-Favorite Sailing Spot:
Gwithian, UK or Topocalma, Chile, both for cross-off port tack down the line, and Pozo, Gran Canaria or Coronation Beach, Australia when there is a swell for fun onshore riding and jumping.
-Favorite Rig Setup:
4.2 Simmer Blacktip with 370 NoLimitz mast and 63l Simmer custom, either for float and ride or powered side shore jumping!
-Favorite Sesh Fuel:
Bananas, chocolate, sandwiches, pasta-anything I can get my hands on!
-Pre-sesh pump up music:
-Post-sesh music:
Depends how the session went! Maybe Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Mumford and Sons…generally more chilled stuff!
-Dream Session:
Logo high down the line, starboard or port, with smooth turquoise waves onto a sandy beach (no rocks!), and in a 3mm Summer suit or boardies with the sun shining and a few friends. Sailing until I can barely walk, then having some food already prepared for me and a campfire on the beach. Mmmmmmm….
-What you are working on now:
I am going to work a little on my freestyle to help my wave moves, such as gu-screws, shuv-its, punetas, as well as continuing to work on my jumping; stalled forwards on port tack, forwards on starboard, backloops both sides and also pushloops.
-Biggest pet peeve about windsurfing:
Probably carrying the gear, especially when there is no wind to make the sail feel lighter! Or screwing foot-straps in every time you travel?!
-Scariest moment sailing ever:
Going over the rocks at Punta Blanca, Fuerteventura in a logo high swell (for the second time that trip) when I was still getting into wavesailing… Luckily I only had a few cuts and bruises and a little kit damage.
-Best move(s)?
Backside aerials and frontside cutbacks.