Fanatic are proud to announce that Swedish Windsurf talent Andreas Olandersson has joined the Fanatic International Freestyle Team!
Andreas finished 3rd in the EFPT Tour 2006 and became the Swedish Champion in 2006. In the IFCA World Championships 2005 he was 3rd, and 4th overall in the EFPT Tour 2005. At the moment heīs training in South Africa and his main goal is to finish the EFPT Tour in top 3 this year!
Fanatic Brand Manager Craig Gertenbach: "We have been following Andreasīs progress on the EFPT the past three years and also watched him train in South Africa off season. He is not only one of the best Freestylers around at the moment, but more importantly his energy and enthusiasm makes him the perfect addition to the Fanatic Inernational Windsurfing Team! We wish Andreas all the best for the 2007 season."
Andreas Olandersson: "Iīm very happy! It feels good to be appreciated in a team when you spend more or less your whole life in a sport going 100%. Nice team, good boss
canīt go wrong! Iīve been trying my main Freestyleboard Skate 99 a lot actually. I really like it and it fits me perfect, itīs the most important thing for the competition season
To feel confident with the equipment and especially the boards."
Spotlight on Andreas
Birthday: 20.07.1978
Country: Sweden
Favourite discipline: Freestyle and Wave
Best results:
- 3rd Overall European Freestyle Tour 2006
- Swedish Champion Freestyle 2006
- 2nd Swedish Championship Wave
- 3rd Freestyle World Champs 2005 (IFCA)
- 4th Overall European Tour 2005
- 5th Overall European Tour 2004
Favourite spot:
South Africa in different spots, and Swedenīs west coast can deliver awesome conditions as well
Anyway, it depends on where my friends are. I like to surf with the guys that give me inspiration.
Favourite Fanatic board:
The Skate 99 is a beautyful one, I was very positively surprised that this board is so easy to handle. In waves I like the NewWave 74, itīs a very nice board!
Favourite manoeuvre:
In Wavesailing I learned some stalled forwards, thatīs a nice move and a awesome feeling. I like one hand backloops as well, itīs a very difficult move maybe thatīs why. In Freestyle I like to do shakas, itīs a different movement from the other sliding freestyle moves.
How I started windsurfing:
My father started 25 years ago when the sport was born actually, he surfed with a boom made of wood and boards that you needed the whole family to carry to the beach. He actually started the year me and my twin brother were born, so it was more or less a natural thing for us to try as soon as we grew up a little bit. I started when I was 10 years old, in 1988.
Best windsurfing day in my life:
Hmm
Itīs so many but a nice day in waves with my brother and my best friends on a spot in South Africa is like a dream.
Other sponsors besides Fanatic:
Neilpryde, Quiksilver, MFC, Skidsport Bromma, Surfers Paradise
My goals:
To have fun with the sport, learn as much as I can from it and of course do well in competitions. To put heart and soul into everything I do is my thing.
My slogan:
If you canīt rock nīroll, you donīt have to come!
Andreas Olanderssons with his new Fanatic sponsors
Andreas Olanderssons mid push loop
Website: www.s-66.com
