Hello everybody
It’s been a week since
the PWA at Brouwersdam has ended after a great week of sailing, relaxing and
partying at the DAM 7 festival! Having a world cup at your homespot the place
you learned so much is always something special and seeing the amazing setup of
the event made it all look unreal. There wasn’t a long travel to the
competition but just a one-hour drive, it wasn’t a new place and instead of
asking all the locals what the wind was going to do you where the guy they came
to instead of the other way around.
During the week we got
some really good wind from the NW that makes it quite flat for the wind there
is. In the single elimination I was straight up against Julien Mas who is one
of the top sailors in France and would made me go straight full on from of the
start. I had a pretty good heat and advanced against Max Mattisek who made the
big upset of the day by defeating Davy Scheffers in round 2. After winning
against Max who was really sailing well I was up against Steven. The wind got
super strong and I was fully powered up on 4.0 and even a bit overpowered in
the gusts. I didn’t sail a really good heat and couldn’t really put on a fight
against Steven who was sailing amazing in the strong wind conditions.
The next day it was
time for the double elimination, the chance for wind was pretty big but it kept
us waiting the whole time as it only kicked in around 1 or 2. By the time I had
to sail it was already 7 in the evening and I was up against Davy Scheffers who
was having a great comeback in the double elimination with some amazing
sailing. I knew it would be a close heat but I gave it my best, I missed my big
moves I was training on after Fuerte like no handed burner and flaka shaka but
still managed to sail a really good heat with moves like spockculo, skopu both
sides burner 900°, really big kono etc. In the end the heat came down to the
last move of Davy which was a no-handed burner 900° jumped 3-4 seconds after
the horn of the end of the heat as you can see in the link below. It was a
super impressive move which made the heat turn into his favour, although he
only had his front foot standing in the foot strap 1 second before the end and
putting his second one in as the heat ended still having to duck and jump the
actual move after the end of the heat it still counted which in my opinion is a
wrong call as like this you give an advantage to the people who do their moves
switch compared to people who do their move normal stance.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10202280722484449&set=vb.74455677070&type=3&theater (copy the link and watch yourself)
As I saw the footage
only the next day so I couldn’t do anything anymore and had to go on with my
9th place.. I’m not the best loser I admit that but when I know it was fair I
can put myself over it pretty fast and be happy with the result but now I
can’t. I lost the chance to defend and assure my top 5 ranking for 2013 and to
get a good result on my home spot all-in 4 seconds. But of course this is all
my opinion, I would say that if you agree the move of Davy should count I lose
on a fair way and I deserved to be 9th, if you think the move of Davy shouldn’t
have counted you agree I should have got a better place than 9th. I had an
amazing week at the DAM 7 and can’t wait till next year to improve my result
and look back with no mixed feelings. In a few days I leave to Sylt for the
last PWA of the year let’s hope I can get a good result and get back into the
top 5, which is still my goal of the year!
Just have to keep on smiling and keep enjoying every second on the water!
See you there!
Cheers Dieter
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