Archiv für den Monat Februar 2010

There and elsewhere again

Montag, 15. Februar 2010

We made a weekend trip to Galicia. 4 days pretty cold; almost no wind; some snow :)

Day one: while we have been rigging up it was snowing – almost horizontal – till we have been to the water, there wasn’t sufficient wind left – so we couldn’t surf at beautiful Valdovino beach.

We have been to Ferrol (Praia do Xurxo, Praia do Valdovino), Laxe (Praia do Traba), Finisterre (Praia do Rostro) and Santiago de Compostela.

Last day at Traba: sideoff wind for more or less 5.3 and masthigh waves – it was incredible to ride these amazing waves!!!

sideoff was quite strange to ride – it’s so different for me, whilst I was always surfing side-  or sideon-shore.

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Laxe townview. Percebes mmmhh

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Valdovino: “snowsurf” (it was snowing a bit while we rigged up)

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Finisterre: end of the world

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Rostro: I really like it – I guess the waves are really powerful

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Xurxo: perfect running waves there!

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Soeste: nice beache next to Traba

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Traba!

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Frog kick

Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010

suddenly there was wind raising against the bad forecast. I rigged up 5.3 and could handle the shore with almost no wind!

Then the wind was stronger and I could ride some waves and check out the frog kick – first try :)

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Tail grab

Freitag, 05. Februar 2010

A day beginning with 4.2 and then 4.7. I tried out tail grabbing and it went well – let’s make it higher and planning! Unfortunately the wind was a little bit onshore and there haven’t been that good waves…

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Camping

Donnerstag, 04. Februar 2010

Nice forecast for Almerimar. I started to ride with 5.3 but soon the wind came and I changed to 4.2. Finally I was riding again with the NewWave 79 and it felt like we are a team now! It was really good riding – I’ve got some waves – and the board was easygoing :)

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Tarifa

Mittwoch, 03. Februar 2010

For more Levant I went to Tarifa. At the Club Mistral there have been just 12 knots, so I went to Playa Chica and started surf there. With a well (over-)powered 4.7 and my new board I was surfing there till the harbor police came – porbably we can see the big ferry and it should not be dangerous…

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The board was quite easygoing and I really could play around with it – but the wind was quite strong and gusty so I didn’t train something…

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Torrenueva

Dienstag, 02. Februar 2010

There haven’t been much Levante at Carchuna, so we went to Torrenueva for more or less wind. With 5.3 I could ride some hours and train a little bit.

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Freeride

Montag, 01. Februar 2010

While there was no more wind raising I rigged up 6.4 and went a little bit freeriding with the XTC 115. It was quite ok, but I felt the big sail really heavy.

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