PIERRE MORTEFON
The boards are much better these days for choppy conditions. We have worked on this in our development to make them much easier to sail in chop. When it is choppy put your boom a bit lower and the mast track a bit more forward. Also in these conditions if you don’t go full power you feel the chop more and more. I think this is the difference between the top guys now and the rest of the fleet. In the strongest conditions you need to be able to go full power. If you cannot sail like this it is much harder. You need also to switch your brain a bit to this mentality. I am not afraid by my speed, it is more the other guys around me. Look what happened in Fuerteventura last year with Taty Frans. I know if I go at full speed, personally I am in control. But the people around me I am not sure about the control they have.
“ The boards are much better these days for choppy conditions.”