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Falling with Style

08/02/2007 04:00 am
With just a couple of days at home it felt more like a pit stop, a quick change bags then back onto the airport runway. Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands will be home for the next two weeks, not that we’ll have much time for lounging around if the wind stats can be believed. The freestyleers were already living out there twisted lives, flipping form one distorted move to the next.
 

Better than windsurfing

08/02/2007 04:00 am
Second week in Vass and the rest of the family have come out, its funny but the kids don’t windsurf anywhere else but in Vassiliki. This week turned out to be a real break through for Reece. He joined Joe’s group and it wasn’t long before she had him planning in foot straps and harness. Best of all I learnt that there is something better than windsurfing, windsurfing with the family.
 

Size Matters

08/02/2007 04:00 am
Speed Week at ClubVass isn’t all about big guys with even bigger sails. While speed still caries that image, it isn’t true, comfort and control win out over size and brute force every time. This was the third speed week we’ve had at ClubVass, speed maybe be the underlying theme, but the reality is we should call it Confidence Week except that doesn’t sound so good.
 

Best days of Summer

08/02/2007 04:00 am
Hardly had time to unpack the bags and Harty had me driving down to fire a few shots off for one of his next pieces for the windsurf, proper back in the day longboard stuff. What a day to do it on, only the best summer sailing of the year. Good and windy as it was, I had my best windsurfing day of the year a few days later.
 

If Only

08/02/2007 04:00 am
Ever had one of those weeks when you think everything is conspiring against you. Each time the results were printed out I seamed to slip down the rankings, printer and scoreboard just couldn’t agree. The wind finally fizzled on the last day to ensure we couldn’t finish the gold fleet round, that was until prize giving was over, then it kicked in and blew harder than we’d seen all week.
 

Never too old to learn

08/02/2007 04:00 am
Karpathos may be a small island, but when it comes down to the wind stats it puts out high expectations. We’ve been here a week and there hasn’t been a day where we couldn’t sail, but so far we haven’t seen the supper strong wind that have lured so many to the island. As the green flag of competition was raised, the wind dipped below the racing minimum.
 

Weight Loss

08/02/2007 04:00 am
The airports are trying to enforce a 22kg limit on all baggage, while there was stillroom for error I wanted to find out what the knock on effect would be for us windsurfers. We were heading out to Karpathos for the first speed event of the year, but before I leaving there was still time for a little weight loss of my own with some last minute biking with my brother.
 

Biking and Building

08/02/2007 04:01 am
The van has progresses and stopped all at the same time. Getting the back racked and ready took priority over seating; finally I got to go back on the water. Got to confess it wasn’t all it could have been, the day ended in a mile walk. With Karpathos only a week away, I’ll give my ankle that extra time to get to full strength.
 

Constant Change

08/02/2007 04:01 am
Last weeks time in France taught we a few lessons. Time is a great healer, and I don’t give it enough time, though that’s a lesson I should have learnt before. But after driving my van around for years it took its first trip to foreign climes to make me realise it just not big enough. Ok it doesn’t normally get loaded like it did at the Defi Wind, but the cab just needs more room.
 

Swapping miles for kilometres

08/02/2007 04:01 am
Just returned form the Defi Wind in France, what an amazing event, the French really showed how windsurfing should be done. To be fair, I can’t imagine another location that could hold 700 competitors on one start line without the fear of loosing a few out to sea. The beach Gruissan seams endless and with the wind blowing dead off shore the eight-kilometre course is all about reaching at full speed.
 
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