Hello Everybody
It’s been a hectic few
weeks the last month with some good sailing at home and a lot of work for
school. The last 2 weeks I had exams which where luckily well spread out from
each other so I hope I past them both.
It was a consistent
planning of hours of studying and hours of sailing. I think there is no better
motivation for studying for me than knowing that I can go sail the next day or
just had a great session. In the past few weeks there have been an average of 2-3
sailing days a week which isn’t bad and one storm that past by with winds
around 35 to 45 knts for 2 days which gave a lot of jumping fun even on a lake.
The storm was pretty
good being max out on my S1 4.0 (my father was sailing the same size) it was
pretty hard to do freestyle and with the strongest wind in the morning on Sunday
I took a wave board and just went for back loops on the lake. After making a
high score of 3 back loops in one run I decided to go for a bit of overpowered
freestyle sailing. In the beginning I was still fully overpowered and couldn’t
do too much but as it became later on the day the wind dropped a bit and
freestyle got possible again. After sailing 6 hours that day I was just dead
tiered as the day before was also already a day of overpowered sailing.
Besides the 2 strong
days we also had a lot of days on 4.8 at Brouwersdam with wind from the North
and the east which is a bit gustier but was still a lot of great fun! My dad
was filming a bit some of the sessions and I just pretty much finished the
movie of it so this should be out really soon, just a few moves put together
with a bit of music while I was sailing with the prototypes of the Freek from
Severne.
Now I’m in Lanzarote
where I will probably stay for 2 weeks before heading out to Fuerteventura to
prepare myself for the next PWA stop there end of July.
Cheers Dieter
