I started competing when I was 15. Of course back then everything was a dream and easy, 15 years old, leaving home to travel the world alone for the first time! I actually was supposed just to go from Venezuela to Austria for a week as I had a wild card to get into the event. I was sort of already sponsored by JP/Pryde but I didn’t know the bosses, which were Martin Brandner from JP and another guy from NP, but they knew about me through Josh Stone who I had met before and put in a really good word for me. Anyway, there was no wind to compete, but enough for me to get planing and sail a bit. Martin was really impressed and invited me to the annual photoshoot in Maui, so I didn’t get back home for 3 months and didn’t go to school. Suddenly I had become a pro windsurfer, which was amazing! My first year I won my first PWA event and finished 8th overall, 2 years later I was world champion for 3 years in a row, which was another dream come true. But then you start to grow up and get older and start seeing things differently. You start to miss home, miss your food especially friends and family and my dogs as well. Back at that time I had my first girlfriend and I was really missing her and she couldn’t come to any events with me because she had school, plus her dad was very protective ha-ha!
“ If I wasn’t a pro windsurfer I wouldn’t know where I’d be sitting right now! ”