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.

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