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Results Men

1. Tao Schirrmacher
2. Moritz Wienecke
3. Lukas Brunner
4. Simon Bitterlich

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Results Women

1. Janina Zeitler
2. Mareen Scholz
3. Rosina Neuerer
4. Kathrin Gappmayr

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Results Masters

1. Pascal Schichor
2. Robert Beetz
3. Fritz Hollweck
4. Max Ziervogel

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Results Groms

1. Noah Beschen
2. Lennard Weinold
3. Joshi Holy
4. Luca Holy

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1. Flori Kummer (FUS-CREW)
2. Klaus St Rainer (SCREW-CREW)
3. Tao Schirrmacher (FUS-CREW)

We’d love to end this clip with a great quote from the FUS CREW: “Basically, we’re just friends who grew up together surfing rivers.”

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After he started river surfing at the Floßlände wave in 2001, Tao has worked his way up to one of the most popular figures in river surfing. Today, he is a local Munich institution and one of the riders who are constantly pushing the boundaries of river surfing in the pursuit of radical new manoeuvres.

Besides surfing rivers, Tao is running his own business as an independent industrial designer. He also co-founded with Felix B Accessories (surf accessories) and Big Ding (a homegrown surfboard repair kit). The repair kit is an affordable alternative for small and big dings, especially useful for Eisbach surfers as dings are pretty much unavoidable in the long run. At the moment Tao is a team rider for Quiksilver, Planet Sports, Swox and Fatum Surfboards. Among his appearance in a 2009 SexWax brand commercial, Tao appears in numerous surf videos and magazines.

Competitive River Surfing

Recently Tao landed the first ever 360 shove-it at Munich’s Eisbach.

Tao is one of the few surfers that actually master a solid bottom turn at the Eisbach. It’s not an everyday thing to see a river surfer finishing off a deep bottom turn with a nice snap and buckets of spray. Such maneuvers are kind of a trademark of Tao’s fast and vigorous approach to river surfing.

Tao’s list of records keeps growing too. In August 2012 he won the 2nd Surf & Style Contest (European River Surfing Championships) at the Munich Airport. On the outdoor artificial wave Tao came out first, just after Quirin Rohleder (2nd), Gerry Schlegel (3rd) and Jan Vogt (4th).

River Surfing Trick Pioneer?

Recently, after some 50 attempts, Tao Schirrmacher landed the first 360 shove-it at Munich’s Eisbach. It’s pretty safe to say that this was the first ever landed 360 shove-it on a surfboard in a river. Check out the vid here: Premiere: The First 360 Shove-it on a Surfboard.

More of Tao

Browse through our photos, videos and stories to see more of Tao’s surfing: Tao on Riverbreak

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After some 50 attempts, Tao Schirrmacher landed the first 360 shove-it at Munich’s Eisbach. Some claim that it’s the first ever landed 360 shove-it on a surfboard. Even though this is a daring statement, it may well be the first time this trick was successfully landed on a standing wave in a river.

Tricks like these are highly technical — they are gradually pushing the limits of riversurfing to a new level and inspire numerous other riversurfers out there. We hope that we’ll see more first-class tricks like this one in the next couple of months — Season 2013 has only just begun!

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