Homework and sailing...

Back in El yaque, after my Brasil Trip a few weeks ago, I can say I keep myself busy. Just rebuilding my familiy´s house and sailing a lot. I can train much at the moment, when the construction gives me the time, or I take the time and work on some new Moves... Still I can´t tell you what are they, but you will see soon.... It´s just fun to have very good wind at home and to be able training whenever I want

Last National Contest in 2009

At the moment I am in Araya on the Mainland of Venezuela, for the last national Slalom Competition of the year. It´s great, the Tour was very big in 2009 and will be for 2010 too. Here in Araya everything started very good. I was perfectly powered up on my 7,0 and the Falcon 95 and could win my first Race with Champ Alexis Carache and Diony Guadagnino on the places. In the next Race I had a bad start, even crashed at the first Jibe mark but still managed to gain enough Speed to overtake Diony before the finish Line.. We did a couple more Races and Today we will be sailing all day as well.... So I tell you more tomorrow including some images !!!

Back from Brasil in windy El Yaque...

I just came back from very windy Brasil, a bit more than 3 weeks in Jericoacoara with all my friends, practising and celebrating hard. It was very good and this time also very enjoyable, after last year I had to leave very early with a broken shoulder from that place. This time was great to practise more new Moves and to push my windsurf a little bit more. Now I am back at home in El Yaque, where it is windy already for weeks too. Good to continue my Training before I go to my friends in Bonaire....  But now i first enjoy to be back at home with my friends here and my family...

See the video of our 4 Dimension premiere..sick !!

We really liked the 4 dimensions Movie premiere at Sylt in the Cinema.. it was just great and we all were really stoked by the result and feedback !!!! You can see the Video about the premiere here :

My third worldtitle.. !!!!!!

It was cold and very very windy at sylt and for me it was very hard with my cold and no energy in my body... But I could defend my Worldtitle and now I can change the 2 with the 3 !!!!! I am really happy about being worldchampion again !! All the other Sailors were super good also this year and made my life very hard and of course I would have liked to be on the podium at Sylt, next time again !!! Now I enjoy a long holiday with some good Windsurf Sessions at Brasil and some promotion for the 4 Dimension Movie which is available now !!!!!!!

pics courtesy PWA / Carter

Premiere, Contest and sick at Sylt....

It´s already day five at the 2009 Worldcup at Sylt and we could already sail a full double elimination in Freestyle, for the first time at Sylt. In previous years we were happy to finish a Single elimination. The day before the Freestyle we had the premiere of the 4 Dimension Movie in the Sylt Cinema, it was great and the people were stoked !!! just great to see after the hard work in the past year.

The Freestyle was very hard, first the full onshore Conditions with Swell and very Choppy water plus light winds and than because i also felt very weak on the water. I felt very sick already a couple of days before the Competition and so it was very hard on the water and so I also lost earlier than I thought in the Single Elimination against Taty Frans who was sailing very strong. So I finished 5th with the other number two guys, Kiri and Tonky in front. That could be very dangerous for me since i could easily lose my number one ranking and so the worldtitle if i would loose one of the first Heats in teh Double eliminations. I was really nervous and when I saw the seeding for the Double and that I had to go against Brawzinho I didn´t feel much better... I started against Traversa in the Double with a good Heat and than I really had to do everything to win against Brawzo, even if I felt very weak now, each Move was hard but in the end I could win the close Heat and now had to beat russian Yegor to defend my Worldtitle, if there would be no more Freestyle here at Sylt. I could win this Heat and also the next one against french Akgaczyan, so I was very happy to be on fourth place now but against very strong Tonky Frans I had no energy left... In the end it was Taty who won the Double. I am very happy for him too...

pic by PWA / Carter

pic by continentseven.com

My new Website !!

Right before the 2009 Sylt Worldcup my Website is online now !!!

Check www.gollitoestredo.com

I hope you will like it !!