Contests, training and new moves!
poniedziałek, sierpień 1st, 2011Contests, training and new moves!
When you are competing time flies.
It was not such a long time ago when I was writing before PWA and now we are done! The Lanzarote event is over. Fuerteventura is over and now I’m training in Fuerte with 40+ knots.
So let’s start from the beginning.
Lanzarote event was a first event for me after a 1.5 year break. So my ranking and seeding was bad that’s why I was against Steven van Broeckhoven. I was trying to fight but Steven was sailing out of the league and was looking like someone who will dominate this event. So I lost in the first heat of the single and was waiting for the double.
Double elimination came and I was against the Frenchman Julien Mas. I heard about him sailing good but I was up for a challenge. Unfortunately the condition were changing a lot so I went out on the water with the wrong sail. This didn’t help me to land my moves. It was close but Julien landed some great tricks.
So after that the wind was not strong enough to start the next elimination so it was over for me. I was waiting for my home spot in Fuerteventura.
When I got back to Fuerte it was the typical weather. 3.9 Blacktip and RRD 88. That was perfect. For almost three weeks we had really strong wind and after that the PWA event started and…
No wind! The forecast was looking bad. Really bad. Some of the guys were thinking we are not going to finish single elimination. But Sotavento showed why it’s one of the best spots in the world. Despite bad forecast we had wind every afternoon. I was using mostly my Blacktip 4.8 which was perfect.
First heat and I won! Good to start like that after such a long time without competition. Second round and I was against Gollito. I was sailing good and looking at the score sheets later on I was leading the first half of the heat. Then Gollito landed few big moves and I crashed few big moves which supposed to be my ticket to top 8. Not this time.
The double started good for me and I won my first heat. I had a highest score (22 points out of 30) from all of the heats in the first round. I was happy about that and fully motivated went to battle Edvan de Souza Pedro. I sailed a very good heat. Even better then the high scoring one from the first round and…. 18 points. So I sailed better but got less points and I lost to Edvan by 0.5 a point on every score sheet. Pretty unlucky. So unfortunately like in Lanzarote we didn’t had enough wind to start another elimination which was over for me.
All in all I was happy about my sailing but not about my result so I guess I need a little more luck next time. Oh, and more wind also.
After the event again Fuerteventura was going off! Since the day after the contest until now we have 40 knots or more.
I was training hard that time and even laded my new combo move: Gozzada into Burner:
Jakub Kosmowski POL-288 – Gozzada into Burner from Freestyle Podcasts on Vimeo.
I’m pretty happy about that as I never seen this combination on video or on any contest.
Now when the events are over I can start working again on my media project so stay tuned for more and a high wind freestyle clip is coming shortly!
Take care!












