to see the real atmosphere and what goes into it!
The starts of the Defi are amazing! definitely not something you can get right on the first go. Looking forward to trying again. Be great to do on an isonic 55!!!
love to see the video from the race and from the water. You should consider doing a long version of this video.
The starts were really something.
super cool vid, nice to learn from you nico. defiwind got into my wishlist. the iSonic looks dope🤙🤙
Does the board come with some ding repair kit after all those spectacular catapults!
I visited Gruissan many years ago (pre Le Defi) but had no idea it was a windsurfing mecca, it's since been one of my few choices when asked where would I like to go overseas - would love to just hang out and enjoy the vibe, even better to sail at least one race. Love all the vlogs coming out too, especially Nico and Ben Proffit.
Great vid, cool vibe. Really like the snappy editing and awesome windsurfing of course. I’d really like that board too!
The Isonic 55 looks amazing. What's your top speed on it ?
Always a great moment of windsurfing this defis !!
Great overview how the competition looks like. So much technology is in windsurfing nowadays. Foil brings windsurfing to a next level. Thanks for an interesting video.
Great event and footage!
I would like to enter next year and experience the madness.
Just need a Starboard Isonic 55 to do so. 🤙
Great that you could take part in the Defi. Hopefully I'll get the chance to do it. On an iSonic 55?
Thanks for the great content. Really interesting to get an inside on how the conditions look like 👍
Thanks Nico!!! Great video-log! I allways enjoy watching your vision as a pwa rider!
Keep up the good work Nico!! We want to see some more jibe instructions from you!
Just started up windsurfing last summer in Denmark on at 2005 beginner Mistral board and a 2008 Gun wave rig (what I could afford).. Haven't had my first catapult yet though, hopefully it will stay like that!
Class looking film. Testing conditions. As for a new board, yes please!!!
What a event!
I would be completely overwhelmed by the amount of windsurfers :D
Really great! When I windsurf for 2 to 3 hours I make around 40 to 50 km (with breaks in between) and I finished completely exhausted!! So I cannot imaging doing that racing… supermen!