First time you broke a bone?
BP: Err..see above! Touch wood the only bone I’ve broke has been my nose but I’ve done it enough times to make up for the ones I haven’t.
First time you were conned?
BP: After the mistral Europeans one year; me and my mate (Dom Tidey) were told we should go to Mikonos as there would be loads of women there. To cut a long story short again; it turned out to be the gay capital of Europe! After just one night we raced back to the ferry and waited for it to leave. The problem was they didn’t know when it was going to leave as the weather was too rough, 12hrs later we finally managed to escape!
First time you gambled?
BP: Grand National, 1990, Mr Frisk, 18 /1, 50p each way, £9.50!!! Booooooooom! Ha ha and that’s when it started!
First time you won some money?
BP: See above
“ Sometimes I get a bit carried away on the mic. but windsurfing is my passion ! ”
First time you hit a massive lip and landed in the flats?
BP: I remember a scary aerial in Elands on the beach break, it must have been 2003/4 I rode the point all the way in and as it hit the beach it just jacked up and I was caught in no man’s land. If I had tried to pull out it would have just eaten me from the side so I had to hit it. I caught it so well it just launched me towards the beach. I landed so far out in front and so flat I thought both my legs had snapped… and as I landed the board kind of jumped back out of the water and kicked me off. I then got mauled by the wave and broke my mast into 3 pieces and destroyed my sail! Bugger!
First time you nailed a double loop?
BP: Cape Town 2005. I was trying to persuade Laure Treboux to go for forwards, so I told her if I go for a double you have to try a single. She agreed, so first run nicely powered on my 4.5 I go off this big bit of swell out the back, spin round twice and landed perfect! I couldn’t believe it, it was so easy! Of course I came straight in and lo and behold, no one saw anything! Typical! I nailed a few more that day but none as good as the first.
First time you went so high you were shit scared?
BP: I remember doing this jump at Bala when I was like 11-12, I was on a 2.8 and I just launched into orbit; well that’s what it felt like! I had visions of me looking like that guy ‘Dale’ from the Hood River who goes massive. In reality it was probably about 3 ft!
First time you bought a record?
BP: Happy Mondays, ‘Halleluiah’, it was 1989 and I was 11 years old.
First time you bought an album:
BP: Guns and Roses, ‘Appetite for destruction’. Listening to it in the car on the way home didn’t go down well with Mum when ‘It’s so easy’ came on! Great album though, I still love it!