Costa Ca – Maarten van Ochten

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…

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.

As always I was really keen working my way up in the elimination ladder during this contest. During the start of the second double elimination I had to sail against Italian pro rider Mattia Pedrani I-00.During this particular heat I over rotated my ponsch and hit my big toe again really hard. Mattia was sailing a very solid het and won the heat. Having a bad ranking in this Worldcup has big consequence for my overall ranking. Now dropped from the 5th. place to the 14th. place in the overall ranking. The good news: yesterday I’ve had taken an X-ray photo to make sure nothing was really broken. Fortunately no fractures! Big relief! Now I hope I’ll be back on the water in a couple of days. Learned a lot over here and got some more experience in the pocket for next years Worldcups in Fuerteventura. Now it’s time to focus for the upcoming PWA Worldcup in Sylt! Big congratulations to my friend Steven van Broeckhoven B-72 who became 3rd. after sailing really strong yesterday. Also Big congrats to Jose “Gollito” Estredo V-01 winning his fourth Overall title in Freestyle.

PWA Fuerteventura 2010 results
1. Jose “Gollito” Estredo V-01
2. Kiri Thode NB-6
3. Steven van Broeckhoven B-72
4. Tonky Frans NB-7
5. Taty Frans NB-9

PWA Overall results 2010
1. Jose “Gollito” Estredo V-01
2. Kiri Thode NB-6
3. Steven van Broeckhoven B-72
4. Tonky Frans NB-7
5. Nicolas Ackazyian F-400
14. Maarten van Ochten H-73

Photos: Jhon Carter PWA