Last week I was invited for a promotional event In Czech Republic called H2O Battle. The whole event will be held on a Lake near Prague. There will be windsurfing tests, shows, slalom contest and a Freestyle Expression session. I hope the wind will come and I’ll be able to show something on the water. It will be my first visit In Czech so I hope I can see something by the way. I’m leaving  tomorrow In the Morning and I will stay there till Monday. I will keep you up to date how the event is going.  

I’m proudly presenting my new sponsor for the season 2008. Italian company Al360 producing top class windsurfing booms and fins just became my new sponsor. From now on I will use E3 carbon booms and all the Freestyle fins from Al360. I’m looking forward for a good cooperation with Al360. If want to now more about this company visit there website on http://www.al360.it/windsurf

Cheers

Yesterday we’ve managed to finish the first PWA event this year. Wind still was pretty light but in the afternoon the weather changed and for one hour the wind was a bit stronger that’s why we could finish remaining heats. The level was unbelievable. All the top riders made some very difficult moves in there heats. Chachoo, shove it Spock or double Spock is now a standard. The best rider of the day was Gollito Estredo and he won the first PWA event. Second place goes to Marcilio Browne. In third we have Tonky Frans and fourth is Anxton Otaegui. Now the whole PWA tour takes a brake till the event in Lanzarote which will take place in the end of June. I on the other hand will compete on the 22^nd of May in Poland and then I’ll move to Greece for the next EFPT event.

Cheers

 

Currently I’m on the first PWA and EFPT event in Austria. Till now the weather is not really cooperating and the wind blows just below the limit. That’s the first event where we are competing in the new best move format. Now it’s all about making the most difficult moves, you no longer have to make a lot of moves but the more difficult that better. In Austria we had to make 3 moves on each tack in 10 minutes. It gives as more opportunities to finish the elimination in gusty conditions. Unfortunately the wind was very light and some of the heat should have been cancelled but you can understand the judges which try to finish the single as soon as possible. I was sailing against Andreas Olanderson. My heat was canceled four times and finally the fifth one was official. Unfortunately I didn’t have too much wind in my heat and I did only three moves. Andreas mad few more tricks and advanced. Concerning the top guys there were few surprises. Egor Popretynsky won against Thomas Traversa who couldn’t really get into the light wind conditions here in Austria. The next surprise was a lost heat from Kevin Mevissen. Kevin lost against Steven van Broeckhoven who proved again that he is really well prepared especially when it’s light wind like here in Austria. I can easily say that if there will be more events like that Steven will be on the top for sure. There is not too much to write about me on this event. I’ve learned a lesson and now I have to use in the next event. First of all I have to work on a setup for light wind conditions, my early planning and for sure more training it those conditions. At the moment we stopped on the heat number 20 so we still need 4 heats to go. The wind just died now and most probably it’s the finished for today. Hopefully it will come back tomorrow so we can finish the event.

Cheers.

And it’s on! Finally I managed to put mu movie on the internet. It took a while but it’s on and I hope you will like it. The movie is a bit short because all the rest of the footage was stolen in Cape Town. But now take look I hope you will enjoy it….

Cape Town 2008 from pol288 on Vimeo.
You can also download the movie from:

http://www.vimeo.com/924784/