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PWA | FUERTE – Day 1 and 2

PWA Fuerteventura day 1 and 2
After a long day of waiting we started the single elimination in Fuerteventura. The scene right now in Fuerteventura is a little different than a couple of days ago. Like the past weeks we’ve been only using the smallest gear and there where plenty of waves all over the place. Right now everybody is on their biggest gear and the water is pretty choppy. Not really the typical Fuerte conditions. Yesterday my first heat was against Max Matisek from Austria. Max has been training and improving a lot this year so tough competitor like all the others. We both didn’t perform really well, actually I was crashing a lot and was getting really nervous as I wasn’t performing my heat as I would like to. In the end it was a close dissension but I advanced to next round. Now I had to face the Belgium Dieter van der Eycken. I started of good with Aifunnel, Burner puneta and Shovit spock. Suddenly I was crashing moves and forcing them with less style amplitude, Dieter was also not sailing is his best heat but still sailing good. The final result rather surprising to me. A very close heat but Dieter took the edge and worked his way up to 4th place in the single elimination. Tomorrow we will continue with the double elimination. So I hope the conditions turn up good and let’s wish for some waves for even more excitement on the water.



Photos: John Carter

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PWA | FUERTE

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

 

 

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PWA | FUERTE – Day 3

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.Than we started the second single elimination, somehow I had tough seating again and went out against nr. 7 Dutch fellow Davy Scheffers H 311. Davy was sailing a really good heat, according to judges a top 5 heat. So congrats to him. For me that means I’m out the first round, I really hope we can start the new double elimination really soon and maybe a third double elimination. The forecast looks really good, strong wind conditions and hopefully also some waves. For now I’m going to concentrate for the double elimination in order to fight back!



Photos: Tom Brendt



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PWA | FUERTE – Day 1

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 Worldcup report:
The sailor of the day was tour regular and current top five ranked styler, Maarten Van Ochten (JP, NeilPryde, MFC) who would have been forgiven for feeling a little bit nervous going into his heat against the 2009 Pozo wave champion, Philip Koster (Starboard, NeilPryde, Dakine). All eyes had been on Koster during practise to see how he would perform in the discipline of freestyle, especially in the lighter winds which the contest was being held in. Koster looked like he had plenty of moves in the bag, but they were no match for the seasoned freestyle pro, Van Ochten who pulled off a more diverse range of technical moves in the six-minute heat. There’s no doubt Koster will fight back in the double, especially if the forecast comes to fruition.

 

Photos: John Carter PWA