Romain Pinocheau, current number 9 in the Freestyle World ranking, travelled to Dahab during June and windsurfed at the famous Blue Lagoon, where 90% of the footage for this video got filmed. We asked the French freestyler a few things about his recent trip. Read more and watch the clip with rad flat water freestyle action.

Continentseven: When did you travel there and how where the conditions? Was it your first trip to Egypt?Romain Pinocheau: I went to Dahab the 2nd of June for 3 weeks of training. It was my first time in Dahab, but my second time in Egypt. I went to Safaga in 2004 with my parents and it’s also a really good spot. I always sailed with my 4.4m and sometimes the 4.0m and 4.8m with just 2 days of “break” to recover. In June it’s is windy every day at Dahab and the temperature is very warm. The spot is beautiful and I was always amazed by the beauty of the water and the landscape. I hope to travel there again !

Continentseven: Did you always feel safe during your trip?Romain Pinocheau: When I came back to France, my mother informed me about the terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia and Egypt. I was afraid about the violence of the attacks, but not about the places where they occured. I spoke with the Egyptians after the attacks in Tunisia and we didn’t care about a terrorist attack in Dahab, because it’s really secure like at a lot of other windsurf spots in the world. Danger is everywhere now and we can’t boycott a country because there were terrorist attacks or shark attacks or alien attacks. Otherwise you have to avoid all places in the world except your bed!

Continentseven: Did you learn any new tricks? Will you compete on Fuerte?Romain Pinocheau: I learnt to be constant on the Burner no handed and Kabikuchi for Fuerteventura, but I also trained on my old moves to be sure to do it in all conditions. I trained with Yentel Caers every day and we have a completely different kind of training. He’s really constant on the double moves like double Culo or double Burner and can do easily a Kabikuchi, and I’m consistent on single moves like Kono, Skopu or Air Bob, but I try to be really high and land the moves planing.

Romain Pinocheau at Blue Lagoon, Egypt

Filmed by: Pasha Khomenko & Mahmoud Abdo

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