FASCINATION
My attempt to capture the fascination of wavesailing in words: while riding a wave one witnesses how all the energy that is transported by a wave, suddenly erupts and is freed once the wave breaks. You hear the thunder when the lip crashes down and breaks and feel the wave´s energy underneath your board. The closer one is to the breaking part of the wave, the more one can feel the power and energy of it. In surfing getting barrelled, being fully emerged and surrounded by a wave, is the closest you can possibly get to feeling the beating heart of the wave. In windsurfing, it’s doing a vertical cutback or launching an aerial. The feeling becomes the purest when you have as little interfering factors, such as wind gusts or wind chop, as possible. Skiers will walk miles or get brought by helicopters to glide through untouched virgin snow. In the same way, we windsurfers travel to remote places on our planet to find and ride waves that are uncrowded, powerful and perfect. In my opinion no other sport can match the sensation of windsurfing as we have the advantage of being able to use the wind in our sails to manoeuvre ourselves to places on the wave where others can´t go. The rig is light enough to hinder not too much. The dynamics between human, gear, wave and wind become something that feels unreal and in my opinion, is unparalleled!