One of the best things of being a pro windsurfer, especially compared to other sports, is that we are all a big family, I mean I have some friends that are not into the windsurfing world and they ask me, do you guys stay at the same room and travel together and compete against each other, and I’m like yes of course, we are all family. For example Robby Swift and Brawzinho and I always train together, talk and travel together and stay in the same room most of the times. In competition when we compete against each other there is no rivalry or to any of the other pros, we are very united outside of the water and when we lose against each other we always keep helping each other regardless. When I lose a heat, like most of the other guys, we go and shake hands, if you compare it to many other sports you probably won’t really see that, some of them hate each other. Now with the live scoring we have our phones with the scores and when one of us is competing we can tell them from the beach if they have to do a better jump or take a better wave ride. We are all friends when we are not competing, we go out, we laugh, joke etc! Everybody pretty much supports everybody. Of course there is always a few people that are not as friendly as others but by and large the close friendships and camaraderie on tour is one of the beautiful things about pro windsurfing .
“ The close friendships and camaraderie on tour is one of the beautiful things about pro windsurfing ”