Acabou sem vento a edição de 2008 do campeonato do mundo de ondas em Santa Cruz, integrada no festival Ocean Spirit.
Depois de esgotado o prazo inicial , a organização decidiu prolongar por mais dois dias a prova, porque as previsões eram favoráveis. Na 2ª feira fez-se a 1ª ronda de heats, competi conta o Jean Marco Rivera da Republica Dominicana ( vencedor do King of the Ocean 2008), e contra o Martin Vari. Passei o heat em segundo, eliminando o Argentino.
Estranha sensação de estar a competir com as lendas , que vemos nos DVD´s e revistas e conseguir batê-los na água . A organização decidiu para distribuir os pontos e o prize money atribuir 1ºs lugares a quem passou os heats e os 2ºs a todos os outros.
Excelente organização, sempre a surprender com meios e recursos nunca vistos, e os melhores riders das ondas !
Este Sábado fomos até ao Guincho, tivemos da parte da manhã com o meu patrocionador Paulo Silva, da Windsurf Guincho Factory, representante da Mystic para Portugal, visitamos a sua futura loja, muito bem localizada e vim de lá apetrechado com acessórios, capacete, blusões … 🙂 uma loucura de roupa !
De seguida fomos para a praia fazer uma sessão de ondas, as condições estavam bem melhores do que as previsões da meteorologia com sol e uns 20 nós de vento. O mar estava tempestuoso, com sets bem acima dos 2 metros !!
1) What is your best souvenir on this KPWT 2007 ?The Photo on the beach of Moulai (Essaouira) after the wave final. Was myfirst victory on the KPWT and I will never forget it !!!
2) What was your best / more difficult heat of the season ? Where andagainst who ?The wave final in Brasil versus Jose. Was a realy short heat (8min) and Iwas realy unlucky with the waves selection, and I didn´t have enough timeto do my best.
3) Where is your favorite spot to kite ?In front my house in Galicia, there is always wind and waves. Is not thebest place in the world but I have my family and friends there and for meis a dream place.
4) What’s your feeling with the 1X Wave World Champion Title ?I feel that, all the job that I did in the winter training before theevents, give a result.
5) 1X Wave World Championyou have established yourself as a world classcompetitor andNow, what are your plans / goals for 2008 ?Go for the Overall Ranking in the KPWT. I will have to do all thedisciplines but I like the challenge. The human being needs motivations inour life to wake-up every morning.
6) Anything more you’d like to add ? …I like to say thanks to all the people to make the KPWT works.
Because every event I feel like I go to a trip with my friends and not a Competition.
With a charging style that gets her out in surf when many would shy away, Tuva is the pioneer of women’s wavekiting. Tuva Jansen has earned the respect of the pro men, not an easy thing to do. She likes to kite the waves like she surfs, using the power of the wave.
When I first met Tuva Jansen I knew her as a super-cute, young Norwegian girl living in Cabarete, Dominican Republic with a group of equally cute, young Norwegian girls. Every night the Norwegian posse would be out tantalizing all the locals with their perfect skin and cute rifling of the English language. I never thought any of them were serious about kiting and would amount to anything in the kite world. Wrong. While her friends were more attuned to the Cabarete night life, Tuva was dedicated to getting on the water every chance she had. In a short amount of time the young Norwegian princess turned into a queen of the kite world.
Since her early days kiting in Cabarete, Tuva has racked up a list of accomplishments that equals or exceeds almost all other women kiters today. From becoming one of the fastest women on the water (who even beat many of the guys,) in the early days of speed kiting, to being one of the first women to venture out in the heaving waves of Lakey peak, Indonesia (a spot previously reserved for only the bravest and best of the male-dominated kitesurfing world), Tuva has become a bit of an unsung hero in the world of women’s kiting. From Cabarete cutie to trailblazing lady, Tuva Jansen is the most exciting woman to watch in the surf. —Alex Jowett
Height: 169 cm Weight: 5’7” DOB: 11/01/81 Hometown: Heggedal, Norway Current residence: None, just traveling around and looking for the perfect place to settle down one day Sponsors: Takoon, Cebe, Helly Hansen, Prolimit
Tech out: “I ride with the Takoon Enova kite; I mostly use the 5 m2 and the 7 m2 for the waves. Really fast and easy for the waveriding. I use the normal bar which comes with the kite. It has a long depower line, and that is something I like for the waveriding. It also works very good unhooked. I use two different boards, one is the Takoon surfboard Burn, and the other one is a 5’6” surfboard that I have put inserts on.”
Fonte : kiteboard.com
“There is only one girl I have ever enjoyed watching and that’s Tuva Jansen.” —Jeff Tobias
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