Pozo riders commentary.. by Taty Frans (Page 1 of 2)

back from the beach:

Cedric bordes seems to have great board speed he was sailing along with Gabriel brwone.. both have matching board speed seems they are enjoying it.
It's a bit to choppy for the slalom guys at the moment.

Pozo is of the chain. A LOT of people out on the water.
Ross, Kp,Josh Antoine,Peter,PhilipVictor,Brawzinho,Kauli all been doing wave sailing.
Wave seems small, wind is light most of the guys are on 4.7 sails on medium boards.

No one is really ripping so far in my point of view. Philip nailed some sick tweaked pushloop just planing out of it. :)

Well that's it for now.

If you want me to keep doing this let me know or I'll just stop.

Taty frans

Keep it up Taty very interesting to read.
Say hello to Tuomo Naalisvaara FIN-3 if you see him on the beach.
He is taking part to Slalom and wave. This is his first Slalom event.
He is the only one from Finland really pushing it.

Laine FIN-555

Hi Lain,

Yes, I have seen Tuomo today When I saw him he was just heading out on his slalom gears, I said hello to him.
Sure he looks okay in speed, jibing he looks comfortable maybe to much comfortable.
he did some 2 runs with Diony but they weren't really pushing it.
Maybe I am wrong but it seems like his harness lines are to short for these type of conditions, i am thinking that he might need longer lines that's for sure.

Hi all

As far as today goes, Saw more slalom guys hitting the water with slalom gears:
Diony,Finian,Ross,Peter,Ben,Roby,Arnon,K.P,Alberto menegati,Cedric about 5 sailors that I don't even know who they are, looks like some new guys with 2007 and 2008 sails not sure if they will be competing but they seems to know pozo pretty well handling the slalom gears with no problem looks really interesting.

Haven't seen any of the 3 muso france brothers yet. and also no NORTHsails rider on the water yet.

Severne rider, just yesterday they where testing some sails out but Bjorn not looking so fast. Jesper he looks pretty busy with his gear not so fast maybe the conditions are not suitable for him..???

As far as today goes, My speculation still are high that Ross williams will for sure be a serious contender for the top spot he sure is fast.
Finian the x speed record holder is flying, he will also be one of to look for.
Peter, he seems to be having GOOD board speed and the jibes are getting REALLY GOOD  he will also be a good top 5 if he really wants it bad enough.
These are mine top guys as far as today goes.

Antoine was really busy doing wave sailing, but nothing speciale from him.

As I can see most of the guys that are on Tabou,RRD seems to be going fast.
Maybe K.P is holding back, but I know for sure that these ISONIC are good in these kind of conditions, I wonder what secret or what plans K.P have? or is he not pushing to hard and charging to put his energy when the event start..??

Ow, yes also saw Angulo today he been ripping up the small waves here in pozo   
saw him having some small problems and was swimming to the beach BUT nothing serious maybe some gears problem or so.

I finally got myself out on the water today using my 3.7 legend and my kode 86 had a one and half hour session. I pretty much went for wave/freestyle training heading out I was training my back loops and my airchachos and coming in some wave riding and some freestyle moves, was fun but the wind is pretty on steady and with big holes, some times you are power up and some times you are not even moving.

But the conditions are perfect for Slalom for the first days of the event so might be really interesting.

Taty Frans

Alokin,

I only saw K.p board with a debouiche fin but must be a 32cm custom fin.
I saw some other guys today using techtonics and Toumo from Finland is using the normaal drake fin that comes with the board.

I don't use smaller then 3.7 sail i use a 370cm mast on the 3.7.

I think most of the guys that use 3.3 sail are using maybe 350cm mast or some of the prose cut of their 370 mast so that they can fit without have to make the top longer.

Taty

Soooo,
another day here in Pozo. seems that the wind isn't blowing like the previous years I have been here.

Just came back from the beach and it was like someone put a gun on everyones heads to not go out sailing :(..

I counted about 10 guys sailing, Victor was out there Kauli, Ricardo, I think Danny bruch as well.
Wave are not so big but there are some very long head high wave rolling in from time to time.
Most of the guys seems to be on 4.7 sails.

Most of the slalom guys are heaving lunch at the moment, so for sure they will head out on the slalom gears later in the day, but will keep you posted ;).

As for me I am a bit sick:(, but nothing very bad. so I am trying to keep out of the sun and water for two days see if I can get better.

Uhmm, as for the new 2010 sails brand graphics some of them look very nice, as what I have seen so far I have the :

Ross Williams, Gaastra (manic): light blue/gray nice bright color and looks nice on the water.

Gollito & Victor Northsails (Ice & Ego): BlackBerry/white like this neat color alot looks great the white really make the sails shine on the water.

Gun Sails: Red/black seems to mach okay, from far you know That is is a Gun sail, very speciale in it's own way, like the graphics.

Kauli Neilpryde & Robby (The Fly), White/light green and white/light bue. Very Very nice on and off the water. perfect matching color and looks bright and shiny.

Well these are the sails I have seen so far. To me they are all great colorful sails.

Taty Frans

@Taty:
Get well soon and please keep up your great reports; highly appreciated!

last day before everything goes down on the 10th.

two days of perfect slalom conditions training have been seen here on Pozo.

Everyone is here and really looks ready to go..

I have been in the house all day sleeping trying to get better.

head to the beach later in the afternoon with my 3.7 and was no wave really choppy on the inside but it was fun, I could no longer stay in the house so I went sailing for 2 hours.

Cyril and the twins are finally in the house. Wave sailing is what Cyril did when I was out there and so was Josh,Gollito,Thomas,kevin mevissen.

Tonky was freestyling on his new F2 Rodeo freestyle board, The board looks REALLY cool, 225x63 and with 98 liter. he was doing some grazy moves.
I asked him:
Taty: So Tonky how do you like your new freestyle board?
Tonky: I am very happy with it. it's crazy small but it's really balance and makes the moves so easy. I like it alot. :)

Late in the afternoon I saw Jimmy and Patrick getting some slalom sailing but that's about it.

Well I am really excited to see who will win the first round of the slalom here in Pozo.

I can't wait that's why I came here to see it live and just to be part of the excitement in both slalom and Wave.

As you may I asked why I didn't compete this year in slalom?
Well Slalom when you are having fun doing it it's okay, when you become to serious about it, that's when you lose your self and you lose your concentration and you will start doing mistakes and everything is not working the way you want to. So to me I toke one year off and focus on what I felt like doing and it's important to me. I love windsurfing but everyone get to a time in their life where they want to dedicate more time in something else some thing which they like the most so whatever you feel like doing at times you have try to do it.
I love Windsurfing: that's is why back at home I have: Formula,slalom,freestyle & wave boards, I do it all is because this is the sport that makes me happy and I feel comfortable and relax and when I am doing it. and nothing relax your mind more then the sounds of the water hitting on the shore. :)

Well, this is it for today.

Tommorow is teh big day.

Taty

Hey Taty

Your brother was killing it according to the Live Ticker.

Gollito did not advance.

How did Antoine Albeau do? Waves are usually not his regular event.

How about Peter and Josh?

http://www.cutre.com/v2/index.php/es/dani-miquel

Last edited by Clyde (2009-07-10 17:50:06)

Hi,

what board did Josh sail and what boom???

On the pic is no maui sails boom to see...true?

All the best Juergen

Josh is sponsored by Streamlined for booms and was that long before joining MauiSails. I guess him not sailing MauiSails booms says nothing of the booms.

I also guess MauiSails booms and the Streamlined booms are among the best you can buy.

Hi Asle,

You are right about Josh, He is long sponsor by Streamlined.

I like,love Maui sails booms with any doubt to me they are the best and now every one in Bonaire are on Mauisails booms..

Taty

Hi All,

Interesting day:

First of all I am better again:) happy with that.

Slalom men:
All I can say is that my thoughts about who could or can be in the top was correct untill now ;)

So far Bjorn, Finian,Peter,Antoine,Ross,K.p, are doing great results.

From my point of view only Antoine is the one who has the best top speed, he started in the back of the fleet and just was already like 50m ahead when he reach the first jibe mark, as for everyone else they seems to still have the same speed.

Peter: the flying dutch men, he looks comfortable with his gear GOOD board speed all around, he did fall in one jibe mark, but still got a good top finish:) keep it up peter, you are fast and your jibes are good.

and Like I said, it will all come to who has the best start and the best jibe and who doesn't make mistakes in the course.

I think that there are more people that can do good here but they get to nervous and fall in jibes:(. but well that is part of the mind huh sometimes it's to hard to control and be relax... but if you can find that then you will do good. especially in places where it is windy.

Well back to the wave.

I just went to see the top 4 guys go at it:

Dario V.s Victor:
Victor sailed really great and so did Dario.
As me and Gollito where sitting in the crowd and everybody went crazy started screaming when Dario did a sick air taka in the wave just the best I have seen so far:P and really rippend each wave he got and was always searching for the big sets.
Victor: sailed really great in this heat double loop planing out of it high back loop, push loop, amazing wave riding and deserve the win, in my point of view, even though it was a close call but Victor deserve it.

Jonas V.s Koster:
uhmm I am and as everyone at the beach was left a bit surprise on that Koster won this heat, We all saw Jonas sail at his best nailing all the wave riding move 360's, Taka's, upwind 360's and so many sick wave riding that left everyone surprise and also some great jumping that it could see him winning and went to the winner final with ease, but as it come to the judges he lost.. weird but we all think that Jonas had it.
Nothing against Koster he sailed good but this heat for sure Jonas had it.

As we move to the Winner finnal,

No doubt that Koster killed Victor,
This wonder kid really deserve this:) the most sick jumps and very clean wave riding.. thumbs up.

Well tomorow for sure slalom will be on.

o o before I forgot Most of the slalom guys where on 5.5 even Antoine.

taty