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#Windsurf STEVEN VAN BROECKHOVEN: BACK IN THE GAME
STEVEN VAN BROECKHOVEN: BACK IN THE GAME
Windsurf catch up with former freestyle world champion, Steven van Broeckhoven to find out what he has been up to over the past months and all about his new vocation on the Belgium Olympic Programme.
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WS: What have you been up to over the past months?
SVB: Before corona lock downs I have spent my Winter months in Tarifa. I had a great time and scored lots of windsurfing, foiling, biking and surfing! It was non-stop action. The months, March April and May I have been working on Yachts. Last month the focus was back on windsurfing training. Mainly on IQfoil, as I’m now in the Belgium Olympic program. It is kind of different world to me, but I really like the new challenge!
WS: How was the lockdown for you?
SVB: Been working as much I could. As I didn’t know for how long it will be so I took all the work I could, and I wasn’t sailing much. But I am glad I did. As professional rider it is a difficult year financially without any events, so glad I have been able to work! I was working on Yacht with good friend of mine who repaints yachts and I am also doing more and more board repairs at home.
WS: Were you able to sail?
SVB: There was a period of six weeks where I was not allowed on the water!
WS: How has the Covid pandemic affected your season?
SVB: The season now is vastly different, no PWA freestyle maybe a few EFPT events nut nothing is certain. At the moment all of my focus is on the IQ foil in Silvaplana, Switzerland!
WS: What are your plans for the rest of the season?
SVB: My focus is the Europeans and worlds IQfoil and then whatever EFPT freestyle events that happened!
WS: What diet do you follow and why?
SVB: I am vegetarian, I never liked meat much and my girlfriend is vegan. I just feel much better and stronger and beside my health I am incredibly sad how the meat industry works with animals. The reality is very sad. Many lives are killed for nothing.
WS: Where do you train and what moves are you working on?
SVB: So far, I have only been sailing in Benelux, mostly on the foil, I have also been practicing some foil style too lately! I learned to land culos and burners on the foil which was cool. For freestyle soon I am going to Lanzarote for a few weeks and first thing on the agenda is to get all my moves back in control. But every session I want to improve no matter if I am freestyling or foiling
WS: Why do you love windsurfing?
SVB: It is the best sport in the world! Nothing else to say!
WS: You had a great season last year any reason for the improved results?
SVB: I think I was focused on the right moments, I felt no pressure and just had fun! I felt I peaked at the right moments. I don’t think it was about the time I spent on the water but more the efficiency in training!
WS: How tough is the level on the PWA freestyle tour?
SVB: The level is only getting closer compare to previous years. Everyone is landing the best moves that is why we have seen more and more surprises.
WS: How do you like foil racing as opposed to slalom?
SVB: I love foil racing like it was the last years. Pure racing on foil. I do not like combo with slalom windsurfing!
WS: Tell us about the GUN foil sail?
SVB: Last year’s I have been racing on the Bow concept. The concept started out of the box by Pieter Bijl. The idea of the bow to have very comfortable sail for weekend slalom sailor or foiler. The sail has a big range, and all fitted on one sized mast. During the early testing we found out that sail is performing very well on the foil. So, we decided to go for the Bow Fly, the foil racing sail. The sail is very powerful and performing well in the very light winds.
Now foil racing been growing a lot and all the brands are going for big sails up to 10m on high aspect. It is quite a challenge to make Bow Fly 9.5m on a 490 mast. The sail was performing very well in light winds but in reality, when we race the 9.5M it was becoming quickly overpowered. Racing these days is a lot about pumping on the foil to gain high end speed, clearly the high aspect performance better for pumping and strong winds.
Gunsails are working on a new foil Race Weapon which will be high aspect on normal mast, the tests are all very promising, but we still needed to wait a bit as everything has been slowed down during lockdowns.
In the future there will be still the normal Bow in production. I still really like that sail as it feels very comfy. The 7.8 Bow is my favourite for cruising around as it has massive wind range, is comfortable and its fast also on a slalom board.
WS: Where do you see yourself in ten years’ time?
SVB: No Idea, I take life how it comes. I hope I am still doing the same passion with windsurfing.
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#Windsurf GALICIA | BIG WAVE HUNTING
GALICIA | BIG WAVE HUNTING
Galicia’s wild Atlantic shores proved the perfect hunting ground for Thomas Traversa, Julien Taboulet and photographer Pierre Bouras as they chased a winter storm to some remote big wave spots. The fearless French crew recount their mission.
Words Thomas Traversa, Julien Taboulet And Pierre Bouras // Photos Pierre Bouras
Thomas Traversa
THE SEARCH
There is something about winter storms that I find so special; waves start to break where they don’t usually break and spots appear for a couple of hours before disappearing until the next storm! We went to this remote part of Spain because of a wave that only breaks once in a while over a shoal, in front of a quaint lighthouse located at the mouth of a river.
RARE
This spot is so ephemeral, it only works at low tide, and needs a very powerful swell. To score all that together with the right wind conditions is very rare, but after a few failed missions, this time it all happened for us! Somehow there wasn’t any tow surfers riding on that day, just Pierre, Julien ‘Wesh’ Taboulet and myself, looking at the waves breaking from the channel, taking our time and enjoying the sights.
NOW OR NEVER
At first, we thought it wasn’t windy enough, but once in a while a gust came through and it just looked so perfect! A minute later it seemed so light that there was no way we could have been standing on our boards! But we decided to try! Simply because we were there, as were the waves, and the tide was only going be low enough for a couple of hours.
RISK VERSUS REWARD
There is so much on the line at heavy wave spots that it’s all about making the right decisions, at the right time. That is the main reason why mostly I chase those big waves on my own! I don’t want to get disturbed by anything or anyone! I feel like most people would doubt too much and make me doubt too. With ‘Wesh’, it is different, because he always has this positive and fresh energy and the go-for-it attitude that I love. On that day we really committed together to give it a try, feeding off each other’s energy.
THE SLAB
The wave itself is a short and very intense barrel, only standing up at the last moment when the swell hits that shallow reef. That means that there isn’t much time to get going! You are on a fat lump of swell and the next second the wave sucks you down and releases all its power on top of you! And then it’s over. With the wind being very light, we had to stay extremely close to the slab to be able to drop into the wave, and we missed so many waves that we simply could not catch.
“Riding that wave was like a deep breath ‘in and out’.”
MAGIC RIDE
But once in a while the right gust came together with the sets and the magic happened! Pumping our way into Atlantic walls, dropping down over glassy water, with the lighthouse standing proudly in front of us, laying the sail down and putting the board on the rail, looking only at this huge amount of water transforming into a throaty lip coming full speed at us! Feel, integrate and use that energy, that acceleration to carve or sometimes even get airtime, and then reaching the channel fully stoked!
Riding that wave was like a deep breath ‘in and out’, during which you feel so much that the sensation of time gets altered; it is very fast but very slow at the same time. Big wave windsurfing is generally more about the wave than it is about the wind, and over the years I’ve come to realise that the lighter the wind, the more naturally we can get in sync with the energy of the ocean, the rhythm of the waves, the feeling to be present, to commit and let it all happen.
WILD
Later that day the wind suddenly picked up and we sailed another spot nearby where 10 metre lines were breaking about a kilometre outside of small cliffs. We had to launch from a sheltered beach four kilometres upwind, then sail downwind for at least 10 minutes, where I was feeling very small and vulnerable in the middle of this moving sea. The wind got so strong that the face of the wave was very choppy and we were feeling a bit lost out there, putting ourselves into some very large walls of water and navigating through huge sets to try and make it down and into the shoulder of the wave.
It was a very strong experience as there was absolutely no room for mistakes, and the challenge was simply to be there, not to perform. Pierre was putting himself very deep in the lineup with his jet ski, but he always kept his smile and stayed calm, a little bit like a guardian angel, which he was for us on that special day. In a nutshell that trip was an amazing experience, not to mention how kind and welcoming the local surfers were, they shared their knowledge of the place with us and lived the session with us too, watching from the land.
JULIEN TABOULET
First time for us in Galicia, and for me it was cool to make a new trip with Thomas and Pierre; Thomas and myself are like a family, we are riding together for 25 years now! We rode two spots; it was super windy, 3.7m for me and 3.3m for Thomas, and a nice run over big rocks to get in the water! It was impossible to ride the wave with more than 60 knots of wind on a tricky “slab”; if Thomas can’t do anything then nobody can! To get out of the water was pretty treacherous, but we survived.
The other spot was another big slab! At low tide there were some gusts, so we decided to try the beast! After a few waves my confidence was building, but after a “small” crash, I had no time to take my breath and was more than 10 seconds underwater in the dark! You know that going for an aerial on this kind of wave is another story, the water is sucking and you feel this step under your board, it is so scary and involves so much technique! But Thomas did exactly this! What a rider! What a commitment! We think that he is a psycho! But if Thomas hits the lip, he knows that it’s possible to land it, it’s never an “air suicide” with him! We have shared so many things together in our lives already! Even after many years, the love of big wave riding keeps us going! Windsurfing will stay an awesome and original sport forever, whatever will happen in the future of this crazy world!
“The love of big wave riding keeps us going!”
PIERRE BOURAS
FIRST MISSION
My first mission with Thomas to Galicia was on January 15th. I drove 14 hours with the jet ski on the back of my truck. It was a long drive, but what we found there was worth it. The jet ski has 3 jobs – safety cover, for shooting photos from and lastly, we simply need it to get to these remote spots. On this first mission it was a crazy 20-minute passage to get to the spot with a 50 knot head wind! At the spot the channel is very small, so you focus on where you are if you don’t want to end up on the rocks. The wave we wanted to shoot was not breaking, but we found another spot, Rinlo, that was just barrelling non-stop! Thomas a.k.a. ‘the cat’, rode the wave perfectly until a crash! I managed to get him on the ski quickly, but his gear was broken. We were a bit disappointed that the main spot Illa Pancha did not work, but we were glad we got this magical slab in Rinlo!
SECOND CHANCE
A month later on February 7th, the phone rang! It was Thomas again, calling me to see if I was up for going back to Galicia. The forecast looked way better than the first time. So yeah let’s do it, as we missed the big wave spot the last time. We wanted to come back with that box ticked! So it was on the road for another 14-hour drive, but this time Julien Taboulet joined us with his family and it was great to have him on the team, he has a good vibe and is a really talented sailor.
The first day at Rinlo was mast high but with 60-knot storm chase style winds. Julien was on a 3.7m and Thomas on a 3.3m. It was hard to take waves with the wind really offshore. The session wasn’t really good or long, it was just to test the waters before the big day.
“I had some scary moments.”
THE DAY!
At sunrise there were already sets breaking at Illa Pancha! Quickly we put the jet ski in the water as the tide would not wait for us. We packed one board each on the sled and two rigs on the side of the jet ski. It turned out to be the longest day on the jet ski I have had in my life to date!
Finally we arrived at Illa Pancha and Thomas was straight out there, dropping in super deep on his first wave, followed by a big bottom turn! It was sick conditions – huge waves and light winds. It wasn’t easy for them to take a wave, but when they did it was next level! Julien was back from Maui with a couple of Jaws rides under his belt and kept his big wave flow going by putting some heavy lines down on this monster Galician wave.
After a few hours we checked another spot. While the guys got ready I had to wait three hours in the water before they went sailing again! I had some scary moments; a big set came in and closed out the bay. I had to escape from huge waves of around 12-15 metres! Luckily, I managed to get out before the wave ate me! On the way back, everyone had big smiles during our last 40 minutes cruising with the ski to get back to the harbour, super happy that we had scored what we came for! At the end of this day I had spent nine hours on the water, I was sunburnt but stoked!
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#Windsurf DAVY SCHEFFERS: VIETNAM UPDATE
DAVY SCHEFFERS: VIETNAM UPDATE
Dutch freestyle sailor Davy Scheffers headed out to Vietnam for a winter training session and found himself locked down when the Covid 19 pandemic hit. We caught up with him to find out how he has been coping and what his plans are for the rest of 2020.
Photos: Courtesy of Davy Scheffers and PWA / Carter
WS: What have you been up to and where have you been over the past few months?
DS: I am in Vietnam, Phan Rang City in the Ninh Thuan province since the end of January for a windsurfing trip. We arrived in our current location on day five of the Covid virus outbreak and a week later Vietnam closed its borders.
The plan was to stay until the end of March and then return to Europe to work. Then most of flight companies started to cancel the flights and after re-booking my flight to the end of April it was cancelled again. I am supposed to fly on the Turkish airlines and until these days they haven’t announced any further news concerning flights in and out of Vietnam.
The country closed its borders from other countries and foreign tourists, except for certain critical journeys. Right now we wait for further news. Luckily, we have had a pretty solid windy season. The winter has been amazing for riding and the trip here been amazing so far.
WS: How was the lock down for you?
DS: Yes, after some time around end of March, like around a month after the outbreak in Wuhan, Vietnam had very little cases of corona. By closing its borders in time and taking care very well about the situation they manage to control it quite well. They did a lockdown for around two weeks in April. Everybody was staying inside as much as possible, you weren’t allowed to go to restaurants and windsurfing was only allowed at restricted beaches. People were all wearing masks and you had to wash your hands and have your temperature scanned in front of the few supermarkets that were open. People weren’t meeting and most of them stayed inside during that period.
After that time everything opened again shops schools, gyms and so on and the whole country started running like before as if there has been no virus. Obviously, there are no tourists except a couple of people who were still around and not able to travel back to the country like myself or those that have been working here. It seems like there are starting to be a couple more flights arriving now but travelling with windsurfing equipment doesn’t make it whole lot easier.
At the end of April, the embassy organised a flight to Frankfurt with Vietnam Airlines and you weren’t allowed to bring any baggage! The tickets were a ridiculous price, so I decided to extend my visa and stay longer. Extending the visa here is a difficult process and they ask quite a lot of money without caring for you and how many times we actually need to extend. That something they could have made smoother for the people who couldn’t return home, I guess it brings them extra money.
WS: Have you been on able to be the water all the time during this period?
DS: The lockdown itself was very strict for two weeks. We weren’t allowed to sail in the lagoon. Which was basically 10m in front of my hut as I lived on the beach at Vietnam surf camp. The weird thing was driving to the city twenty minutes further away where windsurfing was allowed. At the beginning of March, I injured my little finger and I wasn’t able to windsurf until end of April. I went riding one day during the lockdown with the injured finger. It was Ok although I went very easy. After some more time and taking a little holiday in the mountains I came back and finally I sailed. So, during the lockdown period I did lots of training on the beach and being isolated it was fine!
WS: So, without any events this year what will you be doing?
DS: It is a big bummer concerning the events. But I don’t really have them on mind right now. I had a wonderful competition experience from these past years. I feel we should be very grateful we had to chance to experience all of these amazing events. I am going to be in Vietnam at least one more month but the wind now isn’t so good at this part of the season! It is better in the winter and probably more consistent in the Netherlands and England right now. It’s mainly because of all the cancelled flights and whole situation I decided to stay here longer, and meanwhile continue my practice in Kung Fu that I started during last year’s trip. Kung Fu is a great training, I’m learning another skill and I enjoying it very much. I always trained hard for windsurfing and I believe this is a great combination.
Kung Fu is something new happening in my life. Last year we were here in Vietnam when some of the staff from the camping asked us if we wanted to join some karate lessons in the village. Once we arrived, it took us a only short time to find out that it was much more than karate, when we watched them swinging around with all sorts of weapons and floating through all kinds acrobatics. Yes, it was kind of difficult in the begin to find a way of communicating as the locals weren’t speaking any English.
After some time, we had a great two months of practice. This year I also returned to Vietnam to continue to practice the Vietnamese martial arts. In all these years windsurfing I did all sorts of trainings with PT’s as movement, bodybuilding, callisthenics also I started the yoga journey as well in 2011. That was a great combination to windsurf conditioning and recovering from the heavy sessions. Meanwhile I always liked the Kung Fu movies and followed them but only never got into the training. So that was really cool and then the coincidence of meeting this crew. This season I have been here now for a couple more months and been training on daily basis with the locals my teacher is truly amazing and such an inspiring artist and I feel it’s to be a great combination addition to my windsurfing skills. bringing some more of the fire element the explosive power that I believe it will only turn out into more than good.
WS: How tough is it for a young freestyler to make a living out of windsurfing these days?
DS: I am very happy with the last ten years that I’ve had support from my sponsors to get to the international events and was able to visit so many great places. Now the 2020 season started, it was going to be more difficult for me personally, I have very little financial support in windsurfing and I wasn’t sure if I could participate on PWA and EFPT in 2020.
The sport is expensive, and many of us do it for the love of it and being hooked at that feeling of going around the world windsurfing with all the guys on tour! I understand you can’t really call the way I have been doing it a career! It was more of an opportunity I took. Over 10 years international travel and competing around the world has been so great. Then I guess that is ten years that I could have also studied. With windsurfing it’s so hard to save up and build a future when chasing on this level especially without major financial support. Playing in the top of the Windsurfing competitions occupies a lot of time and the costs of travelling are very high.
When you don’t have sponsors is very difficult to be a pro windsurfer. You have work for your chances and the sponsors will leave you to decide about contracts on a take it or leave it basis. Only the elite can truly live from windsurfing. So that’s what pushed me to go the extra mile, believing that one day they would support me I did my best, tried very hard, but didn’t get to reach to the point where I see the big numbers come in. My level is high as some of the best in the world. I didn’t come to that level of riding complaining. I had to work for it and I’m very happy and thankful for that what I achieved with the chances I had. I feel I can call myself a champ in different ways. For the future days, I’m looking for new cooperation with amazing teams, so I can chase more goals to continue windsurfing.
I might have to retire from competition if there isn’t going to be any financial support incoming. Like everyone I have to chase some money to pay the bills and sustain other future goals. I do not need much money just need to sustain. It is a hard and fun road with windsurfing, with lots of crazy adventures, so if you really want to live it, you really have to want to do it.
WS: What do you love about windsurfing and freestyle windsurfing?
DS: It’s the whole energy around the practice. Meeting friends, travelling to beautiful places. We chase windsurfing conditions, in search for the magic ride. I love waking up every morning and living with the wind. When it’s windy you get connected with that whole energy. And when there is no wind you feel you are missing something. Something most windsurfers feel from the heart. It must be the feeling of being hooked at this sport. Windsurfing is so free and sure it clears mind and body. At the end of the day you are done, the muscles are sore, and the mind is empty. Seeing the world in all those different wind and water conditions makes you feel so connected. It’s a beautiful world and windsurfing is like a precious gift from our gods. We all should be very thankful for the chance we can ride now. There is a whole lot of people that would have love to have the chance to windsurf and didn’t get it or don’t have it at all. Every day when I wake up, I feel so great for what I’ve done and where I am in life and it makes it feel like a duty to continue. I can’t let windsurf go for now, the practice became an obsession for me that I have to keep up. I want to share my knowledge, skill and teach it further and continue to work in this great sport.
I love all this disciplines and I ride mostly wave and freestyle. I would love to have more equipment as well, slalom boards, speed boards, I like fins and I like rails. I have no interest in foiling or winging at the moment! I like it so much as how it is. I’m exploring movement and technique so with freestyle and wave boards I feel that I can ride fast, I’m very fast and move very free in all round. I discover moves and technique and continue with that learning all sorts of crazy stuff. The way I see windsurf and how I practice is different. The function and action. It’s so effective. That’s why I’m setting up the experience master class camps and workshops and also set up online programs for them to train windsurfing better also.
WS: Do you do any other work aside from windsurfing?
DS: Ah yes, I had to do many jobs in between to get in enough money for the tour and travels. I did over 12 years as instructor. Some moments, I had the feeling of having to expand myself in other crafts and during the last two season I was mixing a job in floor coating repair and construction full time combining with windsurfing in the evenings and weekends. Yes, I missed many sessions but and that helped me travel to the events. For years I have been teaching, hosting workshops and clinics and it’s actually a whole lot to combine with being a windsurfing professional.
WS: What is the hardest trick to learn out of all the freestyle moves?
DS: I have landed some very crazy combos and there is a whole lot moves that are extremely difficult. One very famous is of course the ‘double air culo’. It was hard to learn it but especially on the dead flat water. I must have been one of the first do it on flat. Then I feel for me the shifty inside tack on Fuerteventura been so hard too during the World Cup that was a sick moment. At home I did couple of them shifty on flat water in some of the pool in Holland too. I think the switch stance ‘pasko’ in Vietnam is absolutely crazy and can’t wait to show it on film as no one ever done that what I seen also on video or even landed and I was so happy I did it few time. Also, I have the ‘switch stance air chachoo flat’ rotated and also more cork a like rotated. yes, what isn’t on film doesn’t count ha-ha!
Then I have crazy flatwater combos. Clock to grubby and Spock. I have the grubby double Spock & double grubby into Spock. Like the triple E-slider, triple grubby and 4x Spock also the double E-slider puneta.
What might be killers I did were the E-slider puneta to burner and the double Spock culo, the culo Spock culo, and not forget the grubby Spock culo. The ponch to ponch was hard and also ponch Shaka. I like the forward to ponch future as well and forward to Shaka. My freestyle is going so crazy and I wish I could show more regular on video and film.
And you know what’s actually like super hard is learning all the tricks on both tacks. Right now, I am so consistent on many moves both tacks and it’s another interest to me to learn more of them. And then once you do a move to get it consistent and be consistently throwing combo after combo it’s another level. Many windsurfers land cool moves and make nice clips then what about filming one hour and how many different tricks can you get to do. This free style it goes where your mind going to be. Some are creative others do the copy paste. I am so in love with the sport and I follow everything on the web and just love to see all the guys keep coming with their skills and style.
WS: Did the lockdown worry you or did you stay positive through this period?
DS: I am so positive at the moment and very happy to be where I am. I can’t wait to go home, and I really miss my family. Vietnam is absolutely great so far and I’m in a very amazing surrounding sharing good vibes and energy with fantastic people. Every day we are practicing the Kung Fu here and some days we windsurf if wind kick in. I have had some very great times with my girlfriend together who comes from here in Vietnam. The culture is cool and learning all about that living here is like another blessing.
WS: What are your ambitions with windsurfing?
DS: It’s a little more because I fulfilled all my dreams already and lived them longer then I was dreaming for as being a young kid. Right now, I’m in the stage where I feel I would like to return the gift to other people and share my knowledge. We need to help each other support each other and sustain what we can for the better world. Together we must do it. There is a whole lot going on right now and I have to take my part in it all.
WS: What sailors do you fear the most when you are competing and why?
DS: There is not really fear, I enjoy competing so much. I love the challenges; I love to bring that challenge to myself. I do not hold back during competition and will come at an opponent, very skilful, technical with power and they won’t know what to expect. Competition has been always a challenge of my own. I’d wish to have more events and more heats, more conditions to challenge and show more of an all-round result because I believe with two events you can’t call a world title especially it’s since five year the same two events. I am ready all year and have been to every event for the past 10 years. I haven’t missed a single event due illness or kind of injury.
WS: How do you like the Gaastra Tabou gear you are using?
DS: It’s cool, I love it. They have great boards, and nice sails, the gear is simply amazing. The brand have been doing so well over the years, even with all the ups and downs in the market they have always been top brands. I am very happy to have rode with the gear all these years. I’d would love to get a chance develop more and have more effect riding something that really suits more to my style of riding. I never had my own design board and sail. Yes, they took some of my feedback into the R and D. It would be really cool after all that years to get something suits me totally.
The all-round the production line from Tabou / Gaastra is so outstanding and sure one of the best. What I mean I believe it could suit me even better when creating something in my favours and it’s something I wish to happen in the next chapter. Davy Scheffers developed board and sails I’m sure they work for the whole free ride and style whole community. I feel much connected with the gear and it must be turning out only good. That grab and go rip board and sail ready to do it all.
WS: Three words to live by?
DS: Live, love, laugh is what popped up in my mind.
WS: What are your plans for the rest of the year?
DS: Right now, I will focus on my training. My all-round performance in windsurfing. I am training hard conditioning and will get back to windsurfing when windy to keep up my level. I feel ready to help kick windsurfing into the next chapter. I’m so motivated and want to film few new videos with crazy action and super style high performance riding. I am watching all windsurf movies and riders in action and I have things on my mind that is just a bit different. It’s going to be so cool, I can’t wait!
WS: Are you missing the competition or are you enjoying doing something different?
DS: Oh, I miss it a lot. I miss my friends from there and miss travelling to those beautiful places. The events are so cool, the crew is so awesome I have so many amazing memories from tour. Yes, at the same time. Also, this year gives us a change now and another chance to think and prepare differently as previous years. We were very spoiled over the years windsurfing around the world. I felt a year off, could be beneficial, look at life in another way and maybe this will create extra motivation. I just believe it is going to be a great year. Now is not the time to feel sad. Better prepare for the worst and get ready to kill it when have to. Enjoy now worry later!
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#Windsurf AFFAIRS OF THE HART | KNEE-MONIA
AFFAIRS OF THE HART | KNEE-MONIA
A painful joint doesn’t necessarily spell the end…
I woke up to see an earnest young doctor standing over me. We were in the recovery room of Queen Alexander hospital Portsmouth. It was 1992 and I had just had the first of many surgeries on my troublesome right knee. Expecting him to pat me on the back and tell me I was as good as new, I asked him how the operation had gone. With no concern for my fragile mental state, he said:
“You’re the windsurfer aren’t you? Well you must think very hard about what you’re going to do with the rest of your life. You basically have the knee of a 60 year old.” “You don’t suppose he wants it back do you.” I quipped desperate to make light of the situation. But it didn’t take a genius to decode his message – ‘you’re f***ed mate.’
Worn and torn
For the two years previous, my knee had become increasingly sore and prone to swelling after a heavy session. I’d also lost a bit of movement. And because the quadriceps only tighten in the last 5° of extension, I’d lost muscle mass around the knee, making matters increasingly worse.
Following my initial consultation, the assumption was that a foreign body, a piece of cellular debris, was blocking and irritating the joint. A minimally invasive arthroscopy (keyhole surgery) would surely remove the obstruction and I’d sprint out of there – but apparently my condition was more sinister. The surgeon had spotted a small area of worn cartilage, which signalled the start of osteoarthritis (an incurable breakdown of the joint surface), for which hammering down speed and slalom courses with a weight jacket was not the suggested treatment. “If you ever want to play football with the children you don’t yet have, give up now.” Was my surgeon’s parting gift.
Worn brake pads.
Arthritis?! That is surely an old person’s condition. I was only 33 and enjoying my best season ever on the circuit – but a stake had just been driven through the heart of my sporting future.
But as I sank ever deeper into a morass of misery, an older doc hobbled in looking in far worse shape than me. It was the consultant, who’d I’d originally seen about my issue. He was an altogether different animal, a former rugby playing, beer-swilling, devil-may-care type. I relayed his colleague’s prognosis.
“I’m sorry about old misery guts. Bloody good surgeon though – far better than me – but never taken a day’s exercise in his life and believes people who do dangerous sports are just a drain on the NHS and deserve everything that’s coming to them.”
“So I wont have to give up windsurfing then?”
“Bloody hell no! With the odd tuck and trim, we’ll keep you going for a few years yet.”
“So when will I have to give up?”
“You’ll know … too bloody painful.” And let forth a Lord Melchett style ‘Baaaaah’ and left the room guffawing away.
Keeping on
Long story short – 4 weeks later I was on the podium in Fuerteventura and a quarter of a century after that, I’m still doing the sport full time – partly because I need to feed an ever more expensive family – but I also happen to love it and struggle to imagine a time when that particular avenue of joy will be closed. So what of the knee? Both doctors were right. As Misery Guts predicted, I’m not Ronaldo on the football pitch; and yet, as Lord Melchett promised, on the water, I have kept on keeping on with bearable discomfort.
The knee looks a little weird and crooked. But when people are worried on my behalf I ask then if they’ve watched the Paralympics and seen the heights people often reach with a shortage of limbs, let alone a slightly wonky one. So surely it’s no big deal for me to manage with one tender joint? Gradually and mostly subconsciously, I’ve worked out how to protect it.
For example, waterstarting I put my stronger leg on first on both tacks. Vibration and sudden shock loads really irritate it – hence I prefer the smooth, predictable carving of wave sailing to hammering fully powered with big kit over chop. Foiling has been a godsend because it’s a velvety ride (if you’re doing it right) and there’s relatively little force going through your body. Jumping I head up or bear away, depending on the tack, to avoid landing with all my weight on the bad leg. As for freestyle, powering up twisted and loaded is the worst – so most of the new skool stunts, especially switch foot moves, are off limits – which is probably good for my dignity anyway. But on the very ‘up’ side, having a potentially painful condition, incentivises you to sail more efficiently and use less grunt.
Good advice
Being in pain, as any medical professional will tell you, is the body’s way of telling you it’s not happy and to ease up. Keen to get an update on my ‘knee-monia’, I paid a visit to an orthopaedic surgeon recently who happens to be a friend and good windsurfer. His first comment was that he’d never seen anyone function on a knee quite that bad. This was not a telling off. He actually congratulated me for not going under the knife and demanding a new one.
“It’s all about pain,” he said. “If you’re sleeping and then can do what you do – then don’t come to me.” He then told me I’d lasted this long because I’d kept going and therefore had good bone density and muscle mass around the knee. The trick is to stay out of pain – or at least keep it in check; he said the next phase for me is really important – and that by getting specialist physio help, I can get different muscles to fire to realign and support the knee, and even improve function, so I can continue to bore the windy world with my technique offerings for years to come.
I then discovered that he had been working with such a physio from Hampshire cricket on a study about combatting frailty and keeping people fitter for longer, be they octogenarians or top sportspeople. Knowing a thousand windsurfers who crave immortality, I demanded an interview with them both. It’s fascinating stuff and you can find it buried somewhere in this issue. Peter Hart – 25th FEBRUARY 2020
Pain relief by finding easier ways to do things. Photo Radical Sports Tobago.
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#Windsurf MAKE SUMMER 2020 AN ENDLESS ONE AT CLUB VASS
MAKE SUMMER 2020 AN ENDLESS ONE AT CLUB VASS
Club Vass is in full swing and tell us – “Despite the extraordinary challenges we have all faced this year, Club Vass has been up and running since the beginning of July. We’re pleased to say it’s business as usual with our full program of adult and kids’ windsurfing courses led by our top team of coaches. We’ve had fantastic conditions so far and our brand new 2020 kit is performing well, with Fanatic, Severne, RRD & Goya boards and Severne & Duotone sails. We’ve just added JP Magic Rides and Super Rides to our outstanding fleet. We’ve also got MTBs, SUPs & fitness classes and our restaurant and beach bar is open. We’re looking forward to a windy September and seeing you out here!”
For more info. check out – clubvass.com
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#Windsurf HOW TO WING SURF BY ROBBY NAISH
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Want to learn to wing surf – Robby naish shows us how.
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The king – Robby Naish – gets all vloggy and takes us on a day trip to the beach in Maui and gives us a candid update on life there at the moment, before taking out his toys for a wing session, followed by a full on windy blast on his slalom gear!
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#Windsurf TRIDEM SMASHES WINDSURFING RECORD – 67.17 KNOTS
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Check this out – French lunacy at its finest and with tongue firmly in cheek, Pierre Mortefon breaks the World Speed Record with the tridem windsurfing team at a record breaking speed of 67.17 knots! Location: Secret spot (France) Date: 18/07/2020
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#Windsurf ADAM WARCHOL: GOYA YOUNG GUN
ADAM WARCHOL: GOYA YOUNG GUN
Windsurf catch up with the young and talented Polish rider Adam Warchol who found himself out in Maui when the Covid pandemic hit! Luckily water sports were allowed through the whole crises so he was lucky enough to score amazing conditions in Maui!
Photos: PWA / Carter.
WS: What have you been up to over the past few months?
AW: I’m in Maui since the middle of January and during all this time I’ve been Windsurfing and surfing a lot, enjoying every day in this incredible and magical place. The waves here in Maui are incredible, almost non-stop and the natural environment is just wonderful.
WS: Why did you go to Maui?
AW: I always dreamed about going to Maui. My original plan was to start studying Oceanography at the University of Las Palmas (Gran Canaria). But I felt like this year after finishing high school and before starting University, was the only opportunity for me to go to Maui for a longer time. After talking with my parents about this, we both agreed that this is a great opportunity for me.
WS: Are you stuck there, or did you choose to stay?
AW: I was planned to stay In Maui until the end of May and then go to the Canaries and prepare for the first PWA stop in Pozo. But after all this crazy situation around the world due to the COVID-19 everything went upside down. I was very lucky to be, during all that time, here in Maui, where going to the water was still allowed. For the moment, I don’t know what’s next, everything depends on how all this situation regarding the Pandemic will develop.
WS: Where are you from and where did you learn to sail?
AW: I was born in Warsaw (Poland). At the age of six, I moved to Tarifa, Spain along with my parents. I learned windsurfing there when I was 12. All this time since, I was windsurfing and surfing in Tarifa
WS: What do you love about windsurfing?
AW: I love riding waves, their potency and beauty and the way that wave-riding gives you connectivity with nature and its surroundings. I really love that feeling of the adrenaline rush while riding big waves, whether surfing or windsurfing and also the fact that in windsurfing you can have your free own style of riding, it doesn’t matter if is freestyle or wave riding.
WS: How do you like being on the Goya team and Quatro and what gear do you ride?
AW: I’m very happy and grateful to be part of such an amazing team full of great relationships and dedication. I ride Goya sails and Quatro boards, sails between 3.4m and 4.5m. The sail I use the most here is probably 3.7m, and, for the boards, I ride Pyramid production 77l and 82l. Sometimes I do some freestyle as well but usually when it is flat and no wave conditions!
WS: What are your plans without any events this season?
AW: Keep sailing, surfing, training, enjoying life and studying.
WS: What was your best session in Maui?
AW: Is hard to say, as I had a lot of good sessions here whether windsurfing, surfing or both. Every day here is different and wonderful, bringing something new. I loved for sure the wave-riding days in the South Side of the Island, where the surf and windsurf was just perfect!
WS: Did you learn a lot from the Pro sailors out in Maui?
AW: Definitely sailing in such an amazing place surrounded by the best wave riders in the world is awesome and makes you push harder. I’m really happy to have met some of the legends here as well.
WS: What inspires you?
AW: Learning, creativity and all the mysteries hidden in this world.
WS: Who were your windsurfing heroes and why?
AW: One of my all-time favourites wave riders was always Jason Polakow, who I actually had the pleasure to meet here in Maui. I loved his extreme side of searching for that adrenaline rush all the time.
WS: What is your ambition in windsurfing?
AW: Riding the biggest and heaviest waves around the world, chasing storms and having my own style of riding. And of course, becoming a World Champion in wave discipline!
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