Just arrived in Sardinia for the EFPT event, it was super last minute and kind of regretting not checking the forecast now… anyway I’ll post a bit of a report of what’s going on here a bit later with whatever pics I can get hold of from yesterdays fully powered 4.5 session!
It was a great weekend and thanks to Pip/Nick Pardoe for putting us up on the Saturday night with an awesome BBQ with the ‘Whitstable massive’.
The conditions for the event were really good, 4.5/4.9 weather and on low tide in the afternoon brought really flat water. In the morning it was quite choppy but allowed for some bigger moves. Big shakas, air flakas, forwards, etc…
Overall I managed 2nd to Bubble, with John Palmer 3rd and (UK RRD team rider) Will Rogers taking 4th, I’m pretty pleased with this result, however the judging format certainly favoured Bubbles experience and diverstiy of moves, using the old overall impression format. We did run a super session heat with the best move format, similar to that of the PWA except it was literally the best move to count. This I managed to win with quite a high matador in fin deep water as well as a culo and kono in the same depth… So yeh a good event and I’m off to practice my moves the other way now… pics below…
It really was a good event and a lot of fun. I really would encourage anybody who can make it to come along to the next ones.
Had a really good week here out at the RRD Meeting, with some wind for the bigger kit and a bit of wind on the first day to try out the new twintip….more on that soon… also managed to do a bit of tow-in yesterday and the day before, was a lot of fun and as always, good practice!
Riiight so currently sitting on the plane about to leave gatwick for Italy where the rrd international meeting is kicking off this week! Looks as though it should be a great week testing and trying out lots of the new gear!
If you haven’t checked yet, then the trailer for an upcoming blacklab video featuring myself and max Rowe is linked below! Worth a look!
CLICK HERE
and a still….
A quick update then, I came 25th in Austria which was ok but I wasn’t entirely happy with. The last heat I sailed, which happened to be the last one of the day when they got into the double, was practically night time…this pic from JC shows what it was like less than 5 minutes after my heat finished, ok he has a flash on the camera but it’s still pretty dark.
So after Austria was the Wales event. I managed to come 7th in the pros which I was actually really happy about as I got a pushie in each of my heats, something I had been practicing in Cape Town a bit. Aside from that I haven’t really done much wave sailing so it was nice to get that sort of result.
Since Wales I’ve had a couple of nice sessions back near home and have been practicing the power moves in the choppiest conditions i can find!
Anyway more in my Boards column and more on here soon…
We leave to Austria today to a landlocked windless lake (well maybe a bit of wind on monday) for my first PWA event of the year. We are also leaving behind the best forecast of the year, for me, in terms of freestyle and port tack jumping. With the forecast as it is Whitstable will be firing for glassy flat freestyle for as long as the forecast can reach and St Marys Bay and Greatstone will be awesome for port tack jumping… I’ve been at home for a while now and had pretty much nothing in the way of wind! So heading to Austria with only tow-in freestyle as practice since Egypt (3 and a half weeks ago!!!!!)!
Aside from that the tow in the other night was good fun, we got some decent pics so keep an eye on the mags for a write up of that from Sam Ross!
Let the journey begin!
Better get off, I’ll see if I can upload a few sneaky pics of it this eve…
Link to freestyle round one (Hayling) video, thanks to globalshots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrSHwrOn8UE&feature=player_embedded
Also looks like this weekends wind for the Hayling Island event is desperately trying to show it’s face… could be a light winder though, good to put all that practice on my 4.5 to the test then. Actually joking aside at least it will be good warm up for Austria, I feel I haven’t sailed in ages!
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| From the National Windsurf Festival @ Hayling last year |
Have a look at Max’s twitter/blog, think he worked out somewhere the exact mileage, I made a rough guess on an earlier post. Bring it on…
The plan from here for the next few weeks is first off to get out on the water before the Hayling freestyle event next weekend. Then drive down to Austria for the PWA event in two weeks time. Just checked and that’s a 1600 km’s there….. I think the plan is for 6 of us to all go together in two vans, so should be a funny little road trip. Then it’s straight back for BWA Rhossi! We have one day to drive from Podersoft to Rhosneiger…..2020 km’s in…one…day!!!!!
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