THE LADIES
And what about the ladies?. Well, the ladies were looking very un-lady like. With most of the fleet on 3.0’s, this was no time for feminine finesse and the ladies were throwing caution to the wind with equal abandon to the men. Justyna Sniady, Alice Arutkin and Waka Nishida of Japan all suffered some heavy wipe-outs but shrugged them off with a courage representative of the women’s fleet as a whole. For the Moreno twins it was business as usual. With Pozo firing on all cylinders, experience counts and Iballa and Daida have experience at their home spot of Pozo that is hard to count against! Iballa had suffered a nasty ankle sprain prior to the comp. and hadn’t sailed for over 2 months, not that you could tell. It was Daida’s time to shine though and leave the windsurfing world wondering just what it will take to depose her and Philip from Pozo’s throne. The most likely contender apart from her sister looks like coming from the all round talent of Sarah Quita but it won’t be an easy task as Daida was landing doubles in the expression session later in the week. Sarah turned heads of her own with her push loops being perfected heat to heat as she practiced under the pressure of the flags and horns to bag a third behind Iballa in second and Daida first. Stefi Wahl flowed into fourth position with some of the most stylish turns of the event while a spirited and typically gutsy performance by Amanda Beenen rewarded her with fifth, showing that 6 months in Maui hadn’t dampened her port tack skills.