Fuerteventura Worldcup

The PWA worldcup at Fuerteventura is already over and the tour continues on to Turkey where the next slalom worldcup will be starting on the 9th of august. Having been home for some days, our boy Kurosh Kiani gave us an update on what went down during the days of the slalom worldcup. Five days of full on racing action out on the beaches of Sotavento on the south of Fuerteventura brought us lots of good action to be followed live and by daily videos. Here is what Kurosh had to say together with a short video from the whole event:

Fuerteventura 2010 from Kurosh Kiani on Vimeo.

The Fuerteventura worldcup was by far the race that i had been looking the most forward to during this season. Finally getting to race at a place with lots of wind and perfect conditions. I was already on Fuerteventura 10 days before the racing would start and spent a big amount of time racing and tuning up with my danish mates who had also come with me.

I picked up Josh just one day before the event, and i could feel that he came all fired up and full of energy, whereas i maybe had burnt off some of mine during those 10 days that i was there before him. A lesson to bring with me for upcoming years.

Those five days that the race was on were quite hard, but i had some of the best fun ever. Why? Because personally i went through lots of changes during these days. I went from being totally nervous and not being able to pull if off to being confident and going for it during one day.

Josh was there to psyche me up and get me racing out there. Of course you cannot learn everything at once. It is a very long process, but being around on Fuerteventura this year gave me loads of new input to equipment, racing and my mental game. I mean, i have been here before and raced, but this time it was with other dimensions which gave me huge amounts of motivation go get out there for the next race and do better. Both Josh and Myself had great speed in out boards which were almost built perfectly for this place when you think of the sizes. We were on out small Magnum62 almost the whole time with sails from 5,5-7,8.

Josh was doing constant finals and loosers finals while i was not making the semi-finals, which is fine by now as i had different goals, which Josh and i agreed on before the contest. Again, i can not say how much fun it was racing with all your freinds around and just having pure fun. It was just like the old days when i started windsurfing, cruising around with your freinds out on the sea. I am saying this because it is very easy to forget the fun factor when you are in the middle of it. But this time it was all so clear and we are all excited to hit Turkey for the upcoming PWA slalom worldcup.

Now our roads have gone seperate ways and i am in Denmark re packing all my bags to take them back to the airport. Wind in Denmark is still on a summer vacation, but if i am lucky a day or two of sailing can happen before hitting Turkey where lighter winds normally dominate the venue.