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South Africa this winter?
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- Published: 19 January 2016
- Written by Alessandro Giovanelli
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How many people have been or would love to be in South Africa windsurfing during the winter?
Many riders from our Black Team, do spend some months over the winter in South Africa. Nicolas Akagazciyan, and Marco Vinante, are there now improving their freestyle and getting ready for their season. There used to be mainly Brazil and the Caribbean as the main destination for the top freestylers to train, but lately South Africa has been one of the spots where a lot of pros enjoy to go. Let’s read in some short answers the experience of other of our Black Team, Lena Erdil and Vincent Langer who are spending their last days in the African continent this week.
Describe South Africa in 20 words.
Waves, strong wind, endless white beaches, city life, nature, wild animals, parties, mountains, road trips, surfing, ice cold water, beautiful
Describe amazing, beautiful, rich, poor, windy, salty, monkeys, sharks, beach, waves, Capetown, Langebaan, DownwindDash, friendly, cheap,nature
Describe amazing, beautiful, rich, poor, windy, salty, monkeys, sharks, beach, waves, Capetown, Langebaan, DownwindDash, friendly, cheap,nature
I love the sailing and living conditions here. The best thing about Capetown is without a doubt the amount of days you can have awesome conditions on the water for windsurfing or surfing. There is so many spots within even an hours driving distance, after 5 years of coming here i am still discovering new spots to sail!
In Capetown/Table view and in Langebaan! Testing for Fanatic and for racing.
How many days are you staying in South Africa this winter?
I will be here for 2 month this winter
4 weeks, but i went home for Christmas and and came back to work on the 2017 Fanatic Boards and to compete at the Downwind Dash and the Kite-and Windsurfing Cup Langebaan.
What did you learn during your stay?
I’m working on improving my wavesailing so cutbacks and jumps
My back loops are getting better and better, but this time is actually about having fun on the water! Training starts after.
Next stop?
Brief stop at home, then Tenerife for some hardcore slalom training
Tenerife! Will be the from 31st of January till middle of March
When?
Which spots did you mainly sail?
I sailed a lot in bigbay this year simply because it has been so extremely windy and bigly is one of the only spots where the wave stays less choppy even with crazy strong winds!
Langebaan and Sunset.
Slalom or wave mostly?
:D Only wave, i am leaving all my slalom hunger for the training month ahead in tenerife and turkey
First 2 weeks only waves sailing! Second time mostly Slalom.
Your favorite spot?
Paternoster and Melkbos
I just love being on the water, so I had fun at all spots. Best session so far was at Melkboss for Wave and Sladanha for Slalom
Anything you’d like to let your fans know from your experience in S.A?
Well special this year was definitely my little shark encounter story, its quite funny as everybody seems to have read it i actually had quite a few people coming up to me at the beach being like you are Lena the one from the shark story haha So in case you didn’t read it here its is:
Come here, the Rand make this trip quite cheap right now