JC: Describe a typical day in Tenerife at your windsurf boot camp, were you guys slaving away at 6 a.m. every day?
AC: I guess you could say we started more like 7 a.m. each day. It wasn’t that windy this year in Tenerife so we really had to take advantage of the windy days. Whenever it was windy we had to be on the water as much as possible. Mark ‘Sparky’ Hosegood set up the training camp with the Black Team and our structure was quite small and we all had to chip in to make it happen. We had to pump up the marks, put them in the water, help get the boat in and out, we did it all ourselves. We had to start all this early to be able to be on the water for a full day. It took a solid hour and a half to set up the course with our limited resources and then we would race from 10.30 until 6 p.m. and have to pack it all away afterwards. Most days we weren’t done until 8 p.m. so it was a lot of hard work. Alberto, Pascal, Maciek and a lot of the other guys on the Black Team were also in the gym, running and full time training.