FM: What would you change about windsurfing?
AL: Easy! The amount of gear and sails… Imagine you could just travel with 1 sail and it worked all the time… Oversize baggage is a nightmare!
FM: What’s your favourite spot on tour?
AL: Tenerife, it’s a powerful reef break. It is side on but I think it’s really high performance sailing. On a good day you can get 3 or 4 frontside hits and the jumping is epic.
FM: Funniest moment on tour from 2017?
AL: Oppphh tricky one, maybe BWA in Tiree, it was sponsored by a brewery and we’d had a few before the prize-giving. Marc Pare was worried he’d fall off the podium… classic!
FM: Turns or airs?
AL: Turns all day, they just feel the best.
FM: Home or Hawaii?
AL: Home, Hawaii’s been growing on me but I really love being at home in Cornwall.
FM: Thrusters or Quads?
AL: Thrusters, I moved to thrusters about 2 years ago and I haven’t looked back, so much easier to attack the wave vertically, loads of projection.
FM: High boom or low boom?
AL: Medium, I find its starts to creep up if I’m jumping a lot or creep down when I’m just riding a lot.
FM: Big winds or big waves?
AL: Big waves. Such a buzz.
FM: Finally, what are you looking forward to in 2018?
AL: So much, can I say all of it!