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[00:00:00] Welcome to The Wing Life Podcast, where we talk about Wing Foiling and the lifestyles of those who enjoy this great sport. Alright, my friend, thanks for coming back. Thanks for having me again. You're coming off a pretty fun little leg of the tour. Yeah, absolutely.
[00:00:22] I think Canary Islands is always a good place to go. It's so much what a sports history that's been made in those islands that belong to Spain.
[00:00:32] That are actually the middle of the Atlantic, but they are Europe, they are Spain and it's, yeah, I think, probably on European territory the most, Winged, like, Winged place at that time of the year most consistent with all the islands are right in the trade winds and,
[00:00:51] yeah, it's known for strong and consistent winds throughout the summer. That's why also probably the most popular destination for Europeans to go and do any of the Winged World Sports, a lot of wind surfing, kinding and also Wing Foiling as well, all those places.
[00:01:09] Frank just got back from there so he was either debating, where was he thinking? He's either thinking, he could river which had been a bit much bigger of a flight, but because he's in Germany,
[00:01:19] I think it was a 300 year flight, a four-to-ventures fairly affordable so he just loved it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, as I said, it's a really popular destination and that's why also, you know,
[00:01:33] that these islands are the tourism of the Canary Islands, they're really interested to host water sport events because it's a big part of the tourism that they promote with these sports and they all, you know,
[00:01:45] there's a lot of these World Cup speed, you know, for wind surfing, kind surfing and now Winging are going on for many many years. The 4th of in Toura World Cup, it was the 36th edition this year.
[00:01:56] So that's not many events, maybe it's the only event with so many years actually in the whole world. Oh, wow, that's pretty cool. So we had the surf free stuff, free fly Solomon event that just wrapped up there and then we also had Grand Canaryah,
[00:02:15] which was your big air and then before that we had surf free style and free fly Solomon for youth. So three back to back events, how did the most recent surf free style free fly Solomon go?
[00:02:31] Yeah, no, it went amazing. You know, this 4th of in Toura is a place that never disappoints, you know, you go there and it's windy every day.
[00:02:39] So it's for running an event from our side from the Toura, it's one of the best places we can go because you know,
[00:02:47] it's going to be windy every day, you know, stressed out to need to, you know, pack too much in a day, you can really spread out the competition. Even planned photo shoot, it's very nice watercolors. It's a nice sandy beach. We had 30 to 35 knots every day.
[00:03:07] So you want small gear and the organization is the local organization is really Dalden because I said that during this for 36 years and that's still most of it the same team.
[00:03:19] So I know them for 15 years already and it's always a pleasure running events with them because you know exactly what you can expect and they know us really well.
[00:03:32] So it's been good, yeah, it's been two days of free fly Solomon, two days of free style and then we had another day where we ran a super session and tried something new like a synchro team free style competition
[00:03:47] as a show event and actually this went all the way down on the last day we did a synchro team event.
[00:03:56] So we had teams of two signing up and it was not, you know, so much about who does the hardest tricks but how synchro the teams were doing their tricks like doing the same trick as synchro is possible.
[00:04:12] And funny thing was that we got a lot of positive feedback from that from, you know, the first false spectators on the side and especially the ones who are maybe not as deep into free styling and know the technique,
[00:04:27] and really, you know, for them it's a great show because they see new two guys and some of them were even on the same wings, the same color, performing exact same backflip, for example, in exactly the same second.
[00:04:43] So yeah, and also also the mainstream media, you know, our TV distributor gave me some feedback that it was, yeah, it was very easy to sell this footage on TV because it's something that hasn't been seen before and as I said, it's for the common public that are not into the sport as deep as us.
[00:05:06] And this is might even look more impressive than doing, you know, super hard freestyle singing freestyle trick. So we had these free parts, the free fly slalom today is a world cup and the surf freestyle and then the the synchro team team event.
[00:05:22] It's been, yeah, it's been, it's been the, the free fly slalom was I mean, I explained already after like heart that we have changed the formats slightly.
[00:05:33] And for this year and since like heart we had a lot of work put in it was the first time so just to recap quickly on on those who didn't follow up maybe in like that.
[00:05:45] The difference that we are doing this year is that we're not running an unlimited let's say number not unlimited was never unlimited but a high number of eliminations where you start competing all the time quarter finals semi final final quarter science and we find the final until the time is over.
[00:06:03] We limit this and then after the so called so we're doing four rounds only. And if we have more time we can also go up to seven but we didn't like heart four and also the 42 or four eliminations with one discard. So you know exactly you have four eliminations where everybody will go.
[00:06:21] So the four eliminations the top eight men and the top six woman qualify for the final round. So the others are not allowed to compete in the last round anymore and then in this final round it's more or less yeah I would see similar to double elimination system in you know in way for freestyle discipline where the top guys from the from the qualification rounds they already see that in the final.
[00:06:47] And then the number three and number four in the semi final and the five six seven eight nine the quarter final. And then the quarter final starts and the winner of this hit and only hits of four people now so you have really small hits.
[00:06:59] We four riders only and the winner goes from the quarter into the semi and then the other other three guys have a rapid charge round so second chance and the winner also goes into the semi.
[00:07:09] And though they are the meat the number three and four from the qualification and the same system again the winner goes into the final the others have a rapid charge second chance winner goes also into the final and there is two guys that qualify meet the two guys that already see that they are from the qualification on and then you have the final.
[00:07:27] And what we change now from you know what we learned from from the Cartes the system a little bit. We had in like hard we had a little bit bigger hits.
[00:07:37] So the hits were up to six people even but what means you know if you're in the end the final you might qualify for the final as one of the top eight, but then if you have bigger hits and imagine you are doing bad in one hit.
[00:07:56] You will be able to drop six seven places that was what's happening what was happening in like heart you know so for example somebody maybe might be number one or number two after the qualification after four eliminations.
[00:08:13] And just because losing in one hit you would drop down to play seven or eight and to have a little bit more let's say reward and safety for those who make it to the final through the qualifying position we made the hits now a bit smaller so because of hits of four you can only drop a maximum of three places in the worst case.
[00:08:32] So whatever qualifies you do in the qualifications to go into the finals. The worst you can get is three places down but you can climb up from eight to one but you need to beat a lot of guys obviously.
[00:08:48] And yeah and then in the final that was one of the changes and the other change was that we. In like heart we only did one final so those four guys that were in the final they did one final and this was the all deciding hit.
[00:09:03] So whatever how you made it into final didn't matter there's one hit and whatever the result of the final is was was was the winner of the event.
[00:09:13] And that was it exactly and this we amended also bit similar to the IQ for system actually not exactly the same but similar.
[00:09:22] That you need to win the final twice to be the winner of the event so it's not all decided in one hit but the thing is that the number one from the qualification.
[00:09:34] Makes it into the final when you when you take a win this is called as bullet. You know that's just the term that is used okay so when you're taking a win in a final it is called a bullet.
[00:09:47] So the number one that is qualifying into the final already from the first four eliminations already has one bullet. So this guy only needs to win one time the final and all the others have no bullet.
[00:09:58] So this one guy has an advantage and has basically the match ball right away in the first hit so if you e wins it it's done finish.
[00:10:06] If another one wins he also has a bullet and then both of them basically have the match ball and you go again. And it could happen that everybody has one win and then it's the last match ball like say for everybody and in the four feet.
[00:10:22] The one who wins takes it so that that was the management we make just to make it a bit more you know we had a lot of meetings with the writers committee.
[00:10:32] And how to improve the system and yeah I think it went down pretty well and everybody was really happy it's a little bit harder to understand I think maybe for the outside of these multiple finals.
[00:10:43] But it's not that complicated you know we tried to also in our video. Highlight video we tried to break the down explained that with our head judges and some graphics on the live stream and it's been really really exciting.
[00:10:58] Racers I have to say because first of all we were really switching up different courses we you know put it's not it was not very wavy it was strong win but it was rather flat.
[00:11:09] And as you know we always with a free flight slalom try to keep it very technically and not so much about the speed.
[00:11:16] So we had a free flight section obviously where you cannot use the wing but we were also using other elements like a triangle that we have another courses where you also need to go upwind on the short so you have a triangle that you need to round 360 degrees.
[00:11:29] Which are three boys that are within 30 meters to each other like that and you need to basically go around once and everybody has a bit different line but in the end you need to take at least once or twice.
[00:11:42] And in one of the courses we also try it like a short. A short technically upwind where you basically make it from one point to another you can make it upwind if you're really good and you're really getting a lot of speed.
[00:11:59] So little bit lucky with gusts that come from the right direction but if not you need to make a tech so this was a technique and you technically part that was also you know some guys would would like.
[00:12:10] Go up the buoy and it was about 50 meters and could make it in one tech around that buoy and others might maybe would have to do two more texts together. So, okay yeah we we we we we try to put the couple more technically features in the course.
[00:12:25] And for advent to raise I think the best location for for this kind of.
[00:12:31] Not now for the free fly because it doesn't have so much swell like like grand canary for example but just because the action is so close to the beach you know the Poise are maybe 20 meters from the shore.
[00:12:41] The wind is strong you got you know you got spectators very good to live stream it's you have spectators super close and everybody like it's really feeling the excitement of racing and and a lot of the races have been super tight and because of these technical features.
[00:12:54] So, you know a change in position can happen quickly.
[00:12:58] You make one mistake it's not like on a on a slalom course in the classic racing is a lot about the speed you know you would drive everybody would drive and then you have long legs where it's just about getting top speed and you can overtake.
[00:13:10] But in that format and a technique of course it's more about who has to skills you know to do the right upwind text who.
[00:13:17] Who drives quicker who is better on the free fly who chooses the right combination of equipment that has enough flood enough glide and enough speed.
[00:13:26] So yeah it's been it's been a lot of exciting exciting races I have to say until the end and yeah feedback has been great and I think it's moving in the right direction and for sure every destination every spot has its specialities and the courses will adapt to that.
[00:13:45] And if we have more swell we're going to definitely also have longer free fly sections or if the wind is lighter we might have short the ones and get into more you know even discussing about. So there's still a lot of potential to to put the.
[00:14:04] Tech more technical parts into the course so it's a bit more like F1 rather than NASCAR than you can the F1's way more technical NASCAR just turning left every time so it's the same kind of principle I guess is what you guys are trying to reproduce.
[00:14:19] Yeah yeah we don't want to to focus too much on the speed component for sure the speed is important and I could see you know on some we had some finishing legs that were a bit longer.
[00:14:29] That those guys who had the better top speeds they could overtake people just by being faster but it's a lot about the technical skill of the right and you know and having a motion to write equipment that is balanced I would say on.
[00:14:45] Not only a fast foil like otherwise you would everybody would be on the kydrays foil. But also the one that's you know doing well upwind on and also having. The ability to pump and glide well you know it fast on the free fly.
[00:15:04] So it's that's the purpose of the discipline you know we don't want to make it an arms race where it's only about the fastest foil that can win.
[00:15:12] It should be the skill of the rider that's the idea of the of the discipline because the course changes every time so do you just make it up new or or does the rider get to see the course layout before the event.
[00:15:26] No the rider doesn't see the course layout before the event it's a it's the only seed on the skip is meeting so it's basically on the.
[00:15:37] On the yeah I would say 15 minutes before we start so I mean they see obviously when the course is laid out on the on the.
[00:15:48] On the water and then they can take a couple of test rounds which is important also to give us feedback if the course is laid out right you know we're not putting a course in sending everybody to the start line without never having it tried you know that would be fair.
[00:16:00] So so they get they get a little bit of time to do a couple of test rounds and and.
[00:16:08] And get used to the course because sometimes also we are on the boat or our cruise on the boat so you don't know if a leg upwind is doable or not you can only see them on the water so that they there is still let's say smaller adjustments.
[00:16:23] But yeah we try with with it.
[00:16:27] Three different courses throughout the whole competition so we did we usually try to do not more than two eliminations on the same course also to balance it out you know because you have goofy photos you have regular photos so we try to have a free fly for example on maybe two eliminations on the on a goofy foot pumping and then two eliminations on a on a regular foot pumping.
[00:16:53] Just to give a little bit more balance to the whole course and not favor the one or the other but it depends also on the.
[00:17:03] On the on the layout of the spot you know because you you cannot in every spot if you want to make it close to the beach you cannot in every spot have a start line coming towards the beach and going out you know.
[00:17:17] And two of the example the start was always towards the beach and the finish line was always towards the beach but the elements in between we ate the change so we had one course for the first two qualifying eliminations changed the course on the next day for the next two qualifying eliminations and then changed the course again and made it super technical for the final with the best guys exciting.
[00:17:38] All right that is a good idea actually. What kind of gear have you seen to be more popular for free fly slow and even we can even talk about like surf freestyle are using more HAs or certain brand that might be better than others.
[00:17:56] I in general I would say on free fly you see people writing small high aspects you know different sizes obviously depending on the on the body as well but it goes into in the direction of having really small high aspect.
[00:18:13] The skydiving but fast that's what you want so in the end you want to before that's fast but can still be able to pump and glide if you're going with a foil that not it's not having enough lift and glide.
[00:18:27] You will have a hard time making the free fly without touching and restarting you know if you cannot use the wing. So you need to keep it on a lot of speed. The sizes I've seen yeah of the rain I would say some way between 500 and 800 high aspects.
[00:18:46] Around that but really some really high aspect shapes. There are. Yeah on brands it's pretty mixed I mean there are quite a few people using two bangas which is known from kite foil racing as some of the best foils.
[00:19:08] I mean these are foils that are basically just two parts so that the glider with the front wing and the back wing and the and the fuselage is one piece so you it's not interchangeable.
[00:19:22] Which is obviously an advantage because it creates less drag you know you have the stiffest connection there are no screws in it is one piece carbon.
[00:19:32] It's only screwed into the must and but it has the disadvantage that you cannot change the size so you basically write the same size all the time and and obviously for transport it's not as easy because you will always have to full glider that you need to pack in the back.
[00:19:51] And all the full plane no front wing and fuselage all one piece. Guys are writing long mass step the long mass definitely in racing this is common also over one meter up to one ten. Because it just gives yeah more.
[00:20:09] Let's say more safety not touching down on the highest beats you can fly higher. So for sure in free flight slalom long mass are used in freestyle and wave.
[00:20:23] It also be different profiles you know you could see the mass just like this different profiles are thinner so nearly one top speed with minimal drag no.
[00:20:33] Well whereas in in in surf freestyle it also depends a bit on the conditions you know if in the surf freestyle discipline.
[00:20:41] Like in for it there where it is pure freestyle because we didn't have any wave element in it because you know surf freestyle discipline can still combine wave writing with.
[00:20:51] With freestyle depending on the conditions so if wave elements are involved you obviously want to foil that is more turning and that can write on the waves well. Well when it's pure freestyle you you might choose more for a.
[00:21:09] Also small high aspect you want something fast to get a lot of take of speed you know and good pop that you can you can pop out high out of flat water. But there would say it yeah.
[00:21:24] It devarized a bit more on the style of the rider what he prefers fair enough or she prefers but to wrap up free fly slow on what were the conditions like and did you get to see what size of wings and foils people were on both ladies and guys in the free flight just because once again near was was pretty dominant.
[00:21:45] And she like led almost every mark in the final series like we can even talk about her how she is continuing just to rip it up in every single discipline is pretty awesome but.
[00:21:56] Yeah how strong was a win let's say in the final where they on three meters fours. On average yeah and in for the on the finals it's been pretty windy I was about 35 knots I would say on the finals so.
[00:22:12] And so for me it's not for the guys guys like for me the wings because you still want to hold on to something that really powers you well. There was few guys using but it's not I would say maybe a huge advantage in our discipline on the.
[00:22:31] You know the double foil wings so like the also like the ozone fusion for example yeah.
[00:22:38] But as we don't really you know this wing has a lot of advantage when it comes to long upwind so on the pure racing course where you really it's about hanging that you can go upwind and on the longer distance this wing has a has a big.
[00:22:55] Plus a big advantage but as our courses are very technically the upwind is short and. Yeah, you want something also light on your hand.
[00:23:06] It's maybe not a big advantage but it's really that you know taste of the rider for sure what I can see is now in in the slalom.
[00:23:16] That at least half of the competitors I would say are using a harness even though in our courses it's short but like this just to get less tired and can use a bigger wing and be more powered.
[00:23:35] I mean most of the people use the same wing for freestyle and the same wing for racing you know we have a lot of competitors to both disciplines. It's going definitely in the direction that now most.
[00:23:46] Wings are with booms or at least long hard handles so you have the possibility to change your position of the of the hands you know and basically hold the wing on the ideal scent of effort.
[00:24:01] Which can change on the angle you can go because if you go more downwind you might hold the wing a bit differently than if you go upwind.
[00:24:08] So to have the possibility to to move your your arms in the perfect spot what you can do in the boom very easy is for sure in advantage yeah and.
[00:24:22] And yeah and on the on the sizes I would say three meter for the girls I've seen even two meter some of the light girls.
[00:24:31] But I would say mainly three to four meter wings were used there maybe even 4.5 for some big guys that want to be really powered up.
[00:24:41] All right, but the bigger the thing is I think I think a four meter wing has the big advantage that it's still faster the bigger you go on the wing.
[00:24:50] You might have more power but the leading edge is also has a bigger diameter and creates more drag so. You want a leading edge that's not too slow let's say what to drag.
[00:25:04] And that's why I think for me the wing was probably the best combination for 4.5 3.5 any riders from the guys in the lady side stood out for you.
[00:25:14] I know near was written there must be is there anything that stood out is kind of a highlight real yes people want to know that.
[00:25:23] Yeah, as on the on the well on the free fly is large on the go side I think near is yeah she's she's outstanding definitely. I mean it's not that she is is winning it easy. She wins everything but it's not that she's winning it by miles.
[00:25:41] But the other girls are doing well too, but yeah she's just really dominant and on the on the woman side I would say and now she's.
[00:25:51] In free fly you know she had a world champion title and in free stars years been and she already got you know near Chris both got there free style titles already although we will have another event because they won the first three events and.
[00:26:07] The deal is done for them. But. In in big as she won this year also in canary only the way if discipline she's missing but I will come with experience obviously and.
[00:26:23] She she has been yeah she's been pretty dull then with gear I think and she trained well and she's fast on the freestyle side. The way other girls that were very impressive I have to say that you know did it really well like.
[00:26:42] Marty Archer she landed first from flip and that she landed before the year and the competition so yeah good for her and it also pushed I mean they are really close friends near and and Marda train a lot together so then really pushes near to to dial in that trick as well.
[00:27:03] But also near has a couple tricks that no other girls can do you know she has been landing this tack backflips which is a trick comes out of winter freestyle the call the corner. Basically.
[00:27:18] Going switch stands into a tack and when you're into the wind you take off and pop out over the wing into a backflip.
[00:27:26] She's the first one who landed this on the woman side it has not even a lot of men who actually do it as well really interesting. Cool. Yeah. And that's pretty cool.
[00:27:41] Yeah it was in the highlight real that you guys had on your YouTube channel I was watching that a little bit this morning and. That was pretty cool.
[00:27:50] Yeah the front flip and how did so you had near finish when the surf freestyle division you had near Mar and then viola who finished one two and three on the men side the final is actually pretty pretty tight.
[00:28:05] Between Chris Axel and then Xavier was thrown down a few days but he fell a couple times but. Yeah the final I mean the man side has been.
[00:28:15] Also the woman's you know I mean the final near didn't start to well she crashed her first backflip and then she was yeah she was a bit behind for the first couple you know everybody had seven attempts with three of them counting and.
[00:28:31] Usually near does the first three for tricks and she has her scores in and then she can play it you know she's on the safe side but in the final this time it didn't work this way and she really had.
[00:28:40] It had to come down to her second last drink really. Because she was crashing too much before and maybe also pressure from the other girls.
[00:28:52] But in the end she made it and on the man side it's been very interesting the freestyle competition definitely because there are many now on every event we have new you know young.
[00:29:03] We're coming up that have in the same level that that haven't been competing much so the others don't know them so well and it has been a couple. Young ones doing really well like.
[00:29:17] Charlie Loch from the UK so young writer who competed the first time in Tarifa this year and I think he did a quarter final finish now in for the and being in the quarters in such a.
[00:29:30] You know highly dense competition like the world cup in the fred we had a long waiting list again of people who wanted to enter. That couldn't get a spot and they are doing well.
[00:29:43] He was happy with that result and then couple other young ones obviously that didn't make it into finals like Thomas and Alex Ahara the twins from Austria they're doing super well and very strong competitors in strong with nothing better.
[00:29:58] He's also some kids from the train with shavie in in Tarifa they will come out of Tarifa there are Austrians and Spanish and. Couple others nowhere doing really well.
[00:30:12] Alan Fiddit past Jan didn't make it into the final as Kofel though also very strong competitor on the freestyle side. It wasn't a bit of a shame for Malodo who was writing very strong and he unfortunately injured himself on the semi finals.
[00:30:28] He dislocated his shoulder on landing a trick. Yeah but he you know he had the first three tricks he landed with were all like eight nine points scores he was sitting on the solid score and on the fourth trick he he crashed onto the wing.
[00:30:47] On the on the wing pass on the back mob and dislocated his shoulder and had to go to hospital.
[00:30:56] But it was enough the tricks he had done at that moment to qualify for the final so he went into the final although he wasn't hospital at the time the finals were on and he couldn't compete so the final owner ran with with three riders instead of four but he still got his fourth place as he's been being qualified by the it's pity because he was writing super super well.
[00:31:16] And he you know the final of men was a very very tight home with actual Chris Sharpie and if Malodo would have been in the mix even more.
[00:31:26] And it was going from left to right and you know if you were following the lies scoring it was all this guy's in lead on our disguise and hit on our Chris back in the lead and if he tricked the ranking changed.
[00:31:37] Which is which is nice you know with that with that system we are running. Where they going you know it's seven tricks each and they're going turn by turns or the first guy has his first attempt.
[00:31:48] And the next guy has his first attempt and the third guy is first attempt there go one one one one one one one so you really follow up trick by trick how the positions can change.
[00:31:58] And also the riders know that you know so they also know okay now in second I need to do something to get back in first or I have lost I got to.
[00:32:07] You know get that scoring and so it starts making it's it's lowest competition I would say on the beach a little bit down if you watch because it's a lot slower you know you have every 30 40 seconds maybe a tree happening and only one.
[00:32:20] It is good for life streaming because you can really focus with the cameras you know now this guy got a jump and you can every time show a relay as well and it's good for the judges too because they have enough time to.
[00:32:32] And value at the trick and even watch the replay if needed to really give a perfect good score good quality score rather than you know if you had four people writing at the same time you would see something here that that that that and you have no no time to think about scores.
[00:32:47] And to really put the right score. So this format is maybe on the beach a little bit slower but I think it has a better quality of judging and a better presentation of the streaming as well.
[00:33:00] And obviously it gives the opportunity that you all with every trick the athletes know okay now this guy over took me in the score so I need to do something bigger.
[00:33:10] Because you always know how to notice. Yeah, if you had a kid here somebody I remember filmed like a PWA like I filmed it 10 years ago or something when I was in Hawaii and it was more like you didn't have that right so one guy would hit away the next one you can catch another one so for life streaming it it was a lot more challenging because you didn't know when to focus the camera on one person versus focus on another.
[00:33:32] But when I was watching the final here it was cool because then you could watch that it would go to the other person you get a quick little replay of that it bounces the next one and then you even catch the writers watching each other or copying each other which is interesting.
[00:33:46] Because it's like axel and then Chris were kind of copying a little bit and that stuff so that was interesting to watch as well because he would throw down one and the other one would kind of just follow the same thing.
[00:33:56] So that was neat to see. Yeah, you can play this I mean if you're good competitor you can play this really tactic and now and especially usually the best friend guys or there are four people in a hit and the one the best seated one is the last one to go.
[00:34:10] So the best one who comes into the hit with the highest seating is usually last one to go. This case Chris so he is the one who always has the last attempt and sees was the guys do it front of him.
[00:34:22] So basically when you see okay, I know the guy landed a 720 and he saw it and he knows okay I can do it but I can do it better and he knows okay my one was better now than the one of the other one I know I'm in front.
[00:34:36] And also you can play a bit like that and if you if you could competitor you basically you might be instead of going for different tricks you might copy it and just do it better.
[00:34:48] Obviously, which is not easy because actually was both throwing I mean that this course I think in the final where like another top score is 30 you know can have three 10s that's the maximum and I think this course we're all like 28 29 so it's been yeah.
[00:35:06] Crazy. What about these two new young guns so you got 13 year old Laura and then also 15 year old man off from Guadalupe Frank was just asking wrote a couple questions and a bit those.
[00:35:19] Do you find that that people who have been practicing on the sidelines are coming in at a pretty decent level and they're going to kind of push that competition and kind of push those veterans that have been in that little top spot for a little while.
[00:35:32] Yeah, yeah definitely that was cool to see we had a lot of girls competing and in Noah and my non are definitely upcoming.
[00:35:44] Oran series she's doing a lot of recruiting at the moment it's great to see you know she's working by side competing still on top level and being in the final herself.
[00:35:54] She's working with the with a French Federation to recruit new young and especially females to come into the sport and those are girls from good aloeob that she has been training a lot the past month with and taught them a lot of competition and tricks and you can see.
[00:36:17] Yeah, it's working out and I'm pretty sure that we're going to see these girls climbing up the ranks in the next competitions even awesome.
[00:36:26] They are still young you know in that age you learn quick and it's also great to see that oran is still keeping her game strong. Because she's I think she's probably the oldest competitor or one of the oldest on the woman side.
[00:36:43] But a lot of the other girls respect her also for that she has this go for attitude and she's scared and she's trying all the crazy stuff. And she just had an injury surgery actually last year she injured herself in Brazil.
[00:37:02] And wasn't able to compete for a while but she really pushes herself to get on the water and. I mean, I was actually surprised that she was competing and then in the end that she even did so well because she's still not fully recovered from the injury.
[00:37:21] But she's a tough girl I have to say you know oran. She's some girl that's not holding back and whatever trick it is she's going for it.
[00:37:32] Alright, well maybe let's talk some talk innovation moves because we had a couple first ever in this where our first what triple back flip. Yeah, we had actual and a couple others trying it as well but actually did it in competition triple combo so three back tricks.
[00:37:50] Not three backflips in the air as we saw in Grand Canaria from the novel.
[00:37:55] Yeah, but three combo backflips so back flip into back flip into back flip and yeah that's been a world first I saw some guys training it and landing it out of competition but it was the first time done in competition on the woman side we had a front flip the first time in competition we had that tack into back flip.
[00:38:19] And then yeah we saw and like combos are going crazy at the moment you know and then we more or less.
[00:38:27] You know last year started to introduce that and it was kind of yeah I don't know if this is really looking well if that's going in the right direction but the way it's done now it's crazy it's.
[00:38:38] You can really see if right as go for combos they are going really controlled on the first trick it might be a back flip or a front side three or whatever mainly backflips or front flips because it gives you the opportunity to have a really controlled landing and pop off into the second trick more easy.
[00:38:58] Because out of a of a front sides three or front side seven into a combo you obviously touched down mid-less control due to the side spin. But coming out of a back flip or a front flip it gives you that.
[00:39:14] You know that energy to pop out more easily and we've seen back flip into front flip front flip into back flip both of them. Front flip into front flip as well I don't know if that was landing in competition though but I saw them training.
[00:39:34] And everything really high I mean that was impressive as well I mean there were no kickers you know it was flat water and you could still see yeah people going six seven meters in the air and doing their tricks so.
[00:39:47] And then a lot of combinations as well coming coming out of.
[00:39:55] You know back loops or body rotations or then still in strong with not as much as in tariff and tariff of you saw a lot of backmops and wing pass a temp passing the wing behind the back.
[00:40:10] When the wing was not as strong but in 35 knots it's a bit harder you know up to 40 knots even some days.
[00:40:16] But we saw really big you know back loops when the wing doesn't rotate so you you going back loop and basically shift your hands in there and then come back with a lot of speed arm into a front flip or into a back flip.
[00:40:33] So yeah there's still a lot of room for combinations that we're going to see.
[00:40:39] And you know now now the first triple combinations are getting landed and you know still looking good we were very clear I mean the judges and the hell I had such I was really really clear on the criteria that we don't want to see combos.
[00:40:55] Just to force them being done if they're not looking good and they're not linked well and have a good pop so it's somebody would do a double or triple combo.
[00:41:06] But the last trick would be just half a meter out of the water it would count really low so the linking must be quick without too much waiting so landing popping again and the pop must be high.
[00:41:18] And you can even see that yeah right as I got into combos with the first trick as I said being really controlled and landing with a lot of speed. To get the second one sometimes even higher.
[00:41:33] And yeah I think they they they they they the style execution and in those combos is getting to an excellent level. Awesome awesome so that event overall event went super well. But that felt just shortly after the big air how did big air go this year.
[00:41:55] Yeah big air it was going great to went back to Grand Canara one known as one of the the windiest places on this planet.
[00:42:04] I mean this this place is just delivering in that time of the year July day in the out you there no matter what sometimes more sometimes less but.
[00:42:14] I would say on the regular day in July it's 32 45 not sometimes 50 to 60 you know it can it can get really really strong. This time we we changed the location slightly we're not did it exactly on the same spot where.
[00:42:32] We did last year so last year when in post to his care, which is known from wind surfing a lot also the wind surf world cover and there and.
[00:42:40] We used the same setup from the wind surf world cup last year but this year because we ran the event together with a kite.
[00:42:46] Big air world cup and guiding is not allowed in post to his care though we went just around the corner for those annoying grand canara it's like a bay and then there is a bunker where the wind surfers morning jumping the competition.
[00:42:59] And then the beach I would say that's not really a beach but it's a rocky shoreline just goes around downwind so we were like 3 400 meters downwind from the competition where we. Where we spot where we've been last year it's called salinas and.
[00:43:15] The spot is actually on the water I would say the access is a bit more difficult because.
[00:43:21] It's more rough so you need to climb over the rocks in but the wind is slightly more side sure there so it's not as unsure and so the kickers line up better and the way so usually bigger.
[00:43:31] So the feedback that the athletes gave us is that actually the they liked the spot better because it made it possible to hit the kickers more talent and not needing to go up when as much so you can get.
[00:43:45] Get longer jumps with more travel and and more controlled take off well as impossible you really need to carve up when to get a steep one to take off.
[00:43:58] And I think the wind conditions might have been last year slightly stronger during maybe you know 5 knots not a lot but a little bit stronger but what was interesting to see that this year although I think the conditions were slightly less than last year.
[00:44:15] On the wind side I think the wave kickers were similar or even better.
[00:44:22] It was it was still the same height of jumps we're using the surface so all the all our athletes got equipped with a phone they had to wear on the wet suit so we could show and measure the jump height.
[00:44:36] And we showed it on the last stream as well and the jumps were basically same high like last year so this showed us that obviously a lot of the athletes were really training for the bigger this year was last year wasn't you thinking of what you know you were to expect.
[00:44:53] The judging criteria compared to last year we went a bit more technically. So it was not just about straight jumps and trying to go really really high but the technical part was judged.
[00:45:07] It had a bit of bigger factor on the score just to show more variety although I think we're going to go even a little bit more in that direction not necessarily to create a new freestyle discipline but just to you know it was two jumps that counted.
[00:45:25] But you could do the same jump so you were not forced to do different tricks which I think after the feedback we have now we're going to go that next year probably in that direction of.
[00:45:42] And then needing different tricks just to show you something more diversity and maybe because the wind was not not that crazy strong. It was more controlled also for the riders so I think that to do last year they were so overpowered.
[00:45:58] That it was hardly anybody trying you know rotations in 10 12 meters in the air but this year it was really impressive like especially front flips we saw even coming in and not using a kicker from past year and in Chabi.
[00:46:14] They would go like in win surfing you know taking off and then just going up and then stalling it and just when they start falling rotating into front flip.
[00:46:25] So that's way more technically obviously and that's why also front flips are more common in bigger because it allows you to go higher on the back flip it's harder to.
[00:46:35] To stall the rotation so in the back flip you might kind of need to initiate rotation earlier which you cannot do when you're falling down so you need to do it on the way up.
[00:46:47] So it doesn't it's not as easy let's say to go as big as on a front flip where you can really go she didn't go up up and then once you reach to top and you can start something massive talking server up though for tracking those heights.
[00:47:04] Were you using smartwares it just the the phone version for server for tracking that. Yeah we've used just the phone in this competition.
[00:47:16] But it's we did already use the watch as well on on our last kind event as we are also doing the kind tour on the last kind bigger than the used the for the first time the watch is too and it's probably something we're going to work on more in the future.
[00:47:33] It was more like a test because the watch is first of all are more comfortable to wear you don't need to put anything in the way it's really just have it on your wrist and that's it.
[00:47:41] And it allows us also to send data back onto the watch so first of all we can also be sight just having the height and travel time and the G4 is an error that all the data you can get out of it.
[00:47:56] We with a watch we can even we can even measure for example the heart rate. So we can see what heart rate the riders are doing are on your in their tricks which is pretty interesting okay I need to wear it on the skin.
[00:48:09] And what we saw we used it in in in the lot of Trump it's a big archive event in France with the watches.
[00:48:18] That if it is cold and you live where along with you it's you will most riders were wearing the watch on top of the wetsuit so you cannot wear you cannot measure the heart rate.
[00:48:28] You could put it under the wetsuit but if it's under the wetsuit then you don't see your watch because we were sending back the data onto the watch so the athletes could see the scores at the height while they are riding.
[00:48:40] They would be there would be on the water and that's a big feature you know that's a big plus I would say for the competitors when they are.
[00:48:49] When they are on the water they can perform the trick look at the watch see our at that was a seven point eight and I've been trying. So they get all these information onto the watch that's a big plus.
[00:49:03] But we're working on this feature yeah and I'm planning you know it's not it sounds easy but I can tell you there's a lot of coding behind it and a lot of. Technical challenges to be met but we're working that direction together with surfat.
[00:49:20] To to to yeah to provide those those data and and have those watches implemented also for all the other disciplines because if you can ride on the water as a competitor.
[00:49:32] And be able to see your scores and all the data on your watch that yeah is an advantage and makes it that maybe also interesting to watch because you can.
[00:49:41] You can have the priorities like imagine you're in a wave competition and and and you can see who has priority like in a surfing event is like okay I'm on priority or I'm not on priority to take.
[00:49:52] And that's very true actually and I need that much that much of a score to now we are doing all these signals with flags on the beach. But this would not be necessary if you use watches all the time.
[00:50:09] By the way, it's not something that is that is that is being able to be developed within a day and we also met a lot of challenges with the watches when we used them in the France in the bigger this year.
[00:50:21] Where we learned out of so he and Grand Canary we ran the phone version only. And it's been working great you know so the the sensors in the phone are very accurate still it's an algorithm and it's not something because these questions come sometimes the the the.
[00:50:45] The heights are quite a great but of course it's technically the advice that can fail and you can have a connection or not so you cannot always.
[00:50:53] It's not it's let's say a tool that is also used by the judges to understand okay that jump was designed that jump was this high but it's not something it's directly affecting the score.
[00:51:08] Because in the end it's still the eye of the judge that needs to see how radical and you know how high and how much travel and how clean the landing is. And yeah it's been it's been talking about judging you have like how is that broken down.
[00:51:28] The percentage of the score for height versus the percentage of the score for tricks and creativity. Yeah so now we changed last year we had 80% height 20% technicality when we changed this year to go 70 30 so 70 high 30% technicality.
[00:51:48] This cuts that with the right as committee just to give more value to yeah technically tricks rather than straight jumps going only big. Yeah 70 30 ratio roughly let's say so it meant that.
[00:52:07] Technically tricks got a bit more reward compared to last year but still it's bigger and we want to see people going big that's what one ever what we want to see.
[00:52:18] But for sure I mean whoever watched also the final I think can you mention we had quite a bit of discussion as well between the judges between the writers in the final.
[00:52:29] Because Chris McDonald you know he it was the first I mean he he held back that trick till the final in the bigger and then he pulled off double back flipping the year.
[00:52:40] For the first time and we had an interview in the presentation the last to make sure they before the finals and he was interviewed you say yeah what trick are you going to show me so I'm going to show the double back flip.
[00:52:51] And he went out and he did the right on the first attempt and then he did another one even bigger the second.
[00:52:57] And although it was not as high as some other tricks even the one from himself he did a couple of huge massive you know stored for front loops that were bigger the score on these double back flip was slightly higher.
[00:53:14] And and also other other the other competitors did huge tricks you know and there was obviously discussion about should. A double back flip that is seven meters high have a bigger score than a front of that's line meters high you know for example.
[00:53:32] And in the end it's it's not only the high it's also the execution and and the ones from Chris were clean you know he.
[00:53:40] They couldn't have been done in the better for sure they could have been bigger if you but as I explained the back flip going big on the back flip is not as easy.
[00:53:49] And they were I mean if you go seven meters high on the upper back flip that's still pretty big so.
[00:53:55] But yeah, but yeah, I think it was clear and it was also for sure it was a big wild factor you know this was like definitely that trick where all the beach was going like whoa.
[00:54:12] What was that nobody was expecting this you know and you know a lot of people went well that was huge another people going massive front lips like I think the biggest jump we have.
[00:54:24] Was maybe 12 meters so that's about was a 36 feet yeah that's a nice that's a very nice house. Yeah and then throwing a front on top of that. Holy shit yes. So they were really big ones.
[00:54:44] But on that back on the double back flip yeah the whole beach was like well he just did a double back flip did you see that. And landed it and landed it clean.
[00:54:57] So for sure that show that show factor and the wild factor gave him a plus as well. I mean it was a smart move you know he kept the trick until the final so he still had that in the back without anybody expecting him to do it.
[00:55:13] How hard are those landings when they come down from 10 12 meters are you seeing any crazy injuries so far or they like the foil obviously helps to almost break the water surface is not as hard as wind surfing but it's not as soft as kidding right.
[00:55:30] No I mean this is this is for sure. I keep factor as well I mean you need to try to really have a soft landing so soft landing you always can have if you if you land with more travel so with more forward movement.
[00:55:49] So coming down with a bit of speed helps to break the sort of landing more soft.
[00:55:56] Well when you when you are doing a more straight jump into the wind and then come down you landing more straight and using the wing you know and really using the wing properly to not fall out of the sky like a stone.
[00:56:12] So so the more travel you have you obviously have.
[00:56:17] More speed more wind flow on the wing and it gives the wing more efficiency to slow you down on landing but this you could see for me this was one of the main things compared between last year I saw people landing way more controlled.
[00:56:33] And I think also breaking less equipment because for sure on those big jumps there's a lot of loads on the fuse lages I mean you come down from the farther the fuse lages there's a lot of load on the boards even though you're landing with a foil first.
[00:56:49] But you know it's obviously you know there's a lot of pressure on the heels so where your foot's on where the foil box is. So it's definitely not as hard as landing in the wind surfing but also equipment got more strong for that you know.
[00:57:07] And I haven't seen a lot of broken equipment on the big head this year. I mean obviously can easily happen but that's not only big head that you punch from wing through through the wing you know get a hole but this can this can happen in any discipline.
[00:57:28] And yeah and obviously riders are not using leashes of bigger you don't want to go tell me does high lose your board and then have it hanging. That was my next thought is like notice that legacy which is kick off.
[00:57:42] That's the good down but that would be terrifying. So yeah don't usually a wing when you're going to go. Leave it alone. So once again we had Nian Chris take take that discipline.
[00:57:57] How were the finals for both like how close was the ladies final going into that going into that race.
[00:58:05] Yeah it was close it was close as well I have to say because last year it was mild took the big title and she was her biggest challenge as well this year.
[00:58:17] Yeah but Nia was definitely going more technically on the same height and me and my was going I would say the same height. So if you compare them how big they were going there was not a big difference but.
[00:58:35] Nia was going more technically on the big on the big tricks and that gave her the win in the end and it's been what was a challenging part I think in the grand canary and the spot is.
[00:58:46] Also to go in and out of the water the launching and landing zone was you know we have a nose.
[00:58:52] Grand canary not every beach in the canary and it is like for the mentor of what you've seen on the videos with the perfect sandy beach and you just step you foot into a turkeys water.
[00:59:03] Most of the shorelines in the canary islands are rocky and and and and reef and there's a lot of tide and you have ways so it's not an easy one to just go in and out all the time.
[00:59:14] But these boys and girls are the best in the world and after a few days they get used to it and on the water they really they really loved it.
[00:59:24] I think I think they love the spot and maybe next year we're going to also go back to this spot we will see what's the plan. We are right now ready in the in the preparations with 20 25.
[00:59:38] The one to talk too much about it yet but definitely going to have some some interesting event for next year as well.
[00:59:47] And yeah the finals of the of the woman as well as the men's we've been I've been maybe as I said bigger is a little bit less common than freestyle so.
[01:00:03] The final in the man side was Chris doing this big double backflips against for example past year and it looks or shawi who is also the final I think I believe much or no. That that we're going on.
[01:00:18] And Malo sorry Marley owned past and that was going massive past and his biggest side he's a goofy foot jumper so his side wasn't the way in and it was just impressive without having the kickers how massive he would go on the way in.
[01:00:32] And then Malo on the way out went super huge as well. So it's been I think quite interesting to see okay they are having a bit of a different approach you know it's not like in freestyle everybody that's similar tricks.
[01:00:46] But how would that end up you know are you betting on putting your technically tricks maybe not as high or you're trying to go really big and risk more. Maybe for not as much technicality as for example Chris.
[01:01:06] And any and he was a worthy winner I think because last year he didn't do that well on the bigger.
[01:01:13] And he has been training a lot I know he's been in Cape Town I mean he's out of foot river he has a lot of these conditions where it's 40 knots and good kickers and I think everybody who follows him on social media knows that he's up there and he's been he's been training actually also with the device to measure how big he goes and.
[01:01:33] And he told me has been jumping over 15 meters already which is huge. Not in the competition but he has been he's been measuring I think 15 16 meters with like in Cape Town with strong winds and big kickers so.
[01:01:51] Let's see you know if we have this kind of conditions I think 12 meters that we've seen now 12.5 is still not the limit. You can go much bigger than that with the right with the right.
[01:02:02] We're just missing some sort of a loop helicopter loop whatever for the wing to just generate that more power. Then like kidding obviously we're never. Yeah, imagine we can just devise something like that on things can happen but.
[01:02:17] Glad the event went well then whether any kind of integrations into schools or any of that kind of thing that you had done before with some of the other locations.
[01:02:29] What a grand can error we did yeah we had in the canary elements is always on Spain in general we had not with the schools but we always have. I call it social activities and we having. Presentation for environmental protection so we had the athletes involved in.
[01:02:54] Beach cleanups for example that in the canary elements so we took them all to help cleaning the beach for one day. We brought them down to some of the environmental protection groups or they came actually to the event side to do some presentations informed them about.
[01:03:13] You know some local issues that I am interesting to get talked over.
[01:03:20] But yeah grand canary is not it's not there that's the most the most comfortable location for people to hang out on the beach for this cool class all the time if it's 50 knots and the sun's just flying and half the people are wearing snow goggles on the beach just to keep their eyes open so.
[01:03:39] I forgot to bring like half my crew had there was no board goggles with them and I was like oh shit I forgot to pack the bag. Yeah excuse but I just didn't bring them yeah I guess just flying sand.
[01:03:52] Yeah I don't know I mean the same it for the ventura the same it like everywhere it's true wind and you got dust and sand these things are coming quite handy Chris Chris McDonald senior sort of father of Chris.
[01:04:04] He straight away the first day arrived in Grand Canary where to the shop and he bought those those motorclaws. Yeah go there he was wearing them all the time.
[01:04:13] Yes you're safe your eyes that's big time so maybe it sort of wrapped out when up in God that event went well and before that we had the La Palma youth world cup.
[01:04:24] Where we're seeing maybe explain not when a little bit and then go into talking about because we still had some competitors from the world cups in that right we had some acts so we had near as well.
[01:04:36] A lot actually yeah so we're doing the youth world championship which is a one and then world championships we're doing one and then where all the title started cited and this year as last year is was in La Palma so on the Canary Island lag.
[01:04:52] And there's actually quite a few competitors that compete in the world cup and are still young enough to go also in the youth world world championship we have three different age groups which is under nineteen under sixteen and under fourteen.
[01:05:04] So to be in to be in the under nineteen you're you basically you cannot turn nineteen in the year of competition so for this year. If you're not turning nineteen until the 31st of December but this year you're still allowed to compete in the youth.
[01:05:20] So even though you would be so you you're 18 or you're turning eighteen somewhere in the end of the year.
[01:05:32] But not turning nineteen you're allowed to be in the in the youth championship so we have three age categories and the level yeah it's been crazy I think that the level in the youth has been the same like in the world cup I mean.
[01:05:48] You know in the world cup now if you look at the top eight more than half of them are in the other nineteen you know or all that age. That age anyway.
[01:06:02] He has a same the same guy is competing so the level has been insane and we had I think around nearly 60 competitors there.
[01:06:10] And it's not a place that is so easy to travel to you know if we would run an event probably on the mainland in Europe we would have even more people you still need to fly to the Canary Islands and especially for people that come from further away.
[01:06:21] It's it's not the easiest travel but it's a good place because it's it's windy every day as I said it's Canary Islands in the summer time so you can expect to have wind every day and with all the age groups you also need that because event was four days long.
[01:06:37] And we've two disciplines with freestyle, so freestyle and the free fly slower and three age groups men and women it's quite a couple of divisions you need to finish at that time.
[01:06:47] So the competition has been going on for morning till evening four days in the row and was just enough to finish everything. And it was good yeah to see. Yeah the young blood that's coming up and in the world cup our limit is 14.
[01:07:06] So there are a couple ones that I and the youth in the under 14 that that cannot in the world be in the world cup yet but they are there on the level side I would say one of them for example being Benjamin.
[01:07:22] I think he's been already quite known I was just going to ask him.
[01:07:26] Yeah I mean everybody is already scared for him because he's now is he's 13 he's going to turn 14 next year so next year he's ready to be in the world cup and yeah people are already getting a little bit afraid when he's going to hit the world cup scene.
[01:07:44] I'm going to be right in the mix because he's now 13 and he can do all the tricks.
[01:07:49] He's is a really good competitor for sure that's not everything because he's also to have competition experience and throw it down but let's say on the technically level he's there but he's not only one there as a couple of others too.
[01:08:03] That will will see more and more pushing into the world cup and I think these youth events are really important.
[01:08:11] You know to to give a stage to those kids because the world cup is now limited to 28 in the freestyle and 14 the free flyers so not everybody can enter and especially young ones who don't have seedings to to to enter for the.
[01:08:32] For the for the for the youth they everybody can can go in you know and yeah it's it's also fun I think because the kids are with each other and now they're training not only competing with each other they are training they get to know each other they make friends.
[01:08:49] I think it's a great opportunity also for new ones to come in and connect you know with the there's a couple of teenagers and young.
[01:09:00] We've been doing for us that train together but not everybody you know is in school has the opportunity to choose where to live and. A lot of them train alone so when they get to this event they have the opportunities and lead to link up with all those.
[01:09:17] Let's say you know teenage pros that are that are already on the scene and train with them and connect with them it's just a fun time for everybody it's great as a good vibe.
[01:09:28] Yeah we you know we we're thinking already to do more events on the youth side like a tour. Like a tour we had this actually two years ago we had two events but we went back to one event just because we saw that it's.
[01:09:46] The absolute minority it's just a few kids that can really have the possibilities to do more than one event. You know once you make it a tour then then the world championship of youth will definitely be given to two to one of the kids who can.
[01:10:03] Not maybe on the monetary side you know only afford to go to all the competitions but also have the time I mean the end of the old in school and you cannot take them out of school five times a year to go to a world cup.
[01:10:15] But once a year we also tried to to schedule this event in a time where a lot of countries on holiday that's why we do it like July because Europe most countries on holiday in July.
[01:10:28] Easy you know they need they cannot travel alone they need to go to families so then usually the whole family is taking a week off and they go to the competition.
[01:10:35] So yeah after getting all these feedback we decided we keep it like this we do one event one year of world championship once a year so everybody has the opportunity for many where in the world to come there and join and we what we do at this events as well we we're not only want to compete we really want to build.
[01:10:55] And educational part as well so we are trying to get other app probably at least to the event and have some seminars where we you know we teach the kids first of all how to be a professional athlete so how to compete and.
[01:11:13] You know about how races like how what are the rule of work and how technically races build and so on but then also on marketing you know how to market themselves how to how to behave in a professional way with media.
[01:11:30] As well as environmental topics you know and being in the ambassador and. You know there is a lot of of topics that I think are not directly related maybe with the competitive but.
[01:11:44] But I'm important you know and our certain values that we want to pass on to the next generation as well. No, all that stuff is is good and it's really nice to see that that they can take part and you're right multiple trips and multiple.
[01:12:01] Destinations would be pretty hard if they're not funded if they're just saving money putting inside or even having the time so I'm glad that wouldn't went through I know I'm probably going to see Benjamin in love and time of this winter because that's his home spot I just missed the last year.
[01:12:14] But I'm looking forward to seeing some more of those young guns there when I'm when I'm there in November through it's going to be unbelievable to watch them rip around so.
[01:12:24] Yeah, so good good leg then at the canaries anything you wanted to wrap up with or any kind of highlights or thanks to the organizers or anything that. Yeah, absolutely. I mean I want to thank the organizers of three different.
[01:12:38] Organizations for putting on an excellent job all of the three places have been doing really well.
[01:12:44] I would say one of the highlights for sure is I'm going to be crowned now ready for well champions in the canaries because in big air we only had this is the only event so it's a one event championship and yeah and Chris take took the titles.
[01:12:59] And then the same tune yeah and Chris secured their freestyle titles in 4th already as I just mentioned before because they have been now winning three out of 3 this is not ready.
[01:13:10] And we still go to Brazil in the end of the year for the last event in freestyle and surf freestyle.
[01:13:17] But yeah, we three wins already under under their belt they can't lose it anymore so that's been pretty awesome that actually now already for well champion titles have been decided.
[01:13:34] And for the wave discipline we still have two more events in Morocco and in Iberakera Brazil and free fly and freestyle we also still have Brazil in Jerry in the end of the web. So that will be exciting.
[01:13:50] Oh absolutely yeah I'm looking forward to chatting about those some more and yeah thanks for coming on taking the time and I just got home so what do you want to and you got a session this morning you mentioned so at least you got a little bit.
[01:14:02] Yeah I didn't have any time I've been trying to get on like at least one session in the Canary Islands but I couldn't really find a time it's been too busy and in the end I'm therefore working not for getting on the water and enjoying so but that's true.
[01:14:19] But yeah I couldn't really you know make it and I didn't bring any gear although that's not an issue there's plenty of gear around with all the athletes.
[01:14:31] On the competition so now back home yeah since yesterday night and up in on the water today already enjoying some good waves and Mauritius so happy about that and.
[01:14:43] Yeah, I have a three weeks now here with my family and get some water time in and prepare for the next events and then we're off to to the tour again.
[01:14:55] Beautiful. Well hey thanks Tom who's nice to nice to chat nice to catch up so we're going to talk next for. Doc La that's going to be amazing that'll be fun yes coming September 29. Yeah I think the end of September so.
[01:15:10] Exactly yeah we're coming in in the end of September to Morocco again which has been on the tour now actually since the beginning and it's been especially in the wave side I think.
[01:15:21] It's it's it's one of the best spots for the for the wave discipline especially for falling in my opinion you know it's it's this. This perfect for a wave I would say you know it's not it's not a partner greater like this big heavy break that's a.
[01:15:36] It's a. A surfable wave with battles and it's super spectacular but it's just yeah that perfect right hand long and an allowing to really yeah perform on the foil. Having endless not endless but very, very long rides over four 500 meters and.
[01:15:57] And I'm really looking forward to it we usually have a lot of interest of we will just open the registration tomorrow I think.
[01:16:05] So people can start to register so if anybody here's then it is interested and yeah get on the wing for world to dot com website and sign yourself up for Dahlah and we have 24 spots per gender.
[01:16:18] I'm expecting a long waiting list but yeah everybody who has no ranking and things he has he has the. The skills to compete on the way forward and sign yourself up submit some videos and yeah if you're chosen I'll see you at Morocco.
[01:16:37] And this one's powered by our friends at Armstrong so that's interesting as well.
[01:16:41] Yeah exactly I'm so he's teaming up with us again on this event because yeah it's it's not that easy to fund those events I have to say wave events are usually a bit more expensive because you need more days.
[01:16:52] And you're not can you cannot go for three four days and be expecting that you have waves and wind all the time so we'll be there for eight days window and that makes it an expensive.
[01:17:01] And yeah I'm strong as teaming up same like last year so I'm sure I'm so is going to send also a couple of their top riders again that we're doing really well last year.
[01:17:12] And yeah it's the second event in the wave discipline so the title race is still fully open. Marlo took the win on the first one cash and second position and we'll see in Dahlah how things move on.
[01:17:28] And then we have the waves also Moona White we took to win it.
[01:17:34] I know not Moona White sorry we have Marino Elena who won and Moona was doing really well too so you know we got those athletes for the more specialists on the wave discipline and that we don't see on the freestyle tour so much.
[01:17:56] It's going to be a interesting one I think it's a right hand as well and then the last event in Brazil and I will be left hander so we're going to mix that up it.
[01:18:09] Which is just two weeks after Dahlah so there is two back to back wave events Morocco and then two weeks later we go to the south of Brazil for another wave one. And that's going to be a fun way to finish the year.
[01:18:23] Yeah and we have another one in Brazil in the north which is the freestyle as we're still going to have two events. We go to the south for the waves and then to the north month later for the surf freestyle and free play.
[01:18:37] Not too bad well enjoy your downtime with the family and enjoy those beautiful waves over there and we are looking forward to chatting with you down at the next one. Perfect. Alright everybody thanks for joining us on this one and we'll chat soon. Alright thanks for having me.