Homesick
I think one of the hardest parts of being a pro windsurfer for me is leaving home, it’s horrible. Sometimes I just don’t want to leave; I always miss my own bed or bathroom. I just get over hotel rooms sometimes. Hotel food for a week or two is amazing, but after that you start to get over it. There’s nothing like home made food and in my case, my mom owns a really nice restaurant in front of the beach I sail back home, so I finish sailing, eat and then go back out sailing! Sometimes I go to an event early, for example Pozo I normally go 3 or 4 weeks before the event starts and sometimes I make everything “accidentally” to miss the flight or not to go! It’s funny I’ve spent a lot of money changing flights but it’s just that I’m not mentally prepared to travel and to leave home and leave my friends! But suddenly I just get ready and go!! Of course if I’m scheduled to leave a day or 2 before the event I always go, but I still get nostalgic.
Once I get to the place, I get used to it. Depending on the place of course, Denmark and Sylt for example, (sorry if you are Danish or German) no offence, but it’s just a place that I don’t enjoy being on; for me it gives me a bit of a sad and grey energy. I’d rather be somewhere else than in those places, but my point is sometimes a pro windsurfer has to go to places you don’t really want to be, and let’s be realistic, conditions are not really dream conditions for a pro windsurfer compared to surfing for example! I really enjoy sailing at these places most of the time but sometimes I really don’t ha-ha and I’d rather be sailing on a really sick wave on sunny and clear water. Sometimes we are there waiting for conditions and one of our friends just sends us some pictures of a nice swell that he just got and we just want to be there!
Sometimes I really want to take a year off tour just to really do what I want and spend time at home and just travel to places I really want to travel to, not only windsurfing, snowboarding for example. It’s something I’ve never done in my life and it’s one of my dreams but I never have time and when I do I really want to spend time at home with friends and family and not get into an airplane for a while! But if I do take a year off I will also probably miss everything and everyone and probably lose my sponsorship. After a month or more of travel I just want to go back home. I’m a really sentimental person and depending on the place where I am, I get sad or happy and in places like I mentioned above I don’t really get in my happiest mood but again, it’s part of my job ha ha.
