This year in St. Peter Ording was nothing like the other ones, I've been coming here for 4 years now and this place still surprises me, this year we had an incredibly warm weather and wind on 9 out of the 10 days of competition.
For the single elimination we even got a Cauipe style session, flat water, good 9m wind and no wetsuit, that was amazing, I felt like I was riding in Brazil and won both of the heats I had that day, the first against polish rider Joana Litwin and the second also against a polish rider, Karolina Winkowska. I landed some nice tricks and for the first time in competition I landed my low mobe, it was actually very low, almost a back to wrap since the wind was dropping quickly and by the end of my last heat I could hardly go on the 11m, but it was fun anyway and I'm stoked on that.
Now the bad news was that I was extremely unlucky in both the final for the single elimination against Gisela Pulido and the double elimination challenge with Karolina Winkowska. It's funny but the same thing happened in both heats, i went out on the 9m, the wind picked up quickly and when I realized I was super overpowered, I had the feeling that the kite was controlling me, not the other way around :) So that heat I lost to Karolina meant a 3rd place for me and she went ahed and challenged Gisela for the 1st.
The doubles were finished Saturday so that meant party the same night, coincidently there was a huge hip hop concert and thousands of people, the organizers estimate 40.000 people!! I don't know how we PKRA crew managed to find each other on the middle of so many people and we had a blast.
On my way to Fuerteventura now, I will have a week on the north of the island to practice and surf a bit and then head south for the nest PKRA stop, see you there!
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