Last week I attended an event located in Marseille (France) which was organized by 2 well known professional windsurfers, the Moussilmani brothers. There were 5 extreme sports shown out there: skate, bmx, skydive, windsurf and kitesurf. And it was a kind of comp and show at the same time. 

I first went to the city of Antibes where I met with Jeremie Tronet (A rider from the Caribbean, like me… ) and we went to the event where we found some other international riders like Sam Light (UK), Eli Zarka (Israel), Florian Daubos (Fr), Sjoukje Bredenkamp (SA), etc. There was a great atmosphere and I really enjoyed the competition format… We just had a couple of heats during which we had to show all we could do with a kite, from oldschool to newschool, funny tricks, blind to blind… An expression session during which we really had to make the crowd go wild and impress them, which I have to say we did. Plus our friend Florian Daubos (injured) was commenting our riding and making the public go nuts, because he knew pretty well how to cheer them up by making funny comments while dancing with the event's hostesses on the beach…

At the Prize giving ceremony I was quite happy to find out that I was in the first position!!! Just a great feeling to be on the top of the podium, specially when I had so much fun by showing our sport to the people. Sam Light came 2nd, Eli Zarka 3rd and Jeremie 4th…

Now I'm back in Tarifa for some time and the KPWT have started here so I had the chance to see most of the riders… the wind was good today and there was some action going on…

I'd like to say some words for Sophie Mathews who literally broke her leg/ankle yesterday while training for the comp… so big hugs to her who is at the hospital awaiting for an operation. Bad luck!

Next destination will maybe be Portugal, then Germany, Morocco and maybe Lithuania… 

Cheers!