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caught after the loop. We managed to
make it through the first round on the
event that Wednesday despite the wind
not being in our favour. The plan was to
continue with the rest of the event the
following day, which showed promise
for wind. We woke up the next morning
with a disappointing email from Sergio,
informing us that the winds had changed
and that there wouldn’t be enough wind
to continue the event. This basically
blue balled all of the riders. Everyone
was stoked on the previous day and
was ready for more on-water action.
Unfortunately the no wind spell carried
on for two days, and then on Saturday
the wind finally came!
My game plan for the heats was to try
and show a variation of big air tricks.
We had seven minute heats and our top
three tricks were scored. I figured I would
do one board off, one high handlepass
and one mega loop. My first heat on
the Wednesday was a tough heat with
Ruben and Gianni. They had some pretty
radical loops which put them through to
the next round. In my next heat on the
Saturday I felt pretty confident going into
it. I was fairly powered on my 11m Best
GP. I opened up my heat with a big board
off - off of a kicker. I then proceeded to
go into a high handlepass…. this didn’t
go as planned and I went pretty big and
passed the bar but realized shortly after
passing the bar I’d passed to the wrong
side of the bar. My kite then looped to
the opposite side, I held on like hell
but hit the water so hard I couldn’t
keep it together for the landing, and
just exploded. After this I quickly headed
to the beach where I had Lewis Crathern
another Best team mate waiting on the
beach for me with a 9m Best GP. My
plan now was to go and chuck a couple
mega loops. This turned out to be a bad