PWA Sylt 2010 Day 5 Today there was some Slalom sailing in the cold but sunny morning, unfortunately for the slalom guys the wind was dropping fast so they only could sail a few rounds. Later this day the wind didn’t came back and everybody was on standby the whole day. Tomorrow the forecast isn’t looking to promissing and there might be a chance that slalom sailing will start of around 10:30.
Photo: John Carter
PWA Sylt 2010 Day 3 Skippersmeeting was plant at 10AM. When arriving at the worldcup location it was already “raining cats and dogs”. After rigging and bringing all my gear to the beach it was a matter of a waiting. But minutes later new weather updates showed that the wind would might come late midday from NE direction.This means offshore and really gusty winds. Finally at 17:00 the PWA decided to give it a try and started of with the first round. During the first rounds the wind was shifting from directions all the time.
PWA Sylt 2010 Day 2 Skippers meeting for Freestyle took place at 9AM in the morning. When arriving there was some wind left but definitely not enough wind to start of with the first heats. Having seen the elimination ladder, there have been added some new big names in the Freestyle competition.3x times Freestyle Worldcampion Ricardo Campello V 111, who’s only competing in waves these days decided to register too. So did Kauli Seadi BRA 253 2x vice Freestyle World Champion and 3x Wave World Champion.
PWA Sylt 2010 Day 1 The PWA Grandslam Sylt is the Final and 4th. Freestyle event for 2010. Grand slam, means that there will be competed in three disciplines: Wave, Freestyle and Slalom. According to giving weather conditions the race crew will decide which discipline will be run.After I’ve had slept for hardly two hours registration took place at 11AM here in Sylt. When arriving at registration there was already a big line. Almost all topriders from all disciplines (Slalom, Freestyle and Wave –Men/ Women) had to register too.
Interview by Funsporting 10 Fragen an Windsurfer Maarten van Ochten, Nach einer verletzungsbedingten Pause ist Windsurfer Maarten van Ochten 2010 wieder voll da! Mit FUNSPORTING spricht er über die Kids von heute, Computer, Surfen und über vieles mehr!Was wärst Du heute, wenn nicht Windsurfer? Maarten: Eigentlich wäre es dann genau so, wie es jetzt ist, nur stressfreier. Ich würde natürlich auch windsurfen, aber eben nur in der Freizeit… Ich studiere parallel in Amsterdam, muss auch im August mal wieder zurück, um Klausuren zu schreiben. Es ist schon anstrengend, das so zu managen, aber ich möchte mir gern dieses zweite Standbein aufbauen. Man muss ja leider realistisch bleiben…
Check out the latest JP Australia-/ Neilpryde Team movie, which has been captured during the PWA Fuerteventura World Cup.
Video: Robby Swift and Heidy Clawson
PWA Fuerteventura 2010 Summary
Yesterday we’ve had the closing ceremony from the PWA Fuerteventura freestyle World Cup. Again Fuerteventura was providing us with very windy conditions for almost the entire week. Thumbs up for the organizers who did a great making this event possible. The competition; for me this was a big disappointment and I definitely wasn’t performing my best during a number of reasons.Before the start of the competition I was already not in my best physical shape. Facing a strong flue before the event kicked off. The first two days of the competition went quite okay, getting kicked out the first round field terrible.
PWA Fuerteventura 2010 Day 3 Today was a doomed day for me, first I was sailing a really bad heat defending my 9th place.The conditions where quite hard, every time when I wanted to executed my moves the wind picked up in force or there was no wind at all. Finally had a couple of crashes which I could discard, but my moves were simply not as clean as my opponent.Then we started the second single elimination, somehow I had tough seating again and went out against nr. 7 Dutch fellow Davy Scheffers H 311.
PWA Fuerteventura 2010 Day 1 Today was the kick-off from the 3rd Freestyle PWA Worldcup tourstop. The wind came up quite late, but just after 4PM the first heats where finally running. I had quite a tough seeding against Wave World champion Philp Koster G44! When the heat started the wind was really gusty so I decided to go for a safe heat.I decided taking my JP Freestyle 98L pro and my Neilpryde Firefly 4.9. This was the right choice, on the outside I had quite a few power full double moves like; Airflaka into flaka, Ponch into Flaka, Shaka into flaka. I sailed a solid heat and advanced to the next round. If the forecast is good tomorrow we will go and finish the first single elimination and if the wind stays good, we most likely also starting of with double elimination. So more news tomorrow and I going to do my honest best to continue a good performance!
PWA Lanzarote 2010 final Day Allready my last report for this Worldcup competition. Today we started of with strong winds good for a powerfull warmingup with my Neilpryde 5,3 Firefly and my JP Freestyle Australia 98 Pro. Just when the wind kicked in the crew decided to fininsh of the single elimination.As we still needed to finish the winners and losers final for both men and women.The wind kept building and so did the waves too. I was excited and prepared for action as I had made loads of progression in jumps during the winter-/ spring. The moment that we just started to run the double, the wind was still playing games, which kept whole competition on hold.
