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After Saturday's pre-announced strong north-westerly winds resulting in a stormy North Sea, Surfers Paradise gave the green light for the CO2 Surf Challenge on Sunday 8 September. This is a competition for young surfers under the age of 18. With a full contest table of 36 participants, the contest was already ... Read more

As the climax to the summer sports season, this week is triathlon week par excellence in Knokke-Heist! Jean Deloddere and Frank Vanleenhove have been making sure for almost 20 years that the participants of Surfers Paradise come to the start every year with new and identical outfits as a team, and so they did again for this fantastic triathlon week in ... Read more

We have succeeded, thanks to the necessary financial support of the much needed sponsors, to collect the necessary funds so that everyone will be able to shine again this year in a beautiful outfit! We would like to thank: Vita Sport, Brasserie Feau le Fer, O'Live Gin, BVRS Luxury&Classic Cars, Du Mongh Advocaten, Bioracer, Lakeside Paradise, Surfers Paradise

The Lakeside Sleep Inn, located on the Duinenwater Lake, is the only youth hostel in Knokke-Heist. The A+ qualified hostel has 10 rooms, good for 80 beds. Each room stands for a world-famous surf spot and is decorated accordingly. Everyone is welcome and overnight stays are possible from 25 €. There is also the possibility ... Read more

Is windsurfing making a comeback? It seems that this splendid water sport, which was very popular during the eighties, is becoming more and more popular this year, and is back on the wish list of many young people. Young people who today want to taste of as many sports as possible and therefore want to ... Read more

The very first Belgian Skimboarding Championships are over. Surfers Paradise, together with Skimzone Belgium and Red Bull, were responsible for a perfect organisation. From 10 am all young participants were eager to attack the 20 m long inflatable skimpool. They could "board" until noon and from then on it was serious business. Per age group 1 ... Read more

None other than Mike Love, one of the 4 original beachboys, suddenly walked onto the beach with his family this afternoon. Their way of celebrating "Independence day", between 2 concerts in Rotterdam. He proudly posed with Frank Vanleenhove at the original poster of the concert they gave on 21 July 1987 at ... Read more

Belgian surf clubs are showing the way this summer with the Clean Beach CLUB sustainability label. Surfers are tired of cleaning up beach waste and litter. "The beach clubs have always been at the forefront, they are confronted with litter day in - day out, they are the fighters of the first hour!" -Citation : Bart Tommelein- Seventeen surf clubs ... Read more

The annual G-Sport day was organised at Surfers Paradise, with an attendance of no less than 36 enthusiastic G-Sporters. They were treated to free surfing lessons, led by experienced instructors. It was a day full of fun with lots of laughter, trial and error, but no one minded. The lessons were divided according to one's ability and ... Read more

The very first Wingsurfers were delivered to Surfers Paradise and immediately put into use by test pilots Yves Depoorter (L) and Frank Vanleenhove (R). The Wingsurfers were developed at Naish Hawaii and have been in the pipeline for a couple of years. Summer is just around the corner and the Naish wingsurfer is considered to be the new watersports hype of ... Read more