MATTEO IACHINO
“I won the PWA slalom world championship last year and the dream I had since I was a child came true. But thinking about it in another way, my original dream was different. I was dreaming about living every single day in touch with the sea, doing what I love. Being a professional windsurfer looked to me the only way to achieve that. Once in 2013 I broke into the top 10 in the world, I understood I was doing a decent job while also having fun on the water. That year for the first time I also understood my potential and my goal went higher. It wasn’t enough staying where I was as a top ten guy, I wanted more, I wanted to be on the podium and I could see it was something I could do. I pushed harder and in 2014 I got 8th, then in 2015 I won my first event ever and I led the ranking until the last event ending the season in 3rd. In the end after 2 years I was again where I wanted to be, on the podium. But to win is something different and that became an obsession to me. Last year, after a lot of training and with the experience gained the years before, I won my first world title. The real problem is that human beings are never really happy one hundred per cent of the time. Now that I won in 2016, I want the same feeling again, I want to win again and I want to win events I’ve never been able to win. You never can have enough of this. This sport is a true addiction from every angle and competing for me is the worst one because you just cannot stop wanting more of this!”
This sport is a true addiction.