Here are the words from VW themselves -

“What happens if a Kite-Girl in her new Beetle Cabriolet snatches away a parking space from Windsurf Word Champion Philip Köster? A battle starts! Spectacular manoeuvres, jumps and moves – who is the better one on the water?”

Firstly, Philip Koester, the German windsurfing wunderkind received the prestigious Surfer of the Year Award for his third consecutive year. An impressive feat from such a young windsurfer, take a look at the awards presentation in this clip.

Up next, Fanatics very own freestyling German surfer Adrian Beholz has been showing his face. There are some outstanding action shots in this video as Adrian powers through all the latest freestyle moves, at the same time he talks about the new sails with the head sail designer from Sailloft.

Moving on to the German Windsurf Talent of the Year, Nico Prien who impressed all throughout the Deutsch Windsurfing Cup. Heading home with a cool €2013, it looks like he is set for some summer training. Expect to hear more from Nico in the future.

The last video for this news item comes from a popular figure in Germany, Daniell Bohnhof. Spending a lot of his time in Pozo he has built up a reputation and was asked to come on stage to talk about his latest quests and his photography plans.

Koester was nominated for his remarkable achievements in windsurfing having taken the PWA World title for a second year running at just the age of 18. No doubt he is the one to watch this season but for now the best words he has are these – “believe me , I am super happy !!!!”. Oh trust us, we believe you. Congratulations to him from all at boardseeker.com and check out the wise words from Robby Naish below.

“As is the case every year this is an exceptional group of Nominees,” Robby says. “Julie Bresset is an Olympic champion, Jamie Bestwick has been dominant in his sport for as long as anyone can remember, Felix Baumgartner awed the world with his amazing sky dive freefall from space and five world surfing titles out of six shows the remarkable ability of Stephanie Gilmore. I would particularly like to congratulate Joel Parkinson who has been trying for so long to beat Kelly Slater – a four-time Laureus Award winner – and become the ASP surfing  world champion. Well, this year he pulled it off with a win at the final event of the year.”

Check out Koester in action below!

Read more here - www.laureus.com/news/laureus-academy-member-robby-naish-2013-action-nominees

Opening this featurette is none other than Philip Koester who has been nominated alongside the likes of Sebastien Vettel in the category of sports personality of the year by the German channel – Sport1. It’s a pretty big achievement to just reach that short-list, let alone win it, so Koester will no doubt be elated with the result so far. To check out all who are in contention head over to this link here, where you can also cast your vote.

Koester doing what he does best!

Heading on to flat water and over to UK freestyler Max Rowe, recent news snippets tell us that a video from his trip to Jeri is on it’s way and that Blacklab’s very own Josh Willmot will be producing the goods. We are pretty excited to see the outcome, after some of Josh’s recent clips. Rowe also seems pretty stoked to have made it into the new North brochure with this awesome Chachoo shot.

Transfers are hot news around this time of the year and it is not too much of a surprise to see them coming in, however Ben van der Steen’s move to Gaastra seemed to have caused a bit of a stir, but by the sounds of it he is happy with the change and looks forward to less time actually testing and more time tuning his kit to enable him to grab the world title that he is so close to.