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Written by Kevin Pritchard
Thursday, 12 July 2007
Today was the first day of racing and we had conditions all over the place. In my first heat I was on 5.1 and just as we got the heat under way the wind died. We made it around the course and I even finished in second and everone else finished but after some moaning on the beach they called it off and we went back out with 6.6 and finished the heat off. By the time they got to the final I was back on the 5.9 fully wound up. It was windy. I had some great speed out there. I was running my 5.9 TR 3 with the Isonic 87 and my secret weapon 34 Debiochet fin. I definately had some speed just need to get a better start..The story of my life. In the first final I had a good start just got a little bit worse start than Antoine and Bjorn and they beat me to the first mark. IN the second final I got a TERRIBLE start, no excuses I was just 3 seconds late.. pissed me off... but with traffic and crashes I managed to squeak my way into 4th. Good finish for the first two races. We went in for lunch and when we came back out the wind had gone. Yep gone for the day.. So it was a nice early day.. Pozo is actually really nice when the wind backs off a bit! Anyhow here is a short clip of the wave sailing. I have some more clips but these are the highlights of it.. and the guy on the green sail that is ripping up so hard... that is Victor Fernandez.. He rips. The guy is amazing!!! A big congrats to him for his second straight victory this year and Pozo two years in a row. That is pretty big!! » 12 Comments 1Comment at Wednesday, 31 December 1969 13:33by Fabrice Hi Kevin, What sails did you register as maximum? 7,6 or 8,4? What big board? 101? 2Comment at Wednesday, 31 December 1969 13:33by Anonymous Wow! Pozo is'er'sick-oh! 3Comment at Wednesday, 31 December 1969 13:33by us3kp 7.6 as biggest. 101 as biggest 4Comment at Wednesday, 31 December 1969 13:33by Anonymous Waouh !! Very good. At least a good view of the competition because tonyx's video of this day was a bit poor.... Thanks a lot ! 5Comment at Wednesday, 31 December 1969 13:33by Anonymous I saw some sick stuff in there brah. Nice job on the video and editing, too. You rock. 6Comment at Wednesday, 31 December 1969 13:33by Tatiana Howard wow!! everyone is ripping so hard! crazy 7Comment at Wednesday, 31 December 1969 13:33by Anonymous Kev I embedded your video on the Windsurfing Mag Forum which allows forum users to see it as it appears on your blog without having to go to your blog. http://forums.windsurfingmag.com/sh owthread.php?t=174 Hope this ok. If not, i will get them to take it down. clyde 8Comment at Wednesday, 31 December 1969 13:33by Robert Bruce Funny, an anonymous clyde. It's a good video, well put together. However, if you want to really make it an eye-opener, you must put some topless gals on the rocks!!! 9Comment at Wednesday, 31 December 1969 13:33by Anonymous hi. whats the song on the video clip? 10Comment at Wednesday, 31 December 1969 13:33by <a href="http://www.xa Thanks for article! 11Comment at Wednesday, 31 December 1969 13:33by <a href="http://phente Thanks for interesting article. 12Comment at Wednesday, 31 December 1969 13:33by <a href="http://course Excellent website. Good work. Very useful. I will bookmark! » Post Comment Email (will not be published) Name Title Comment remaining characters Post

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