Men’s Double
The men’s double kicked off the third day of extreme kiteboarding
competition here in Piaui Brazil with the start of Heat #19. Tom Court
(North, UK) regained confidence and restarted his event chances with a win
over Dominican Republic champ Emmanuel Rondon (EH), nailing a kiteloop slim,
mobe and switched mobe. Rondon’s regular to switched mobe and kiteloop
handle pass weren’t enough for the judges to satisfy a win. In the second
set of the same heat, another Dominican Republic and EH rider, Ariel Corniel
also inched one notch up the ladder with a win over Jose Freires (Naish)
outclassing the Brazilian rider in all facets of judging criteria. In the
heat that followed, Julian Hosp (Best, Austria) was paired against RRD’s
live wire Tomas Teixeira Gomes (Brazil), taking out the local kiteboarding
bet with several regular to switched moves. Gomes went all out with huge and
powered tricks but crashed heavily on a few landings and got knocked out.
The Austrian champ nailed some regular to switched mobes, front mobes and
313s to seal the win.
Heat #22 was an electrifying kiteboarding match between Alex Pastor (Naish,
Spain) and Alex Soto (Cabrinha, Dominican Republic) worthy of a semifinal
round. The Spanish ace landed a regular to switched mobe 5, a huge kiteloop
handle pass, a 313 and a blind judge with aerial handle pass. Soto equally
matched his opponents moves with a mobe 7, switched mobe 5 and a big and
powered KGB but gave up on speed while Pastor had more power with the heat
ending in a 3-2 decision in favor of Pastor. Marc Jacobs (North, New
Zealand) finally lived up to his hotshot new team member status and making
waves at the PKRA defeated Madison Van Heurck (Naish, USVI) in the second
set of the heat. The young lad from New Zealand had more variation and
unleashed plenty of powered moves on both tacks grabbing the win from the
young American.
Heat #23 became a closely-fought round of the Englishmen between Tom Court
(North) and Sam Light (Naish) who both performed extremely well in this
heat. Both athletes showed superb kiteboarding from the start of the heat
with Light throwing down a 313, slim, a huge kiteloob-backloop and a front
to blind. Court went all out matching his opponent’s moves with a regular
to switched mobe, front mobe, 313, blind judge, hasselhoff and a slim
chance. Court claimed the win on A 5-0 judges decision with more power,
variation and higher technical difficulty. Also in the same heat,
North-sponsored Cesar Portas of Spain faced Dominican Republic’s Ariel
Corniel (EH). It took the best out of Portas to defeat the PKRA Dominican
champ who is probably one of the most energetic athletes on tour today.
Corniel stomped a mobe 5, non-inverted slim, a massive kiteloop handle pass,
313, a blind judge, a tail-grab back to blind airpass, pete rose and a toe
side 360 off the kickers while Portas answered with a regular to switched
mobe, regular to switched aerial back to blind airpass, regular to switched
blind judge, a slim and a front mobe 5 to take the win.
Meanwhile, Brazilian Helio Cabrinha Da Silva (Gokite) defeated Rocky
Chatwell (Crazyfly, US) with a regular to switched slim, blind judge with
aerial handle pass and front mobe. Chatwell managed to land a kiteloop slim
and front mobe but lost through technical difficulty. In the heat that
followed, Alex Pastor (Naish, Spain) beat Jacobs who had to change kites in
the middle of the game. Jacobs landed a blind judge with aerial handle pass,
s-bend to blind with aerial handle pass, front side 360, hasselhoff and a
late mobe. Pastor rode much better nailing a regular to switched mobe 5 and
back to blind air pass plus a huge front mobe, a blind judge with aerial
handle pass, 313, kiteloop 5 and a mobe to wrapped on the buzzer to take the
win. In the second set, a closely fought heat ensued between Court and
Portas with the North kiteboarder from UK winning the heat in a 3-2
decision. Court landed a powered slim, regular to switched mobe, a blind
judge and 313 while Portas landed a regular to switched back to blind
airpass, mobe, slim, 313 and a blind judge, plus while going for a front
mobe 5, he landed two front mobes but with a fairly high kite angle.
Court’s powered tricks coupled with higher jumps gave him the win.
In Heat #27, Russian Petr Tyuskevich (Cabrinha) barely defeated Austria’s
Michael Schitzhofer (Naish). The Austrian kiteboarder went all out nearly
landing a mobe 7 and a front mobe 5 but Tyuskevich had more moves including
a front mobe 5 that decided the game. In the last heat of the day, two
Brazilian kiteboarders went all out against each other with varying styles
to the delight of the crowd at the beach. Cabrinha da Silva went with bigger
tricks but with a high kite angle while North kiteboarding’s Reno Romeu
unleased several lower moves but high on technical difficulty and power.
Romeu got the judges vote with a regular to switched slim, mobe 5, 313, back
to blind airpass and a huge front mobe. Cabrinha Da Silva livened up the
cheering crowd even further with his huge moves including a slim, mobe and a
huge crash on his kiteloop slim.
Women’s Double
Germany’s Susie Mai (Cabrinha) took out Brazil’s Samantha Marin (Gokite)
in heat #12 with a raley to blind, raley to wrapped and a front to blind.
Carol Homsi (North) also of Brazil went up against teammate Wiktoria Boszko
(North) in the same heat landing a handle pass but with only a raley and a
front roll, she lost with less variation to Boszko who landed a raley to
blind, raley to wrapped and a big kiteloop.
In the last heat of the day, Jalou Langeree (Naish, Netherlands) won against
Cabrinha kiteboarder Victoria Soloveykina (Russia) in a 4-1 decision.
Langeree landed a krypt to surface pass, vulcan to surface pass, raley to
blind and a big kiteloop while the young Russian stomped a krypt, front roll
and a blind judge.
The men’s and women’s double event continues tomorrow starting at 13:00h
after the 12:30 pm mandatory skipper’s meeting with six more matches for
the women and eight for the men’s division.
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