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Ingmar Daldorf
4 ND STOP OF THE PROFESSIONAL WINDSURF ASSOCIATION SALOM - FUERTEVENTURA The best slalom event of the year was great again. Racing everyday on the medium and small material is always pleasant. The first 3 days it was super choppy and wavy, which I normally really like… But one hour before the first heat of the event, I got out for some test runs. In the last run I had a spinout followed by a catapult, here I broke the rail of my board with my knee. My knee was bleeding heavily and at the first aid on the beach they put 4 stitches in my knee. I was able to race but of course this was not ideal, I was quite stiff in my knee and mentally it was also not going so well. I tried to stay out of the water as long as possible to not get the wound to wet, but that didn’t worked for me as I couldn’t warm up. So racing wasn’t going so good the first days. Luckily the wound did not get worse by sailing. So I got out earlier to warm up better and racing was then also going better. The last two days I was back in the game and made the finals. Overall the event was a success with 9 eliminations done, I was happy that I made every race despite my injured knee. Even with the unlucky start it feels good to finish the event with some decent racing in the end.
In combined the event on Fuerteventura with a holiday on Gran Canaria together with my girlfriend in our campervan. We sailed a lot in the waves and Pozo was a great preparation for Fuerteventura, what a windy place!
