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Sean Launches CarbonSugar.com
Monday, January 14th, 2008Introducing CarbonSugar.com. A weblog about the design, construction, use and tuning of high-performance windsurfers. This weblog was a result of having never found any decent ‘windsurfing-specific’ books, articles, tutorials on any racing related tactics, technique, design or construction of high-performance windsurfing gear. Now there can be a haven for discussing how to tune your formula [...]
Reports from the 2007 ISAF World Championships
Sunday, July 1st, 2007Sean has just arrived in Cascais, Portugal for the 2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships. In the year preceding the Olympic Games, ISAF take control of the World Championships for each of the Olympic Classes and run a combined event. Cascais, on Portugal’s west coast, got the gong for this year’s event and with the consistently [...]
The big change: Gaastra Sails
Friday, June 15th, 2007As the 2007 European Pro Season starts to warm up, Sean announces after a strong 5-year partnership, he will no longer be riding Neil-Pryde sails and has joined the Gaastra Team for 2007.
With the help of fellow Australian and 2x Formula World Champion Steve Allen, Sean made the decision shortly after arriving in Europe to [...]
Windsurfing at Night …
Sunday, April 29th, 2007What do you do when there’s not enough hours in the day to go windsurfing ?? You start training at night…
Sean and his French training partner Julien Savina (FRA-157) begin an early evening session with QLD High Performance coach Adrian Finglas, at Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron. With only two weeks to go before Sean leaves [...]
TEAM-AUS Official Launch
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007Sean launches Team-AUS; an Australian based elite sporting team, comprised of individual athletes competing in a diverse range of sports, both Olympic and Professional. This team is a side-project that Sean has been working on for the past year in an effort to join together a group of elite athletes into one group, maximising resources, [...]
NSW State Formula Champion
Sunday, February 11th, 2007Sean continues his Australian dominance in Formula this season by taking out the New South Wales State Formula Championships at Botany Bay, Sydney yesterday. After 8 races in perfect 15 knot breezes, Sean finished the regatta with 5 bullets under his belt closely followed by Sam Parker (AUS-3) who pipped Brett Morris (AUS-080) for 2nd [...]
Sean
O'Brien is a 24 year old Professional Windsurfer hailing from Brisbane, Australia
- a purpose driven elite 
